LEADER 03241nam 2200541 450 001 9910807628703321 005 20240131190906.0 010 $a1-4438-5288-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001128062 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25702762 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001164433 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11639099 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001164433 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11181946 035 $a(PQKB)10790299 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1477534 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1477534 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10778117 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL528696 035 $a(OCoLC)859834127 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB148004 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001128062 100 $a20131108d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe mythology of dance /$fby Harry Eiss 205 $a1. 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, UK :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (430 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4438-5169-8 311 $a1-299-97445-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aThe lights dim and soon the theatre becomes dark. The audience conversations end with a few softly dissipating whispers, and the movie begins. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina, dances the prologue to Tchaikovskyas Swan Lake, a ballet expressing a story drawn from Russian folk tales about a princess who has been turned into a White Swan and can only be turned back if a man swears eternal fidelity to her. However, this is not that ballet. This is the beginning of Black Swan, a controversial movie employing symbolism in a complex interweaving of dance and film to reveal the struggles and paradoxes of everything from a female rite-of-passage to questions about where artistic expression should demand self-sacrifice and whether such sacrifice is worth the price. - - The dance floor is the stage of life, the place where physical actions take on the symbolic meanings of mythology and express the deepest archetypes of the human mind. This book explores how dance gives shape to those human needs and how it reflects, and even creates, the maps of meaning and value that structure our lives. Though it attempts to cover all the forms of dance, it focuses on four main categories: religious, artistic, social, and artistic. Since the American Musical and subsequent Musical Videos have both reflected and influenced our current world, they receive the most spacesuch acclaimed performers as Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, such important composers and lyrists as Gershwin, Rodgers-and-Hammerstein, Porter, Berlin, Webber, Bernstein, the Beatles, and the Who, and such choreographers as Graham, Balanchine, Robbins and Fosse are examined in particular detail. - 606 $aDance$xMythology 615 0$aDance$xMythology. 676 $a434 700 $aEiss$b Harry Edwin$01653970 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807628703321 996 $aThe mythology of dance$94054940 997 $aUNINA