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One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet - La Source 1866-2014 (Paperback)
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One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet - La Source 1866-2014 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
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In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris
Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the
verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and
powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a public
thinking about ethnic and exotic others at the same time-and in the
same ways-as they were thinking about plants. Along with these
stereotypes, with a flower promising hybridity in a green ecology,
and the death of the embodied Source recuperated as a force for
regeneration, the ballet can be read as a fable of science and the
performance as its demonstration. Programmed for the opening gala
of the new Opera, the Palais Garnier, in 1875 the ballet reflected
not so much a timeless Orient as timely colonial policy and
engineering in North Africa, the management of water and women. One
Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet takes readers to four historic
performances, over 150 years, showing how- through the sacrifice of
a feminized Nature- La Source represented the biopolitics of sex
and race, and the cosmopolitics of human and natural resources. Its
2011 reinvention at the Paris Opera, following the adoption of new
legislation banning the veil in public spaces, might have staged
gender and climate justice in sync with the Arab Spring, but opted
instead for luxury and dream. Its 2014 reprise might have focused
on decolonizing the stage or raising eco-consciousness, but
exemplified the greater urgency attached to Islamist threat rather
than imminent climate catastrophe, missing the ballet's historic
potential to make its audience think.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Oxford Studies in Dance Theory |
Release date: |
June 2020 |
Authors: |
Felicia McCarren
(Professor of French)
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Dimensions: |
234 x 157 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-006182-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Dance >
Ballet
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LSN: |
0-19-006182-0 |
Barcode: |
9780190061821 |
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