Rethinking the Sylph [electronic resource] : New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garafola, Lynn.

Contributor:

Garafola, Lynn, Contributor.

Series:

Studies in Dance History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballet--Europe--History--19th century.

Ballet and romanticism.

Ballet-history 1830-1849.

Romantic ballet.

Ballet--History--19th century--Europe.

Local Subjects:

Ballet--Europe--History--19th century.

Ballet and romanticism.

Ballet-history 1830-1849.

Romantic ballet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A revisionist look at romanticism in ballet.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; National Dance in the Romantic Ballet; Feminism or Fetishism: La Révolte des femmes and Women's Liberation in France in the 1830s; Marriage and the Inhuman: La Sylphide's Narratives of Domesticity and Community; Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet We Love to Hate; Women of Faint Heart and Steel Toes; Blasis, the Italian Ballo, and the Male Sylph; Ballet Dancers at Warsaw's Wielki Theater; The Arrival of the Great Wonder of Ballet, or Ballet in Rome from 1845 to 1855

Salvatore Taglioni, King of NaplesJules Janin: Romantic Critic; Appendixes; National Dance in the Romantic Ballet; Ballets Performed in Rome from 1845 to 1855 at the Teatro di Apollo and Teatro Argentina; Ballets by Salvatore Taglioni; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-30939-4

9786613309396

0-8195-7201-2

OCLC:

759117247