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- catalog abstract "Choreography and Narrative traces development of the story ballet from the early - eighteenth-century fair theatres through the Revolutionary fetes to the well-known Romantic ballets La Sulphide and Giselle. This history charts ballet's separation from opera at mid-century and its emergence as an autonomous art form dedicated to the telling of a story through gesture and movement alone. The site for this historical inquiry is Paris, home to the most popular and lavish. Dance productions of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The ballet is analyzed in terms of the training procedures for dancers, the aesthetic goals and responsibilities of choreographers, the institutional frameworks that promote productions, and the expectations and pleasures of dance viewers. Throughout, ballet is approached as a cultural practice intimately connected with political and economic features of French society, a practice whose evolving form. Bears witness to, as it participates in, the sweeping social changes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To uncover the significance of ballet, Choreography and Narrative compares the dancing body with the body as constructed in social dance practices, and also in anatomy, etiquette, painting, acting, and physical education. Choreography is considered as a theorizing of embodiment, one which reflects on the individual, gendered, and social identities of. Those who dance and those who watch dancing.".
- catalog alternative "Choreography and narrative".
- catalog contributor b9744842.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Bears witness to, as it participates in, the sweeping social changes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To uncover the significance of ballet, Choreography and Narrative compares the dancing body with the body as constructed in social dance practices, and also in anatomy, etiquette, painting, acting, and physical education. Choreography is considered as a theorizing of embodiment, one which reflects on the individual, gendered, and social identities of.".
- catalog description "Choreography and Narrative traces development of the story ballet from the early - eighteenth-century fair theatres through the Revolutionary fetes to the well-known Romantic ballets La Sulphide and Giselle. This history charts ballet's separation from opera at mid-century and its emergence as an autonomous art form dedicated to the telling of a story through gesture and movement alone. The site for this historical inquiry is Paris, home to the most popular and lavish.".
- catalog description "Dance productions of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The ballet is analyzed in terms of the training procedures for dancers, the aesthetic goals and responsibilities of choreographers, the institutional frameworks that promote productions, and the expectations and pleasures of dance viewers. Throughout, ballet is approached as a cultural practice intimately connected with political and economic features of French society, a practice whose evolving form.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-361) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Pygmalion's No-Body and the Body of Dance -- 1. Originary Gestures -- 2. Staging the Canvas and the Machine -- 3. Narrating Passion and Prowess -- 4. Governing the Body -- 5. Fugitive Desires -- Conclusion: Ballet's Bodies and the Body of Narrative.".
- catalog description "Those who dance and those who watch dancing.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 371 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Choreography & narrative.".
- catalog identifier "0253330815 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Choreography & narrative.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "Text in English; appendix in French.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engfre".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Choreography & narrative.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "792.8/0944 20".
- catalog subject "Ballet France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Ballet France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Choreography France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Choreography France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "GV1649 .F67 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Pygmalion's No-Body and the Body of Dance -- 1. Originary Gestures -- 2. Staging the Canvas and the Machine -- 3. Narrating Passion and Prowess -- 4. Governing the Body -- 5. Fugitive Desires -- Conclusion: Ballet's Bodies and the Body of Narrative.".
- catalog title "Choreography & narrative : ballet's staging of story and desire / Susan Leigh Foster.".
- catalog title "Choreography and narrative".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".