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Dancing the Fairy Tale : Producing and Performing the Sleeping Beauty by Laura Katz Rizzo (2015, Hardcover)

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In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical dance--specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over nearly 70 years--Katz Rizzo looks at the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet, and well as the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form. Using extensive archival research, dance analysis, and American feminist theory, Dancing the Fairy Tale places women at the center of a historical narrative to reveal how the production and performance of The Sleeping Beauty in the years between 1937 and 2002 made significant contributions to the development and establishment of an American classical ballet. Katz Rizzo highlights not only what women have done not only behind the scenes, as administrators, producers, or directors of ballet companies and schools, but also as active interpreters embodying the ballet's title role. In the process, Katz Rizzo also emphasizes the importance of regional sites outside of locations traditionally understood as central to the development of ballet in the United States.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
1439911215
ISBN-13
9781439911211
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202777814

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dancing the Fairy Tale : Producing and Performing the Sleeping Beauty
Author
Laura Katz Rizzo
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Social History, Dance / Classical & Ballet
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History, Performing Arts, Fiction
Number of Pages
212 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Gv1790.S55k37 2015
Reviews
" Dancing the Fairy Tale offers a new historical perspective on the development of the art of ballet and the pivotal roles women have played as performing artists, directors, and producers. Using The Sleeping Beauty as her vehicle, Laura Katz Rizzo debunks the prevailing historical narrative that ballet's evolution has been linear and dominated by male choreographers and directors, effectively arguing that the ballerina is an integral part of the creative process. Well written and extensively researched, Dancing the Fairy Tale will be a welcome addition to any balletomane's library and an excellent text for courses in dance criticism, dance history, and women's studies." -- Rory Foster , Professor Emeritus at DePaul University and author of Ballet Pedagogy: The Art of Teaching, This book offers a new historical perspective on the development of the art of ballet in the world and specifically in the United States, and how women have played pivotal roles as performing artists, directors and producers. The author uses the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, as her vehicle and proves that it is "both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its performance in the twenty-first century." She speaks truth to what is known by artists in the ballet profession but also what remains elusive to or ignored by many historians and critics. --Rory Foster, " Dancing the Fairy Tale offers a new historical perspective on the development of the art of ballet and the pivotal roles women have played as performing artists, directors, and producers. Using The Sleeping Beauty as her vehicle, Laura Katz Rizzo debunks the prevailing historical narrative that ballet's evolution has been linear and dominated by male choreographers and directors, effectively arguing that the ballerina is an integral part of the creative process. Well written and extensively researched, Dancing the Fairy Tale will be a welcome addition to any balletomane's library and an excellent text for courses in dance criticism, dance history, and women's studies." -- Rory Foster , Professor Emeritus at DePaul University and author of Ballet Pedagogy: The Art of Teaching, "Laura Katz Rizzo addresses omissions in the literature on ballet historiography by using the perpetuation of the 'canon' itself to critique the exclusion of the voices of women whose labor constructs the canon. Her consideration of the production and reception of The Sleeping Beauty in particular contexts provides the framework for tracing and retrieving unwritten stories. Dancing the Fairy Tale is a fascinating study in women's creative contribution to ballet production." -- Jennifer Jackson , Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Surrey
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction/Prologue 1 * Women Creating Ballet: The Case of The Sleeping Beauty 2 * From Saint Petersburg to Philadelphia: Reviving and Reanimating Classicism in America 3 * Catherine Littlefield and The Sleeping Beauty's American Premiere (1937) 4 * Aurora Streamlined and Accelerated: Barbara Weisberger and the Second U.S. Production (1965) 5 * Aurora Speaks: What Ballerinas Have to Say about The Sleeping Beauty 6 * The Power of Dance Technique and the Agency of the Ballerina Conclusion/Curtain Call Appendix: Plot and Stage Action Notes Index
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-017519
Dewey Decimal
792.8/2
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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