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Shapes of American Ballet - Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Paperback)
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Shapes of American Ballet - Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Paperback)
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In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before
Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the
twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for
ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often
considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European
and Russian emigres had been working for decades to build a
national ballet with an American identity. These pedagogues and
others like them played critical yet largely unacknowledged roles
in American ballet's development. Despite their prestigious ballet
pedigrees, the dance field's exhaustive focus on Balanchine has led
to the neglect of their work during the first few decades of the
century, and in this light, this book offers a new perspective on
American ballet during the period immediately prior to Balanchine's
arrival. Zeller uses hundreds of rare archival documents to
illuminate the pedagogies of several significant European and
Russian teachers who worked in New York City. Bringing these
contributions into the broader history of American ballet recasts
American ballet's identity as diverse-comprised of numerous
Euro-Russian and American elements, as opposed to the work of one
individual. This new account of early twentieth century American
ballet is situated against a bustling New York City backdrop, where
mass immigration through Ellis Island brought the ballet from
European and Russian opera houses into contact with a variety of
American forms and sensibilities. Ballet from celebrated
Euro-Russian lineages was performed in vaudeville and blended with
American popular dance styles, and it developed new characteristics
as it responded to the American economy. Shapes of American Ballet
delves into ballet's struggle to define itself during this rich
early twentieth century period, and it sheds new light on ballet's
development of an American identity before Balanchine.
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