The Oxford handbook of contemporary ballet /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On contemporaneity in ballet: Exchanges, connections, and directions in form / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen
- Part I: Pioneers, or game changers
- William Forsythe: Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and the Forsythescape / Ann Nugent
- Hans van Manen: Between austerity and expression / Anna Seidl
- Twyla Tharp's classical impulse / Kyle Bukhari
- Ballet at the margins: Karole Armitage and Bronislava Nijinska / Molly Faulkner and Julia Gleich
- Maguy Marin's social and aesthetic critique / Mara Mandradjieff
- Fusion and renewal in the works of Jiri Kylian / Katja Vaghi
- Wayne McGregor: Thwarting expectation at The Royal Ballet / Jo Butterworth and Wayne McGregor
- Feminst practices in ballet: Katy Pyle and Ballez / Gretchen Alterowitz
- Contemporary repetitions: Rhetorical potential and The Nutcracker / Michelle LaVigne
- Mauro Bigonzetti: Reimagining Les Noces (1923) / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel
- New narratives from old texts: Contemporary ballet in Australia / Michelle Potter
- Cathay Marston: Writing Ballets for Literary Dance(r)s / Deborah Kate Norris
- Jean-Christophe Maillot: Ballet, untamed / Laura Cappelle
- Ballet gone wrong: Michael Clark's classical deviations / Arabella Stanger
- Part III: It's time
- Dance theatre of Harlem: Radical Black female bodies in ballet / Tanya Wideman-Davis
- Huff! Puff! And blow the house down: Contemporary ballet in South Africa / Gerard M. Samuel
- The Cuban diaspora: stories of defection, brain drain, and brain gain / Lester Tome
- Balancing reconciliation at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet / Bridget Authery and Shawn Newman
- Ballet Austin: So you think you can choreograph / Caroline Sutton Clark
- Gender progress and interpretation in ballet duets / Jennifer Fisher
- John Cranko's stuttgart ballet: A legacy / E. Hollister Mathis-Masury
- "Ballet" is a dirty word: Where is ballet in Sao Paulo? / Henrique Rochelle
- Part IV: Composition
- William Forsythe: Creating ballet anew / Susan Leigh Foster
- Amy Seiwert: Okay, go! Improvising the future of ballet / Ann Murphy
- Costume / Caroline O'Brien
- Shapeshifters and Colombe's Folds: Connective Affinities of Issey Miyake and William Forsythe / Tamara Tomic-Vajagic
- On physicality and narrative: Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern (2017) / Lucia Piquero Alvarez
- Living in counterpoint / Norah Zuniga Shaw
- Alexei Ratmansky's abstract-narrative ballet / Anne Searcy
- Talking shop: Interviews with Justin Peck, Benjamin Millepied, and Troy Schumacher / Roslyn Sulcas
- Part V: Exchanges inform
- Royal Ballet Flanders under Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Lise Uytterhoeven
- Akram Khan and English National Ballet / Graham Watts
- The race of contemporary ballet: Interpellations of Africanist Aesthetics / Thomas F. DeFrantz
- Copy Rites / Rachana Vajjhala
- Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de Marseille / Sarah Pini and John Sutton
- Narratives of progress and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal / Melissa Templeton
- Mark Morris: Clarity, a dash of magic, and no phony baloney / Gia Kourlas
- Part VI: The more things change...
- Ratmansky: From Petipa to now / Apollinaire Scherr
- James Kudelka: Love, sex, and death / Amy Bowring and Tanya Evidente
- Liam Scarlett: "Classicist's eye...innovator's urge" / Susan Cooper
- Performing the past in the present: Uncovering the foundations of Chinese contemporary ballet / Brown McLelland
- Between two worlds: Christopher Wheeldon and The Royal Ballet / Zoe Anderson
- Christopher Weeldon: An Englishman in New York / Rachel Straus
- The Disappearance of poetry and the very, very good idea / Freya Vass
- Justin Peck: Everywhere We Go (2014), a ballet epic for our time / Mindy Aloff
- Part VII: In process
- Weaving Apollo: Women's authorship and neoclassical ballet / Emily Coates
- What is a rehearsal in ballet? / Janice Ross
- Gods, angles and Bjork: David Dawson, Arthur Pita, and contemporary ballet / Jennie Sholick
- Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Voicing dance / Jill Nunes Jensen
- Inside Enemy / Thomas McManus
- On "contemporaneity" in ballet and contemporary dance: Jeux in 1913 and 2016 / Hanna Jarvinen
- Reclaiming the studio: Observing the choreographic process of Cathy Martson and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa / Carrie Gaiser Casey
- Contemporary partnerships / Russel Janzen.