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Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (Hardcover)
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Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (Hardcover)
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First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall
ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling
prey principally to the misguided assumption that any ballet not
performed at the Opera House or 'legitimate' theatre necessarily
meant it was of low cultural and artistic merit. Here Alexandra
Carter identifies the traditional marginalization of the working
class female participants in ballet historiography, and moves on to
reinstate the 'lost' period of the music hall ballet and to apply a
critical account of that period. Carter examines the working
conditions of the dancers, the identities and professional lives of
the ballet girls and the ways in which the ballet of the music hall
embodied the sexual psyche of the period, particularly in its
representations of the ballet girl and the ballerina. By drawing on
newspapers, journals, theatre programmes, contemporary fiction,
poetry and autobiography, Carter firmly locates the period in its
social, economic and artistic context. The book culminates in the
argument that there are direct links between the music hall ballet
and what has been termed the 'birth' of British ballet in the
1930s; a link so long ignored by dance historians. This work will
appeal not only to those interested in nineteenth century studies,
but also to those working in the fields of dance studies, gender
studies, cultural studies and the performing arts.
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