Dancing the Fairy Tale : Producing and Performing The Sleeping Beauty /

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In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical dance--specifically as it was staged in Phil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Katz Rizzo, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Čajkovskij, Pëtr Ilʹič > 1840-1893 > Spjaščaja krasavica
Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work)
Geschlechterrolle
Aufführung
Tänzerin
PERFORMING ARTS / General
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Classical & Ballet.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction/Prologue
  • 1. Women Creating Ballet: The Case of The Sleeping Beauty
  • 2. From Saint Petersburg to Philadelphia: Reviving and Reanimating Classicism in America
  • 3. Catherine Littlefield and The Sleeping Beauty's American Premiere (1937)
  • 4. Aurora Streamlined and Accelerated: Barbara Weisberger and the Second U.S. Production (1965)
  • 5. Aurora Speaks: What Ballerinas Have to Say about The Sleeping Beauty
  • 6. The Power of Dance Technique and the Agency of the Ballerina
  • Conclusion/Curtain Call
  • Appendix: Plot and Stage Action
  • Notes
  • Index.

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