A photographic story of the New York City Ballet's production of Shakespeare's fantasy of the misadventures of fairies and mortals.
Following the American Revolution, French authors often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberte and egalite, in affinity with France's own Revolutionary ideals but in competition with lingering anti-American depictions of an inferior, untamed New World. The volume examines French imagining of America through musical/theatrical portrayals of the American Revolution and Republic, soundscapes of the Statue of Liberty, homages to Washington, Franklin an...
In 1999 the Maryinsky (formerly Kirov) Ballet and Theater in St. Petersburg re-created its 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty. The revival showed the classic work in its original sets and costumes and restored pantomime and choreography that had been eliminated over the past century. Nevertheless, the work proved unexpectedly controversial, with many Russian dance professionals and historians denouncing it. In order to understand how a historically informed performance could be ridiculed by thos...
De pratica seu arte tripudii (Clarendon Paperbacks)
by Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro
Fifteenth-century Italy produced the earliest known treatises on the dance. Guglielmo Ebreo, an eminent Jewish dancing master, dedicated his `On the Practice or Art of Dancing' to the future Sforza duke of Milan in the determination to give dance the status enjoyed by music and other arts and sciences. He included not only choreographies (subsequently likened to the artistic achievements of Machaut, Leonardo, Dante, and Petrarch), but a Defence of the Dance, a Socratic dialogue, and theoretical...
A Great Teacher Is Impossible To Forget
by Simple Imagination Journals
Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's "Lulu" (Eastman Studies in Music)
by Silvio J Dos Santos
Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist and Die Buchse der Pandora -- the plays used in the formation of the libretto for Lulu -- according to notions of gender identity, social customs, and the aesthetics of modernity in the Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s. While Berg modernized several aspects of the plays and incorporated serial techniques of composition from Arnold Schoenberg, he...
A sweeping examination of the ways in which dance has changed in the last 20 years, this book contains penetrating interviews with 18 teachers, coaches, ballet masters and company directors - former dancers all - who now bear the responsibility for the performances we see. Trained in England, France, Denmark, Russia and America, they lend their talents to companies and schools around the world. Having left the stage behind, they devote themselves to the future, passing their vast experience, the...
