Author: Mar Rodríguez Vacas
Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
ISBN: 8410521008
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : es
Pages : 278
Book Description
¿Sabías que el mismísimo rey Alfonso XIII se vio sorprendido por Diaghilev, impulsor de los Ballets Rusos, cuando éste se atrevió a decirle que ambos eran iguales porque no hacían nada? ¿O que Marius Petipa tuvo que salir huyendo de España para no volver jamás? ¿O que el bailarín Rudolf Nureyev aprovechó una gira por París para desertar de la Unión Soviética, puesto que, si regresaba a Rusia, jamás podría volver a salir del país? ¿Quedó contento Tchaikovsky con la partitura de «El lago de los cisnes»? ¿Influyeron las continuas infidelidades del marido de la bailarina Margot Fonteyn con el hecho de que ella no se bajara de los escenarios hasta los sesenta años? ¿Qué relación guarda Picasso con el «ballet»? ¿Cómo acabó un bailaor de flamenco autodidacta enrolado en los Ballets Rusos y encerrado de por vida en un manicomio británico? La danza nació en las cortes reales, pero el «ballet» eclosionó en pleno Romanticismo. Los espectros de unas monjas tuvieron parte de culpa, pero las zapatillas de punta, el color blanco y el tul vaporoso de los vestidos hicieron el resto. Mientras las bailarinas enseñaban más de lo permitido, hombres y mujeres acudían en tropel a ver aquel espectáculo inédito en una época en la que mostrar un tobillo podía ser delito. El morbo estaba servido. Sólo las élites llenaban los teatros, pero todas las jóvenes querían ser bailarinas. Y sus familias mataban por conseguir un puesto para ellas en las escuelas públicas. Y llegaron los Taglioni, los Petipa, Tchaikovsky, Minkus, la Fonteyn, la Pavlova, Nureyev y Diaghilev. Y lo revolucionaron todo. Y con ello, hicieron historia dentro de la historia. Detalles, anécdotas y aventuras que provocaron que el «ballet» clásico sea lo que hoy es. «El lago de los cisnes», «El cascanueces», «La bayadera», «El corsario», «Giselle», «La sílfide», «Paquita»… son títulos que en estos tiempos siguen colgando el cartel de «No hay billetes» en los mejores escenarios del mundo. Las suyas son historias que guardan incontables vivencias que merecen ser contadas. La historia del «ballet» se escribió en paralelo a la historia universal, viéndose influida por todo aquello que ocurría en el mundo. Estas páginas plantean un viaje insólito por los caminos difíciles, duros y enigmáticos, pero bellos, emocionantes y expresivos, del «ballet» clásico. ¿Bailamos?
Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia del ballet clásico
Author: Mar Rodríguez Vacas
Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
ISBN: 8410521008
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : es
Pages : 278
Book Description
¿Sabías que el mismísimo rey Alfonso XIII se vio sorprendido por Diaghilev, impulsor de los Ballets Rusos, cuando éste se atrevió a decirle que ambos eran iguales porque no hacían nada? ¿O que Marius Petipa tuvo que salir huyendo de España para no volver jamás? ¿O que el bailarín Rudolf Nureyev aprovechó una gira por París para desertar de la Unión Soviética, puesto que, si regresaba a Rusia, jamás podría volver a salir del país? ¿Quedó contento Tchaikovsky con la partitura de «El lago de los cisnes»? ¿Influyeron las continuas infidelidades del marido de la bailarina Margot Fonteyn con el hecho de que ella no se bajara de los escenarios hasta los sesenta años? ¿Qué relación guarda Picasso con el «ballet»? ¿Cómo acabó un bailaor de flamenco autodidacta enrolado en los Ballets Rusos y encerrado de por vida en un manicomio británico? La danza nació en las cortes reales, pero el «ballet» eclosionó en pleno Romanticismo. Los espectros de unas monjas tuvieron parte de culpa, pero las zapatillas de punta, el color blanco y el tul vaporoso de los vestidos hicieron el resto. Mientras las bailarinas enseñaban más de lo permitido, hombres y mujeres acudían en tropel a ver aquel espectáculo inédito en una época en la que mostrar un tobillo podía ser delito. El morbo estaba servido. Sólo las élites llenaban los teatros, pero todas las jóvenes querían ser bailarinas. Y sus familias mataban por conseguir un puesto para ellas en las escuelas públicas. Y llegaron los Taglioni, los Petipa, Tchaikovsky, Minkus, la Fonteyn, la Pavlova, Nureyev y Diaghilev. Y lo revolucionaron todo. Y con ello, hicieron historia dentro de la historia. Detalles, anécdotas y aventuras que provocaron que el «ballet» clásico sea lo que hoy es. «El lago de los cisnes», «El cascanueces», «La bayadera», «El corsario», «Giselle», «La sílfide», «Paquita»… son títulos que en estos tiempos siguen colgando el cartel de «No hay billetes» en los mejores escenarios del mundo. Las suyas son historias que guardan incontables vivencias que merecen ser contadas. La historia del «ballet» se escribió en paralelo a la historia universal, viéndose influida por todo aquello que ocurría en el mundo. Estas páginas plantean un viaje insólito por los caminos difíciles, duros y enigmáticos, pero bellos, emocionantes y expresivos, del «ballet» clásico. ¿Bailamos?
Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
ISBN: 8410521008
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : es
Pages : 278
Book Description
¿Sabías que el mismísimo rey Alfonso XIII se vio sorprendido por Diaghilev, impulsor de los Ballets Rusos, cuando éste se atrevió a decirle que ambos eran iguales porque no hacían nada? ¿O que Marius Petipa tuvo que salir huyendo de España para no volver jamás? ¿O que el bailarín Rudolf Nureyev aprovechó una gira por París para desertar de la Unión Soviética, puesto que, si regresaba a Rusia, jamás podría volver a salir del país? ¿Quedó contento Tchaikovsky con la partitura de «El lago de los cisnes»? ¿Influyeron las continuas infidelidades del marido de la bailarina Margot Fonteyn con el hecho de que ella no se bajara de los escenarios hasta los sesenta años? ¿Qué relación guarda Picasso con el «ballet»? ¿Cómo acabó un bailaor de flamenco autodidacta enrolado en los Ballets Rusos y encerrado de por vida en un manicomio británico? La danza nació en las cortes reales, pero el «ballet» eclosionó en pleno Romanticismo. Los espectros de unas monjas tuvieron parte de culpa, pero las zapatillas de punta, el color blanco y el tul vaporoso de los vestidos hicieron el resto. Mientras las bailarinas enseñaban más de lo permitido, hombres y mujeres acudían en tropel a ver aquel espectáculo inédito en una época en la que mostrar un tobillo podía ser delito. El morbo estaba servido. Sólo las élites llenaban los teatros, pero todas las jóvenes querían ser bailarinas. Y sus familias mataban por conseguir un puesto para ellas en las escuelas públicas. Y llegaron los Taglioni, los Petipa, Tchaikovsky, Minkus, la Fonteyn, la Pavlova, Nureyev y Diaghilev. Y lo revolucionaron todo. Y con ello, hicieron historia dentro de la historia. Detalles, anécdotas y aventuras que provocaron que el «ballet» clásico sea lo que hoy es. «El lago de los cisnes», «El cascanueces», «La bayadera», «El corsario», «Giselle», «La sílfide», «Paquita»… son títulos que en estos tiempos siguen colgando el cartel de «No hay billetes» en los mejores escenarios del mundo. Las suyas son historias que guardan incontables vivencias que merecen ser contadas. La historia del «ballet» se escribió en paralelo a la historia universal, viéndose influida por todo aquello que ocurría en el mundo. Estas páginas plantean un viaje insólito por los caminos difíciles, duros y enigmáticos, pero bellos, emocionantes y expresivos, del «ballet» clásico. ¿Bailamos?
Dance Anatomy-2nd Edition
Author: Haas, Jacqui Greene
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492545171
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Dance Anatomy is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote correct alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492545171
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Dance Anatomy is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote correct alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries.
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
Author: Gail Grant
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486132862
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions also included.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486132862
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions also included.
All that is Solid Melts Into Air
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860917854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860917854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
The End is Nigh
Author: Jack McDevitt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781495471179
Category : End of the world
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse. THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781495471179
Category : End of the world
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse. THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.
The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel
Author: Simon Collier
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.
The Crusade for Justice
Author: Ernesto B. Vigil
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299162245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Recounts the history of a Chicano rights group in 1960s Denver.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299162245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Recounts the history of a Chicano rights group in 1960s Denver.
World Anthropologies
Author: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000184498
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000184498
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
The Guillotine Squad
Author: Guillermo Arriaga
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416538771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416538771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.
Message to Aztlàn
Author: Rodolpho Gonzales
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920468
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales was a multifaceted and charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his followers not only by taking direct political action but also by making eloquent speeches, writing incisive essays, and creating the kind of socially engaged poetry and drama that could be communicated easily through the barrios of Aztlán, populated by Chicanos in the United States. Gonzales is the author of I Am Joaquín , an epic poem of the Chicano movement that lives on in film, sound recording, and hundreds of anthologies. Gonzales and other Chicanos established the Crusade for Justice, a Denver-based civil rights organization, school, and community center, in 1966. The school, La Escuela Tlatelolco, lives on today almost four decades after its founding. In Message to Aztlán , Dr. Antonio Esquibel, Professor Emeritus of Metropolitan State College of Denver, has compiled the first collection of Gonzales diverse writings: the original I Am Joaquín (1976), along with a new Spanish translation, seven major speeches (1968-78); two plays, The Revolutionist and A Cross for Malcovio (1966-67); various poems written during the 1970s, and a selection of letters. These varied works demonstrate the evolution of Gonzales thought on human and civil rights. Any examination of the Chicano movement is incomplete without this volume. Eight pages of photographs accompany the text.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920468
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales was a multifaceted and charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his followers not only by taking direct political action but also by making eloquent speeches, writing incisive essays, and creating the kind of socially engaged poetry and drama that could be communicated easily through the barrios of Aztlán, populated by Chicanos in the United States. Gonzales is the author of I Am Joaquín , an epic poem of the Chicano movement that lives on in film, sound recording, and hundreds of anthologies. Gonzales and other Chicanos established the Crusade for Justice, a Denver-based civil rights organization, school, and community center, in 1966. The school, La Escuela Tlatelolco, lives on today almost four decades after its founding. In Message to Aztlán , Dr. Antonio Esquibel, Professor Emeritus of Metropolitan State College of Denver, has compiled the first collection of Gonzales diverse writings: the original I Am Joaquín (1976), along with a new Spanish translation, seven major speeches (1968-78); two plays, The Revolutionist and A Cross for Malcovio (1966-67); various poems written during the 1970s, and a selection of letters. These varied works demonstrate the evolution of Gonzales thought on human and civil rights. Any examination of the Chicano movement is incomplete without this volume. Eight pages of photographs accompany the text.