Contents |
Part I: Historical perspectives -- Ballet as migrant: From Italy and Russia to America -- Themes of heterogeneity and pluralism: Ballet in New York City, 1909-1934 -- Ballet in America: Coming of age in a market economy -- Part II: Teachers and training -- Ballet's traditionalists: Malvina Cavallazzi and Luigi Albertieri -- Nostalgic revisionists: Stefano Mascagno and Mikhail Mordkin -- Pragmatic revisionists: Veronine Vestoff, Sonia Serova, and Louis H. Chalif -- Conclusion. |
Abstract |
In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, author Jessica Zeller offers a new telling of the first few decades of the twentieth century as critical period for ballet's growth in America. This first-of-its-kind account of early twentieth century American ballet is situated against a bustling New York City backdrop, where mass immigration through Ellis Island brought balet from European and Russian opera houses into contact with a variety of American forms and sensibilities. Zeller describes how ballet from celebrated Euro-Russian lineages was performed in vaudeville and blended with American popular dance styles, developing new characteristics as it responded to the American economy. Shapes of American Ballet delves into ballet's struggle to define itself during this rich early twentieth century period, and it sheds new light on ballet's development of an American identity before Balanchine. -- from back cover. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Zeller, Jessica, 1978- Shapes of American ballet. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University, 2016 9780190296704 |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2015041159 |
ISBN | 9780190296681 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0190296682 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780190296698 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0190296690 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780190296704 (updf) |
ISBN | 0190296704 (updf) |
ISBN | 9780190296711 (epub) |
ISBN | 0190296712 (epub) |