“Classicism and Romanticism in Three Ballets by Frederick Ashton” examines three ballets by the twentieth-century British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988). I tease apart elements of the aesthetic theories of classicism and romanticism as they manifest in Ashton’s c…
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In the mid-twentieth century in the People’s Republic of China, classical ballet was consciously adopted and institutionalised by the state. The systematic adoption of the form was part of a nation building exercise which made use of the bodies of ballet dancers for state ideolo…
The Sleeping Beauty ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, has an enduring appeal, inspiring reinterpretations by a diverse range of choreographers. The resulting variety of contexts, movement styles, narratives and meanings provides a…
At performance level, classical ballet is a form of high-intensity, intermittent exercise, requiring a strong aerobic foundation. Existing training methods have remained largely unchanged over the past century, resulting in poorly conditioned dancers who are prone to injury. The…
Dysphoria Ballet is a short, stop-motion film that portrays the internal morning routine of a particular trans woman. It is based on a series of interviews with a woman early in transition, and is what I consider to be a deconstruction, compression, and expressionist interpretat…
The 1918 ballet, Parade, and its music by Erik Satie is a fascinating, and historically significant example of the avant-garde, yet it has not received full attention in the field of musicology. This thesis will provide a study of Parade and the avant-garde, and specifically dis…
Ballet’s problem with race and inclusion has been well-documented over the last 15 years. One of the natural outgrowths of Black dancers being systematically excluded from the art form - largely because of America’s sordid racist history and Jim Crow segregation laws and ballet’…
This thesis investigates possible connections between the music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) and the later surrealist movement, turning to Parade (1917) in a case study that seeks to understand surrealism in music through the idea of self-exploration, a well-established interpretiv…
The relationship between ballet and fairy tale is by no means a new or unique discovery—to either dance history or literary studies. However, aside from relatively brief mentions of ballets as examples of fairy-tale adaptation, ballet’s relevance to fairy-tale studies has been s…
Esta investigación retoma los orígenes del ballet en Puerto Rico y establece el desarrollo de una relación sociocultural entre el ballet y la sociedad puertorriqueña. Siguiendo la metodología del historiador Fernando Picó, basada en la investigación de la microhistoria, se prete…
Between 1949 and 1958, the photographer Dora Kallmus (Austrian, 1882–1963) known under the alias Madame d’Ora, undertook a photography project in the slaughterhouses of Paris. Of the series, nearly two hundred photographs were printed and have until recently been considered only…