Dancing the fairy tale
Subtitle: producing and performing The sleeping beauty
By: Laura Katz Rizzo
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781439911211; 9781439911228
Subjects: Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work)
Description: In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself and a powerful case study for examining the art and the variables surrounding its production, performance, and reception. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical ballet - specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over the course of nearly seventy years - Katz Rizzo looks at not only the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet but also the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women Creating Ballet: The Case of The Sleeping Beauty; title: From Saint Petersburg to Philadelphia: Reviving and Reanimating Classicism in America; title: Catherine Littlefield and The Sleeping Beauty's American Premiere (1937); title: Aurora Streamlined and Accelerated: Barbara Weisberger and the Second U.S. Production (1965); title: Aurora Speaks: What Ballerinas Have to Say about The Sleeping Beauty; title: The Power of Dance Technique and the Agency of the Ballerina.