Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire " Nineteenth-Century French Studies"This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in dance." Choice"Invents a new method fo
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| Title | : | Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (282 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253212162 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 371 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1998-08-22 |
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"Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research." Nineteenth-Century French Studies"This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in dance." Choice"Invents a new method for writing the history of performance: Foster has found an innovative way of appealing directly to the kinesthetic imagination of her readers, evoking the elusive styles of the pieces she reconstructs." Joseph Roach"An impressive work of scholarship, this elegantly staged study uses the concept of a culturally constructed, historically specific body to cut across disciplinary boundaries" Library JournalFoster examines the development of ballet, and conceptions of the dancing body, as ballet separated from opera and emerged as an autonomous art form during the turbulence of 18th-century French society and history.
Editorial : From Library Journal An impressive work of scholarship, this elegantly staged study by the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary Dance (Univ. of California, 1986) "uses the concept of a culturally constructed, historically specific body to cut across disciplinary boundaries such as those of medical history, physical education, the practices of fashion, etiquette and comportment, and the science and art of representing the passions in order to elucidate pervasive values toward the body and the changes in these values over time." Using 18th-century Paris as a focal point, Foster casts her eye over the dance conventions and innovations of that time through early 19th-century romanticism. Descriptions and analyses of specific ballets are offered as interludes between the main chapters of the study. Copious notes and a formidable bibliography of general and primary sources complete the presentation. Not for the casual dance fan, this weighty tome will find a home in
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