Anne Searcy’s scholarly and highly readable book examines the impact of US – Soviet cultural exchanges during the Cold War through the lens of the Bolshoi Ballet’s 1959 and 1962 tours of the USA, and the tours by American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet of the Soviet Union in 1960 and 1962 respectively. Searcy draws on an impressive array of Russian and English archival resources and contemporaneous reviews to reconstruct and understand the way in which these companies, their works, and their performances were received by audiences at the time. She offers new material and a new view point focussed on the reception of the dance, rather than its presentation.
(more…)January 5, 2021
Ballet in the Cold War: a Soviet-American Exchange, by Anne Searcy – Maggie Watson reviews
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November 19, 2020
“The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar: Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation” by Mark Franko, DANSOX hosts online book launch from Tuesday 24th November 2020
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Celebrate the new book from distinguished dance scholar Mark Franko with this online book launch hosted by DANSOX and hear Professor Franko discussing his work. Many DANSOX supporters have enjoyed his ongoing research for this book on previous occasions; you can read Susanna Reece’s account of his 2015 stimulating lecture The Fascist Legs of Serge Lifar about his emerging research here. The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar: Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation is the latest publication in the prestigious series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory.
You will be able to find this event online on the DANSOX Playlist of the JduP YouTube Channel here from Tuesday 24th November.
You can purchase a copy of Professor Franko’s book online from Oxford University Press Academic here.
October 27, 2013
Literature, Modernism, and Dance by Susan Jones
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16th October saw the launch of a major new work of dance scholarship by Dr Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Susan Jones spent fifteen years as a soloist with the Scottish Ballet in Glasgow before becoming an academic. She now teaches English at Oxford, and has written on Joseph Conrad, modernism, and dance history and aesthetics. Literature, Modernism, and Dance is published by Oxford University Press and is the first extended study of the relationship between dance and literary modernism; it opens up new ways of thinking about modernism by showing the dialogue between dance and literary aesthetics. It recovers the importance of literature for modernist choreographers, and raises the importance of dance as site for literary scholarship. (more…)