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Nunn, Tessa Ashlin. "The Paris Opera Ballet Dancing Offstage." French Politics, Culture & Society 40, no. 2 (2022): 90–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2022.400206.
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The spaces in which amateur and professional dancers practiced their art greatly changed during the Covid-19 pandemic due to the closures of theaters and dance studios, yet dance continued to bring people together online. This article studies the media presence of the Paris Opera Ballet (POB) between March 2020 and May 2021 to analyze how the aesthetic and moral concept of grace has evolved. During this difficult year, dance took on a therapeutic role as POB dancers offered free online classes and performed in video work, in addition to taking on a political role as discussions about racism in ballet sparked public debates.
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Lund, Curt. "Dancing in the Darkroom." Afterimage 48, no. 4 (2021): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.4.3.
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Russian émigré Alexey Brodovitch, best known for leading a radical shift in magazine design in the United States during his twenty-four-year tenure (1934–58) as art director of Harper’s Bazaar, also pursued innovative practices in other fields of art, design, and education. His ballet photography, made during rehearsals and performances of touring dance companies in New York City from 1935 to 1938, explored unusual methods of capturing dancers in motion. Brodovitch’s images would eventually come to be celebrated for their unconventional approach, but at the time, Brodovitch was not sure of his direction. Recent archival discoveries suggest that Brodovitch reframed this graphic “problem” into curriculum for his classes at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, inspiring students to delve into a number of experimental photographic techniques and pioneering the teaching of such practices in American classrooms.
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Foster, Andrew. "A Directory of Diaghilev Dancers." Dance Research 37, no. 2 (2019): 181–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2019.0272.
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Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes came to an end with his death in 1929, but it has since been an endless source of fascination and inspiration for dancers, dance historians and fans. It would seem that every aspect of the Ballets Russes has been exhaustively explored and documented – from the art, the music and the choreography, to the personalities who created them. The names of Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky are legendary, and many others (Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, Ninette De Valois, Marie Rambert) went on to influence and define the art of ballet for much of the 20th century. But what of the hundreds of dancers who actually gave life and form to the Ballets Russes? Who were they? Where did they come from? How long did they spend with the company? The following listing of more than 400 performers is a comprehensive record of the dancing artists who performed with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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Eliot, Karen. "Turning Movement into Words: The Technique Writings of Tamara Karsavina and Agrippina Vaganova." Dance Research 40, no. 2 (2022): 158–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2022.0367.
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The Ballerina Tamara Karsavina’s career as a writer deserves attention and warrants a further assessment of her legacy. She left an impressive body of writing that documents her history and describes ballet’s specific and complex vocabulary of movement. I focus on Karsavina’s writing about ballet technique so as to shed light on her teaching approach and dance values through a contrast with those of her near contemporary in the Imperial Ballet School and Company, the famed pedagogue Agrippina Vaganova. Particular emphasis is given to Vaganova’s Basic Principles of Classical Ballet, Russian Ballet Technique and to Karsavina’s extensive writings in The Dancing Times.
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Greene, Thomas M. "Labyrinth Dances in the French and English Renaissance." Renaissance Quarterly 54, no. 4-Part2 (2001): 1403–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1262158.
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Some descriptions of ballets performed at the late Valois court in France draw upon accounts of choreographic and equestrian maze-like performances extending back into early antiquity. Common elements include a convoluted complexity in the dancers’ movements, repeated reversals, and a series of patterns variously reformed after regular interruptions. The practice of medieval dances at Easter upon the labyrinth designs of one or more French cathedrals may also have exercised an influence on Renaissance dancing. A sonnet by Ronsard describing a labyrinthine ballet invites at least two metaphysical interpretations. Neoplatonic theories of magic are apparently reflected in the choreography by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx for his Balet Comique de la Royne. Labyrinth dances in Ben Jonson's masques are associated with Orphic cosmogony. The description of an angelic labyrinth dance in Milton's Paradise Lost leads to historical and theoretical questions concerning the intermittent persistence of the phenomenon.“Here's a maze trod indeed Through forth-rights and meanders!“— The Tempest
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Coombes, Timothy F. "The Nursery as Circus: Dancing the Childlike to Fauré's Dolly Suite, 1913." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 142, no. 2 (2017): 277–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2017.1361174.
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ABSTRACTIn 1913, at the Théâtre des Arts in Paris, a controversial but highly successful ballet choreographed a circus-style pantomime to the music of Fauré's Dolly Suite. With its apparently incongruent relation of dance to music, the ballet displayed, as one reviewer put it, ‘criticisms in action’. This article investigates how we might conceive the production as an act of musical and cultural criticism, by examining its close relation with contexts such as early comic film, music-hall entertainment, the children's literature market, medical and anthropological theories, and surrealist thought. The ballet implicitly challenged conventional interpretations of Fauré's music as reflecting a particular perception of childhood – one which was rather too close to the sentimental attitudes vehemently dismissed in contemporaneous literature. The production was an important manifestation of an emergent understanding of the ‘childlike’ in early twentieth-century French culture – as a condition enlightened by irrationality, with important physiological traits.
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Van Rij, Inge. ""There is no anachronism": Indian Dancing Girls in Ancient Carthage in Berlioz's Les Troyens." 19th-Century Music 33, no. 1 (2009): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2009.33.1.003.
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Abstract Relatively early in the composition of Les Troyens Berlioz declared his intention to include a "pas d'alméées with the music and dancing exactly like the Bayadèères' ballet which I saw here sixteen or seventeen years ago." Despite Berlioz's claim that he had "gone into it" and "there is no anachronism," historical evidence would suggest that the presence of Indian dancing girls in Dido's Carthage is actually highly inauthentic and anachronistic. Indeed, Berlioz's immediate inspiration for the ballet in question was not ancient history but, rather, a group of Indian dancers and musicians who had visited Paris in 1838. An investigation of the context of the bayadèères' performances and the reception of the dancers and their music reveals that issues of authenticity and anachronism were a constant preoccupation for their French audiences, most of whom had previously encountered bayadèères only through the exoticizing lens of Western representations. Berlioz's own references to the bayadèères are examined in relation to contemporary reviews and the text of a highly self-reflexive play that was performed as a prologue and that shaped audiences' responses to the bayadèères' performances at the Thééââtre des Variéétéés in Paris. Although Berlioz is generally thought to have abandoned his intention to embody the 1838 bayadèères in Les Troyens, I argue that he actually retained aspects of his original Indian inspiration in the act IV ballet; moreover, an awareness of the impact of the bayadèères' performances on Berlioz and his contemporaries greatly informs our appreciation of the contribution of the act IV ballet to the wider imperial subtext of Les Troyens. If, rather than simply dismissing anachronism, we are willing to embrace it as a concept fundamental to Berlioz's opera, the act IV ballet——often cut in recent productions——can be newly appreciated as occupying a significant role in the historical dialectic of Les Troyens as a whole.
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Polianska, I. M. "Specificity and functions of a dance as a component of syncretic “mousikē” art of the Ancient world." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 51, no. 51 (2018): 274–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-51.16.
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Background. The rapid development of contemporary art has intensified the scientific thought in relation to the theory and history of dancing art. Domestic art criticism pays much attention to the problems of dancing functioning in contemporary culture; periodicals publish theoretical and methodological works, general critical reviews of ballet performances. In historical plane, the majority of publications contain information about outstanding artists – performers and choreographers of various times and stylistic trends. However, the evolution of a dance as a socio-cultural and artistic phenomenon, the specifics of its functioning in different epochs and in different regions to a great extent remains unknown. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to identify the peculiarities of dancing art development in the ancient world, its functions and the influence of dancing on the development of “mousikē” creativity of the Antiquity. Methods. The research uses the following methods: the analytical method, which directed on consideration of individual elements of “mousikē” art, expressive means of dancing and its interaction with all parts of artistic-syncretic action, characteristic features of ancient art; the method of classification applied for definition of functions of a dance in the syncretic art of the ancient world; the method of generalization consumed to analyze the facts collected and the logical transition from a singular to general judgment, knowledge, and evaluation. Results. Art as a socio-cultural phenomenon in various cultural-historical periods reflects the specifics of the spiritual sphere of social life. In this regard, the art of the ancient world can be a vivid example. Unlike other types of art, ancient dancing did not leave behind so many artifacts as the classic examples of ancient art – monuments of sculpture, architecture and literature did. Even when methods of fixing language and music were found, dancing as a language of movements remained within the “oral tradition” for quite a long time. It is proved that the art of the ancient world was artistically syncretic. It is a well-known fact that music and dancing are based on rhythm. Rhythm contributed to the interconnection of “mousikē” arts, it was a core that combined words, singing, music, dancing and dramatic action. The implementation of monotonous movements in a single rhythm contributed to uniting the community together to achieve a collective goal. The great social significance of dancing is also confirmed by the fact that almost all-important events in the life of an ancient man were accompanied by dancing: birth and death, war, hunting, etc. In his treatises, the great philosopher, Plato, prescribed all the sacred songs and dances that, in his opinion, were the means of real implementation of the law, that is, they had a specific social function. For a long time dancing was an indispensable component and obligatory attribute of ceremonial and religious rituals. Such celebrations were characterized by magical significance, which in turn formed a magical function of dancing. Also, ancient philosophers had a special attitude to “mousikē” forms of creativity as a means of education. Confucian doctrine put forward the issue of moral and ethical perfection of the individual, whose one of the effective means was considered “mousikē” creativity. Confucius developed the forms of “mousikē” influence not only theoretically, but also applied them in practice. The greatest justification and great importance of the educational function of dancing as an integral element of “mousikē” art was in ancient Greece. Since the VIIth century B. C. the upbringing by the way of “mousikē” art was widely cultivated in Sparta. It is known that the Spartans provided “mousikē” creativity a great state and educational value. Teaching the skills of “mousikē” creativity was part of the general youth education system. In addition, in ancient culture, dancing was an integral part of tragedy and comedy, the then contemporary genres of theatrical art, and had an entertaining aesthetic function. Conclusions. Based on the foregoing, one can conclude that dancing was of great importance in the art of the ancient world. Dances were the object of discussions of writers, philosophers and religious leaders of that time; the rhetoric of that period about the art of dancing were either of ethical-applied or theoretical character and often used dance images as metaphors. The source of dancing art development were ritual dances of magical character, which eventually turned into an important part of artistic and syncretic creativity of the “mousikē” art of Antiquity. Dancing as a reflection of an emotional state of the ancient man through rhythmic moves traditionally got special magic meaning, it was a mandatory attribute of ceremonial and religious rituals. By dancing marked all the significant events in the life of an individual and society of the ancient time. Dancing in the ancient world was an integral part of the spatial-temporal action, but it had a variety of functions. Great social significance of dancing is confirmed by the fact that the teaching the skills of “mousikē” creativity was part of the general education system of the youth of Greece, Sparta and China. In ancient culture, dancing was an integral part of the then genres of theatrical art – tragedy and comedy, had an entertaining aesthetic function. The professionalization of music and dancing art led to the emergence of dancing genres that were theatrical and stage-oriented; as a result, the aesthetic function of dancing in the art of the ancient world was reinforcing gradually. Thus, the dancing had various aspects of functioning in “mousikē” forms of creativity in the ancient world from ritual and magic to aesthetically entertaining ones.
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Bercu, Alina. "Golden Era of Baroque Dance." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Musica 66, no. 2 (2021): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2021.2.05.
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"The reign of Louis XIV marks an important milestone in the development of dance and art. Convinced that visual arts and music would significantly contribute to a monarch’s authority, image, and glory, the “Sun King” coordinated artistic activities through establishing a significant number of royal academies. Through the Académie Royale de Danse the art of dancing was given a proper language and notation system for the first time in history. On the other hand, the Académie Royale de Musique was tied to the birth of a national operatic style. Opera was the perfect tool for an idealistic and majestic projection of a nation’s monarch. Keywords: baroque dance, Louis XIV, dance notation systems, ballet de cour, royal academies, Jean-Baptiste Lully, music, opera. "
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Koegler, Horst. "Dancing in the closet: The coming out of ballet." Dance Chronicle 18, no. 2 (1995): 231–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01472529508569199.
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Newman, Shawn. "It's All in the Hips: Sexual and Artistic Minority in Canadian Concert Jazz Dance." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2012 (2012): 118–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2012.15.
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Contemporary sexual norms in Canada continue to dictate how sexuality should be presented on the stage in many styles of theatrical dance. Jazz dance is not excluded from this practice; in fact, since the early days of social dancing, jazz dance has often been considered synonymous with gratuitously deviant sex and sexuality. In contemporary artistic circles, concert jazz dance often finds itself subject to an additional classification as low-art because of this perceived relationship between sex and the dancing. This artistically marginalized position of concert jazz implies a conservative heteronormativity in Canada that is contrary to our apparent inclusion of subjugated sexual minorities as “normal.” “It's All in the Hips” explores sexuality in contemporary Canadian concert jazz dance to illustrate the potential for representations of marginalized sexualities on stage, and the perceived threat to artistic hegemony. While there is growing research into sexuality on the American stage in ballet and modern dance through scholars such as Jane C. Desmond, Jennifer Fisher, Susan Leigh Foster, and others, and also into jazz's roots in social dancing by Susan Manning, Anthea Kraut, Julie Malnig, and a growing host of scholars, very little work has been done on the Canadian concert jazz scene, save for the work of Iro Tembeck, Mark Miller, Meilan Lam, and a handful of dancers. This paper examines the intersection between sexual and artistic minority in Canadian concert jazz dance and problems that arise for positioning the form to dance audiences as high art.
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Klapper, Melissa R. "Discipline and the Art of Dancing in Twentieth-Century British and American Ballet Books for Girls." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 12, no. 3 (2019): 413–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2019.0043.
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Rizzo, Laura Katz. "Spectacular Choreographies of Epic Proportions: Ricki Starr, the Ballet Dancing Wrestler." Dance Research 40, no. 2 (2022): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2022.0366.
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This essay traces my journey as a dance artist, scholar, and teacher, and elucidates the strategies with which I have learned to articulate my creative voice, to locate myself within the field of dance, and to perform my identity with self-determined agency. Using the first person and locating myself within this text is a strategy that I have drawn from feminist methodology, a meditation on voice, and a mode of autobiographical performance. This essay also examines the life, career and choreography of Ricki Starr, a ballet-dancing wrestler. Starr became a symbolic icon for me, and his use of ballet vocabulary offered me a powerful example of how to disrupt and challenge the norms of cultural hegemony. Starr’s work in the wrestling ring (and on television, in film and in the music industry), is a powerful case study that conveys some of the ways that dance allows for complex and challenging portrayals of gender identity as enacted through physical storytelling.
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Aalten, Anna. "In the Presence of the Body: Theorizing Training, Injuries and Pain in Ballet." Dance Research Journal 37, no. 2 (2005): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767700008561.
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After an injury; a dancer learns, at least for a short time, to heed his [sic] body if only because pain speaks a language almost anyone can understand. This heightened awareness should not disappear once the dancer returns to form; rather it should help him continue to learn about the ways his body moves and reacts (Ashley 1984, 217–218).In this statement the American dancer Merrill Ashley, who had a memorable 30-year career with the New York City Ballet, expresses a view on injuries that goes against the grain of dominant thinking within the world of ballet. According to Ashley, who suffered from several injuries in her first two years with the company, an injury can be a positive experience for a dancer, because it heightens her awareness of her body and teaches her about its possibilities and limitations. This is a rather exceptional view in a world where the vast majority of professionals commonly see injuries as a disaster (Wulff 1998; Wainwright, Williams and Turner 2005). The dominant realization that a dancer's career is short makes dancers fear an injury, because it will prevent them from dancing and cause them to lose roles. Because “there is a rule in the ballet world against casting or promoting dancers who are injured” (Wulff 1998, 106), dancers who suffer from an injury will wait as long as possible before letting others know, because they are afraid it will stop them dancing (Mainwaring, Krasnow and Kerr 2001).
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Nather, Francisco Carlos, and José Lino Oliveira Bueno. "Timing Perception in Paintings and Sculptures of Edgar Degas." Kronoscope 12, no. 1 (2012): 16–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852412x631628.
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AbstractThe impressionist artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is widely known for his artistic production dedicated to the representation of movement. Degas has done a careful study, realistically depicting the movement both in his paintings of scenes of horses, women bathing and dancing, and in his sculptures of dancers in various positions of classical ballet. Since movements exist only at the intersection space-time, and visual works of art exist only in physical spaces defined by the works themselves, this article discusses the perception of time in the work of Degas. Therefore, this paper emphasizes aspects of the representation of movement used by the artist and the implied relations of these aspects with the perception of time. The timing perception is addressed according to studies that revealed components of the subjective perception of time related to a meeting of an observer with a work of visual art (aesthetic episode).
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Liu, Ting. "The interpretative function of singing in the “score” of a modern ballet performance." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 62, no. 62 (2022): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-62.05.
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Statement of the problem. Under consideration is a specific form of art synthesis – singing in modern ballet. The synthesis of arts is attributive to the poetics of European opera, where a choreographic plan is used, however, singing in ballet is a rather rare phenomenon against the background of the dominance of singing in the operas of the 18th and 19th centuries. Nonetheless, there are eloquent examples of the return of singing in a ballet as a characteristic feature of the innovative choreographic theatre (“Pulcinella” by I. Stravinsky). The relevance of the topic is explained by the lack of musicological research devoted to the functions of singing as a component of ballet, while in modern practice there are clear precedents for the revival of this phenomenon. Some topical sources indicate the synthetic type of theatrical spectacle in the context of French Baroque culture (Danshina, 2010; Anfilova, 2004; Chepalov, 2008 and others), but the vocal component is not considered as a special problem. The purpose of the article is to investigate the interaction of vocal and ballet arts in the modern practice of ballet productions of the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater (Ukraine) in the retrospective context of European musical-theatrical traditions. Modern ballet “The Little Prince” based on A. Saint-Exupery’s novel of the same name (2016) staged by Kharkiv ‘M. Lysenko’ National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (KhNATOB) was chosen to be the material of the article. The following research methods are used: historical and typological approach that distinguishes the styles of European opera culture; semantic analysis of ballet performance as an artistic text; interpretative-cognitive comprehension of singing and its functions in ballet dramaturgy. Presentation of the research results. The creative experience of the French choreographer Johann Nuss on the stage of Kharkiv Opera Theatre – the premiere of the modern ballet “The Little Prince”, testified to the actualization of intertextuality in solving the problem of the relationship between singing and dancing. Traditional artistic plans are an important factor in the dramaturgy of a ballet performance. Together with two purely choreographic levels where the virtuoso skill of dancers and plastique of “talking” movements prevails, the singing voice is the third plan, which indicates the continuity of the French tradition (one can remember the model of J. B. Rameau’s “Gallant India”). The choice of musical material for the performance belongs to J. Nuss. He “saw” the image of Rose, who the Prince is in love with, twofold: as a choreographic-plastic and a “singing” one. Respectively, the role of Rose is embodied by a ballerina (Honoured Artist of Ukraine Iryna Khandazhevska) and a singer (Honoured Artist of Ukraine Olena Starykova, soprano). Dressed in a costume of a flower, the singer represents an ideal creature: themes from R. Glier’s and S. Rachmaninoff’s vocal compositions sound. The appearance of other bright characters is accompanied by instrumental music fragments, these are the King (J. S. Bach’s Second Orchestral Suite), the Ambitious Man (L. Delibes “Coppélia”), the Drunkard (“Winter” from A. Vivaldi’s “The Seasons”), and the Banker (J. S. Bach’s Suite for Cello Solo). So, the introduction of coloratura singing into the spectator’s plan of perception of the expressive-linguistic means of ballet opens a new symbolic world. Conclusions. Singing in a ballet is a specific manifestation of the art synthesis characteristic of modern choreographic performance. The vocal art emphasizes the highest, spiritual degree of communication, adding to the spectators’ experience a cathartic component. The interpretative function of singing in the concept of the performance is obvious: singing is a symbol (expression) of the divine essence of a human. Energy of vocals, multiplied by the traditional means of classical choreography and modern ballet, is a component of “multimedia modality” (Petrovic, 2017) as a sign of the interpretive thinking of the directors. Understanding the action of multimodality in the space-time of ballet is an interpretative dimension of spiritual reality. The prospect of researching. The study of modern forms of stage life of “singing in a ballet” indicates the need to develop this concept in the theoretical and methodological key, as well as to consider other examples of ballet performances (“One Thousand and One Nights” by F. Amirov, “Spartacus” by A. Khachaturian in Kharkiv Opera and others).
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Crow, Susie. "Developing Craft in the Ballet Class." Dance Research 39, no. 2 (2021): 147–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2021.0340.
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The ballet class is a complex pedagogical phenomenon in which an embodied tradition is transmitted in practice from one generation to the next, shaping not just the dancing but the attitudes and perceptions of dancers throughout their careers. This paper emerges from observations and experience of recent and current ballet class practice, and theoretical investigations into embodied learning in the arts. It outlines the influential role of large hegemonic institutions in shaping how ballet is currently taught and learned; and the effect of this on the class's evolving relation to ballet's repertoire of old and emerging dances as artworks. It notes the increasing importation into ballet pedagogy of thinking rooted in sports science, engendering the notion of the dancer as athlete; and of historic attitudes which downplay the agency of the dancer. I propose an alternative model for understanding the nature of learning in the ballet class, relating it to what Donald Schön calls ‘deviant traditions of education for practice’ in other performing and visual arts ( Schön 1987 p16). I look at the dancer's absorption via the class of ballet's danse d’école, its core technique of academic dance content. I suggest how this process might more constructively be understood through the lens of craft learning and the development of craftsmanship via apprenticeship, the dancer learning alongside the teacher as experienced artist practitioner who models behaviours that foster creativity.
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Hammond, Helena. "Dancing against History: (The Royal) Ballet, Forsythe, Foucault, Brecht, and the BBC." Dance Research 31, no. 2 (2013): 120–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2013.0072.
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On 5 July 1997, The Royal Ballet danced William Forsythe's Steptext as part of a final programme at its Royal Opera House home before the theatre closed for an extensive Millennial programme of rebuilding. Filmed by the BBC, the performance was televised as part of the 1997 Christmas schedule. This paper explores the striking parallels between the institutional critique staged by Steptext and the literal deconstruction which the Royal Opera House was about to undergo. It considers how the programme debated Covent Garden as British cultural institution just as the reconstruction of the Royal Opera House was imminent. Focusing first on Steptext's post-structuralist desire to excavate, disrupt, and disavow the apparently logical structures which have shaped the governing institutions of western performance, it moves to consider how the BBC programme makers co-opted, and extended to the fabric of the Royal Opera House itself, ballet's same potential to critique its own institutional history enshrined in Steptext. Having argued that Brecht might be an especially apt ally in Forsythe's realisation, through performance, of some of the fundamental tenets of Foucauldian theory, those relating to Foucault's re-conceptualisation of history especially, this paper moves finally to propose the performance and televisual adaptation of Steptext as a portal into new modes of reading the post-war Royal Ballet as Foucauldian subjugated, or effective, history.
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DURKIN, HANNAH. "Cinematic “Pas de Deux”: The Dialogue between Maya Deren's Experimental Filmmaking and Talley Beatty's Black Ballet Dancer in A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)." Journal of American Studies 47, no. 2 (2013): 385–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875813000121.
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A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) is a collaborative enterprise between avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and African American ballet dancer Talley Beatty. Study is significant in experimental film history – it was one of three films by Deren that shaped the emergence of the postwar avant-garde cinema movement in the US. The film represents a pioneering cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dialogue between Beatty's ballet dancing and Deren's experimental cinematic technique. The film explores complex emotional experiences through a cinematic re-creation of Deren's understanding of ritual (which she borrowed from Katherine Dunham's Haitian experiences after spending many years documenting vodou) while allowing a leading black male dancer to display his artistry on-screen. I show that cultures and artistic forms widely dismissed as incompatible are rendered equivocal. Study adopts a stylized and rhythmic technique borrowed from dance in its attempt to establish cinema as “art,” and I foreground Beatty's contribution to the film, arguing that his technically complex movements situate him as joint author of its artistic vision. The essay also explores tensions between the artistic intentions of Deren, who sought to deprivilege the individual performer in favour of the filmic “ritual,” and Beatty, who sought to display his individual skills as a technically accomplished dancer.
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Höfling, Ana Paula. "Dancing Mestiçagem, Embodying Whiteness: Eros Volúsia's Bailado Brasileiro." Dance Research Journal 52, no. 2 (2020): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767720000170.
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This article analyzes the processes of branqueamento (whitening) contained within the ideology of mestiçagem (racial miscegenation) through the work of Brazilian dancer, choreographer, and dance pedagogue Eros Volúsia (1914–2004) in the context of the establishment of the myth of racial democracy in early twentieth-century Brazil. I argue that Eros Volúsia not only embodied Brazil's allegedly harmonious racial mixture through her stylized “folk” dances, but her bailado brasileiro (Brazilian ballet) in fact choreographed Brazil's modernity and aspirations of whiteness. I compare Volúsia's prominent career as a performer and pedagogue in Brazil with her brief film career in the United States, where Volúsia had the opportunity to follow in Carmen Miranda's footsteps and become the next “Brazilian bombshell,” but instead chose to return to Brazil, where she was able to maintain her white privilege and her status as author and artist.
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Todi, Cristina. "1. Historical Evolution of Adagio (Analysis of the Choreographic Concept)." Review of Artistic Education 19, no. 1 (2020): 155–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rae-2020-0019.
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AbstractBy this study we propose to expose the steps that led to the development of the choreographic adagio. Without excluding the importance of the precursory period, the approach of the discourse introduces us into the middle of the 18th century, exactly in the age when this miracle of dancing began to assume clear contours. We remind of the entrées full of effects with high elevations of Auguste Vestris, the expressivity of Marie Salle, the Noverian manifesto certainly the pas de deux formula - which is used even nowadays - of Marius Petipa. The transformations of the subjects - from the mythology to the eternal theme of love - are completed by the different states of the danced dialogue. The deciphering of the symbols founding its gesticulation and explains the step or the choreographic element is visible through the scene of the balcony of ballet Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev and by the meeting between Spartacus and Flavia in the ballet of Avram Haciaturian. The state of poetry, of dreaming, noble rise of the soul towards unsuspected horizons, the adagio, confesses to us its filiation even beyond the border of the age. We consider that this paper is useful both for the teaching staff who must instruct the youngsters in vocational schools a profound and qualitative choreographic culture, and to those who are training in the art of dance.
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Robinson, Anne. "Penelope Spencer (1901–93) Dancer and Choreographer: A Chronicle." Dance Research 28, no. 1 (2010): 36–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2010.0004.
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The career of the English dancer, choreographer, teacher and dance writer, Penelope Spencer (1901–93), primarily spanned the twenty-year period between the First and Second World Wars (1919–39). Spencer's versatile dance training and career encompassed diverse British theatre genres of the period, including ballet, drama, mime, modern dance, musical comedy, opera, pantomime and revue. It was common practice during the inter-war period for English dancers to disguise their British origins by ‘Russianising’ their names. Spencer, however, maintained her English name throughout her career. She practised consecutively both as a freelance artiste and also under the auspices of important cultural institutions, including the British National Opera Company [BNOC], the Camargo Society, the Cremorne Company, the Dancer's Circle Dinners, the Glastonbury Festival, the Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing [ISTD], the League of Arts, the London Opera Syndicate Limited, the Margaret Morris Movement, the One Hundred Club, the Royal Academy of Dancing [RAD], the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art [RADA], the Royal College of Music [RCM], and the Sunshine Matinées. Spencer's significant contribution to British theatre dance and wider cultural heritage, is largely forgotten. Since no major study of her work has been published, 1 and because not one of her creations survives in performance, the importance of her wide-ranging, and often pioneering achievements, is not fully recognised.
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Martin, Christopher. "NAKED FEMALES AND SPLAY-FOOTED SPRAWLERS: BALLERINAS ON THE STAGE IN JACKSONIAN AMERICA." Theatre Survey 51, no. 1 (2010): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557410000232.
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When artist-inventor Samuel B. Morse alleged that the Bowery Theatre performance of French ballerina Madame Hutin was “to all intents and purposes thepublic exposure of a naked female,” he was expressing an opinion that conflicted with that of other critics, who felt that the performance of French dancers would “put to shame our splay-footed indigenous sprawlers, and will greatly refine the taste in dancing in the play-going public.” In Jacksonian American, citizens who were concerned with the direction of the nation's culture engaged in a debate about the respective merits of the less-polished art created in the New World and the more refined offerings of the Old World that was played out in critical reactions to an increasingly popular theatrical form: ballet. Ballet gradually became an important part of American theatre during the first half of the nineteenth century as dancers appeared on stages in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston in front of the same audiences that attended the dramatic plays whose productions have received the bulk of academic attention. Three waves of European dancers came to the Americas during the period 1790 to 1845. The first wave (1790–1825) consisted of small companies who presented dance to a broad range of audiences, typically before other plays or during entr'actes. This article focuses on performances that occurred during the second wave (1825–40), when impresarios recruited established (though not top-tier) European ballerinas to come to specific theatres. These dancers brought the repertoire and styles of the Romantic ballet to America, including evening-length performances with fairy-tale plots and an emphasis on charismatic female stars, such asLa Sylphide.The first American ballerinas, Mary Ann Lee and Augusta Maywood, made their debuts during this period. The third wave (1840–5) consisted largely of “headliners” such as Fanny Elssler, who toured the country performing selections from their famous roles andpaswith a corps de ballet recruited from each city they visited.
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Whiteside, Bethany, and John Kelly. "The presentation of self in the classical ballet class: dancing with Erving Goffman." Research in Dance Education 17, no. 1 (2015): 14–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14647893.2015.1110570.
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Ravelhofer, Barbara. "Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphos'd (1621)." Dance Research 25, no. 2 (2007): 144–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2007.25.2.144.
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In summer 1621, George Villiers, then Marquess of Buckingham, invited the king and an exclusive circle of courtiers to inaugurate his newly restored countryside residence Burley-on-the-Hill in Rutland, Lincolnshire. On this occasion, he commissioned Ben Jonson with a masque, The Gypsies Metamorphos'd, in which he himself and various friends performed as dancing, pick-pocketing and palm-reading gipsies. The Gypsies Metamorphos'd was a risqué piece which experimented with innovative features, some of them outrageous. In particular, Jonson and his collaborators drew upon French-style ballet and banqueting fashions which they combined with traditional English music and song. This essay explains the reason for these artistic choices.
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Girdwood, Megan. "‘Puppet of skeletal escapade’: Dance Dialogues in Mina Loy and Carl Van Vechten." Modernist Cultures 16, no. 2 (2021): 265–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2021.0331.
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In an undated letter, likely composed in late 1914, Mina Loy reflected on the recent aesthetic experiences that had greatly affected her, writing that the ‘things that have made [her] gasp were a few Picassos, Windham [ sic] Lewis, Nijinski dancing – perfection is infrequent’. The letter was addressed to her American agent Carl Van Vechten, a dance and music critic at the New York Times, who played a highly influential role in shaping discourses around ballet and modern dance both in the US and internationally. This article conjoins Loy and Van Vechten's modernist oeuvres – crossing genres including poetry, novels, newspaper reviews, and photography – in order to reveal the importance of dance to their shifting aesthetic commitments and shared interest in the expressive capacities of the human form. Dancing bodies, moving fluently across the work of this modernist pair, variously transcribe Futurist satires, Decadent revivals, and a primitivist fascination with the erotic aspects of dance, crystallising in Loy and Van Vechten's responses to the Harlem Renaissance.
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Schultz, Marianne. "‘Sons of the Empire’: Dance and the New Zealand Male." Dance Research 29, no. 1 (2011): 19–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2011.0003.
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This article traces the journeys of dancing men from the stages of New Zealand to the stages of London during the twentieth century. The oft-repeated history of ‘the hard man’ of New Zealand who belonged to the ‘culture of imperial manliness’ is challenged by the stories of these men who, beginning in the 1920s with Jan Caryll, became professional dancers. I argue that within early twentieth-century New Zealand culture the opportunity existed for men and male bodies to be on display. The Maori haka, which featured men dancing in public exhibitions and ceremonies, had been seen by non-Maori (Pakeha) since first contact, while the emergence of body-building, beginning with the visit in 1902 of Eugen Sandow and a culture of sport, allowed men to be on show. Not least of all, tours to the antipodes of European dancers inspired young men to study ballet and contemporary dance. As a consequence, throughout the twentieth century New Zealand male dancers continued to arrive in London and contributed to both New Zealand and British dance histories.
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Spinul, Igor, and Elena Spinul. "THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF TRAINING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS OF MODERN BALLOT DANCES." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 195 (2021): 128–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2021-1-195-128-133.
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In recent decades, modern ballroom dancing as an artistic phenomenon is spreading around the world. During the twentieth century, the society formed a clear idea of ballroom dancing as a folk dance (waltz, tango, etc.) and sports competitions of ten standardized ballroom dances. However, in recent times, modern ballroom dancing is increasingly fighting for the right to recognize it as an independent phenomenon of choreographic culture, given the original system of means of expression, which distinguishes it from other types of ballroom choreography (sports and household) and stage forms of folk dance. Modern society places high demands on the professional training of future teachers in the field of culture and art. Fundamental knowledge of philosophy, pedagogy and psychology, ethics and aesthetics, other sciences help to organize the educational process with its main purpose, didactic, educational, developmental tasks, traditional and interactive methods, learning technologies and organizational forms determined by the teacher in accordance with modern requirements. put forward by the «Law of Ukraine on Higher Education» and state educational standards. The process of training a specialist in the field of ballroom dancing is based on the presence of practical training, adjustment, consolidation of movements and skills of the teacher, because without in-depth analysis of body movements in various dance performances, the idea of ballroom dancing Constant quality control and the creation of individual tasks will promote self-analysis of the student, his understanding and understanding of the importance of the balance between mental activity, physical and spiritual development. In the article the author explores the specifics of teaching modern ballroom dancing in higher education; defines the essence, criteria, requirements of choreographic and performing skills as a competence. The characteristics and features of the teacher-choreographer, his personal qualities are presented.
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Budnik-Przybylska, Dagmara, Maria Kaźmierczak, Jacek Przybylski, and Maurizio Bertollo. "Can Personality Factors and Body Esteem Predict Imagery Ability in Dancers?" Sports 7, no. 6 (2019): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports7060131.
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Dancing is mainly regarded as a form of art, which has been linked to the expression of emotions. Imagery is a well-known technique for enhancing performance. Additionally, specific personality traits are likely to facilitate performance. In the dancer’s performance, regarding the body as a tool is crucial. The following study examines personality and perceived body esteem as predictors of imagery ability in professional dancers. We analyzed two experimental groups, namely ballet dancers and professional dancers of other styles, and a control group. A sample of 249 people took part in the study: 155 women and 94 men aged 18–56 years. Participants filled in The Imagination in Sport Questionnaire and Polish adaptations of the Big Five Inventory—Short and the Body Esteem Scale. Results indicated that while each experimental group differed significantly from the control group in terms of their imagery ability, there were no differences between the two experimental groups. Findings revealed that personality traits, mainly higher openness to experience, and body esteem, mainly related to physical condition, were significant predictors of higher imagery ability in all groups.
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Reynolds, Dee. "‘Glitz and Glamour’ or Atomic Rearrangement: What do Dance Audiences Want?" Dance Research 28, no. 1 (2010): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2010.0003.
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While popular dance shows on stage and screen frequently attract audiences seeking the ‘glitz and glamour’ of spectacle and celebrity, much contemporary, experimental work holds more appeal for spectators in search of challenge and even disorientation. However, a significant element of viewing pleasure which cuts across these distinctions is the spectator's feeling of involvement with the dancer and/or the kinesthetics of the choreography. Indeed, facilitating audiences’ sense of intimacy/involvement with dancers can impact dramatically on the effect of cutting-edge choreography which might otherwise be experienced as difficult and obscure. I shall discuss audiences’ response and attraction to popular shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and compare these with responses to William Forsythe's choreography as performed by the ‘Ballet Boyz’.
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Cardoso, Allana Alexandre, Nycolle Martins Reis, Ana Paula Ramos Marinho, Melissa de Carvalho Souza Vieira, Leonessa Boing, and Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo Guimarães. "INJURIES IN PROFESSIONAL DANCERS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW." Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte 23, no. 6 (2017): 504–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1517-869220172306170788.
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ABSTRACT Movement is a fundamental element of dance, and the dancer’s body is the raw material through which the art of dance is expressed; for this, it demands the utmost discipline in the pursuit of technical and artistic excellence. To meet the professional demands, dancers are subjected to strenuous training routines, which can lead to the development of injuries in this environment. The objective was to examine the etiology, main affected segments, prevalence, and instruments used to evaluate the lesions in studies with professional dancers and/or in comparison with similar populations. We selected articles published in the last decade in the databases BIREME, LILACS, MEDLINE EBSCO, WEB OF SCIENCE, SCOPUS (Elsevier), and PubMed, with cross-sectional, observational cohort and case control design published in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. Systematic reviews, case studies, dissertations, theses, book chapters, cross-referenced articles, and studies published outside of the last decade were not included. The search used combinations of the terms “dancing* and athletic injuries* and musculoskeletal* and pain*”. A principal investigator and two reviewers conducted the survey and analyzed all the potentially relevant articles, initially by the abstract and title. Twelve articles were included, with 1,149 participants (965 professional dancers of classical ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, and breakdance, 104 amateur dancers, and 80 elite athletes). Nine studies found simultaneous lesions with emphasis on the foot and ankle (n=4), upper and lower limbs lesions (n=4) and lower and upper limb joints (n=1). Other studies have found lesions in the anterior cruciate ligament (n=3). There was no agreement regarding the instruments for detecting lesions in professional, pre-professional, and amateur dancers. There was a prevalence of studies aimed at classical ballet modality, evidencing a higher frequency of lower limb involvement in professional dancers.
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Portnova, Tatiana. "Dance in Sculpture of the Early 20th Century." Sculpture Review 68, no. 4 (2019): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0747528420901915.
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This article is concerned with the ratio of plastic arts as exemplified by sculptural works depicting dances of the early 20th century. Special attention is paid to the Greek motives in the Russian art of this period, which became the subject of inexhaustible aesthetic and artistic interest. The representation of ancient dance motifs, their figurative image and the nature of antiquity in sculptural plastics, various approaches to the interpretation of ancient plots and themes, the role and significance of the “antique” component in their artistic structure are considered in the article. The study of multi-level interactions between sculpture and dance in the context of antiquity calls for a comprehensive approach, including historical-cultural, theoretical-analytical and comparative-typological methods. Relating to ancient Greek images, ballet images of S. Konenkov, M. Ryndzyunskaya, N. Andreev, V. Vatagin, V. Beklimishev and S. Erzya provide a purely individual, unique and peculiar vision of dance corresponding to the ancient era. The categories and expressive means of dance were simultaneously analyzed close to the sculptural style of the masters because they are difficult to be divided methodologically and exist as an established artistic system. The concepts of “plastic expressiveness” in relation to the dancers imprinted in sculptures were interpreted. Analyzing the museum materials and sculptures depicting the dancing process, it was concluded that the ancient influence of plastic images on structural and genre determinants may vary.
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Aterianus-Owanga, Alice. "‘Butt shakers' versus national ballet: dancing national identity during the one-party rule in Gabon (1968–1990)." Critical African Studies 11, no. 1 (2019): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2019.1650648.
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Pritchard, Jane. "A Review of: “Dancing at the Alhambra and Empire: Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet”." Dance Chronicle 30, no. 1 (2007): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01472520601164001.
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DiPasquale, Sarah, Nicole Becker, Sarah Green, and Kim Sauers. "Self-Reported Injury and Management in a Liberal Arts College Dance Department." Medical Problems of Performing Artists 30, no. 4 (2015): 224–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.21091/mppa.2015.4041.
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Dancers often view injuries as a necessary sacrifice for participating in their art form. The purpose of this research was to determine the frequency and patterns of injury in a non-conservatory, liberal arts dance environment. These data may enable dance departments to provide more effective health resources. METHODS: Dancers registered in technique courses in a liberal arts dance department (including ballet, modern, tap, and jazz) completed an injury questionnaire immediately following the occurrence of any dance-related injury over the course of one semester. RESULTS: Out of 168 students registered in the department, 46 injuries were reported throughout the semester. The greatest rate of injury was in September and December with 0.95 and 0.65 injuries reported per day, respectively. 89.1% of participants indicated that they would use a direct-access, on-campus physical therapist or athletic trainer if available, though 45.7% of injured participants indicated that they would seek treatment off campus. CONCLUSIONS: Dancers in a liberal arts collegiate program may train at a higher intensity during the semester than summer break, which likely accounts for the high incidence of injury in September. Of those injured, most planned on self-treating, but none planned on missing class. Pre-semester screening and post-semester cross-training education should be implemented in liberal arts dance programs to help decrease the rate of injury seen when returning to dance following prolonged time off from dancing. Additionally, direct access to physical therapy or athletic training treatment would likely be utilized by these students if available.
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Corrales Valero, Alicia, María Mena Milán, Juan José García Jaén, and Remedios López-Liria. "PREVENCIÓN DE LAS PRINCIPALES LESIONES EN LA DANZA Y MECANISMOS DE PRODUCCIÓN." International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD de Psicología. 2, no. 1 (2017): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v2.936.
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Abstract.COMMON DANCING INJURIES PREVENTION AND PRODUCTION MECHANISMSDance is a form of art that requires of a big effort from those who practise it, as it makes use of very extreme body movements. The aim of this work is to get to know, through a bibliographic revision of the existing literature in this field, the different techniques and approaches that can be applied to prevent the most frequent mechanic injuries in dance, such as sprains, muscular breaks, fractures and sinew injuries mainly produced in ankles, knees, feet and back. The information was collected from scientific databases, such as PubMed, PeDro, Elsevier and other secondary sources. The keywords both in Spanish and English were: “baile”, “lesión”, “prevención”, “prevalencia”, “flamenco”, “danza”, “dance”, “injury”, “prevention”, “prevalence”, “common”, “frequent”, “lession”, “flamenco” and “ballet”. The majority of injuries occur in the lower extremities and are often related to muscular overload or weakness, rather than traumatisms. These injuries are commonly produced by a lack of technique or a wrong application of it, or even sometimes by the bad fitting-out of the room where the activity is being practised.Keywords: dance, injuries, physiotherapy, prevention, exercises, psychologyResumen.La danza clásica y la española es una forma de arte que requiere de un gran esfuerzo por parte de quienes lo practican, ya que utiliza movimientos muy extremos del cuerpo. El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido conocer a través de una revisión bibliográfica de la literatura existente, las distintas técnicas y abordajes que se pueden aplicar para prevenir las lesiones de tipo mecánico que aparecen con más frecuencia en este arte, como son los esguinces, roturas musculares, fracturas y lesiones tendinosas producidas sobre todo en tobillos, rodillas, pies y espalda. La información fue obtenida de bases de datos científicas, como PubMed, PeDro o Elsevier y otras fuentes secundarias. Las palabras claves tanto en español como en inglés han sido: “baile”, “lesión”, “prevención”, “prevalencia”, “flamenco”, “danza”, “dance”, “injury”, “prevention”, “prevalence”, “common”, “frequent”, “lession”, “flamenco” y “ballet”. La mayor parte de las lesiones se producen en los miembros inferiores y están relacionadas con la sobrecarga o debilidad muscular, más que a traumatismos. Estas lesiones también suelen estar provocadas por una falta de técnica o la aplicación errónea de la misma, o en ocasiones por mal acondicionamiento de la sala donde se practica.Palabras clave: Fisioterapia, Psicología, Danza, Lesiones, Prevención.
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Gailīte, Elīna. "Tautas deju definēšanas problemātika mūsdienās Latvijā." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 26/2 (March 11, 2021): 94–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2021.26-2.094.
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The article “Problems of defining folk dance in Latvia today” examines the aspects that affect the current situation in Latvia, where folk dances are understood as both folk dances that have not been modified by choreographers, dances passed down through generations that can be danced every day, and stage folk dances, which are a type of art performed by folk dance ensembles, created by choreographers and dances adapted to the stage performance. The research aim is to identify and describe the problems that currently exist in the Latvian cultural space, where the definition of folk dances creates tension in the public space and ambiguous opinions among dancers. Nowadays, it is possible to identify such concepts as, for example, folk dance, ethnographic dance, authentic dance, traditional dance, folklore dance, folk dance, folk dance adaptation, field dance, folk ballet, etc. Consistent use of concepts is rarely seen in the documents and research of cultural policymakers and the historical and contemporary works of choreographers and researchers. Often they are only described in general terms. A survey conducted in 2019 shows that dancers consider stage folk dances to be folk dances, and often this separation of dances is not important for them. Another problem is the designation of folk dance ensembles where stage folk dance dancers are dancing. The term misleads; it suggests that folk dances are danced there. However, this designation is linked to its historical time of origin. It is not insignificant that the stage folk dance is more popular, more visible, and massively represented at the Song and Dance Festival. Thus, a part of the society associates it with our folk dances.
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Ting, Liu. "Aesthetic principles of interpretation of early arias in the vocalist’s concert repertoire: air de cour." Aspects of Historical Musicology 27, no. 27 (2022): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-27.05.
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Statement of the problem. Nowadays, there has been a high demand for historically informed performance, including in the educational process. However, a young performer often faces not only technical problems, but also a lack of understanding of the performance style. So, the relevance of the topic of the article is caused by urgent needs of modern concert and stage practice related to historically oriented performance as well as by the task of modern music education to introduce the Baroque styles into the educational process of vocal performers. The article offers the experience of musicological reception of the early aria genre using the example of the French “air de cour” as the personification of European Baroque aesthetics. The genre, which is little known to both Ukrainian and Chinese vocalists, is considered from the standpoint of a cognitive approach, which involves a combination of practical singing technology with the understanding of the aesthetic guidelines of the baroque vocal style as an original phenomenon. One of the manifestations of it is the “sung dance” (singing in ballet) as the embodiment of artistic synthesis rooted in the musical and theatrical practice of France during the time of Louis XIV with its luxurious court performances, a bright component of which were “airs de cour”. To reveal the chosen topic it was necessary to study scientific literature in such areas as the issues of performing early vocal music (Boiarenko, 2015), the history and modernity of vocal art (Shuliar, 2014; Hnyd, 1997; Landru-Chandès, 2017); peculiarities of the air de cour genre, which are highlighted with varying degrees of detailing in different perspectives in the works of European and American scholars: 1) in publications on the synthetic opera and ballet genres in the time and at the court of Louis XIV, in particular ballet-de-cour (Needham, 1997; Christout, 1998; Verchaly, 1957; Harris-Warwick, 1992; Cowart, 2008); 2) special studies (Durosoir, 1991; Khattabi, 2013; Brooks, 2001); 3) monographs on Baroque music (Bukofzer, 1947); 4) reference articles by authoritative musicologists (Baron, 2001, the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica and others). A study that would focus on the aesthetic principles of the modern vocal interpretation of air de cour as a sample of the early aria genre has not been found. Research results. Air de cour, the origins of which are connected with the secular urban song (voix-de-ville) in arrangements for voice and lute and lute transcriptions of polyphonic vocal works of the Renaissance, was popular in France, and later, in Europe at the end of the 16th and 17th centuries. As part of the popular synthetic theatrical spectacle – ballet-de-cour, which combined dance, music, poetry, visual and acting arts and flourished at the court of Louis XIV as an active means of sacralizing the king’s person, “air de cour” even in its name (which gradually replaced “voix-de-villes”) alludes to the social transformations of the French Baroque era with its courtly preferences. With the transition to an aristocratic environment, the link of the genre with its folk roots (squareness, metricity, melodic unpretentiousness) weakens, giving way to the refined declamation style of musique mesurée; the strophic repetitions of the melody with a new text are decorated by the singers with unique ornamentation (broderies), which is significantly different from the Italian. The poetic word and music complement the art of dance since air de cour has also adapted to ballet numbers, providing great opportunities for various forms of interaction between singing and dancing and interpretation on the basis of versioning – the variable technique of combinations, which were constantly updated. Vocal numbers in ballets were used to create various musical imagery characteristics. When choosing singers, the author of the music had to rely on such criteria as the range and timbre of the voice. As leaders, the creators of airs de cour used high voices. This is explained by the secular direction of the genre, its gradual separation from the polyphonic traditions of the past era: the highest voice in the polyphony, superius, is clearly distinguished as the leading one in order to convey the meaning of the poetic declamation, to clearly hear the words, turning the polyphonic texture into a predominantly chordal one with the soprano as the leading voice. Hence, the modern performing reproduction of air de cour, as well as the early aria in general, requires a certain orientation in the characteristics of the expressive possibilities of this particular singing voice; for this purpose, the article provides a corresponding classification of sopranos. So, despite the small vocal range and the external simplicity of the air de cour form, the vocalist faces difficult tasks, from deep penetration into the content of the poetic text and reproduction of the free declamatory performance style to virtuoso mastery of the technique of ornamental singing and a special “instrumental” singing manner inherited from Renaissance polyphonic “equality” of vocal and instrumental voices. Conclusions. What are the aesthetic principles of vocal music of the European Baroque period that a vocalist should take into account when performing it? First of all, it is an organic synthesis of music, poetry and choreography. The connection of singing with dance plasticity is inherent in many early vocal works. Hence the requirement not only to pay attention to the culture ofrecitation, pronunciation of a poetic text, understanding of key words-images, which precedes any performance interpretation of a vocal work, but also to study the aesthetic influences of various arts inherent in this or that work of Baroque culture. Air de cour differs from the German church or Italian opera aria as other national manifestations of the psychotype of a European person precisely in its dance and movement plasticity. Therefore, the genre of the early aria requires the modern interpreter to understand the socio-historical and aesthetic conditions of its origin and existence and to rely on the systemic unity (polymodality) of vocal stylistics. The prospect of research. There are plenty of types of vocal and dance plasticity in early arias; among them, rhythmic formulas and dance patterns of sicilianas, pavanes, and tarantellas prevail; movement rhythm (passacaglia). And they received further rapid development in the romantic opera of the 19th century. This material constitutes a separate “niche” and is an artistic phenomenon that is practically unstudied in terms of historical and stylistic integrity, continuity in various national cultures, and relevance for modern music and theatre art.
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Gordon, Robert. "Dance, mobility and social change in Billy Elliot: The Musical." Studies in Musical Theatre 16, no. 3 (2022): 215–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00107_1.
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Billy Elliot: The Musical addresses the issue of class that, while seldom analysed as a theme in Broadway musicals, has been a key trope of the majority of British musicals since the première of The Shop Girl in 1894. The article examines how the dialectic of dance as an emblem of individual freedom opposed to the rigidity of the British class system is expressed through movement within the mining community of Easington. By utilizing various aspects of Rudolf Laban’s effort theory, including the kinetic personality patterns of his associate, Warren Lamb, the article examines the cultural gendering of movement via the strict regimes of boxing (for boys) and ballet (for girls). With brief references to Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and Brecht’s praxis of Gestus, the article illustrates how Billy’s ability to embrace a supposedly ‘feminine’ kinetic vocabulary constitutes the flexibility to free himself from the rigid and inherently homophobic definition of conventional masculinity. In promoting movement beyond the confines of an outmoded tradition of working-class behaviour, Billy embraces a classless notion of postmodern masculinity represented in the bohemian milieu of the metropolitan artist. By ‘dancing’ his freedom for the Royal Ballet’s audition panel in ‘Electricity’, Billy embodies his own liberation from the repetitive pattern of movement that inevitably sends the miners to early graves while he flies upwards to defy the typical destiny of a miner. The article explicates key moments of movement and dance in order to exemplify the embodiment of the musical’s central tropes in kinetic terms.
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Burel, Oleksandr. "On Gabriel Pierné and his compositions for piano and orchestra." Aspects of Historical Musicology 16, no. 16 (2019): 170–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-16.10.
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Background. The French composers’ creativity of the late XIX – first third of XX centuries is the admirable treasury of the world musical art. It is worth mentioning such remarkable and original artists as C. Debussy and M. Emmanuel, P. Dukas and E. Satie, A.Roussel and M.Ravel. The name of G. Pierné (1863–1937) can surely be added to this series of authors. But his oeuvre is still terra incognita for us. The thorough considerable researches about the author are not numerous. The monograph “Gabriel Pierné: musicien lorrain” by G. Masson was created in 1987, and the publication of the composer’s letters named as “Correspondance romaine” was published in 2005. In the 2000s, a lot of audio recordings of his best works were published, which testifies to the relevance of the author’s heritage and confirms the urgency of present topic of article. Objectives of this study is to focus researchers on G. Pierné’s personality and art, to consider his works for piano and symphonic orchestra – Fantasy-Ballet, Piano Concerto, Scherzo-Caprice, Symphonic Poem. Methods. The research is based on the historical biographical, the intonational, the comparative research methods. Results. C. Debussy, M. Ravel and composers of “Les Six” at their time outshined Pierné’s work. But years have passed and interest in the personality of this author has appeared. During his training in Paris Conservatory (1871–1882), G. Pierné achieved excellent results, having won in many student competitions. He studied composition in the class of J. Massenet (together with E. Chausson, G. Charpentier, G. Ropartz). Having won the competition for the Prix de Rome (1882), the young author was given the opportunity to live at Villa Medici (1883–1885). Spent time in Rome was one of the best episodes of his life. The first concert work by G. Pierné – Fantasy-Ballet (1885) for piano and orchestra was written there. The composition is based on the sequence of contrasting dancing episodes in the character of march, gallop, waltz, tarantella. It is significant that the ballet genre took pride of place in the work of G. Pierné later. The composer’s staying in Italy caused visibility, colorfulness, cheerfulness, feed activity, energy of images, using of genre motifs in FantasyBallet. The series of various episodes conveys a whimsical change of mood and resembles a sketches of impression. Returning to Paris in 1885, G. Pierné sought to strengthen his reputation as a soloist by entering the salon circles. At this time, he created many piano works, including the three-movement Piano Concerto c-moll (1886). This composition contains many dramatic moments which concentrated in the first and third movements of the cycle. However, as is often the case with French Romantic composers, such using of dramatic elements has a somewhat superficial, rhetorical character. The first movement is written in sonata form. The theme of the main subject (in c-moll), expounded by the piano octaves, is active and boisterous. And the secondary Es-dur subject is peaceful and lucid. There is the same entrancing serenity as in the lyrical theme of the E. Grieg’s Piano Concerto finale. In the first movement, the development is very short, and the recapitulation is abridged. It should be noted that G. Pierné refused to use the cadence of the soloist. The second movement is written in a three-part form with elements of variation and rondo. This light scherzo takes the listener away from the anxieties of previous movement. Every bar of this music, in which everything is made with elegant French taste, caresses the ear. The main theme, including the dotted rhythm, serves as a refrain that permeates the entire movement. The finale is distinguished by its developmental forcefulness and truly symphonic reach. So, the continuation of C. Saint-Saëns’s covenants is in the concentration of thematic material, the observableness of form, the rhetorical syllable, and rhythmic activity at the Pierné’s Piano Concerto. Scherzo-Caprice (1890) enriched the French miniature line. The image sphere of this opus is lucid lyrics, good-gentle jocosity, and solemnity. The melodic talent of the composer proved itself very convincing here. The theme of the waltz echoes the waltz episode from the Fantasy-Ballet in some details. Being written also in A-dur, it contains the upward melody moves with a passing VI# (fisis), and also diversions into the minor (cis-moll in Scherzo-Caprice, fis-moll in Fantasy-Ballet). At the turn of the century, the influence of C. Franck’s music was produced on the G. Pierné’s style. This is reflected in such works as the Symphonic Poem “L’An Mil” (1897), Violin Sonata (1900), oratorio “Saint François d’Assise” (1912), and Cello Sonata (1919). An appeal to the Symphonic Poem for piano and orchestra (1903) is also a clear sign of rapprochement with the late romantic branch (C. Franck, E. Сhausson). Here we see a departure of G. Pierné from the C. Saint-Saëns’s concert traditions, which he held before. In the Poem, such qualities as virtuosity, concert brilliance, and representativeness are somewhat leveled, which is caused with the narrative character of this work. Conclusions. During the “Renovation period” of French music, the piano and orchestra compositions experienced a real upsurge in its development. Composers began to turn more often not only to the Piano Concerto genre, but also to non-cyclic works – Fantasies, Poems, Rhapsodies, etc. G. Pierné contributed much to this branch along with C. Saint-Saëns, B. Godard, Ch.-M. Widor. In his Fantasy-Ballet, Piano Concerto, Scherzo-Caprice, we find the continuation of C. Saint-Saëns’s instrumental traditions. This is manifested in the moderation of the musical language, the normative character of harmonious thinking, the absolute clarity of discourse, concern for the relief of the melodic line. In the Symphonic Poem, contiguity with the musical aesthetics of С. Franck is revealed, which is reflected in harmony modulation shifts, appeal to polyphonic technique, differentiated and more powerful orchestration.
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Wisniewski, Steve J. "Foot Injury – Ballet Dancing." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 36, Supplement (2004): S360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/00005768-200405001-01728.
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Wisniewski, Steve J. "Foot Injury ??? Ballet Dancing." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 36, Supplement (2004): S360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005768-200405001-01728.
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Wang, Cenzi, and Stephen Jia Wang. "Relevé: An at-home ballet self-learning interactive system." KnE Engineering 2, no. 2 (2017): 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/keg.v2i2.622.
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<p>Benefits from the recent technology advancement, such as physical computing and social media, it has become a global industry trend to provide intelligent exercise and self-learning support in an ‘at-home’ environment. However, it is still a design challenge to ensure the safety of users while enhancing their experiences when developing specific ‘at-home’ self-training programs which require high-level techniques, such as ballet dancing. This paper introduces Relevé - an interactive self-learning system for ballet with emphasis on various safety issues. Based on the professional knowledge of ballet dancing posture and kinematic movement research, Relevé intends to answer the needs of ballet dancing home-based self-teaching activities through online courses. The design has been based mainly on the methodologies of tangible interaction design. </p>
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DePass, Cecille. "Dancing Our Stories Ourselves: Dancing with Mr. Neville Black." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 12, no. 3 (2022): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29616.
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Chapter 10: Introduction to Jazz and Modern Dance, Take 5: Cecille recounts her experiences dancing with Neville Black, a modern dancer who was trained in the USA and returned to Jamaica to choreograph and teach modern and jazz dance to teens and adults. He choreographed several dances for Mrs. Simpson’s ballet performances, and taught with her in the 1960s.
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Venuso, Maria. "Zorba's Dance in Lorca Massine's Dancing Expression." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2016 (2016): 425–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2016.56.
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In Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, Zorba the Greek, dance has a great importance. The transposition of the novel into a ballet by Lorca Massine (1987) simplified the novel's complexity, thus “rejuvenating” the ancient world described by Kazantzakis. The contrast of Apollonian vs. Dionysian is entrusted to the style of the protagonists. They propose the modern heritage of traditional Greece, imposing a new dance tradition (syrtaki), based on ancient and popular reminiscences—a new myth. This contribution aims to analyze how dance becomes expressed thus revealing of collective identity, in the transposition from the novel into a ballet through the movie.
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Pines, Rachyl, and Howard Giles. "Dancing while Aging: A Study on Benefits of Ballet for Older Women." Anthropology & Aging 41, no. 1 (2020): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/aa.2020.209.
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As people age, experiences of depression, loneliness and loss of physical capabilities can emerge. As with previous work on the benefits of music as an intervention for social belonging and valued social identity, dance may increase similar feelings. Although theoretical chapters have been written on dance as it relates to social identity, belonging, and health, little empirical work has been conducted on the benefits of ballet as a recreational activity for older adults. The study reported here is framed by the “communication ecology model of successful aging,” and modestly embellishes this framework based on this study’s findings. Using interviews from 24 American female recreational ballet dancers ranging in age from 23-87 in a small West Coast town, this study investigates, for the first time, how ballet is incorporated into their self-concept and physical, mental, and social experiences of aging. Findings indicate that participating regularly in ballet is a core aspect of most women’s self-concept and means of self-expression. All women discussed how ballet has improved their physical and mental wellness, helping them have a more positive experience of age-related changes. Results showed that most women regard ballet as a very social activity, such that it helps them to feel a sense of community or even kin-like relationships with the other people regularly in class. All women interviewed mentioned that ballet is so integrated into who they are that it is something they hope to do for as long as possible.
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Roncaglia, Irina. "The Ballet Dancing Profession: A Career Transition Model." Australian Journal of Career Development 17, no. 1 (2008): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103841620801700108.
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Lauer, Meryl. "Dancing for the Nation: Ballet Diplomacy and Transnational Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Dance Research Journal 50, no. 3 (2018): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767718000384.
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This article argues that nationalism and international diplomacy are embodied practices, as evidenced through the movement of international ballet dancers in South Africa. Under the apartheid regime, South African professional ballet received generous support from governmental sources. Since the transition to democracy, professional ballet companies have utilized creative strategies to court new sources of support including that of the ruling African National Congress. A key move in this campaign has been “ballet diplomacy” with Cuba—the transnational circulation of dancers, teachers, techniques, and performances in the name of the nation. Professional ballet's buy-in into South African nationalism locates dancers’ bodies in the maintenance and dissemination of state politics.
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Preston, Carrie J. "Modernism's Dancing Marionettes: Oskar Schlemmer, Michel Fokine, and Ito Michio." Modernist Cultures 9, no. 1 (2014): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2014.0077.
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Marionettes have inspired dance productions for centuries. In the early twentieth century, choreographers used the figure of the puppet to negotiate tensions between modern mechanization, national folk traditions, and expressive human movement. Modernism's dancing marionettes leap across national borders and genres of dance to appear in Michel Fokine's Petrouchka (1911), the Marionette Dance (1916) of Japanese-born modern dancer Ito Michio, and Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer's Das Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet, 1922). All were influenced by modernist marionette theories that referenced Heinrich von Kleist and Gordon Craig. Ballet, modern, and avant-garde dance are often considered separate trajectories in modernism, but their use of the dancing marionette demonstrates a common impulse to explore the relation between machine and human movements.
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Kolb, Alexandra, and Sophia Kalogeropoulou. "In Defence of Ballet: Women, Agency and the Philosophy of Pleasure." Dance Research 30, no. 2 (2012): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2012.0042.
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This article offers a novel approach to conceptualising ballet practice as a leisurely activity that exudes pleasure. It argues that the notion of pleasure in ballet has been neglected in scholarly research which criticises ballet for its negative impact on the physical and mental health of dancers, its authoritarian teaching methods and its trivial aesthetic that objectifies the female body and perpetuates the construction of stereotypical gender roles within a patriarchal society. This study focuses on the lived experiences of female amateur ballet participants, emphasising their agency. It provides first-hand accounts to illuminate the significance of ballet in women dancers’ personal growth, development and psychological wellbeing, drawing on sociologist Roger Caillois's categorisation of pleasures involved in games and play. Overall, the article highlights the multiple types of pleasure associated with ballet dancing as a key motivational factor and rationale for participation.