THE AESTHETIC INTERPRETATION 255 present, a progression in which human society
always accumulated, over the long run, ever-greater degrees of liberty. Butterfield pointed …

In his stimulating essay," Comparative Theatre Historiography," RW Vince quotes Oscar
Brockett's" outline of the nature, scope, materials and methods of historical study, in which …

This chapter queries the process of assembling, choosing and interpreting documents from
which dance histories can be told. Amy Koritz has emphasized these circumstances in her …

Philosophers writing on aesthetics used to preface their essays by deploring the low
standard of thought prevailing in that subject. Since they never tried to show that dullness …

The visual arts and, even more so, music have the ability to express only the nature of the
medium: the interplay of colour, surface, and shape, or of tone, rhythm, texture, and …

HUNDREDS of books have been written on the dance and its history, and if we consult this
literature we find that chroniclers of the choreographic art have always had a somewhat …

What is dance history and how does it relate both to history generally and to the study of
dance? If dance history can be regarded as a worthwhile academic activity how might it best …

This British fear of theory and of the use of interpretive reasoning, whether researching
historical documents or works of art, cannot survive the challenge of poststrucruralist …

As chairperson Connie Kreemer welcomed the conferees, cautioning us of" delays,... doors
that you don't know about," she was referring to the logistics of the coming twoday …

" The Golden Age" of the Broadway musical, as Agnes de Mille, for one, has called it, is an
era with specific boundaries—starting in the late 1930s and closing in the early 1950s …