One Dead At the Paris Opera Ballet - La Source 1866-2014

Based on research in the archives of the Paris Opera, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet illustrates the full and complex history of performances of the ballet The Source, contextualized by political events, colonial and post-colonial narratives, and staging theories of heredity and hybridity.

About the author

Felicia McCarren, Professor of French at Tulane University in New Orleans, has been a fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (2016-17). She is a member of the seminar in the cultural history of dance at EHESS, Paris and the international research group PARIFA (Performance, Archive and Repertory in the Francophone Atlantic).

Summary

Based on research in the archives of the Paris Opera, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet illustrates the full and complex history of performances of the ballet The Source, contextualized by political events, colonial and post-colonial narratives, and staging theories of heredity and hybridity.

Additional text

Felicia McCarren writes a much-needed political history of the Paris Opera Ballet as a distinct regime of knowledge in Modern France. Through her sophisticated intertwining of dance history, ecofeminism, new materialism, and postcolonial theory, McCarren's timely meditation on La Source offers vital insights into choreography's hybrid ecology of practices.

Product details

• Authors: Felicia McCarren, Felicia (Associate Professor of French Mccarren, Felicia (Professor of French Mccarren, McCarren Felicia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780190061814
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006181-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Ballet, Other performing arts