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Composition for modern dance—notes, drafts, notation
Composition for modern dance—notes, drafts, notation
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["...A choreographer's responsibility to consider taste..."]
"Composition"
"Feeling for design... [and]... composition"
"How dances are composed"
"How I compose"
"Natural feet in space—turned out feet in space—jump, hop, run, full phase"
"Notes on composition, parts 1-3"
"Studies for composition"
"Studies in abstraction"
[Questions and answers: "What kind of dancing do you do, Miss Humphrey?"]
Miscellaneous notes on dance theory and composition