Janice Ross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5517701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Ross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Ross |
| SIGNATURE | ROSS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Janice Ross is a Lecturer in Dance History at Stanford University, California. Her publications include Moving Lessons: Margaret H'Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), and “Revolution for the Art of It: Anna Halprin and Avant-Garde Dance”, in Everything Was Possible: (Re) Inventing Dance in the 1960s, edited by Sally Banes (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). She is the recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim for a book on the dance works of Anna Halprin. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Made in Italy
Climate change and resultant environmental catastrophes are a growing factor in the increased number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Some end up in Italian prisons where rehabilitation programs emphasize Italian culture production as a path toward inclusion in Italian society. These programs model how to address climate-induced eco-migration and new templates for tackling climate change through prison reform
Halprin [née Schuman], Anna
Queering the Skeleton in Dance's Closet
This article explores the role a human skeleton played in the queering and shaping of dance modernism. In the early decades of the twentieth century, an important intervention propelling dance toward a modernist aesthetic while disrupting the regulatory norms of gender construction, began in a women's college gymnasium via a skeleton. Two impulses generate this archival-based inquiry: one that traces the history and symbolic formulations of natio…
Futures of Dance Studies
Like a Bomb Going Off
Like a bomb going off
"Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as "like a bomb goin…
Spartacus
This chapter describes “Spartacus”. This ballet by Yakobson is considered to be almost autobiographical in content. The ballet portrays the heroic struggle of Spartacus in a slave revolt. It effectively shows the development of Yakobson's work from the creation of a full length piece for the Kirov Ballet. The story in the ballet was shaped to advance Soviet propaganda during the early days of the war. The work sparked controversy and changed Yako…
Inside/Beside Dance Studies
In 2012, Susan Manning, Rebecca Schneider, and Janice Ross collaborated across their home institutions of Northwestern University, Brown University, and Stanford University, respectively, to found a research initiative interrogating the field of dance studies. This manifold project, Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, receives funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through 2015 and includes a series of public roundtable discussions. This c…
Lighting the Way
Journal Article Lighting the Way: Contrasting Arguments for the Arts in Education Get access Janice Ross Janice Ross Drama Department, Stanford University, Roble Gym and Dance Studio, Room 10, 375 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Correspondence: Janice Ross, Drama Department, Stanford University, Roble Gym and Dance Studio, Room 10, 375 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by …
Merce Cunningham
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The Instructable Body
Anna Halprin's Urban Rituals
How do Halprin's urban rituals contribute to today's dance aesthetics? Halprin forged her genre of urban ritual in the early 1960s by incorporating real-life tasks and relationships into her performances. Understanding Halprin's educational and philosophical history is essential to the writing of any postmodern dance history that takes into account ritual as a performance methodology and strategy
Where they danced
It is customary to think of dance in academia and dance on the stage as being very separate. In many respects, however, the imprint of the university on modern dance in America has been both extens
They Are Women and They Do Dance
What the Critics Say about Tanztheater
Burt Supree, Deborah Jowitt, Nancy Goldner, Anna Kisselgoff, Arlene Croce, Marcia B. Siegel, George Jackson, Sally Banes, Janice Ross, Mindy Aloff, Martin Bernheimer, Alan M. Kriegsman, What the Critics Say about Tanztheater, The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 80-84
What the Critics Say about Tanztheater
Burt Supree, Deborah Jowitt, Nancy Goldner, Anna Kisselgoff, Arlene Croce, Marcia B. Siegel, George Jackson, Sally Banes, Janice Ross, Mindy Aloff, Martin Bernheimer, Alan M. Kriegsman, What the Critics Say about Tanztheater, The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 80-84
What the Critics Say about Tanztheater
Burt Supree, Deborah Jowitt, Nancy Goldner, Anna Kisselgoff, Arlene Croce, Marcia B. Siegel, George Jackson, Sally Banes, Janice Ross, Mindy Aloff, Martin Bernheimer, Alan M. Kriegsman, What the Critics Say about Tanztheater, The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 80-84
They Are Women and They Do Dance
Where they danced
It is customary to think of dance in academia and dance on the stage as being very separate. In many respects, however, the imprint of the university on modern dance in America has been both extens
The Instructable Body
Anna Halprin's Urban Rituals
How do Halprin's urban rituals contribute to today's dance aesthetics? Halprin forged her genre of urban ritual in the early 1960s by incorporating real-life tasks and relationships into her performances. Understanding Halprin's educational and philosophical history is essential to the writing of any postmodern dance history that takes into account ritual as a performance methodology and strategy
Merce Cunningham
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Lighting the Way
Journal Article Lighting the Way: Contrasting Arguments for the Arts in Education Get access Janice Ross Janice Ross Drama Department, Stanford University, Roble Gym and Dance Studio, Room 10, 375 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Correspondence: Janice Ross, Drama Department, Stanford University, Roble Gym and Dance Studio, Room 10, 375 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by …
Inside/Beside Dance Studies
In 2012, Susan Manning, Rebecca Schneider, and Janice Ross collaborated across their home institutions of Northwestern University, Brown University, and Stanford University, respectively, to found a research initiative interrogating the field of dance studies. This manifold project, Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, receives funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through 2015 and includes a series of public roundtable discussions. This c…
Like a Bomb Going Off
Like a bomb going off
"Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as "like a bomb goin…
Spartacus
This chapter describes “Spartacus”. This ballet by Yakobson is considered to be almost autobiographical in content. The ballet portrays the heroic struggle of Spartacus in a slave revolt. It effectively shows the development of Yakobson's work from the creation of a full length piece for the Kirov Ballet. The story in the ballet was shaped to advance Soviet propaganda during the early days of the war. The work sparked controversy and changed Yako…
Futures of Dance Studies
Halprin [née Schuman], Anna
Queering the Skeleton in Dance's Closet
This article explores the role a human skeleton played in the queering and shaping of dance modernism. In the early decades of the twentieth century, an important intervention propelling dance toward a modernist aesthetic while disrupting the regulatory norms of gender construction, began in a women's college gymnasium via a skeleton. Two impulses generate this archival-based inquiry: one that traces the history and symbolic formulations of natio…
Made in Italy
Climate change and resultant environmental catastrophes are a growing factor in the increased number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Some end up in Italian prisons where rehabilitation programs emphasize Italian culture production as a path toward inclusion in Italian society. These programs model how to address climate-induced eco-migration and new templates for tackling climate change through prison reform
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