Clement Crisp Reviews

Clement Crisp Reviews PDF Author: Clement Crisp
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ISBN: 9781527287747
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Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Clement Crisp Reviews

Clement Crisp Reviews PDF Author: Clement Crisp
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ISBN: 9781527287747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The History of Dance

The History of Dance PDF Author: Mary Clarke
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ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Ballet, an Illustrated History

Ballet, an Illustrated History PDF Author: Mary Clarke
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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"Renaissance Italy was its birthplace; Elizabeth of England and the Sun King encouraged and developed it. First Camargo, then Taglioni, Elssler, and Grisi inspired generations of ballerina-worshippers and respect for the new profession of theatrical dancer. Champagne was drunk from toe-slippers as Paris of the Second Empire unveiled spectacles whose popularity is unimpaired to this day, while French choreographers, engaged in St. Petersburg, linked the dance heritage of Europe to Imperial Russia, where the Tsar's court proved a fertile climate for a new magnificence in stage production and technical advance. In the 20th century, the quixotic Diaghilev--who did not dance, choreograph, paint, or compose, but merely managed and inspired--almost singlehandedly brought the Russian masterpieces to the West, and two fellow émigrés, Pavlova and Nijinsky, captured imaginations and helped to spread the Imperial style around the globe. On this base--from France, from Russia, and distantly from Italy--Fokine, Massine, Nijinska, Balanchine, Rambert, Ashton, Tudor, Cranko, Robbins, and many others have diversely created an art form that is one of the most popular--and forward-looking--of our time. Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp recount the story in rich detail, aided by a wonderfully fresh selection of illustrations, covering not only dancers and dance design but attendant concerns of costume, scenery, technique, criticism, and theatrical taste. They pursue this enterprise 'with a smile,' and the reader, too, will be amused at the image of 19th-century ballerinas en travesti, forced to assume male roles because the classical danseur was held in such low repute; the overweight Louis XIV monopolizing leading parts; Renaissance dancing masters struggling to walk, let alone dance, while wearing some 40 pounds of magnificence. There are tales to inspire sympathy, too: Taglioni danced until she fainted; Pavlova continued on bloody toes; Balanchine fled Russia without a ruble or an advance booking. The lively treatment here accorded a splendid art, complemented by an extensive bibliography, will be an invaluable guide to those who are discovering the pleasures of ballet and want to know more of its background, as well as a useful companion for afficionados, all of whom will find something they did not know before."--Dust jacket.

Ballet Art

Ballet Art PDF Author: Mary Clarke
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517534540
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Dancing for Balanchine

Dancing for Balanchine PDF Author: Merrill Ashley
Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Constant Lambert

Constant Lambert PDF Author: Stephen Lloyd
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843838982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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"To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, mostr lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a musician of genius. Yet sixty years after his ... death Constant Lambert is little known today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspired The Rio Grande but little more, and for a man who ... devoted the graeter part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his work is largely unrecognized today. [This book] looks not only at his music but at his journalism, his talks for the BBC, his championing of jazz (in particular, Duke Ellington), and, more privately - his longstanding affair with Margot Fonteyn. ..."--Book jacket.

Art and Culture

Art and Culture PDF Author: Clement Greenberg
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807097020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."—The New York Times

Gun Love

Gun Love PDF Author: Jennifer Clement
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 1524761680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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"Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the residents of the trailers and creating a deep connection to each other"--Amazon.com.

Ballet for All

Ballet for All PDF Author: Peter Brinson
Publisher: Newton Abbot, Eng. : David and Charles, 1971, 1973 printing.
ISBN: 9780715350140
Category : Ballets
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Mirrors and Scrims

Mirrors and Scrims PDF Author: Marcia B. Siegel
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081957113X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize (2010) In this stunning new collection of reviews and essays, dance critic Marcia B. Siegel grapples with the floating identity of ballet, as well as particular ballets, and with the expanding environment of spectacle in which ballet competes for an audience. Drawn from a wide variety of published sources, these writings concentrate on canonical works of ballet and how the performances of these works have been changing in significant ways. Siegel writes with a keen awareness of the history and mythology that surround particular works, while remaining attentive to the new ways in which a work is interpreted and re-presented by contemporary choreographers and dancers. Through her readable and provocative writings, Siegel offers critical insight into performances of the past twenty-five years to give us a new understanding of ballet in performance. The volume includes over one hundred pieces on a variety of ballet topics, from specific dances and dancers to companies and choreographers, ranging from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Nijinsky, Balanchine, Tharp, and Morris to the Bolshoi, the Joffrey, the Miami City Ballet, the Boston Ballet, to name just a few. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.