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Author: Karen Eliot (Professor of Dance, Professor of Dance, Ohio State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780199347629
ISBN 10: 019934762
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 13 October 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An enthralling story of how diverse groups of unsung dancers and choreographers changed the landscape of British ballet through their courageous work during the war. With her rigorous and deft handling of the sources, Eliot makes a major contribution to dance scholarship. --Geraldine Morris, Reader in Dance University of Roehampton A detailed, insightful account of ballet in Britain during World War II, Albion's Dance probes the complexities and paradoxes of wartime - its socio-political and artistic realignments; its grittiness and transcendences - and how ballet contributed to reshaping the cultural landscape. The book is essential reading for dance students, teachers and scholars, and for all of us interested in new histories of ballet and its place on the world stage today. --Angela Kane, Professor of Dance, University of Michigan
""An enthralling story of how diverse groups of unsung dancers and choreographers changed the landscape of British ballet through their courageous work during the war. With her rigorous and deft handling of the sources, Eliot makes a major contribution to dance scholarship.""--Geraldine Morris, Reader in Dance University of Roehampton ""A detailed, insightful account of ballet in Britain during World War II, Albion's Dance probes the complexities and paradoxes of wartime - its socio-political and artistic realignments; its grittiness and transcendences - and how ballet contributed to reshaping the cultural landscape. The book is essential reading for dance students, teachers and scholars, and for all of us interested in new histories of ballet and its place on the world stage today.""--Angela Kane, Professor of Dance, University of Michigan ""Eliot bases much of her study on her extensive investigation of dancers>' memoirs and writings of dance critics, and the result is a book that is both well-researched and fascinating."" --L.K. Rosenberg, Miami University, Choice
"""An enthralling story of how diverse groups of unsung dancers and choreographers changed the landscape of British ballet through their courageous work during the war. With her rigorous and deft handling of the sources, Eliot makes a major contribution to dance scholarship.""--Geraldine Morris, Reader in Dance University of Roehampton ""A detailed, insightful account of ballet in Britain during World War II, Albion's Dance probes the complexities and paradoxes of wartime - its socio-political and artistic realignments; its grittiness and transcendences - and how ballet contributed to reshaping the cultural landscape. The book is essential reading for dance students, teachers and scholars, and for all of us interested in new histories of ballet and its place on the world stage today.""--Angela Kane, Professor of Dance, University of Michigan ""Eliot bases much of her study on her extensive investigation of dancers>' memoirs and writings of dance critics, and the result is a book that is both well-researched and fascinating."" --L.K. Rosenberg, Miami University, Choice"
Author Information
Karen Eliot is a Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. Her books include Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d'Action to Merce Cunningham (2007), and the edited anthology Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies (2013) with co-editor Melanie Bales. She serves on the advisory board of Dance Chronicle and her articles appear in Dance Chronicle, Dance Gazette, and Dance Research Journal.
