Andrea Harris

Making Ballet American

Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Situating ballet within twentieth-century modernism, this book brings complexity to the history of George Balanchine's American neoclassicism. It intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the construction of American neoclassical ballet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199342242
• ISBN-10: 0199342245
• Artikelnr.: 47975931

Autorenporträt

Andrea Harris is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Certified Movement Analyst.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Modernism and American Ballet
Interchapter 1. Americana Ballet I: Billy the Kid
2. Lincoln Kirstein's Social Modernism and the Cultural Front
Interchapter 2. Americana Ballet II: Rodeo
3. Edwin Denby's Objectivist Modernism and the New York School
Interchapter 3. Americana Ballet III: Western Symphony
4. The Making of an American Ballet Institution in Europe in the Cultural Cold War
Conclusion: "We drink the health of the guy that died."
Bibliography
Index