Preservation Politics : dance revived, reconstructed, remade : proceedings of the Conference at the University of Surrey Roehampton, November, 8-9, 1997 / editor, Stephanie Jordan

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Preservation Politics (1997 : University of Surrey Roehampton)

Contributor(s):

Jordan, Stephanie [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London [etc.] : Dance Book, 2000Description: 256 p. : il. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781852730796

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Contents:

Conté: Preface / Stephanie Jordan -- Confronting oblivion: keynote address and lecture demonstration on reconstructing ballets / Kenneth Archer, Millicent Hodson -- Reconstructing the disturbing new spaces of medernity: the ballet Skating Rink / Ramsay Burt -- Diaghilev's 'Soviet Ballet': reconstructing Jakulov's set design for Le Pas d'acier (1927) / Lesley-Anne Sayers -- After the event: reconstructing Ashton's 'Past' / Carol A. Martin -- Inside artistry: the George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives / Nancy Reynolds -- Is authenticity to be had? / Ann Hutchinson Guest -- Issues of authenticity and identity in the restaging of Paul Taylor's Airs / Angela Kane -- Freeze frame or fast forward? Notating Ashton's La Fille mal gardée using video as a primary source / Michele Braban -- The preservation of the ballets of Kurt Jooss / Clare Lidbury -- Reconstruction: living or dead? Authentic of phony? / Muriel Topaz -- The staging of Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia: a director's perspective / Lesley Main -- Interpreting or remaking the text? A cross-arts panel -- Shakespeare: preservation and/or reinvention? / Ann Thompson -- Reproducing the dance: in search of the aura? / Helen Thomas -- More than an expert scribe? The human dimension / Ann Whitley -- The present past: towards an archaeology of dance / Alessandra Iyer -- Bringing the past to the present: an experiment in reviving eighteenth-century theatre dances / Madeleine Inglehearn -- Imitating the passions: reconstructing the meanings within the Passagalia of Venüs & Adonis / Moira Goff -- Pierre Lacotte and the romantic ballet: an account of the work of the French choreographer and director / Nadine Meisner -- 'Bien écoute ... ' A study of nineteenth-century ballet mime Giannandrea Poesio, Marian Smith -- A la recherche des pas perdus: in search of lost steps / Alastair Macaulay -- Identity and the open work / Sarah Rubidge -- Revisiting history in postmodernism: resurrecting Giselle ... again ... and again! / Vida Midgelow -- Postmodern play with historic narratives in the reconstruction of Lea Anderson's Flesh and Blood (1989) / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- Deborah MacMillan interviewed by Christopher Cook and Monica Mason's demonstration of the solo for the chosen one from MacMillan's The Rite of Spring (1962) ; Matthew Bourne interviewed by David Leonard / Scribe: Henrietta Bannerman

Summary: " Strong signals from both the profession and dance scholars prompted Preservation politics, the first major European conference to examine our relationship to past dances and dance styles. Dance is now clearly wanting more of a past. Reconstruction is increasingly seen as a political manoeuvre, to establish a power base for cultural identity as well as for the art itself. The radical reworking of heritage to make it new is a compellint theme for many of today's choreographers and the reconstruction of lost work has burgeoned into a major enterprise. These proceedings reflect the breadth of participants in the Roehampton conference: choreographers, scholars, dancers, rehearsal directors, critics, notators, as well as representatives from the other arts, all engaged in one of the most important artistic debates of our times" -- Contracoberta

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	793(063) PRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900073475

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" Strong signals from both the profession and dance scholars prompted Preservation politics, the first major European conference to examine our relationship to past dances and dance styles. Dance is now clearly wanting more of a past. Reconstruction is increasingly seen as a political manoeuvre, to establish a power base for cultural identity as well as for the art itself. The radical reworking of heritage to make it new is a compellint theme for many of today's choreographers and the reconstruction of lost work has burgeoned into a major enterprise. These proceedings reflect the breadth of participants in the Roehampton conference: choreographers, scholars, dancers, rehearsal directors, critics, notators, as well as representatives from the other arts, all engaged in one of the most important artistic debates of our times" -- Contracoberta

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