Dancing the fairy tale : producing and performing The Sleeping Beauty / Laura Katz Rizzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz Rizzo, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work).

Physical Description:

xi, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself and a powerful case study for examining the art and the variables surrounding its production, performance, and reception. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical ballet-specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over the course of nearly seventy years-Katz Rizzo looks at not only the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet but also the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Women Creating Ballet: The Case of The Sleeping Beauty 9

2 From Saint Petersburg to Philadelphia: Reviving and Reanimating Classicism in America 28

3 Catherine Littlefield and The Sleeping Beauty's American Premiere (1937) 45

4 Aurora Streamlined and Accelerated: Barbara Weisberger and the Second U.S. Production (1965) 69

5 Aurora Speaks: What Ballerinas Have to Say about The Sleeping Beauty 99

6 The Power of Dance Technique and the Agency of the Ballerina 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439911211

1439911215

9781439911228

1439911223

OCLC:

878111544