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Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work

Autor Joellen A. Meglin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2022
In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: choreographer, artistic director, and impresario. From extensive dramaturgical analysis of her most famous ballets — La Guiablesse, Frankie and Johnny, Billy Sunday, Revenge, The Merry Widow, Camille, Carmina Burana, and Alice — to embodied re-imagining of an avant-garde solo performed in a "sack" designed by Isamu Noguchi, this biography follows the global reach of Ruth Page's career spanning the greater part of the twentieth century. In the process of discovering the woman in the work, one encounters an international cast of dancers (Anna Pavlova, Harald Kreutzberg, Frederic Franklin, Alicia Markova), composers (William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Jerome Moross, Darius Milhaud), visual artists (Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchew, Antoni Clavé), and companies (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Ballets des Champs-Elysées, London Festival Ballet). Disrupting notions that New York was the only cradle of the American ballet, and George Balanchine, its exponent to eclipse all others, Ruth Page explores the woman's unique sensibility, corporeal praxis, and collaborative ethos to reveal her Chicago-centered network of creativity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190205164
ISBN-10: 0190205164
Pagini: 584
Ilustrații: 10 color plates and 71 photographs
Dimensiuni: 229 x 163 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Page's creations truly come to life and jump off the page thanks to Meglin's thorough descriptions.... The analysis is particularly strong in exploring the music for each dance and how it contributed to the dramaturgy. There are fascinating collaborators for each work, and the chapters function as a making-of or behind-the-scenes look at her dances. There is an abundance of gorgeous photographs to accompany the text, both in color and black and white, and these help the reader imagine the works being described. The overall effect is to make the reader wish they had been in the audience to see these interesting and significant works in person and to be glad for this account in lieu of time-traveling.... This book will catch a few sparks and turn them into a fire, helping Page receive the recognition she deserves and inspire other women to see themselves as creative trailblazers.
this lengthy tome (429 jam-packed pages) blossoms into a delicious dive into the imagination and artistic journey of a gutsy innovator... Meglin offers the reader a visceral understanding of Page's creative process.
an absolutely admirable work of dance scholarship. Although full of detail and history, the writing is fluid and highly readable--it often feels like storytelling.
Meglin's expertise as well as her passion for her subject matter shine through in her generous, rigorously researched, and comprehensive biography of Ruth Page. Meglin makes a compelling argument for a renewed examination of Page's overlooked contributions: this is a readable and engaging study of an American Midwestern choreographer whose works were unorthodox, experimental, inflected by the rhythms of jazz--and female.
Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work is an inspiring portrait of an innovative and boundary-breaking artist. Finally, a full-length study of a major woman leader in ballet, whose prolific career brought her into contact with many of the most celebrated artists in twentieth-century modernism. Meglin's rich analysis of Page's work—experimental, collaborative, populist, and committed to a female point of view—offers a timely and much-needed alternative to the discourse of neoclassicism that has long monopolized ballet history. Impeccably researched and elegantly written, this book is an extraordinary and essential contribution.
Dancer, choreographer, daughter, sister, wife, impresario, and visionary, Ruth Page... was an American dance treasure... The author uncovers Page's inquisitive boldness, spotlighting choreography-e.g., Alice in the Garden (1970) - that championed feminism and challenged gender roles.
Meglin, who has published widely on Page, is an established dance historian, choreographer, and dance re-imaginer. She expertly infuses methodologies from these areas into this meticulously researched, skillfully written, accessible tome. At its heart, this biography also functions as cultural history and dramaturgical analysis, weaving together engaging movement description, critical reception, sociopolitical and aesthetic contexts.

Notă biografică

Joellen A. Meglin, long-time editor of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts and professor emerita of Dance at Temple University, has published extensively on Ruth Page and American ballet. Her re-imagination of Page's solo Expanding Universe was recently presented at the 92nd-Street Y and the Noguchi Museum in New York.