Shapes Of American Ballet
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Author |
: Jessica Zeller |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190296698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190296690 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shapes of American Ballet by : Jessica Zeller
Shapes of American Ballet introduces several lesser-known European and Russian ballet teachers who worked in New York City before Balanchine. Taking into account the effects of America's economic system and the early twentieth century popular stage, this book looks anew at American ballet as derived from multiple influences and lineages.
Author |
: Marcia B. Siegel |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520042034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520042032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shapes of Change by : Marcia B. Siegel
Author |
: Jessica Zeller |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190296704 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190296704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shapes of American Ballet by : Jessica Zeller
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.
Author |
: Nancy Ellison |
Publisher |
: Universe Publishing(NY) |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106016118603 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ballet Book by : Nancy Ellison
Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.
Author |
: Andrea Harris |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199342242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199342245 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Ballet American by : Andrea Harris
Situating ballet within twentieth-century modernism, this book brings complexity to the history of George Balanchine's American neoclassicism. It 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.
Author |
: Melissa R. Klapper |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2020-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190908706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019090870X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ballet Class by : Melissa R. Klapper
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.
Author |
: George Amberg |
Publisher |
: Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2013-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473380004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473380006 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ballet in America - The Emergence of an American Art by : George Amberg
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
Author |
: Ted Shawn |
Publisher |
: New York : H. Holt |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105038171026 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Ballet by : Ted Shawn
Author |
: Melissa R. Klapper |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190908683 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190908688 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ballet Class by : Melissa R. Klapper
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.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 119 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0615227791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780615227795 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
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