Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg: Giselle | Paquita | Le Corsaire | La Bayadère | Raymonda

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Doug Fullington (Musicologist and dance historian, Musicologist and dance historian) Marian Smith (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Oregon)

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg

Giselle | Paquita | Le Corsaire | La Bayadère | Raymonda

Doug Fullington (Musicologist and dance historian, Musicologist and dance historian), Marian Smith (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Oregon)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 August 2024

Ballet

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), La Bayadère (1877), and Raymonda (1898), drawing on a treasure trove of manuscripts that offer explicit written information about how many nineteenth-century ballets were performed in their earliest incarnations. Bursting with details forgotten for more than a century, these manuscripts bring the ballets to life by disclosing steps, floor patterns, and mime conversations as well as valuable insight into how the music helped create the drama.

Generously enriched with more than 50 images and more than 350 musical examples, the book also includes, in appendices, English translations of seven French and Russian librettos. Emerging from the plenteous new findings in this book is a fresh portrait of a living, breathing art form with strong audience appeal. Simply put, Five Ballets fills huge gaps in dance history, inviting both general readers and specialists to rethink the usual narratives about nineteenth-century ballet, its music, characters, and choreographies, its depictions of Others and Elsewhere, and the careers of its major choreographers. It also offers a rich resource to practitioners seeking to learn how the makers of these five classic ballets found such great success.

By: Doug Fullington (Musicologist and dance historian Musicologist and dance historian), Marian Smith (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Oregon)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 3.620kg
ISBN: 9780190944506
ISBN 10: 0190944501
Pages: 856
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Doug Fullington is a musicologist and dance historian whose research focuses on French and Russian ballet of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A fluent reader of Stepanov choreographic notation, he has contributed historically informed dances to ballet productions around the world. Since 1995, he has worked in several capacities at Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, including as Audience Education Manager. He is the founder and director of the Tudor Choir, a professional vocal ensemble. Marian Smith, a musicologist and dance historian, is Professor Emerita at the University of Oregon, author of Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle (2000), and editor of La Sylphide, Paris 1832 and Beyond (2012). She has worked alongside Doug Fullington as historical advisor for stagings of Giselle (2011) and Paquita (2014).

Reviews for Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg: Giselle | Paquita | Le Corsaire | La Bayadère | Raymonda

Five Ballets from Paris and St Petersburg is a comprehensive and unprecedented reference source that may well play an important role in preserving these works for another couple of hundred years. It is also a page-turningly good read. * Charlotte Kasner, Seeing dance *