Author: Mary Grace SwiftPublisher: [Notre Dame, Ind.] : University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Art of the Dance in the U.S.S.R.
Author: Mary Grace SwiftPublisher: [Notre Dame, Ind.] : University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Art of the Dance in the U.S.S.R. Notre Dame, Ind
Author: Mary Grace SwiftBallet in the Cold War
Author: Anne SearcyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190945109
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
"During the Cold War, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union developed cultural exchange programs, in which they sent performing artists abroad in order to generate goodwill for their countries. Ballet companies were frequently called on to serve in these programs, particularly in the direct Soviet-American exchange. This book analyzes four of the early ballet exchange tours, demonstrating how this series of encounters changed both geopolitical relations and the history of dance. The ballet tours were enormously popular. Performances functioned as an important symbolic meeting point for Soviet and American officials, creating goodwill and normalizing relations between the two countries in an era when nuclear conflict was a real threat. At the same time, Soviet and American audiences did not understand ballet in the same way. As American companies toured in the Soviet Union and vice-versa, audiences saw the performances through the lens of their own local aesthetics. Ballet in the Cold War introduces the concept of transliteration to understand this process, showing how much power viewers wielded in the exchange and explaining how the dynamics of the Cold War continue to shape ballet today"--
The Russian Art of Movement (1920-1930). Ediz. a Colori
Author: Nicoletta MislerPublisher:
ISBN: 9788842223870
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Russian Dance
Author: Andrée Aelion BrooksPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The true story of Helene Rubinoff, a Russian refugee in Jazz Age New York who forsook her comfortable life with her impresario husband and his celebrity salons, and her beloved daughter, to follow her lover back to an uncertain fate in 1930s Russia.
Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s
Author: E. I︠A︡ Surit︠s︡Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Like a Bomb Going Off
Author: Janice RossPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300207638
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as like a bomb going off.” Based on untapped archival collections of photographs, films, and writings about Yakobson's work in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets, as well as interviews with former dancers, family, and audience members, this illuminating and beautifully written biography brings to life a hidden history of artistic resistance in the USSR through this brave artist, who struggled against officially sanctioned anti-Semitism while offering a vista of hope.
USSR.
Author: Folk Dance Company of the U.S.S.R. Igor Moiseyev, Art Director. (Translated by S. Rosenberg. Edited by H. Perham.) [With Plates, Including a Portrait.].
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Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich CHUDNOVSKYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity
Author: Anthony ShayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190493933
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. More recently, dance performances became a locus of ethnic disunity in the former Yugoslavia as the Serbs of Bosnia attended dance concerts but only applauded for the Serbian dances, presaging the violent disintegration of that failed state. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe in an investigation of what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity. Newly-commissioned for the volume, the chapters of the book place a reflective lens on dance and its context to examine the role of dance as performed embodiment of the historical moments and associated lived identities. In bringing modern dance and ballet into the conversation alongside forms more often considered ethnic, the chapters ask the reader to contemplate previous categories of folk, ethnic, classical, and modern. From this standpoint, the book considers how dance maintains, challenges, resists or in some cases evolves new forms of identity based on prior categories. Ultimately, the goal of the book is to acknowledge the depth of research that has been undertaken and to promote continued research and conceptualization of dance and its role in the creation of ethnicity. Dance and ethnicity is an increasingly active area of scholarly inquiry in dance studies and ethnomusicology alike and the need is great for serious scholarship to shape the contours of these debates. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity provides an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research from leading experts which will set the tone for future scholarly conversation.