Baxter, Ivy (1923–1993)
This spring, REM celebrates the 100th birthday (3 March 1923) of Ivy Baxter. In the years pre-dating Jamaican independence, she pioneered a new approach towards dance theatre as a community art form. Along with Beryl McBurnie and Lavinia Williams, she was known as one of the leading figures of Caribbean dance, pioneering what was called bare foot movement in the 1950s. Dissatisfied with the teachings of Eurocentric ballet, Baxter was the first Jamaican dance choreographer to explore the island’s diverse Africanist folk forms and to blend and integrate folk forms with modern expressionist dance of the Sigurd Leeder and Rudolf Laban school. Learn more through the selection of articles below.
Updates to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism: 2022-2023
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism is generally updated on a bi-annual basis. The latest updates add 5 new articles to the Literature and Music subject areas.
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Literature
Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907–1973) | Dougal McNeill
Modernism in Austria-Hungary | Salvatore Pappalardo
Wells, H.G. (1866–1946) | Elysia Balavage