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Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2014

Hanna Järvinen
Hanna Järvinen*
Affiliation:
The Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki
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From the outset, I have to admit I am partial to new scholarship on the Ballets Russes, particularly interdisciplinary scholarship that offers new perspectives on staged dance as an art form. Hence, two recent books on a company famous for striving for the total work of art effect sounded like an absolute feast. I may have set my expectations high, but these books actually exemplify how easily dance becomes secondary to music and set design in discussions of past performance, and how “interdisciplinary” studies often are anything but. In both books, the analyses offered of dance are, for a dance scholar, implausible, specious, even outright incomprehensible, and the dance-related topic emerges as servile to agendas of other disciplines, namely those of music and art history.

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Review Essays
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 2014 , pp. 96 - 103
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2014 

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