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The Choreography of Modernism in France - La Danseuse 1830-1930 (Hardcover)
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The Choreography of Modernism in France - La Danseuse 1830-1930 (Hardcover)
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Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, under the glow of
gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the
figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French
culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an
emblem of their own artistic prowess. They represented her
alternately as an elusive ideal, a saucy prostitute, or a dangerous
seductress. Dancers, in turn, produced their own images, novels and
autobiographies, thereby contributing to an ongoing cultural debate
around performance, spectatorship, desire, and art. In this
interdisciplinary study of la danseuse, Julie Townsend examines the
rise and fall of classical ballet, the phenomenon of the music
hall, and the birth of modern dance. She highlights moments of
representational crisis and emergent aesthetics in her
consideration of poetry, novels, painting, early film, and women's
autobiography.
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