The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet Hardback
Edited by Kathrina (Head of Research, Faculty of Education, Head of Research, Faculty of Educa Farrugia-Kriel, Jill (Senior Lecturer of Dance, Senior Lecturer of Dance, Loyola Marymount University) Nunes Jensen
Part of the Oxford Handbooks series
Hardback
Description
In distinction to many extant histories of ballet, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet prioritizes connections between ballet communities as it interweaves chapters by scholars, critics, choreographers, and working professional dancers.
The book looks at the many ways ballet functions as a global practice in the 21st century, providing new perspectives on ballet's past, present, and future.
As an effort to dismantle the linearity of academic canons, the fifty-three chapters within provide multiple entry points for readers to engage in balletic discourse.
With an emphasis on composition and process alongside dances created, and the assertion that contemporary ballet is a definitive era, the book carves out space for critical inquiry.
Many of the chapters consider whether or not ballet can reconcile its past and actually become present, while others see ballet as flexible and willing to be remolded at the hands of those with tools to do so.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:1016 pages, 125 illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:10/08/2021
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- ISBN:9780190871499
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:1016 pages, 125 illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:10/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780190871499
