Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet

ISBN-13: 9781138618688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 186 str.

Alexandra Carter

Opis

The book culminates in the argument that there are direct links between the music hall ballet and what has been termed the 'birth' of British ballet in the 1930s; a link so long ignored by dance historians. This work will appeal not only to those interested in nineteenth century studies.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Prologue; In fit and seemly luxury: ballet at the Alhambra and the Empire; From the principals to the pass : performers in the music hall ballets; Dancing the feminine: gender and sexuality on stage; A fairyland of fair women: dancing the narratives of the age; Images and imagination: poetry, fiction and the eye of the writer; Prejudicial to public morality: the moral image of the dance and dancer; Cara's tale; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Alexandra Carter