Making ballet American : modernism before and beyond Balanchine /
" George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold and original neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first successful American manifestation of the art form. This book intervenes in the prevailin...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Oxford studies in dance theory
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- 1. Modernism and American Ballet
- Interchapter 1. Americana Ballet I: Billy the Kid
- 2. Lincoln Kirstein's Social Modernism and the Cultural Front
- Interchapter 2. Americana Ballet II: Rodeo
- 3. Edwin Denby's Objectivist Modernism and the New York School
- Interchapter 3. Americana Ballet III: Western Symphony
- 4. The Making of an American Ballet Institution in Europe in the Cultural Cold War
- Conclusion: "We drink the health of the guy that died."
- Bibliography
- Index