Choreographing Shakespeare: Dance Adaptations of the Plays and Poems

ISBN-13: 9780815375975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Elizabeth Klett

Opis

Choreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakespeare. This book explores how dance adaptations strive to design legible and intelligible stories, while celebrating the beauty of pure movement.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Acknowledgments  Introduction  1. Choreographing Gender, Power, and Desire in Dance Adaptations of the Comedies  Interview with Stanton Welch – Romeo and Juliet  2. Creating and Transcending Traditions in Dance Versions of Romeo and Juliet  Interviews with Doug Elkins and Paul Vasterling – Othello and Macbeth  3. Staging Psychological Trauma in Dance Adaptations of the Tragedies  Interviews with Stephen Mills and Dominic Walsh – Hamlet and Titus Andronicus  4. My Heart Dances: Choreographing Light and Dark in the Late Romances  Interview with David Bintley – The Tempest  5. Poetry in Motion: Dancing the Sonnets  Conclusion  Appendix A: Production Details  Appendix B: Glossary of Dance Terms  Index

O autorze

Elizabeth Klett is Professor of Literature at the University of Houston – Clear Lake, USA. She is the author of Cross-Gender Shakespeare and English National Identity: Wearing the Codpiece (2009), and numerous articles on adaptations of Shakespeare for theatre, dance, film, and television.