Author: Louis Harvy ChalifPublisher:
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Category : Ballroom dance
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Chalif Text Book of Dancing: The fundamental positions and exercises
Author: Louis Harvy ChalifPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dance
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Chalif Text Book of Dancing
Author: Louis Harvy ChalifPublisher:
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Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Chalif Text Book of Dancing: Greek dancing
Author: Louis Harvy ChalifPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Chalif Text Book of Dancing: Further exercises, port de bras, and standard ballroom dancing
Author: Louis Harvy ChalifPublisher:
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Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Syllabus on physical training activities with methods of management and leadership
Author: Clark Wilson HetheringtonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
... Manual in Physical Education for the Public Schools of the State of California ...
Author: California. State Board of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Physical education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Chalif Books and Dances
Author: Chalif Russian Normal School of DancingPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Shapes of American Ballet
Author: Jessica ZellerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190296712
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian émigrés had been working for decades to build a national ballet with an American identity. These pedagogues and others like them played critical yet largely unacknowledged roles in American ballet's development. Despite their prestigious ballet pedigrees, the dance field's exhaustive focus on Balanchine has led to the neglect of their work during the first few decades of the century, and in this light, this book offers a new perspective on American ballet during the period immediately prior to Balanchine's arrival. Zeller uses hundreds of rare archival documents to illuminate the pedagogies of several significant European and Russian teachers who worked in New York City. Bringing these contributions into the broader history of American ballet recasts American ballet's identity as diverse-comprised of numerous Euro-Russian and American elements, as opposed to the work of one individual. This new account of early twentieth century American ballet is situated against a bustling New York City backdrop, where mass immigration through Ellis Island brought the ballet from European and Russian opera houses into contact with a variety of American forms and sensibilities. Ballet from celebrated Euro-Russian lineages was performed in vaudeville and blended with American popular dance styles, and it developed new characteristics as it responded to the American economy. Shapes of American Ballet delves into ballet's struggle to define itself during this rich early twentieth century period, and it sheds new light on ballet's development of an American identity before Balanchine.
Ballet Class
Author: Melissa R. KlapperPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019090870X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. One hundred years later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies large and small across the United States; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and on social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; nail polish companies market colors like "Ballet Slippers" and "Prima Ballerina;" and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet class. Beginning with the arrival of Russian dancers like Anna Pavlova, who first toured the United States on the eve of World War I, Ballet Class: An American History explores the growth of ballet from an ancillary part of nineteenth-century musical theater, opera, and vaudeville to the quintessential extracurricular activity it is today, pursued by countless children nationwide and an integral part of twentieth-century American childhood across borders of gender, class, race, and sexuality. A social history, Ballet Class takes a new approach to the very popular subject of ballet and helps ground an art form often perceived to be elite in the experiences of regular, everyday people who spent time in barre-lined studios across the United States. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, including children's books, memoirs by professional dancers and choreographers, pedagogy manuals, and dance periodicals, in addition to archival collections and oral histories, this pathbreaking study provides a deeply-researched national perspective on the history and significance of recreational ballet class in the United States and its influence on many facets of children's lives, including gender norms, consumerism, body image, children's literature, extracurricular activities, and popular culture.
Russian Music for Exercises in Dancing
Author: Louis Harvy ChalifPublisher:
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Category : Dance music
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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