Dance, Desire, And Anxiety in Early Twentieth-century French Theater
Subtitle: Playing Identities
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780754651307
Subjects: Dance; Theatre, drama; 20th century; Literary Criticism; European - French; Performing Arts; French; History; France; Dance - Classical; Ballet
First sentence: In May 1911, the controversial production of Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien in Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet thrust a scene of extreme, sensual violence on its bourgeois public.