1st Edition
Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet
By Alexandra Carter
Copyright 2005
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling prey principally to the misguided assumption that any ballet not performed at the Opera House or 'legitimate' theatre necessarily meant it was of low cultural and artistic merit. Here Alexandra Carter identifies the traditional marginalization of the working class... Read more
Contents: Preface; Prologue; In fit and seemly luxury: ballet at the Alhambra and the Empire; From the principals to the pass : performers in the music hall ballets; Dancing the feminine: gender and sexuality on stage; A fairyland of fair women: dancing the narratives of the age; Images and imagination: poetry, fiction and the eye of the writer; Prejudicial to public morality: the moral image of the dance and dancer; Cara's tale; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Alexandra Carter
