The Fascist turn in the dance of Serge Lifar : interwar French ballet and the German occupation /
"This book is an examination of neoclassical ballet initially in the French context before and after World War I (circa 1905-1944) with close attention to dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar. Since the critical discourses I analyze indulge in flights of poetic fancy I distinguish in my discuss...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in dance theory.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the transnational path toward corporeal fascism
- A genealogy of dance modernity: Movement artifacts, mythic principles, and archival others
- The critical reception of Serge Lifar (1929-1939)
- The dancer as statue and the geo-politics of neoclassicism
- Parade as a critical concept in interwar dance theory: From Jean Cocteau and Paul Valery to Andre Varagnac
- Serge Lifar and the question of collaboration with the German authorities under the occupation of Paris (1940-1949)
- From the neoclassical turn to the Baroque re-turn.