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Ballet Body Narratives


Ballet Body Narratives
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Author : Angela Pickard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Ballet Body Narratives written by Angela Pickard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.




Reworking The Ballet


Reworking The Ballet
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Author : Vida L. Midgelow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-13

Reworking The Ballet written by Vida L. Midgelow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-13 with Music categories.


Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets. In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these contemporary reworkings destroy and recreate their source material, turning ballet from a classical performance to a vital exploration of gender, sexuality and cultural difference. Reworking the Ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies articulates the ways that audiences and critics can experience these new versions, viewing them from both practical and theoretical perspectives, including: eroticism and the politics of touch performing gender cross-casting and cross-dressing reworkings and intertextuality cultural exchange and hybridity.



The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body


The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body
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Author : Pirkko Markula
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2018-01-12

The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body written by Pirkko Markula and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-12 with Performing Arts categories.


Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes on new and complex meanings at the intersections of performance art, popular culture, and fitness. The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body provides a local perspective to enrich the broader cultural narratives of ballet through historical, socio-cultural, political, and artistic lenses, redefining what many consider to be “high art.” Scholars in gender studies, folklore, popular culture, and cultural studies will be interested in this collection, as well as those involved in the dance world. Contributors: Kelsie Acton, Marianne I. Clark, Kate Z. Davies, Lindsay Eales, Pirkko Markula, Carolyn Millar, Jodie Vandekerkhove



Nine Narratives


Nine Narratives
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Author : Catherine Ann Roach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Nine Narratives written by Catherine Ann Roach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Choreography categories.




Ballet Body Narratives


Ballet Body Narratives
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Author : Angela Pickard
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2015

Ballet Body Narratives written by Angela Pickard and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Ballet categories.


Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in «becoming a dancer» in ballet schooling in England. This book sheds new light on the distinctiveness of ballet culture in studies of the body.



Dying Swans And Madmen


Dying Swans And Madmen
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Author : Adrienne L. McLean
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-19

Dying Swans And Madmen written by Adrienne L. McLean and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-19 with Performing Arts categories.


From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.



The Body The Dance And The Text


The Body The Dance And The Text
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Author : Brynn Wein Shiovitz
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-01-24

The Body The Dance And The Text written by Brynn Wein Shiovitz and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Performing Arts categories.


This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.



Choreographing Difference


Choreographing Difference
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Author : Ann Cooper Albright
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-01

Choreographing Difference written by Ann Cooper Albright and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Performing Arts categories.


The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.



Narrative In Performance


Narrative In Performance
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Author : Barbara Sellers-Young
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-15

Narrative In Performance written by Barbara Sellers-Young and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Performing Arts categories.


A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an international range of scholars and subsequently creating a critical dialogue for approaching this fundamental topic within performance studies. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of a variety of different performance genres, the book will provide a method for exploring the context of a particular form or artist and enhance students' ability to critically reflect on performance.



The Embodied Dance Project


The Embodied Dance Project
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Author : Allison Pagano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

The Embodied Dance Project written by Allison Pagano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Dance categories.


“The secrets of the body will reveal themselves to you, but you have to want to know.” -A.P. For my thesis project, I focused on Embodied Dance, a somatic approach that utilizes movement to connect the body, mind and emotions in support of dance practice, training, and performance. The goal for this thesis was to assist dancers and participants in exploring self-discovery, empowerment and transformation through an experiential creative and choreographic process (my own and theirs). Embodied Dance practices provide support in the examination of restricted movement, tension patterns, personal stories, or limiting beliefs/self doubt in order to allow the practice of dance training to support wholeness and healing (both during the rehearsal process and performance). This thesis production and supporting paper are an exploration into how we can interact with the deeper layers of self through dance and performance by applying somatic and healing concepts that allow for empathetic connection between audience and performer, creating opportunities for connection, integration and empowerment. My inspiration for this project revolves around my twenty years of study and practice in body language, energy medicine, coaching, psychology and indigenous forms of healing. The title Body Stories was chosen to speak of the unconscious, unspoken thoughts we hold in our bodies as memories, as tension, as unexpressed parts of ourselves that have a story to tell. The process followed six individuals who chose to explore a common topic of ‘redefining relationships’ through the vernacular of modern dance vocabulary. Over the course of a twelve-week period, each dancer’s story was thoughtfully tracked and detailed through journal entries and video. The rehearsal process is notated under the section titled “Creative Somatic Investigations” in the Appendix of this paper. In sharing the progression and details of each participant’s ‘body story,’ I aimed to support a perspective of dance training and performance that conveyed healing and personal alignment and growth. This thesis is an inquiry into the choreographic process as a tool to fulfill a journey of healing through movement. This work is also intended to support a sense of empowerment for the participants as they ‘take charge’ of their internal states in relating it to how they move as a dancers and as people the world.