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Making Ballet American - Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine (Hardcover)
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Making Ballet American - Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
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George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is
widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a
bold and original neoclassical style that is celebrated as the
first successful American manifestation of the art form. This book
intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances
Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social,
cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the
construction of American neoclassical ballet. Situating American
ballet within a larger context of literary, musical, arts, and
dance modernisms, Making Ballet American examines a series of
critical efforts to craft new, modernist ideas about the relevance
of classical dancing for the country's society and democracy. The
book's unique structure interweaves chapters focused on cultural
and intellectual histories of ballet production and discourse with
close examinations of three Americana ballets spanning the
Depression, World War II, and Cold War eras. Through this blend of
cultural and choreographic analysis, Making Ballet American
illustrates the evolution of modernist ballet theory and practice
during a turbulent historical period. Ultimately, the book argues
that the Americanization of Balanchine's neoclassicism was not the
inevitable outcome of his immigration or his creative genius, but
rather a far more complicated story that spans several authors and
continents and that pivots on the question of modern art's
relationship to American society and the larger world.
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