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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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The Limitations of the Archive: Lost Ballet Histories and the Case of Madame Mariquita

Dance Research, 2020
Dance historians have long relied on institutional archives when reconstructing the past. Yet archives are notoriously incomplete and biased, promoting certain voices and leaving others out. This article offers a case study of what is lost when we look only at official archives.
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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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Costumes of the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet: A Material History Analysis

2019
In the early-twentieth century, ballet companies were beginning to form across the United States. This study explores selected costumes worn by founding members of the early-twentieth century Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet dance company and a variety of historical documents pertaining to the company from the collection of the Museum of Performance and Design
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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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To the history of partnership in ballet – Iraida Lukashova and Valery Parsegov

2021
The purpose of the publication is art criticism analysis of the partnership work of the well-known Ukrainian dancers - I. Lukashova and V. Parsegova and definition of professional components, which became the key to their successful activity in the duet on the stage of Shevchenko State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kyiv. The ...
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Children’s ballets of Henry Mayorov. History of the Kyiv period of the ballet master`s art (1972-1978)

2018
Purpose of the research is to analyze the compositional and artistic peculiarities of children's ballets ("Chipollino", "Snow White and Seven Dwarfs") made by well-known Soviet choreographer Henry Mayorov, who used to work in Kiev Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after. T. Shevchenko from 1972 to 1978.
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Dancing against History: (The Royal) Ballet, Forsythe, Foucault, Brecht, and the BBC

Dance Research, 2013
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.
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Ballet, Biopolitics and the Relevance of History

Performance Research, 2022
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