Women's work : making dance in Europe before 1800 / edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Lynn Matluck.

Series:

Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)

Studies in dance history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women dancers--Europe--History.

Women dancers.

Dance--Europe--History.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women's dance worlds intersected with men's, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women's religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women's cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women's stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.

Contents:

The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks

Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti

Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves

At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye

The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte

Francoise Prevost : the unauthorized biography / Regine Astier

The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Salle? / Sarah McCleave

In pursuit of the dancer-actress / Moira Goff

Elisabeth of Spalbeek : dancing the passion / Karen Silen

Galanterie and gloire : women's will and the eighteenth-century worldview in Les Indes galantes / Joellen A. Meglin.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255984

9780299225339

029922533X

9781282255982

1282255983

OCLC:

318249746

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08795 hdl