Sixteen Years of Ballet Rambert
Author: Lionel J. H. Bradley
Publisher:
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13:
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Ballet 101
Author: Robert Greskovic
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780879103255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a look at the world of dance; an analysis of ballet movement, music, and history; a close-up look at popular ballets; and a host of performance tips.
The Choreography of Antony Tudor
Author: Rachel S. Chamberlain Duerden
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780838639481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Choreography of Antony Tudor: Focus on Four Ballets presents both an analytical overview of the ballets created for the stage by Antony Tudor and an in-depth critical analysis of four key works: Jardin aux Lilas (1936), Dark Elegies (1937), Pillar of Fire (1942), and The Leaves Are Fading (1975). Tudor was a British choreographer who spent a large part of his working life in the United States, and although he was not prolific in his output, his works include several masterpieces of twentieth-century ballet repertoire. Characteristic of his work is an exceptionally creative and sensitive relationship of choreography with music, a relationship different from that developed by his equally musical contemporary, George Balanchine, in that it privileges subtle layers of dramatic, often psychological, exposition as well as complex mythmical structures. Tudor's ballets invariably involve a psychological human dimension, even when there is no story as such, and it is these two strands - the musical and the dramatic - that the choreographer exploits with consummate skill in the best of his work.
Literature, Modernism, and Dance
Author: Susan Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0199565325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature, Modernism, and Dance explores the complex reciprocal relationship between literature and dance in the modernist period
Dance History
Author: Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-18
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1134876866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. For the main body of the text which covers historical studies of dance in its traditional and performance contexts, the editors have brought together a team of internationally known dance historians. Roger Copeland and Deborah Jowitt each take a controversial look at the modern American dance. Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson explain the processes they use when reconstructing 'lost' ballets, and Theresa Buckland and Georgina Gore write on traditional dance in England and West Africa respectively. With other contributions on social dance, ballet, early European modern dance and feminist perspectives on dance history this book offers a multitude of starting points for studying dance history as well as presenting examples of dance writing at its very best. Dance History will be an essential purchase for all students of dance.
Albion's Dance
Author: Karen Eliot
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 019934762X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the ballet boom in Britain during WWII, this book asks how art and artists thrive during conflict. Author Karen Eliot shows how ballet in Britain flourished during war, exhibiting a surprising heterogeneity and vibrant populism. The book focuses especially on the distinct roles of dance critics, male and female dancers, producers, audiences, and choreographers.
A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989
Author: Keith Robbins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9780198224969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Frederick Ashton's Ballets
Author: Geraldine Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-11-22
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0197747116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but also presents a detailed account of Ashton's work and dances, demonstrating his remarkable choreographic and artistic talent. Having danced with the Royal Ballet Company during the years Ashton was Director, author, Geraldine Morris also draws on her years as an academic in the field. As well as highlighting the dances, the book explores the contribution made by Ashton's collaborators, both designers and musicians. Central is the issue of identity and how style can be retained in dance, despite alterations in training. It considers the problem of how the values of ballet training change, thereby affecting contemporary performances of his works. Through eight works Morris examines the various sources that Ashton used, whether they were dances with words, or those influenced by dancers' movement style, jazz dance, abstraction, mysticism, or narrative. With this new material, the second edition makes a significant contribution to dance scholarship.
Shadowplay
Author: Donna Perlmutter
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780879101893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Limelight). Shadowplay is the first biography of Antony Tudor, one of the few indisputable geniuses of twentieth-century dance. His ground-breaking ballets changed forever what audiences expected to see on stage and brought with them psychological truths and haunting beauties that still resonate wherever they are performed. Brilliant but tormented, the London-born Tudor drew on the raw material of his own life for such landmark works as Pillar of Fire and Jardin aux Lilas .
