Choreography & narrative : ballet's staging of story and desire
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Foster, Susan Leigh.
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LC Subjects
Ballet -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Ballet -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Choreography -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Choreography -- France -- History -- 19th century.
OCLC Fast Subjects
Ballet
Choreography
France
History
Other Subjects
18e siècle-19e siècle
Ballet
Ballet -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Ballet -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Ballet.
Ballett
Ballett
Ballett -- Frankreich -- Geschichte 18. Jh
Ballett -- Frankreich -- Geschichte 19. Jh
Ballett.
Choreografie
Choreographie -- Frankreich -- Geschichte 18. Jh
Choreographie -- Frankreich -- Geschichte 19. Jh
Choreographie.
Chorégraphie
Chorégraphie -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Chorégraphie -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Frankreich
Frankreich
Frankreich.
Vertelkunst.

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Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
UPC
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388202464

Notes

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-361) and index.
Description
Choreography and Narrative traces development of the story ballet from the early - eighteenth-century fair theatres through the Revolutionary fetes to the well-known Romantic ballets La Sulphide and Giselle. This history charts ballet's separation from opera at mid-century and its emergence as an autonomous art form dedicated to the telling of a story through gesture and movement alone. The site for this historical inquiry is Paris, home to the most popular and lavish.
Description
Dance productions of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The ballet is analyzed in terms of the training procedures for dancers, the aesthetic goals and responsibilities of choreographers, the institutional frameworks that promote productions, and the expectations and pleasures of dance viewers. Throughout, ballet is approached as a cultural practice intimately connected with political and economic features of French society, a practice whose evolving form.
Description
Bears witness to, as it participates in, the sweeping social changes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To uncover the significance of ballet, Choreography and Narrative compares the dancing body with the body as constructed in social dance practices, and also in anatomy, etiquette, painting, acting, and physical education. Choreography is considered as a theorizing of embodiment, one which reflects on the individual, gendered, and social identities of.
Description
Those who dance and those who watch dancing.
Language
Text in English; appendix in French.
Local note
SACFinal081324

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Foster, S. L. (1996). Choreography & narrative: ballet's staging of story and desire . Indiana University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Foster, Susan Leigh. 1996. Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Foster, Susan Leigh. Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Foster, S. L. (1996). Choreography & narrative: ballet's staging of story and desire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Foster, Susan Leigh. Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire Indiana University Press, 1996.

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