Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913 write by Sarah Gutsche-Miller. This book was released on 2015. Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreography at the fin de siècle.
One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet
One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet write by Felicia McCarren. This book was released on 2020-06-17. One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "At its debut in 1866, La Source already had it all: dagger-wielding Muslims dominating veiled women, a magic flower in a green ecology, and a full blown environmental crisis at the end. When the Paris Opera ballet restages this Orientalist and colonial drama in 2011, and again in 2014, the contemporary context of homegrown jihad, climate politics and a law banning the dissimulation of the face in public spaces, keeps it relevant. At four historic performances, over 150 years, this book explores the resonance of La Source's double narrative in its contemporary contexts: the biopolitics of bodily hybridity and regeneration and the cosmopolitics of the exploitation of human and natural resources"--
The Showgirl Costume
The Showgirl Costume - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Showgirl Costume write by Jane Merrill. This book was released on 2018-11-30. The Showgirl Costume available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fashion is synonymous with change yet the iconic showgirl costume--feathers, sparkle and revealing clothes--has remained largely unchanged since the early 20th century. Beginning in the 1800s, a couture of the risque evolved from Paris nightclubs to Las Vegas casinos. The concept of glamour itself was based on what Parisian courtesans and burlesque performers wore. A tall pretty girl with headdress, nude core with spangles, high heels and dramatic makeup became a Gallic symbol and later the trademark of Hollywood musicals. France exported costumes and millinery--as well as whole productions from the Moulin Rouge, the Lido and Folies Bergere --to the U.S. and the world. More recently, cabaret styling has translated into today's day, sport and evening clothes.
The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre
The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre write by Laura MacDonald. This book was released on 2022-12-30. The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship. Investigating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of transnational musical theatre, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre is a comprehensive guide for those studying the components of musical theatre, its history, practitioners, audiences, and agendas. The Companion expands the study of musical theatre to include the ways we practice and experience musicals, their engagement with technology, and their navigation of international commercial marketplaces. The Companion is the first collection to include global musical theatre in each chapter, reflecting the musical’s status as the world’s most popular theatrical form. This book brings together practice and scholarship, featuring essays by leading and emerging scholars alongside luminaries such as Chinese musical theatre composer San Bao, Tony Award-winning star André De Shields, and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus. This is an essential resource for students on theatre and performance courses and an invaluable text for researchers and practitioners in these areas of study.
America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914
America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 write by Diana R. Hallman. This book was released on 2022-05-17. America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the American Revolution, French observers often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, in affinity with and divergence from France's own Revolutionary ideals and experiences. The volume examines French views through musical/theatrical portrayals of the American Revolution and Republic, soundscapes of the Statue of Liberty, and homages to the glorified figures of Washington, Franklin and Lafayette. Essays investigate paradoxical depictions of slavery in the United States and French Caribbean colonies of 'Amérique'. French critiques of American music and musicians, including the reception of Americanized or Creolized adaptations of European art traditions as well as American popular music and dance, are also presented. The subject of race features prominently in French interpretations of American music and identity. These interpretations see French constructions of the Indigenous American and African American "exotic" that intersect with tropes of noble, pastoral savagery, menacing barbarism, and the "civilizing" potency of French culture. The French reinterpretation of African American music and dance reveals both a revulsion of Black alterity and an attraction to the expressive freedom, and even subversiveness, of these "foreign" forms of music and dance. Contributions include essays by music, dance, theatre and opera scholars, and the volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of these disciplines.
