Doug Fullington, Marian Smith

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg (eBook, ePUB)

Giselle Paquita Le Corsaire La Bayadère Raymonda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers something entirely new: detailed scene-by-scene descriptions of the action and dancing of Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, and Raymonda, bringing the reader far closer to what the audience saw when the curtain went up on these five classic story ballets than has heretofore been possible. Drawing on archival documents, the authors show that these ballets were like today's pop entertainment: funnier, more violent, more spectacular, and with female characters far stronger than one might expect. This rigorously researched book fills huge gaps in dance history and is bound to be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and devotees of ballet and the arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190944537
• Artikelnr.: 72255913

Autorenporträt

Doug Fullington is a musicologist and dance historian whose research focuses on French and Russian ballet of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A fluent reader of Stepanov choreographic notation, he has contributed historically informed dances to ballet productions around the world. Since 1995, he has worked in several capacities at Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, including as Audience Education Manager. He is the founder and director of the Tudor Choir, a professional vocal ensemble. Marian Smith, a musicologist and dance historian, is Professor Emerita at the University of Oregon, author of Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle (2000), and editor of La Sylphide, Paris 1832 and Beyond (2012). She has worked alongside Doug Fullington as historical advisor for stagings of Giselle (2011) and Paquita (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Archives and Collections
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. What made nineteenth-century ballet so successful?
2. Giselle in Paris and Lyon
3. Giselle: From Paris to St. Petersburg and back again
4. Paquita in Paris and Lyon
5. Paquita in St. Petersburg
6. Le Corsaire in Paris and Lyon
7. Le Corsaire in St. Petersburg
8. From Le pas des fleurs to Le jardin animé
9. La Bayadère
10. Raymonda
Conclusion
Appendices
Selected Bibliography
Index