Jessica Zeller

Shapes of American Ballet

Teachers and Training Before Balanchine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shapes of American Ballet introduces several lesser-known European and Russian ballet teachers who worked in New York City before Balanchine. Taking into account the effects of America's economic system and the early twentieth century popular stage, this book looks anew at American ballet as derived from multiple influences and lineages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780190296698
• ISBN-10: 0190296690
• Artikelnr.: 47866396

Autorenporträt

Jessica Zeller is Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Christian University

Inhaltsangabe

* Dedication
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part I: Historical Perspectives
* 1. Ballet as Migrant: From Italy and Russia to America
* 2. Themes of Heterogeneity and Pluralism: Ballet in New York City,
1909-1934
* 3. Ballet in America: Coming of Age in a Market Economy
* Part II: Teachers and Training
* 4. Ballet's Traditionalists: Malvina Cavallazzi and Luigi Albertieri
* 5. Nostalgic Revisionists: Stefano Mascagno and Mikhail Mordkin
* 6. Pragmatic Revisionists: Veronine Vestoff, Sonia Serova, and Louis
H. Chalif
* Conclusion
* Selected Bibliography
* Index