This book offers something entirely new: detailed scene-by-scene descriptions of the action and dancing of Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, and Raymonda, bringing the reader far closer to what the audience saw when the curtain went up on these five classic story ballets than has heretofore been possible.
Roy Hart’s revolutionary work on the human voice through extended vocal technique and the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition has influenced several generations of practitioners. As a first step towards critical understanding, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.
Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an analytical methodology, and theories of race, dance, and performance studies, this book examines how dance and other forms of embodiment participated in Mexico's formation after the Mexican War of Independence (1821-1876), the Porfirian dictatorship (1876-1911), and postrevolutionary Mexico (1919-1940).
Bakhru, Kumari (Walt Disney Studios, USA) & Clark, Barbara (20th Century Fox, USA) & Higginbotham, Dawn (Morning Person Pictures, USA) & Spohr, Susan (Associate Producer, USA)
Smith, Marian (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Oregon) & Fullington, Doug (Musicologist and dance historian, Musicologist and dance historian)
Phillip B. (University of Exeter, UK) Zarrilli & Anuradha (Abedkhar University Delhi, India) Kapur & T. (Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore) Sasitharan
