The Oxford handbook of contemporary ballet

The Oxford handbook of contemporary ballet / edited by Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen.

"Nearly four hundred and fifty years in, ballet still resonates-though the stages have become international, and the dancers, athletes far removed from noble amateurs. While vibrations from the form's beginnings clearly resound, much has transformed. Nowadays ballet dancers aspire to work...

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Other Authors: Nunes Jensen, Jill (Editor), Farrugia-Kriel, Kathrina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Ballet.
Modern dance.
ballet (discipline)
Ballet
Modern dance
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On contemporaneity in ballet: Exchanges, connections, and directions in form / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen
  • Part I: Pioneers, or game changers
  • William Forsythe: Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and the Forsythescape / Ann Nugent
  • Hans van Manen: Between austerity and expression / Anna Seidl
  • Twyla Tharp's classical impulse / Kyle Bukhari
  • Ballet at the margins: Karole Armitage and Bronislava Nijinska / Molly Faulkner and Julia Gleich
  • Maguy Marin's social and aesthetic critique / Mara Mandradjieff
  • Fusion and renewal in the works of Jiri Kylian / Katja Vaghi
  • Wayne McGregor: Thwarting expectation at The Royal Ballet / Jo Butterworth and Wayne McGregor
  • Feminst practices in ballet: Katy Pyle and Ballez / Gretchen Alterowitz
  • Contemporary repetitions: Rhetorical potential and The Nutcracker / Michelle LaVigne
  • Mauro Bigonzetti: Reimagining Les Noces (1923) / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel
  • New narratives from old texts: Contemporary ballet in Australia / Michelle Potter
  • Cathay Marston: Writing Ballets for Literary Dance(r)s / Deborah Kate Norris
  • Jean-Christophe Maillot: Ballet, untamed / Laura Cappelle
  • Ballet gone wrong: Michael Clark's classical deviations / Arabella Stanger
  • Part III: It's time
  • Dance theatre of Harlem: Radical Black female bodies in ballet / Tanya Wideman-Davis
  • Huff! Puff! And blow the house down: Contemporary ballet in South Africa / Gerard M. Samuel
  • The Cuban diaspora: stories of defection, brain drain, and brain gain / Lester Tome
  • Balancing reconciliation at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet / Bridget Authery and Shawn Newman
  • Ballet Austin: So you think you can choreograph / Caroline Sutton Clark
  • Gender progress and interpretation in ballet duets / Jennifer Fisher
  • John Cranko's stuttgart ballet: A legacy / E. Hollister Mathis-Masury
  • "Ballet" is a dirty word: Where is ballet in Sao Paulo? / Henrique Rochelle
  • Part IV: Composition
  • William Forsythe: Creating ballet anew / Susan Leigh Foster
  • Amy Seiwert: Okay, go! Improvising the future of ballet / Ann Murphy
  • Costume / Caroline O'Brien
  • Shapeshifters and Colombe's Folds: Connective Affinities of Issey Miyake and William Forsythe / Tamara Tomic-Vajagic
  • On physicality and narrative: Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern (2017) / Lucia Piquero Alvarez
  • Living in counterpoint / Norah Zuniga Shaw
  • Alexei Ratmansky's abstract-narrative ballet / Anne Searcy
  • Talking shop: Interviews with Justin Peck, Benjamin Millepied, and Troy Schumacher / Roslyn Sulcas
  • Part V: Exchanges inform
  • Royal Ballet Flanders under Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Lise Uytterhoeven
  • Akram Khan and English National Ballet / Graham Watts
  • The race of contemporary ballet: Interpellations of Africanist Aesthetics / Thomas F. DeFrantz
  • Copy Rites / Rachana Vajjhala
  • Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de Marseille / Sarah Pini and John Sutton
  • Narratives of progress and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal / Melissa Templeton
  • Mark Morris: Clarity, a dash of magic, and no phony baloney / Gia Kourlas
  • Part VI: The more things change...
  • Ratmansky: From Petipa to now / Apollinaire Scherr
  • James Kudelka: Love, sex, and death / Amy Bowring and Tanya Evidente
  • Liam Scarlett: "Classicist's eye...innovator's urge" / Susan Cooper
  • Performing the past in the present: Uncovering the foundations of Chinese contemporary ballet / Brown McLelland
  • Between two worlds: Christopher Wheeldon and The Royal Ballet / Zoe Anderson
  • Christopher Weeldon: An Englishman in New York / Rachel Straus
  • The Disappearance of poetry and the very, very good idea / Freya Vass
  • Justin Peck: Everywhere We Go (2014), a ballet epic for our time / Mindy Aloff
  • Part VII: In process
  • Weaving Apollo: Women's authorship and neoclassical ballet / Emily Coates
  • What is a rehearsal in ballet? / Janice Ross
  • Gods, angles and Bjork: David Dawson, Arthur Pita, and contemporary ballet / Jennie Sholick
  • Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Voicing dance / Jill Nunes Jensen
  • Inside Enemy / Thomas McManus
  • On "contemporaneity" in ballet and contemporary dance: Jeux in 1913 and 2016 / Hanna Jarvinen
  • Reclaiming the studio: Observing the choreographic process of Cathy Martson and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa / Carrie Gaiser Casey
  • Contemporary partnerships / Russel Janzen.

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