In the ancient world, dance was used to express important truths about the human condition, and this significance can still be seen today in representations of dancers in ancient art. Sculpture, relief carving, vase painting, and other visual media offer a glimpse of the function of dance in antiquity. In the modern era, the Ballets Russes, a Paris-based collective established by Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), revolutionized dance and revived European and American interest in ballet, in part by drawing on notions of dance from the ancient world. Ballets Russes choreographers, designers, and collaborators looked to ancient culture for subjects and themes, and for a notion of dance as an expressive art form integrated with ritual.
Hymn to Apollo explores the role of dance in ancient art and culture and how artists of the Ballets Russes returned to the past as a source for modern expression. Thematic essays and lavish illustrations present a fresh perspective on ancient artifacts, and watercolors, illustrations, sketchbooks, photographs, costumes, and other archival Ballets Russes material show how artists turned to the ancient world to create something new.
Contributors include John Bowlt, Rachel Herschman, Kenneth Lapatin, and F. G. Naerebout.
Distributed for the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University
Exhibition Dates: March 6-June 2, 2019
Автор: Press, Stephen D. Название: Prokofiev`s ballets for diaghilev ISBN: 1138253316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138253315 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ballet impresario Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev and composer Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century cultural history, yet this is the first detailed account of their fifteen-year collaboration. The beginning was not trouble-free, but despite two false starts (Ala i Lolli and the first version of its successor, Chout) Diaghilev maintained his confidence in the composer. With his guidance and encouragement Prokofiev established his mature balletic style. After some years of estrangement during which Prokofiev wrote for choreographer Boris Romanov and conductor/publisher Serge Koussevitsky, Diaghilev came to the composer's rescue at a low point in his Western career. The impresario encouraged Prokofiev's turn towards 'a new simplicity' and offered him a great opportunity for career renewal with a topical ballet on Soviet life (Le Pas d'acier). Even as late as 1928-29 Diaghilev compelled Prokofiev to achieve new heights of expressivity in his characterizations (L'Enfant prodigue). Although Western scholars have investigated Prokofiev's operas, piano works, and symphonies, little attention has been paid to his early ballets written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Despite Prokofiev's devotion to opera, it was his ballets for Diaghilev as much as his concertos and solo piano works that earned his renown in Western Europe in the 1920s. Stephen D. Press discusses the genesis of each ballet, including the important contributions of the scenic designers (Mikhail Larionov, Georgy Yakulov and Georges Rouault) and the choreographer/dancers (Leonid Massine, Serge Lifar and George Balanchine), and the special relationship between the ballets' progenitors.
Автор: Meisner Nadine Название: Marius Petipa: The Emperor`s Ballet Master ISBN: 0190659297 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190659295 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4909.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa - creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake - tells the full story of his life and work in the remarkable context in which he lived.
Автор: Beaumont, Cyril W. Название: Ballet called giselle ISBN: 1852731524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781852731526 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: New Edition of the classic book, first published in 1944. It remains the definitive work on the masterpiece of the Romantic Ballet, Giselle.
Описание: This book is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. In her work, McDaniel focuses on the key role that the Soviets assigned to the arts in transforming societies and demonstrates that the Soviets conceived of the arts as a kind of "artful warfare"; a valuable weapon in winning the Cold War.
Описание: In the first book to focus exclusively on George Balanchine`s early Russian ballets, most of which have been lost to history, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funeral March.
Автор: Crenshaw, Russell S. Название: South pacific destroyer ISBN: 1591141435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591141433 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, and see friendly ships erupt in flames. Russell Crenshaw is one of those few. His riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider's perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Russell Crenshaw was a gunnery officer on the USS Maury. His vivid, balanced, and detailed narrative includes the Battle of Tassafarounga in November 1942 and Vella Gulf in August 1943, actions that earned his warship a Presidential Unit Citation and sixteen battle stars. Crenshaw also discusses the impact of radar and voice radio, the shortcomings of U.S. torpedoes and gunfire, and the devastating effectiveness of Japan's super torpedo.
Автор: Tennant Victoria Название: Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo ISBN: 022616716X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226167169 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7603.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet`s most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919-2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York.
Описание: This book is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. In her work, McDaniel focuses on the key role that the Soviets assigned to the arts in transforming societies and demonstrates that the Soviets conceived of the arts as a kind of "artful warfare"; a valuable weapon in winning the Cold War.
Описание: And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the evolution of Russian literary scholar, art historian, and ballet critic Akim Volynsky`s life-altering fascination with female ballet dancers, and the dance writings that resulted from his fascination.
Автор: Caddy Название: The Ballets Russes and Beyond ISBN: 1316623637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316623633 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An important and provocative contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Ballets Russes, this book examines the relation between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-epoque Paris. Davinia Caddy presents fresh perspectives on the broadly acknowledged innovations of the Ballets Russes, opening up important new areas for debate.
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