Five ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Raymonda

"This book offers something entirely new: detailed scene-by-scene descriptions of the action and dancing of five classic ballets, bringing the reader far closer to what the audience saw when the curtain went up on Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, and Raymonda than has heretofore been...

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1. Verfasser: Fullington, Doug (KomponistIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Marian Elizabeth (KomponistIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"This book offers something entirely new: detailed scene-by-scene descriptions of the action and dancing of five classic ballets, bringing the reader far closer to what the audience saw when the curtain went up on Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, and Raymonda than has heretofore been possible. Drawing on archival documents, the authors show that (among other things) the classic story ballets could be more 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"--
Beschreibung:xiv, 840 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
illustrations, music
26 cm
ISBN:9780190944506
9780190944513
019094451X