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Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater - Playing Identities (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater - Playing Identities (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The 1909 arrival of Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris
marked the beginning of some two decades of collaboration among
litterateurs, painters, musicians, and choreographers, many not
native to France. Charles Batson's original and nuanced exploration
of several of these collaborations integral to the formation of
modernism and avant-gardist aesthetics reinscribes performances of
the celebrated Russians and the lesser-known but equally innovative
Ballets Suedois into their varied artistic traditions as well as
the French historical context, teasing out connections and
implications that are usually overlooked in less decidedly
interdisciplinary studies. Batson not only uncovers the multiple
meanings set in motion through the interplay of dancers, musicians,
librettists, and spectators, but also reinterprets literary texts
that inform these meanings, such as Valery's 'L'Ame et la danse'.
Identifying the performing body as a site where anxieties, drives,
and desires of the French public were worked out, he shows how the
messages carried by and ascribed to bodies in performance
significantly influenced thought and informed the direction of much
artistic expression in the twentieth century. His book will be a
valuable resource for scholars working in the fields of literature,
dance, music, and film, as well as French cultural studies.
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