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Dancing The Fairy Tale
Dancing the Fairy Tale
Subtitle:
Producing and Performing The Sleeping Beauty
Book Category:
Performing Arts > Dance > General
Author:
Laura Katz Rizzo
ISBN 13:
9781439911228
Price:
USD $18.00
Publication Year:
2014

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Temple University Press.

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Book Description

In?Dancing the Fairy Tale,?Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical dance--specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over nearly 70 years--Katz Rizzo looks at the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet, and well as the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form.