Dancing Lives
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Adele Dumilatre
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Ballet d'Action
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Catherine Kerr
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culture
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dance genre
dance history
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Europe
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Giovanna Baccelli
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Merce Cunningham
Moira Shearer
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pedagogy
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repertory
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Romantic era
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Russian Revolution
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Tamara Karsavina
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252077791
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2010
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Working from the premise that dance history can be studied as it has been created in and through the bodies of dancers, Karen Eliot closely examines the lives and careers of five popular female dancers: Giovanna Baccelli, Adèle Dumilâtre, Tamara Karsavina, Moira Shearer, and Catherine Kerr. Notable dancers in European and Russian ballet and American modern dance genres, these women represent a historical cross section of performance, training, and technique. By elegantly guiding the reader through the Russian Revolution, stage fright and illness, liaisons with aristocracy, movie stardom, and dancing rivalries, Dancing Lives provides valuable insight into the culture in which each woman performed. Readers are introduced to each dancer's social and economic status, her education and training, and changing debates about dance and choreography. The resulting stories are packed with intimate personal details, keen descriptions of dance pedagogy and performance, and behind-the-curtain glimpses of popular dance trends.
Karen Eliot is a professor of dance at the Ohio State University. Trained in ballet and modern dance, she is an alumna of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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