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A Virtual Exhibition on the History of Hungarian Ballet

2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2019
In this paper, we present some technical details related to the virtual reconstruction of the former building of the National Theater of Hungary (constructed in 1837) as well as to a virtual exhibition on the early history of Hungarian ballet displayed on the stage of the theater.
Anna Maria Bólya, Katarzyna Chmielewska
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Early History of Hungarian Ballet in Virtual Reality

2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2019
In this paper, we describe a system of threedimensional virtual spaces, which presents objects, facts, documents, and people connected to the beginning of Hungarian ballet, in particular to the first Hungarian prime ballerina and choreographer, Em´ilia Aranyv´ary.
Katarzyna Chmielewska
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A (Very Selective) Early History of Ballet in America

2020
Abstract Ballet developed slowly in the United States and depended on European dancers and teachers at first, but by mid-nineteenth century a few American-trained ballet dancers were beginning to make their mark. The opening of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School in 1909 and the tours of Anna Pavlova contributed greatly to popularizing ...
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Ballet Class: An American History

Journal of Dance Education, 2020
What a difference a century makes. Ballet Class: An American History opens with Willa Cather opining in McClure’s Magazine in 1913 that “few American girls were interested in taking ballet class” (...
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Who Takes Ballet and Why? A History of Ballet Class for the Casual Dancer

Dance Chronicle, 2021
Melissa R. Klapper’s Ballet Class: An American History posits that ballet history—as seen from a perspective of casual participants and observers—has not yet been compiled, at least not for the Uni...
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Clues to Ballet's Technical History from the Early Nineteenth-Century Ballet Lesson

Dance Research, 1984
surviving theatrical dances from that turn-of-the-century period. Unfortunately, we cannot re-create the works of Filippo Taglioni, Armand Vestris, Salvatore Vigano and others choreographing during that stimulating era. Only one dance of the time, the Gavotte de Vestris, has been preserved in notation, by means of two systems developed and published in
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Ballet, Folk Dance, and the Cultural History of Interwar Modernism: The Ballet Job

Modernist Cultures, 2014
This essay singles out the Camargo Society's 1931 production of Job as an ‘emblematic’ modernist ballet. Whereas Sacre is emblematic of the pre-war crucible of the modernist avant-garde, Job is emblematic of the culturally reparative interwar years.
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Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History 3rd edition

Journal of Dance Education, 2018
Jack Anderson is a long-recognized expert in dance history. His book Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History has been used in collegiate dance appreciation and dance history courses since the firs...
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Théophile Gautier'sBallet d'Action: Rewriting Dance History through Criticism

Dance Chronicle, 2016
ABSTRACTThis essay examines how critic and librettist Theophile Gautier retrospectively defined the term ballet d'action. Earlier ballet theorists and critics had used the term ballet en action to signify narrative ballet more generally, but Gautier derisively employed the term ballet d'action to refer to ballets steeped in pantomime and complicated ...
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Performance History Revealed: The Performance Databases of Rambert and the Royal Ballet

Dance Research, 2020
Dance archives were instrumental in the development of the first performance databases produced in the UK. This article examines the conceptual frameworks and practical components of the performance databases created by two of them: the Rambert Archive and Royal Opera House Collections, which holds the archives of the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal
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