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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body
Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body
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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court
ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately
reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied ideological connotations, most important among which was the expression of noble resistance to the
increasingly absolutist monarchy. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. Dance as Text thus provides a picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite spectacle, the
ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Molière's use of court ballet traditions.
Author: Mark Franko
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/28/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199794010
ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately
reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied ideological connotations, most important among which was the expression of noble resistance to the
increasingly absolutist monarchy. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. Dance as Text thus provides a picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite spectacle, the
ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Molière's use of court ballet traditions.
Author: Mark Franko
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/28/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199794010
About the Author
Mark Franko was born in New York City and was a professional dancer before becoming a choreographer and a dance scholar. He has written six books and continues to choreograph and perform.
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