The Oxford handbook of contemporary ballet / edited by Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farrugia-Kriel, Kathrina, editor.

Nunes Jensen, Jill, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Monthly

Other Title:

Handbook of contemporary ballet

Contemporary ballet

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021-

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet looks at the many ways ballet functions as a global practice in the 21st century, providing new perspectives on ballet's past, present, and future. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication.

Contents:

Wayne McGregor: Thwarting Expectation at The Royal Ballet / Jo Butterworth, Wayne McGregor

Reclaiming the Studio: Observing the Choreographic Processes of Cathy Marston and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa / Carrie Gaiser Casey

Ballet at the Margins: Karole Armitage, Bronislava Nijinska and Philosophies of (Contemporary) Ballet / Molly Faulkner, Julia K. Gleich

Contemporary Partnerships: An Exploration of Gender Roles and Choreographic Invention at the New York City Ballet / Russell Janzen

On “Contemporaneity” in Ballet and Contemporary Dance: Jeux in 1913 and 2016 / Hanna Järvinen

Contemporary Repetitions: Why The Nutcracker (Still) Matters / Michelle LaVigne

Maguy Marin's Social and Aesthetic Critique Maguy Marin's Social and Aesthetic Critique / Mara Mandradjieff

Performing the Past in the Present: Uncovering the Foundation of Chinese Contemporary Ballet / Rowan McLelland

Inside Enemy / Thomas McManus

Feminist Practices in Ballet: Katy Pyle and the Ballez / Gretchen Alterowitz

Amy Seiwert: Okay, Go! (Improvising the Future of Ballet) / Ann Murphy

Cathy Marston: Writing Ballets for Literary Dance(r)s / Deborah Kate Norris

William Forsythe: Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and the Forsythescape / Ann Nugent

Alonzo King Lines Ballet: Voicing Dance / Jill Nunes Jensen

Costume / Caroline O'Brien

Talking Shop: Interviews about ballet, dancing and making dances with Benjamin Millepied, Justin Peck and Troy Schumacher / Roslyn Sulcas

On Physicality and Narrative: Crystal Pite's “Emotional Universality” in The Royal Ballet's Flight Pattern (2017) / Lucía Piquero Álvarez

New Narratives from Old Texts: Contemporary Ballet in Australia / Michelle Potter

What is a Rehearsal in Ballet? / Janice Ross

Jean-Christophe Maillot: Ballet, Untamed / Laura Cappelle

Gods, Angels, and Björk: David Dawson's Anima Animus, Arthur Pita's Björk Ballet, and Contemporary Ballet / Jennie Scholick

Alexei Ratmansky's Abstract-Narrative Ballet / Anne Searcy

Christopher Wheeldon: An Englishman in New York / Rachel Straus

William Forsythe: Creating Ballet Anew / Susan Leigh Foster

Narratives of Progress and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal / Melissa Templeton

Shapeshifters and Colombe's Folds: Issey Miyake's “One Piece of Cloth” and Balletic Topologies in William Forsythe's The Loss of Small Detail / Tamara Tomić-Vajagić

Royal Ballet of Flanders under Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Macro Dramaturgical and Networked Programming as Future Strategies / Lise Uytterhoeven

The Disappearance of Poetry and the Very, Very Good Idea / Freya Vass

Akram Khan's Influence on the Development of Contemporary Ballet / Graham Watts

Between Two Worlds: Christopher Wheeldon and The Royal Ballet / Zoë Anderson

Balancing Reconcilation: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Going Home Star: Truth and Reconcilation / Bridget Cauthery, Shawn Newman

Dance Theatre of Harlem: Radical Black Female Bodies in Ballet / Tanya Wideman-Davis

Living in Counterpoint / Norah Zuniga Shaw

Fusion and Renewal in the Works of Jiří Kylián: / Katja Vaghi

Hans Van Manen: Between Formal Austerity and Dramatic Expression / Anna Seidl

Liam Scarlett: “Classicist's Eye...Innovator's Urge” / Susan Cooper

John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet: A Legacy / E. Hollister Mathis-Masury

Ballet Gone Wrong: Michael Clark's Permitted Deviations / Arabella Stanger

Twyla Tharp's Classical Impulse / Kyle Bukhari

/ Henrique Rochelle

Huff! Puff! And Blow the House Down: Contemporary Ballet in South Africa / Gerard M. Samuel

Ballet Austin / Caroline Sutton Clark

The Cuban Diaspora: Stories of Defection, Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Ballet's Global Labor Market / Lester Tomé

Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de Marseille / Sarah Pini, John Sutton

Mark Morris: Clarity, A Dash of Magic, and No Phony Baloney / Gia Kourlas

Copy Rites / Rachana Vajjhala

Ratmansky: From Petipa to Now / Apollinaire Scherr

Gender Progress and Interpretation / Jennifer Fisher

Justin Peck: Everywhere We Go (2014) A Ballet Epic for Our Time / Mindy Aloff

Introduction: On Contemporaneity in Ballet: Exchanges, Connections, and Directions in Form / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, Jill Nunes Jensen

Weaving Apollo: Neoclassical Ballet and Female Authorship / Emily Coates

The Race of Contemporary Ballet: Interpellations of Africanist Aesthetics / Thomas F. DeFrantz

James Kudelka: Love, Sex, and Death / Amy Bowring, Tanya Evidente

Mauro Bigonzetti / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 9, 2021).

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ISBN:

9780190871529

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