Mark Franko: 3 books
Choreographing Discourses
A Mark Franko Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource...
Martha Graham in Love and War
The Life in the Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the...
Dance as Text
Ideologies of the Baroque Body
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet...