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Behind the veil of translucence: An intertextual reading of the ballet fantastique in France, 1831-1841. Part Two: The boy dismembered, diseased, and damned: The Conte Brun

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A study on the ballet fantastique vis-a-vis the conte fantastique is done to explore how spectral, disembodied women might be related to dark fantasies of the body, the body dismembered, diseased and damned. It is observed that the translucent female body harbored a host of implicit meanings, namely a symbolic density.

Human figure in art, Ballet dancing

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Choreographing identities beyond boundaries: La Guiablesse and Ruth Page's excursions into world dance (1926-1934)

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The article discusses La Guiablesse and ballet dancer Ruth Page's experiences and excursions that took her the world over in search of dance styles. La Guiablesse is one of the most famous of Page's quasi-anthropological choreographies as it had Katherine Dunham performing in it and the ideal was of Adolph Bolm.

United States, International aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Ballet dancers, Ballerinas, Choreography, 1990s (Decade) AD, La Guiablesse (Ballet), Page, Ruth

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Behind the veil of translucence: An intertextual reading of the Ballet Fantastique in France, 1831-1841: Part three: Resurrection, sensuality, and the palpable presence of the past in the Theophile Gautier's Fantastic

Article Abstract:

The 'Ballet Fantastique' that represents a rewriting in feminine terms of the resurrection-redemption story of Christian histories is discussed. These terms were given impetus by the process of embodying cultural memory in the ballet. Spiritual meanings underlie the enduring appeal of the 'Ballet Fantastique'.

France, Ballet Fantastique (Ballet), Gautier, Theophile

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