Dance as text: ideologies of the baroque body

This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and r...

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Beteilige Person: Franko, Mark 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2015]
Ausgabe:Revised edition
Schriftenreihe:Oxford studies in dance theory
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794010.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794010.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794010.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794010.001.0001
Zusammenfassung:This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised & performed court ballets
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XXVII, 241 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190241186
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794010.001.0001