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Author: Geraldine Morris Publisher: Dance Books Limited ISBN: 9781852731595 Category : Ballet Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this ground-breaking study of style in six ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton, Geraldine Morris examines the contribution they have made to twentieth century dance and art. Central to the discussion are questions about performance and its connection with style. What do we mean by style in dance? How do we identify it? How can it be retained? Can choreographed movement be distinguished from the danse d'ecole? Does any of this matter? Having considered the nature of style and its relationship to early twentieth century training in Britain, Morris goes on to discuss the six works: A Wedding Bouquet, Illuminations, Birthday Offering, Jazz Calendar, Daphnis and Chloe and A Month in the Country. Delivered with verve and enthusiasm, her analysis and examination of Ashton's role, together with that of the dancers, designers, writers and musicians, is both innovative and thought-provoking. The book is intended for dancers, students and dance enthusiasts who have enjoyed these great works and wish to understand them more fully. Having danced with the Royal Ballet during the years when Ashton was the company's Director, the author brings inside knowledge, informed and enlivened by years of studying the dances. The result is exhilarating and enlightening but also controversial. Geraldine Morris is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Roehampton.
Author: Geraldine Morris Publisher: Dance Books Limited ISBN: 9781852731595 Category : Ballet Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study of style in six ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton, Geraldine Morris examines the contribution they have made to twentieth century dance and art. Central to the discussion are questions about performance and its connection with style. What do we mean by style in dance? How do we identify it? How can it be retained? Can choreographed movement be distinguished from the danse d'ecole? Does any of this matter? Having considered the nature of style and its relationship to early twentieth century training in Britain, Morris goes on to discuss the six works: A Wedding Bouquet, Illuminations, Birthday Offering, Jazz Calendar, Daphnis and Chloe and A Month in the Country. Delivered with verve and enthusiasm, her analysis and examination of Ashton's role, together with that of the dancers, designers, writers and musicians, is both innovative and thought-provoking. The book is intended for dancers, students and dance enthusiasts who have enjoyed these great works and wish to understand them more fully. Having danced with the Royal Ballet during the years when Ashton was the company's Director, the author brings inside knowledge, informed and enlivened by years of studying the dances. The result is exhilarating and enlightening but also controversial. Geraldine Morris is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Roehampton.
Author: David Vaughan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 586
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This revised edition of Vaughan's seminal work includes a new final chapter and an updated chronology of work. It should be useful for both historians of 20th-century ballet and for lovers of Ashton's work.
Author: Geraldine Morris Publisher: ISBN: 9780197747117 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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"I only like ballets which give an opportunity for real dancing, and after all that is what the whole thing is about. A re-statement of one's own personal idiom of the classical ballet is all I ask to be able to achieve. It was typical of Frederick Ashton to put dance at the centre of his works. Whilst he used the danse d'âecole as a basis for his choreography, his comment clearly shows that he was alert to the difference between it and choreographed movement. Translating that difference into his personal idiom is at the heart of his choreography. But, how do we separate the two, what can and cannot be considered style and how much can the style change and still be recognisable as that of Ashton? In the following chapters I investigate these questions. I explore the movement sources and consider the diverse strands which contribute to the movement, the choreography and the meanings. We must not forget though that the works had multiple creators, so there is no single element which is just the work of Ashton alone. Yet, it is Ashton who draws the elements together and makes specific, identifiable choices, so I will continue to refer to the dances as Ashton ballets. My aim in writing this book is to promote greater understanding of both dance move- ment style and choreographic style, so that the book is not only interesting and useful for performers but also for dance academics and committed dance audiences"--
Author: Julie Kavanagh Publisher: ISBN: 9780571143528 Category : Choreographers Languages : en Pages : 675
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A biography of the choreographer Frederick Ashton which traces his progress from Peruvian childhood and unhappy schooldays, through initiation into a homosexual artistic coterie, to a varied career in dance, culminating in public and royal acclaim.
Author: Geraldine Morris Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197747116 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 297
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The second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but also presents a detailed account of Ashton's work and dances, demonstrating his remarkable choreographic and artistic talent. Having danced with the Royal Ballet Company during the years Ashton was Director, author, Geraldine Morris also draws on her years as an academic in the field. As well as highlighting the dances, the book explores the contribution made by Ashton's collaborators, both designers and musicians. Central is the issue of identity and how style can be retained in dance, despite alterations in training. It considers the problem of how the values of ballet training change, thereby affecting contemporary performances of his works. Through eight works Morris examines the various sources that Ashton used, whether they were dances with words, or those influenced by dancers' movement style, jazz dance, abstraction, mysticism, or narrative. With this new material, the second edition makes a significant contribution to dance scholarship.
Author: Cristina Franchi Publisher: Oberon Books ISBN: 9781840024616 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 164
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2004 marks the centenary of the birth of Frederick Ashton, Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, whose work defined the English style of ballet. Inspired to dance by Anna Pavlova, encouraged by Ninette de Valois (Founder of the Royal Ballet), Ashton's career as dancer, choreographer and director, spans the Company's history from its earliest days. His influence is still seen today in the repertory and style that informs the Company, with ballets such as La Fille mal gardée, Ondine and Façade. This is the first of a series of books in the Royal Opera House Heritage Series, featuring a unique collection of images from the Royal Opera House Archives. The Series celebrates some of the legendary figures from the world of ballet and opera who have been associated with the Royal Opera House and its resident Companies, The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.
Author: Peter Wright Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783197196 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 713
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Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years. In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television. Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He has worked with such greats as Pina Bausch, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun, Monica mason, Karen Kain, Miyako Yoshida and Carlos Acosta - as well as today's generation of starts including Alina Cajocaru, Marianela Nunez, Natalia Osipova and Lauren Cuthbertson. While now regarded as part of the British ballet establishment, for many years Peter developed his career outside London, particularly in Germany with John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet. That distance gives him a unique and unrivalled view on ballet companies. His close association with choreographers Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan and David Bintley gives Peter an authoritative perspective on British ballet. Wrights and Wrongs includes black-and-white photographs from Wright's career, and as Exeunt magazine comments: 'Anyone with an interest in British ballet will find plenty to occupy them in Wright's book... the many dramas and delights of his life in dance spring forth from the page with brio.'
Author: Geraldine Morris
Author: Geraldine Morris
Author: David Vaughan
Author: David Vaughan
Author: Geraldine Morris
Author: Julie Kavanagh
Author: Geraldine Morris
Author: Geraldine Morris
Author: Clive Barnes
Author: Cristina Franchi
Author: Peter Wright