Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d'Action to Merce Cunningham
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252032500 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Eliot's Dancing Lives shines a spotlight on the lives of five lesser-known dancers."--Dance Teacher . Amusing anecdotes abound. "Eliot chronicles the lives of five female 'underdog' dancers focusing on such details as their social and economic status, education, dance training and how they came to dance professionally
"Beautifully written, this book offers insight into the lives" according to Annemari Autere. Beautifully written, this book offers insight into the lives and carriers of five female dancers and to the epochs in which their dance evolved. Well worth a read!. Five Stars Beautifully written and informative.
Working from the premise that dance history can be studied as it has been created in and through the bodies of dancers, Karen Eliot closely examines the lives and careers of five popular female dancers: Giovanna Baccelli, Adèle Dumilâtre, Tamara Karsavina, Moira Shearer, and Catherine Kerr. By elegantly guiding the reader through the Russian Revolution, stage fright and illness, liaisons with aristocracy, movie stardom, and dancing rivalries, Dancing Lives provides valuable insight into the culture in which each woman performed. Notable dancers in European and Russian ballet and American modern dance genres, these women represent