DANCE AS TEXT by Mark Franko ( 9780199794010 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

DANCE AS TEXT
IDEOLOGIES OF THE BAROQUE BODY

By:

Mark Franko

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£56.00

Our price:

£49.00

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£7.00

ISBN 10:

0199794014

ISBN 13:

9780199794010

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

28 July, 2015

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Series:

Oxford Studies in Dance Theory

Pages:

272

Description:

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque.

Synopsis:

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes 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 characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied ideological connotations, most important among which was the expression of noble resistance to the increasingly absolutist monarchy. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to

Illustrations:

35 halftones

Publication:

Imprint:

Oxford University Press Inc

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

ACTING ON THE PAST (HB)

ACTING ON THE PAST (PB)

CHOREOGRAPHING DISCOURSES (HB)

DANCING BODY IN RENAISSANCE CHOREOGRAPHY (HB)