Re Claiming Ballet

Author : Adesola Akinleye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 1789383625

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(Re:) Claiming Ballet by Adesola Akinleye Pdf

The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet's denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs rethinking. This is an important contribution to dance scholarship. The contributors include professional ballet dancers and teachers, choreographers, and dance scholars in the UK, Europe and the USA to give a three dimensional overview of the field of ballet beyond the traditional mainstream. It sets out to acknowledge the alternative and parallel influences that have shaped the culture of ballet and demonstrates they are alive, kicking and have a rich history. Ballet is complex and encompasses individuals and communities, often invisiblized, but who have contributed to the diaspora of ballet in the twenty-first century. It will initiate conversations and contribute to discourses about the panorama of ballet beyond the narrow vantage point of the mainstream - White, patriarchal, Eurocentric, heterosexual constructs of gender, race and class. This book is certain to be a much-valued resource within the field of ballet studies, as well as an important contribution to dance scholarship more broadly. It has an original focus and brings together issues more commonly addressed only in journals, where issues of race are frequently discussed.

Author : Adesola Akinleye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789383617

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Re Claiming Ballet by Adesola Akinleye Pdf

Author : Chloe Angyal
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781645036722

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Turning Pointe by Chloe Angyal Pdf

A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

Author : Kate Mattingly,Iyun Ashani Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003803393

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Antiracism in Ballet Teaching by Kate Mattingly,Iyun Ashani Harrison Pdf

This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings. Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and scholars. The collection ends with interviews featuring ballet company directors (Robert Garland and Alonzo King), world-renowned scholars (Clare Croft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Brenda Dixon Gottschild), sought-after choreographers (Jennifer Archibald and Claudia Schreier), and beloved educators (Keesha Beckford, Tai Jimenez, and Endalyn Taylor). This is an essential resource for anyone teaching or learning to teach ballet in the Twenty First Century.

Author : Ginny Linville Winter
Publisher : Astor-Honor Incorporated
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 083923001X

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The Ballet Book by Ginny Linville Winter Pdf

Author : Donna Jones Carver,Sally E. Weatherford
Publisher : Lewelyn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 1887707034

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The Ballet Book by Donna Jones Carver,Sally E. Weatherford Pdf

Author : Karen Valby
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786582515

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The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby Pdf

For fans of Hidden Figures and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 'The kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!' MISTY COPELAND 'Vibrant, propulsive and inspiring' TIA WILLIAMS Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Here begins the story of the five extraordinary women at the heart of this book. Both a group biography and a story of a particular time, this is a book about ballet, the enduring allure of ballet for young girls, and about how these pioneers broke into a world that was closed to them and changed ideas of what a classical dancer could be. It is about the heart-breaking impact of the AIDS epidemic which claimed the lives of so many of the male dancers. It's about racism and activism through art. And it's about the eternal glamour of ballet; these swans appeared at the grandest opera houses and theatres, dancing at the White House, and even for the Queen. Their fans included Mick Jagger and they performed alongside the likes of Michael Jackson and Josephine Baker. But most importantly it tells the universal story of female friendship, and in particular how these five young women formed a bond - while experimenting with different ways of dying ballet shoes and tights to match their skin tones - which still endures many decades later.

Author : Ilyana Karthas
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597808

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When Ballet Became French by Ilyana Karthas Pdf

For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standing. It was not until Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes found success in Paris during the first decade of the new century that France embraced the opportunity to restore ballet to its former glory and transform it into a hallmark of the nation. In When Ballet Became French, Ilyana Karthas explores the revitalization of ballet and its crucial significance to French culture during a period of momentous transnational cultural exchange and shifting attitudes towards gender and the body. Uniting the disciplines of cultural history, gender and women's studies, aesthetics, and dance history, Karthas examines the ways in which discussions of ballet intersect with French concerns about the nation, modernity, and gender identities, demonstrating how ballet served as an important tool for France's project of national renewal. Relating ballet commentary to themes of transnationalism, nationalism, aesthetics, gender, and body politics, she examines the process by which critics, artists, and intellectuals turned ballet back into a symbol of French culture. The first book to study the correlation between ballet and French nationalism, When Ballet Became French demonstrates how dance can transform a nation's cultural and political history.

Author : Robin Rinaldi
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 079107773X

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Ballet by Robin Rinaldi Pdf

An introduction to ballet, discussing the history, styles, and famous dancers and choreographers.

Author : Chester Gura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798517154934

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Ballet For Life by Chester Gura Pdf

With daily life as we know it on hold, you may not be able to get your ballet fix from hanging out in the studio or going to the theater. But these long days spent at home are just begging to be spent neck-deep in a pile of good books. Whether you're looking for inspiration for the upcoming season or trying to brush up on your dance history, you can never go wrong with an excellent book on ballet. Rising ballet star Dena Lindgren's dream career is knocked off its axis when a puzzling onstage fall results in a crushing diagnosis: a brain tumor. Complications from the extraction surgery kick off a long and difficult recovery, prompting the company's artistic director, Anders Gunst, to shift his attention to an overshadowed company dancer -- Dena's older sister, Rebecca, with whom Anders once shared a special relationship.

Author : Jennifer Homans
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781847084545

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Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans Pdf

Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain, Denmark, Russia and contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected political and cultural upheavals, how dance and dancers were influenced by the Renaissance and French Classicism, by Revolution and Romanticism, by Expressionism and Bolshevism, Modernism and the Cold War. Homans shows how and why 'the steps' were never just the steps: they were a set of beliefs and a way of life. She takes the reader into the lives of dancers and traces the formal evolution of technique, choreography and performance. Her book ends by looking at the contemporary crisis in ballet now that 'the masters are dead and gone' and offers a passionate plea for the centrality of classical dance in our civilization. Apollo's Angels is a book with broad popular appeal: beautifully written and illustrated, it is essential reading for anyone interested in history, culture and art.

Author : Nancy Ellison,Hanna Rubin
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ballet
ISBN : UCSC:32106016118603

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The Ballet Book by Nancy Ellison,Hanna Rubin Pdf

Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.

Author : Vincenza Minutella
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401209861

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Reclaiming Romeo and Juliet by Vincenza Minutella Pdf

This book explores the birth, life and afterlife of the story of Romeo and Juliet, by looking at Italian translations/rewritings for page, stage and screen. Through its analysis of published translations, theatre performances and film adaptations, the volume offers a thorough investigation of the ways in which Romeo and Juliet is handled by translators, as well as theatre and cinema practitioners. By tracing the journey of the “star-crossed lovers” from the Italian novelle to Shakespeare and back to Italy, the book provides a fascinating account of the transformations of the tale through time, cultures, languages and media, enabling a deeper understanding of the ongoing fortune of the play and exploring the role and meaning of translation. Due to its interdisciplinarity, the book will appeal to anyone interested in translation studies, theatre studies, adaptation studies, Shakespeare films and Shakespeare in performance. Moreover, it will be a useful resource for both lecturers and students.

Author : Richard J. Meyer,Kathryn F. Whitmore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135050849

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Reclaiming Writing by Richard J. Meyer,Kathryn F. Whitmore Pdf

With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described and analyzed in exciting and groundbreaking narratives that provide insights into the many possibilities for writing that support writers’ searches for voice, identity, and agency. Offering pedagogical strategies and the knowledge base in which they are grounded, the book looks at writing within various areas of the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digital formats. Thematically based sections present the pillars of the volume’s critical transactive theory: learning, teaching, curriculum, language, and sociocultural contexts. Each chapter is complemented by an extension that offers application possibilities for teachers in various settings. Reclaiming Writing emphasizes literacy as a vehicle for exploring, interrogating, challenging, finding self, talking back to power, creating a space in the world, reflecting upon the past, and thinking forward to a more joyful and democratic future.

Author : Adesola Akinleye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350185203

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Dance, Architecture and Engineering by Adesola Akinleye Pdf

This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers. Events took place at key cultural institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and The Lowry, Salford, as well as on-site at architectural firms and on the streets of London. The author engages with dance's offer of perspectives on being in place: how the 'ordinary person' is facilitated in experiencing the dance of the city, while also looking at shared cross-practice understandings in and about the body, weight and rhythm. There is a prioritizing of how embodied knowledges across dance, architecture and engineering can contribute to decolonizing the production of place – in particular, how dance and city-making cultures engage with female bodies and non-white bodies in today's era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter. Akinleye concludes in response conversations about ideas raised in the book with John Bingham-Hall, Liz Lerman, Dianne McIntyer and Richard Sennett. The book is a fascinating resource for those drawn to spatial practices from dance to design to construction.