Screen LibraryDancing the fairy tale : producing and performing The Sleeping Beauty /
In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself and a powerful case study for examining the art and the variables surrounding its production, performance, and reception. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical ballet...
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Temple University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself and a powerful case study for examining the art and the variables surrounding its production, performance, and reception. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical ballet - specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over the course of nearly seventy years - Katz Rizzo looks at not only the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet but also the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form. -- from back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781439911228 1439911223 9781439911211 1439911215 |
| Index Number: | GV1790 |
| CLC: | J733.4 |
| Call Number: | J733.4/K197 |
| Contents: | Women Creating Ballet: The Case of The Sleeping Beauty -- From Saint Petersburg to Philadelphia: Reviving and Reanimating Classicism in America -- Catherine Littlefield and The Sleeping Beauty's American Premiere (1937) -- Aurora Streamlined and Accelerated: Barbara Weisberger and the Second U.S. Production (1965) -- Aurora Speaks: What Ballerinas Have to Say about The Sleeping Beauty -- The Power of Dance Technique and the Agency of the Ballerina. |