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Author : William Brough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Sylphide written by William Brough and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : August Bournonville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906830281
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book La Sylphide - A Ballet Libretto of 1836 written by August Bournonville and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facsimile of August Bournonville's original printed Danish libretto of his most famous ballet, preceded by a full English translation with an introduction by Bent Schonberg.
Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134833180
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Dancing Women written by Sally Banes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of women's images - including brides, mistresses, mothers, sisters, witches, wraiths, enchanted princesses, peasants, revolutionaries, cowgirls, scientists, and athletes - as well as the creation of various women's communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.
Author : Lynn Garafola
Publisher : Wesleyan
ISBN 13 : 9780819563255
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Sylph written by Lynn Garafola and published by Wesleyan. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Sylph gathers essays by a premier group of international scholars to illustrate the importance of the romantic ballet within the broad context of western theatrical dancing. The wide variety of perspectives -- from social history to feminism, from psychoanalysis to musicology -- serves to illuminate the modernity of the Romantic ballet in terms of vocabulary, representation of gender, and iconography. The collection highlights previously unexplored aspects of the Romantic ballet, including its internationalism; its reflection of modern ideas of nationalism through the use and creation of national dance forms; its construction of an exotic-erotic hierarchy, and proto-orientalist "other"; its transformation of social relations from clan to class; and the repercussions of its feminization as an art form. This generously illustrated book offers a wealth of rare archival material, including prints, costume designs, music, and period reviews, some translated into English for the first time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Author : Rhonda K. Garelick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832772
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Electric Salome written by Rhonda K. Garelick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.
Author : Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Massachusetts Reports written by Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. Davenport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Davenport's Hollingworth Lake Guide and Visitor's Hand-book to Blackstone Edge, Littleborough, and Milnrow; Also Historical Notes, Etc written by J. B. Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The budget of the Bubble family written by baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marian Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832470
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle written by Marian Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opéra (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opéra during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres. Smith begins by showing how gestures were encoded in the musical language that composers used in ballet and in opera. She moves on to a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the gestures of the singers and the movements of the dancers, and the distinction between dance that represents dancing (entertainment staged within the story of the opera) and dance that represents action. Smith maintains that ballet-pantomime and opera continued to rely on each other well into the nineteenth century, even as they thrived independently. The "divorce" between the two arts occurred little by little, and may be traced through unlikely sources: controversies in the press about the changing nature of ballet-pantomime music, shifting ideas about originality, complaints about the ridiculousness of pantomime, and a little-known rehearsal score for Giselle. ?
Author : Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Budget of the Bubble Family written by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F. Claudius ARMSTRONG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Neapolitan Commander, a romance of sea & land written by F. Claudius ARMSTRONG and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : afterwards BULWER LYTTON BULWER (Baroness Lytton., Rosina Doyle)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Budget of the Bubble Family written by afterwards BULWER LYTTON BULWER (Baroness Lytton., Rosina Doyle) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Switzer
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600034999
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Chateaubriand. Actes du Congrès de Wisconsin pour le 200e anniversaire de la naissance de Chateaubriand, 1968 written by Richard Switzer and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia B. Siegel
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819571137
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Mirrors and Scrims written by Marcia B. Siegel and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize (2010) In this stunning new collection of reviews and essays, dance critic Marcia B. Siegel grapples with the floating identity of ballet, as well as particular ballets, and with the expanding environment of spectacle in which ballet competes for an audience. Drawn from a wide variety of published sources, these writings concentrate on canonical works of ballet and how the performances of these works have been changing in significant ways. Siegel writes with a keen awareness of the history and mythology that surround particular works, while remaining attentive to the new ways in which a work is interpreted and re-presented by contemporary choreographers and dancers. Through her readable and provocative writings, Siegel offers critical insight into performances of the past twenty-five years to give us a new understanding of ballet in performance. The volume includes over one hundred pieces on a variety of ballet topics, from specific dances and dancers to companies and choreographers, ranging from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Nijinsky, Balanchine, Tharp, and Morris to the Bolshoi, the Joffrey, the Miami City Ballet, the Boston Ballet, to name just a few. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Author : Annegret Fauser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226239284
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer written by Annegret Fauser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the “capital of the nineteenth century.” The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city’s musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters or repertories. Their broad range enables their collective examination of the ways in which all aspects of performance and reception were affected by the transfer of works, performers, and management models from one environment to another. By focusing on this interplay between institutions and individuals, the authors illuminate the tension between institutional conventions and artistic creation during the heady period when Parisian stage music reached its zenith.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Hunt's Yachting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Dance written by Selma Jeanne Cohen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exciting and fascinating, this reference work succeeds in its goal of bringing "joy as well as enlightenment" about all forms of dance in all countries of the world. An extremely useful synoptic outline of contents" with nine sections (including "Ritual and Religion" and "Popular Entertainment") enables the user to explore dance in its cultural and social aspects, while topical essays complement the 2,000-plus entries. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the encyclopedia captures the fluid movement of dance; with its depth and scope, this outstanding work has carved a well-deserved niche."--"Outstanding Reference Sources: the 1999 Selection of New Titles," American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
