Early Days Early Dancers

Author : Jocelyn Terell Allen
Publisher : Inanna Publications & Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 1771337737

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Early Days, Early Dancers by Jocelyn Terell Allen Pdf

Early Days, Early Dancers documents the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler, and Celia Franca, herself a dancer and later the Company's Artistic Director. With an enthusiastic foreword by Karen Kain, and a moving afterword by Veronica Tennant, the book includes pieces by twenty-two dancers, plus memorial tributes to dancers who have passed away. Contributions explore the dancer's journey through St. Lawrence Hall, summer school, rehearsal, and life on tour, as well as life after a career in dance. Portraits includes comments by the dancers on such figures as Celia Franca, Betty Oliphant, and Kay Ambrose among others, and memorial tributes to those dance figures who have died are written by well-known writers contemporaries such as Michael Crabbe, John Fraser, Vanessa Harwood, and Veronica Tennant. These memories of the Company's early dancers provide a unique impression of the origins of the National Ballet, and the history of dance in Canada, and highlight the way the present dances on the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Author : Jocelyn Terell Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 1771337761

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Early Days, Early Dancers by Jocelyn Terell Allen Pdf

Author : Jocelyn Terell Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 1771337745

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Early Days, Early Dancers by Jocelyn Terell Allen Pdf

Author : Gaston Vuillier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433014845204

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A History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to Our Own Times by Gaston Vuillier Pdf

Author : Gaston Vuillier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Dance
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56449054

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A History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to Our Own Times by Gaston Vuillier Pdf

Author : Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809315254

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans Pdf

Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:319510019345157

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Metronome by Anonim Pdf

Author : Agnes De Mille
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590179093

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Dance to the Piper by Agnes De Mille Pdf

Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova’s beauty, in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she faced—the resistance of her parents, the sacrifices of her training—but also the frontier atmosphere of early Hollywood and New York and London during the Depression. “This is the story of an American dancer,” writes de Mille, “a spoiled egocentric wealthy girl, who learned with difficulty to become a worker, to set and meet standards, to brace a Victorian sensibility to contemporary roughhousing, and who, with happy good fortune, participated by the side of great colleagues in a renaissance of the most ancient and magical of all the arts.”

Author : Peter Young
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781459712843

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Let's Dance by Peter Young Pdf

Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions is a nostalgic musical journey, recapturing the unforgettable music of youth and lasting friendships, the days when the live mellow sounds of Big Bands wafted through the air – Louis Armstrong, the Dorsey Brothers, Bert Niosi, Art Hallman, Johnny Downs, Mart Kenney, Bobby Kinsman, Ronnie Hawkins ... Throughout the 1920s to the '60s, numerous legendary entertainers drew thousands of people to such memorable venues as the Brant Inn in Burlington, Dunn's Pavilion in Bala, the Stork Club at Port Stanley, to the Club Commodore in Belleville and the Top Hat Pavilion in North Bay – and the hundreds of other popular dance venues right across Ontario. From the days of jitney dancing through the introduction of jazz and the Big Bands era to the sounds of some of Ontario's best rock groups, people of all ages came to dance and some to find romance on soft summer nights.

Author : Susan Eike Spalding
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252096457

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Appalachian Dance by Susan Eike Spalding Pdf

In Appalachian Dance, Susan Eike Spalding employs twenty-five years' worth of rich interviews with black and white Virginians, Tennesseeans, and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance practices in each region. Spalding analyzes how issues as disparate as industrialization around coal, race relations, and the 1970s folk revival profoundly influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms. She reveals how African Americans and Native Americans, as well as European immigrants drawn to the timber mills and coal fields, added to local dance vocabularies. By placing each community in its sociopolitical and economic context, Spalding explores how the formal and stylistic nuances found in Appalachian dance reflect the beliefs, shared understandings, and experiences of the community at large.

Author : Donna H. Krasnow,Daniel E. Lewis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476640174

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Daniel Lewis by Donna H. Krasnow,Daniel E. Lewis Pdf

Daniel Lewis's legacy as a hugely influential choreographer and teacher of modern dance is celebrated in this biography. It showcases the many roles he played in the dance world by organizing his story around various aspects of his work, including his years at the Juilliard School, dancing and touring with the Jose Limon Company, staging Limon's masterpieces around the world, directing his own company (Daniel Lewis Dance Repertory Company), writing and choreographing operas and musicals, and his years as dean of dance at New World School of the Arts. His life has spanned a particular period of growth of modern and contemporary dance, and his biography gives insight into how the artistic and journalistic perspectives on modern dance were influenced by what was occurring in the broader dance and arts communities. The book also offers rarely seen photographs and interviews with unique perspectives on many dance luminaries.

Author : Lynn Matluck Brooks,Joellen A. Meglin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134906451

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Preserving Dance Across Time and Space by Lynn Matluck Brooks,Joellen A. Meglin Pdf

Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past. In this volume, a range of voices address the issue of dance preservation through memory, artistic choice, interpretation, imagery and notation, as well as looking at relevant archives, legal structures, documentation and artefacts. The intertwining of dance preservation and creativity is a core theme discussed throughout this text, pointing to the essential continuity of dance history and dance innovation. The demands of preservation stretch across time, geographies, institutions and interpersonal connections, and this book focuses on the fascinating web that supports the fragile yet urgent effort to sustain our dancing heritage. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

Author : Laura Lohman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000388954

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Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States by Laura Lohman Pdf

This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society. Supporting growing interest among scholars and performers spanning numerous disciplines, this book contributes quality new scholarship to spur further research on this overshadowed period of American music and dance. Organized in three parts, the chapters offer methodological and interpretative guidance and model varied approaches to contemporary scholarship. The first part introduces important bibliographic tools and models their use in focused examinations of individual objects of material musical culture. The second part illustrates methods of situating dance and its music in early American society as relevant to scholars working in multiple disciplines. The third part examines contemporary performance of early American music and dance from three distinct perspectives ranging from ethnomusicological fieldwork and phenomenology to the theatrical stage. Dedicated to scholar Kate Van Winkle Keller, this volume builds on her legacy of foundational contributions to the study of early American secular music, dance, and society. It provides an essential resource for all those researching and performing music and dance from the revolutionary era through the early nineteenth century.

Author : Tiffany Rae Pollock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501774959

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Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry by Tiffany Rae Pollock Pdf

Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire dancers in the ever-changing scene. Rather than pursuing the common notion that tourism industries are exploitative enterprises that oppress workers, Tiffany Rae Pollock centers the perspectives of fire artists themselves, who view the industry as simultaneously generative and destructive. Dancers reveal how they employ affect to navigate their lives, art, and labor in this context, showcasing how affect is not only a force that acts on people but also is used and shaped by social actors toward their own ends. Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry highlights men as affective laborers, investigating how they manage the eroticization of their identities and the intersections of art and labor in tourist economies. Exploring moments of performance and everyday life, Pollock examines how fire artists reimagine their labor, lives, and communities in Thailand's tourism industry.

Author : Paul Hodkinson,Andy Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857850379

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Ageing and Youth Cultures by Paul Hodkinson,Andy Bennett Pdf

What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood. In an age of increasingly complex life trajectories, Ageing and Youth Cultures is the first anthology to challenge such thinking by examining the lives of those who continue to participate into adulthood and middle-age. Showcasing a range of original research case studies from across the globe, the chapters explore how participants reconcile their continuing involvement with ageing bodies, older identities and adult responsibilities. Breaking new ground and establishing a new field of study, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars researching or studying questions of youth, fashion, popular music and identity across a wide range of disciplines.