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DANCE AS TEXT
IDEOLOGIES OF THE BAROQUE BODY |
| By: |
Mark Franko |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£40.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199794014 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199794010 |
| 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 |
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35 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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