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review of reconstruction, the original "Les Millions d'Arlequin"
Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Bruno Ligore, préface de Flavia Pappacena, avec un essai d'Audrey Gay-Mazuel, conservatrice du patrimoine au musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris
La rencontre entre la danse et la sculpture dans les années 1910 et 1920 donne jour à plusieurs tendances du discours critique que je me propose d’examiner. La première s’inscrit dans le débat sur la synthèse des arts, opposant les... more
Discussion of a cross-section of Balanchine/Stravinsky neoclassical ballets stretching from 1944 to 1972 that were programmed in Fall 2019. The review article posits the idea of Balanchine's late modernism.
Even a century after the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, Russian contemporary sources offer a wealth of material on the Ballets Russes and particularly on Nijinsky's 1913 choreography that are rarely even read let alone discussed... more
Discussion encouraging a reinterpretation of Soviet ballet to identify the physical as technical progress and consistent with Soviet values.
This essay is a part of my PhD thesis. It concentrates on an essential aspect of dance, often neglected or negated. It puts forward the thesis that dance – as an art-form and as a social phenomenon – is first and foremost a way of... more
Der Beitrag gibt einen historischen Überblick über die unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten, die Flüchtigkeit von Tanzbewegung mit der Transitorik von Blumen zu verschränken. So wird im Bühnentanz das Auf- und Verblühen von Blumen verkörpert,... more
This story of a girl who dances in a cursed pair of red shoes until she dies parallels Vicky’s own ambitions as a dancer, as well as the decisions she must face between her love for Julian and her success at the ballet company. Powell and... more
This is a translation of the dance review about the Swan Lake and The Goblin production in the Estonian National Ballet. I describe and compare two different casts in Swan Lake (Anna Roberta as Odette-Ottilie with William Newton as... more
Com mais de 15 anos de registros fotográficos e em vídeos, que envolvem dança, cidade e viagem, o projeto audiovisual e performático 'Ballerina Project' nos deu a ideia de tratar de um assunto que têm se tornado recorrente em nossas... more
Introduction. The richness of the terminology of academic dance lies both in the great quantity and variety of its nomenclature and in the accuracy of its terms. We refer to words that describe the execution of the movement itself, the... more
... Page 5. The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage Gennaro Magri and His World Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Bruce Alan Brown THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Page 6. ... 4. Ballet Italy - History 18th century. L... more
Based on French philosopher and professor of aesthetics Étienne Souriau’s concept of “inter-worlds,” that is, realities emerging at the interstices and thresholds of different media, this essay applies a novel multimodal methodology to... more
How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet? How do teachers impart the stylistic qualities of ballet while also supporting each dancer’s artistic instincts... more
Übung macht bekanntlich den Meister. Was aber, wenn ein Tun als immer weiter zu perfektionierende Kunst aufgebaut wird, so dass kein Können endgultig ausreicht? Wenn dieselbe Pirouette, so glänzend sie auf der Bühne erscheint, im Training... more
В статье аргументируется тезис о том, что смысл танца не может быть выражен исключительно вербально, с помощью описания или нарратива. Если мы говорим в терминах семиотики, то смысл танца не сводится ни к денотату, ни к коннотату. Тело... more
The aerobic demands of today's dance repertoire warrant understanding of the current cardiorespiratory fitness of dancers.
Edgar Degas je bio francuski slikar koji je djelovao sedamdesetih godina 19. stoljeća. Djela s temom balerina najviše su bila zaslužna za njegovu popularnost. No, je li prikaz balerine uistinu predstavljao samo ljepotu te umjetnosti?... more
This paper explores the effect of the #MeToo movement in dance and, more specifically, how the re-emergence of female cho-reography in ballet can attribute certain consequences in changes of aesthetics in the art form and the... more
{Eleanor Ambler, Arizona State University} We swirling women block the sun //(only darkness for the first sin repeated in living flesh //sagging breasts fail a test //we are not worthy)// Children marvel as tulle dances between our legs;... more
In 2000, English-born Christopher Wheeldon became the first artist-in-residence at New York City Ballet (NYCB). The press compared his choreography to George Balanchine's. This chapter discusses Wheeldon's critically acclaimed NYCB ballet... more