Dance as Text is an historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and the Baroque. Utilising aesthetic and ideological criteria, Mark Franko analyses 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 characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko argues that the evolving ...
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Dance as Text is an historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and the Baroque. Utilising aesthetic and ideological criteria, Mark Franko analyses 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 characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko argues that the evolving aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the noble class, who devised and performed court ballets. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to re-situate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context.
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Add this copy of Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body to cart. $27.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Cambridge University Press.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Large octavo, 10 x 8 inches, maroon cloth covered boards in DJ, 238pp., illustrated in b&w. Book is very good plus with small bumps to spine ends, crease to upper corner of front fly leaf, paperclip indentation to several pages (~pp.196-212), a few erasable pencil underlines, binding tight. DJ is very good plus with rubbing and wear to wraps, small curl to top edge of front wrap.
Add this copy of Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Revised) to cart. $34.90, good condition, Sold by Book Culture Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Oxford University Press.
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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Contains: Unspecified. Oxford Studies in Dance Theory.
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