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Dance as Text - Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Dance as Text - Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and
theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year
period,p beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and
early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author
Mark Franko analyzes court ballet librettos, contemporary
performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in
the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic
apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet
spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately
reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised
and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from
verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied
ideological connotations, most important among which was the
expression of noble resistance to the increasingly absolutist
monarchy. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical
and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition
in its politically volatile context. Dance as Text thus provides a
picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite
spectacle, the ideological tensions underlying experiments with
autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Moliere's use
of court ballet traditions.
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