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

This volume 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...

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Hauptverfasser: Fullington, Doug (VerfasserIn), Smith, Marian Elizabeth 1953- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:This volume 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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 840 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten) Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9780190944544
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190944506.001.0001