The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830-1930
Author:   Julie Townsend
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781906540258


Pages:   156
Publication Date:   01 August 2009
Format:   Hardback
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The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830-1930


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This study considers the figure of the female dancer in French literary, visual, and performing art from 1830 to 1930. It explores how manifestations of the la danseuse shape notions of Modernism and asks why dance occupies a privileged position in a variety of Modernist media.

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Author:   Julie Townsend
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Legenda
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781906540258


ISBN 10:   190654025
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   01 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Choreographing the Coulisses: The Danseuse in Nineteenth-Century French Culture 2. Disembodying the Dancer/ Incorporating the Poem: The Symbolist Dance in Mallarmé and Valéry 3. Feministic' Aesthetics: Writing Dance and Performing Sex in Colette and Loïe Fuller 4. The Mechanical Dancer: Avant-Garde Performance and Film 5. Le Triangle Obligatoire': Dancer, Spectator, Narrator Coda

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An engaging and concise chronology of modernism through dance, with the danseuse constituting the correlation between performing, visual, and literary modernisms. -- Paul Ryan French Studies 65.4, 2011, 545-46


An engaging and concise chronology of modernism through dance, with the danseuse constituting the correlation between performing, visual, and literary modernisms. -- French Studies French Studies


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