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Making Ballet American

Author : Andrea Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199342245
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Making Ballet American written by Andrea Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold and original neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first successful American manifestation of the art form. This book intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the construction of American neoclassical ballet. Situating American ballet within a larger context of literary, musical, arts, and dance modernisms, Making Ballet American examines a series of critical efforts to craft new, modernist ideas about the relevance of classical dancing for the country's society and democracy. The book's unique structure interweaves chapters focused on cultural and intellectual histories of ballet production and discourse with close examinations of three Americana ballets spanning the Depression, World War II, and Cold War eras. Through this blend of cultural and choreographic analysis, Making Ballet American illustrates the evolution of modernist ballet theory and practice during a turbulent historical period. Ultimately, the book argues that the Americanization of Balanchine's neoclassicism was not the inevitable outcome of his immigration or his creative genius, but rather a far more complicated story that spans several authors and continents and that pivots on the question of modern art's relationship to American society and the larger world. "--

Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet

Author : Martha Ullman West
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065844
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet written by Martha Ullman West and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed. Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914–2006) and Reed (1916–2000) were part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great Depression, World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar New York City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and Willam Christensen, Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Catherine Littlefield, Ruthanna Boris, and others who West argues were just as responsible for the direction of American ballet as the legendary George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. The stories of Bolender, Reed, and their contemporaries also demonstrate that the flowering of American ballet was not simply a New York phenomenon. West includes little-known details about how Bolender and Reed laid the foundations for Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet in the 1970s and how Bolender transformed the Kansas City Ballet into a highly respected professional company soon after. Passionate in their desire to dance and create dances, Bolender and Reed committed their lives to passing along their hard-won knowledge, training, and work. This book celebrates two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the establishment of ballet in America from one coast to the other.

The Joffrey Ballet

Author : Sasha Anawalt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226017556
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Joffrey Ballet written by Sasha Anawalt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive history of the American dance troupe, the Joffrey Ballet, and a portrait of Robert Joffrey, the creative personality who inspired it. Written in anecdotal style, the book probes the complex relationship which exists between a culture and its artists.

Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet

Author : Martha Ullman West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813057811
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet written by Martha Ullman West and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the lives and careers of Todd Bolender and Janet Reed, two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the development of ballet in America over the course of the twentieth century"--

Making Music for Modern Dance

Author : Katherine Teck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199876746
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Making Music for Modern Dance written by Katherine Teck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Music for Modern Dance traces the collaborative approaches, working procedures, and aesthetic views of the artists who forged a new and distinctly American art form during the first half of the 20th century. The book offers riveting first-hand accounts from innovative artists in the throes of their creative careers and provides a cross-section of the challenges faced by modern choreographers and composers in America. These articles are complemented by excerpts from astute observers of the music and dance scene as well as by retrospective evaluations of past collaborative practices. Beginning with the careers of pioneers Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn, and continuing through the avant-garde work of John Cage for Merce Cunningham, the book offers insights into the development of modern dance in relation to its music. Editor Katherine Teck's introductions and afterword offer historical context and tie the artists' essays in with collaborative practices in our own time. The substantive notes suggest further materials of interest to students, practicing dance artists and musicians, dance and music history scholars, and to all who appreciate dance.

The Ballet Book

Author : Nancy Ellison
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Ballet Book written by Nancy Ellison and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.

Ballet for Martha

Author : Jan Greenberg
Publisher : Flash Point
ISBN 13 : 1466818611
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Ballet for Martha written by Jan Greenberg and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.

George Balanchine

Author : Davida Kristy
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822549512
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book George Balanchine written by Davida Kristy and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Russian-born choreographer largely responsible for popularizing and developing ballet in the United States.

Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance

Author : Janet Mansfield Soares
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569747
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance written by Janet Mansfield Soares and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and intimate portrait of an unsung heroine in American dance Martha Hill (1900–1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance. Her vision and leadership helped to establish dance as a serious area of study at the university level and solidify its position as a legitimate art form. Setting Hill's story in the context of American postwar culture and women's changing status, this riveting biography shows us how Hill led her colleagues in the development of American contemporary dance from the Kellogg School of Physical Education to Bennington College and the American Dance Festival to the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center. She created pivotal opportunities for Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, and many others. The book provides an intimate look at the struggles and achievements of a woman dedicated to taking dance out of the college gymnasium and into the theatre, drawing on primary sources that were previously unavailable. It is lavishly illustrated with period photographs.

B Is for Ballet: A Dance Alphabet (American Ballet Theatre)

Author : John Robert Allman
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593180941
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book B Is for Ballet: A Dance Alphabet (American Ballet Theatre) written by John Robert Allman and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z celebration of the world of ballet, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre. A is for arabesque, B is for Baryshnikov, and C is for Coppélia in this beautifully illustrated, rhyming, alphabetic picture book, filled with ballet stars, dances, positions, and terminology. Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z, the dazzling, creative wordplay forms a graceful pas de deux with the stylish, swooping lines and rich color of the sumptuous illustrations. In partnership with the American Ballet Theatre, here is the perfect gift for any ballet fan, from children just starting ballet to adults who avidly follow this graceful artform.

Bravura!

Author : Alex C. Ewing
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042038
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bravura! written by Alex C. Ewing and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades. It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such legends as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. Her drive, ambition, tenacity, and money kept the doors open even during the lean years. A dancer when the company made its debut in 1940, she was artistic director for an unprecedented thirty-five years, from 1945 to 1980. Over the course of her career, she received numerous honors and awards, including the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Combining unique personal insights as Chase's son along with experience garnered from his own professional dance and administrative career, Alex Ewing offers the definitive story of one of the true pioneers in the world of American ballet.

Being a Ballerina

Author : Gavin Larsen
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081306595X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Being a Ballerina written by Gavin Larsen and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize A look inside a dancer’s world Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer’s continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist. Starting with her arrival as a young beginner at a class too advanced for her, Larsen tells how the embarrassing mistake ended up helping her learn quickly and advance rapidly. In other stories of her early teachers, training, and auditions, she explains how she gradually came to understand and achieve what she and her body were capable of. Larsen then re-creates scenes from her experiences in dance companies, from unglamorous roles to exhilarating performances. Working as a ballerina was shocking and scary at first, she says, recalling unexpected injuries, leaps of faith, and her constant struggle to operate at the level she wanted—but full of enormously rewarding moments. Larsen also reflects candidly on her difficult decision to retire at age 35. An ideal read for aspiring dancers, Larsen’s memoir will also delight experienced dance professionals and fascinate anyone who wonders what it takes to live a life dedicated to the perfection of the art form.

Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet

Author : Martha Ullman West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813066776
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet written by Martha Ullman West and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the lives and careers of Todd Bolender and Janet Reed, two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the development of ballet in America over the course of the twentieth century.

Shapes of American Ballet

Author : Jessica Zeller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190296712
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Shapes of American Ballet written by Jessica Zeller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian émigrés had been working for decades to build a national ballet with an American identity. These pedagogues and others like them played critical yet largely unacknowledged roles in American ballet's development. Despite their prestigious ballet pedigrees, the dance field's exhaustive focus on Balanchine has led to the neglect of their work during the first few decades of the century, and in this light, this book offers a new perspective on American ballet during the period immediately prior to Balanchine's arrival. Zeller uses hundreds of rare archival documents to illuminate the pedagogies of several significant European and Russian teachers who worked in New York City. Bringing these contributions into the broader history of American ballet recasts American ballet's identity as diverse-comprised of numerous Euro-Russian and American elements, as opposed to the work of one individual. This new account of early twentieth century American ballet is situated against a bustling New York City backdrop, where mass immigration through Ellis Island brought the ballet from European and Russian opera houses into contact with a variety of American forms and sensibilities. Ballet from celebrated Euro-Russian lineages was performed in vaudeville and blended with American popular dance styles, and it developed new characteristics as it responded to the American economy. Shapes of American Ballet delves into ballet's struggle to define itself during this rich early twentieth century period, and it sheds new light on ballet's development of an American identity before Balanchine.

Ballet in America - The Emergence of an American Art

Author : George Amberg
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473380006
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Ballet in America - The Emergence of an American Art written by George Amberg and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the emergence of American ballet as world recognized force just after World War Two, telling the story of the choreographers and dancers who came of age just as America became the only western country free from conflict and thus t

Antiracism in Ballet Teaching

Author : Kate Mattingly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003803393
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Antiracism in Ballet Teaching written by Kate Mattingly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings. Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and scholars. The collection ends with interviews featuring ballet company directors (Robert Garland and Alonzo King), world-renowned scholars (Clare Croft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Brenda Dixon Gottschild), sought-after choreographers (Jennifer Archibald and Claudia Schreier), and beloved educators (Keesha Beckford, Tai Jimenez, and Endalyn Taylor). This is an essential resource for anyone teaching or learning to teach ballet in the Twenty First Century.

Ballet Class

Author : Melissa R. Klapper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190908696
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Ballet Class written by Melissa R. Klapper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. One hundred years later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies large and small across the United States; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and on social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; nail polish companies market colors like "Ballet Slippers" and "Prima Ballerina;" and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet class. Beginning with the arrival of Russian dancers like Anna Pavlova, who first toured the United States on the eve of World War I, Ballet Class: An American History explores the growth of ballet from an ancillary part of nineteenth-century musical theater, opera, and vaudeville to the quintessential extracurricular activity it is today, pursued by countless children nationwide and an integral part of twentieth-century American childhood across borders of gender, class, race, and sexuality. A social history, Ballet Class takes a new approach to the very popular subject of ballet and helps ground an art form often perceived to be elite in the experiences of regular, everyday people who spent time in barre-lined studios across the United States. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, including children's books, memoirs by professional dancers and choreographers, pedagogy manuals, and dance periodicals, in addition to archival collections and oral histories, this pathbreaking study provides a deeply-researched national perspective on the history and significance of recreational ballet class in the United States and its influence on many facets of children's lives, including gender norms, consumerism, body image, children's literature, extracurricular activities, and popular culture.