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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814031803321

Autore

Kattner Elizabeth

Titolo

Finding Balanchine's lost ballets : exploring the early choreography of a master / / Elizabeth Kattner ; foreword by Patricia Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , 2021

ISBN

0-8130-5883-X

0-8130-6664-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 173 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Florida scholarship online

Disciplina

792.84

Soggetti

Ballets - Stories, plots, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Envisioning Funeral March -- The Scholar's Conundrum: Should We Reconstruct? -- The Dancer's Discovery: Finding the Steps -- The Puzzle's Picture: Assembling What We Know -- The Missing Pieces: Rechoreographing What We Don't Know -- One Final Note: What We Have Learned -- Appendix I. Summary of George Balanchine's Russian Choreography (1920-1924)

Sommario/riassunto

'Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets' allows the reader to learn about one of the twentieth century's greatest artists in a way that has not before been possible. Balanchine's Russian ballets did not survive in the repertory, but this book demonstrates how some of these lost works need not be relegated to the pages of history but can and should be reconstructed, giving us a vision of our past as artists, scholars, and audiences. The book details the work of setting Balanchine's first group ballet, Funeral March, on the dancers of the Grand Rapids Ballet. It follows this project from archival studies to studio research with the dancers to a final performance.