The mythology of dance : by Harry Eiss.
The lights dim and soon the theatre becomes dark. The audience conversations end with a few softly dissipating whispers, and the movie begins. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina, dances the prologue to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a ballet expressing a story drawn from Russian folk tales about a prince...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The lights dim and soon the theatre becomes dark. The audience conversations end with a few softly dissipating whispers, and the movie begins. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina, dances the prologue to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a ballet expressing a story drawn from Russian folk tales about a princess who has been turned into a White Swan and can only be turned back if a man swears eternal fidelity to her. However, this is not that ballet. This is the beginning of Black Swan, a controversial movie employing symbolism in a complex interweaving of dance and film to reveal the struggles and paradoxes of everything from a female rite-of-passage to questions about where artistic expression should demand self-sacrifice and whether such sacrifice is worth the price. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (lxxi, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1299974457 (electronic bk.) 9781299974456 (electronic bk.) 1443852880 (electronic bk.) 9781443852883 (electronic bk.) |