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Author : Mark Franko
Release : 1986
Genre : Choreography
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Book Synopsis The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography (c. 1416-1589) by : Mark Franko
Download or read book The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography (c. 1416-1589) written by Mark Franko. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Franko
Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography by : Mark Franko
Download or read book The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography written by Mark Franko. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.
Author : Mark Franko
Release : 2015
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 014/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dance as Text by : Mark Franko
Download or read book Dance as Text written by Mark Franko. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.
Author : Jennifer Nevile
Release : 2004-11-12
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 145/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Eloquent Body by : Jennifer Nevile
Download or read book The Eloquent Body written by Jennifer Nevile. This book was released on 2004-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book adds an entirely new dimension to the consideration of Humanism and Italian culture. It will make a welcome addition to the field of cultural studies by broadening the subject to consider an important source of information that has been previously overlooked." -- Timothy McGee The Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the 15th century. Some topics include issues of economic class, education, and power; relating dance treatises to the ideals of Humanism and the meaning of the arts; ideas of the body as they relate to elegance, nobility, and ethics; the intellectual history of dance based on contemporaneous readings of Pythagoras and Plato; and a comparison of geometric dance structures to geometric order in Humanist architecture.
Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Release : 1986
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading Dancing by : Susan Leigh Foster
Download or read book Reading Dancing written by Susan Leigh Foster. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated, first, through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers Deborah Hay, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, and then through reference to historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance. The comparison of these four approaches to representation affirms the unparalleled diversity of choreographic methods in American dance, and also suggests a critical perspective from which to reflect on dance making and viewing.
