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Dancing "The Metamorphosis" |
One of the most striking transformations of Kafka's most famous story is into an acclaimed performance for the Royal Ballet. |
Meindert Peters, Karen Leeder |
03 Jun 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Gestures and Postures: the construction and reception of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé |
An APGRD / DANSOX public seminar given in November 2018: Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) discusses Noverre's use of gesture and the tragic. |
Nicole Haitzinger |
20 Mar 2019 |
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Creative Commons |
Mapping Nijinsky’s Cross - Cultural Legacy: Min Tanaka’ s Le Sacré du Printemps (1987) |
Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps is arguably the most influential score composed for dance in the last century. |
Lucy Weir |
05 Dec 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
A Bardic Rite? Designing the Savoy Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
For a few nights in March 1914 if contemplating buying a theatre ticket in London, there was a brief chance when one could have seen Nijinsky dance at the Palace Theatre one night and the next the new Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the |
Claire O'Mahony |
05 Dec 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Divining the 1920s: Precious Body Image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Ballets |
This paper examines the ways in which dancers’ body image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 ballets The Rite of Spring and Jeux looked forward to 1920s developments in ballet and fashion. |
Katerina Pantelides |
05 Dec 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring |
Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs. |
Alexander Schwan |
05 Dec 2014 |