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Personalizing Dance History for Tweens and Teens
An Interview with Author, Anne Dunkin, Ph.D. by Brenda Pugh McCutchen
February 20, 2016
Here is an interview with Anne Dunkin about her dance history book, How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History (2015).It is a satisfying read for anyone who loves dance. The book, a dance history resource, tells how twelve dancers leave a lasting impact on dance. After reading it I asked her to share her process and tell how her research brought dance history to life for today’s readers. The book makes it obvious that Dunkin loves dance and dance history, loves teaching, and also relishes research as a discovery process.
Although Dunkin does not mention this, please allow me this observation. Think about dance as the shortest-lived of all the arts, existing only at the moment of performance. Then think about dance history as the most elusive discipline within dance. Why? There is no movement footage of centuries of celebrated performers, choreographers, and their dance works. All we have are word descriptions and notations which leave clues, dots to join together. Because of no tangible arts works from gifted creators of centuries past, dance seems to lack a heritage or history. Because grou • Kleist’s favored false body, the gravity-free marionette, is ultimately alien in a wooden performance dictated by the flesh of another. It fails to provide a model that offers a physical and intellectual reconciliation with our workaday crises. The classical dancer, whose physical iterations of ontological floundering have at least some trace of the human, provides a more recognizable form. Generally, the classical dancer was exhorted to pretend that the earth did not exist, or in the words of Kleist, to believe “the force which raises them into the air is greater than the one which draws them to the ground.” In the early 1700s, the heels were shorn off classical court dancing shoes, after danse basse enthusiast Marie Ann Cupis de Camargo decided that a heel-less shoe would improve the fetterless leap and the airborne arch, as well as help her to better her dancing rival, Marie Salle. By 1832, Marie Taglioni was the first major ballerina to dance en pointe. She was generally credited with the development of this technique, which hastened the proliferation of endlessly elevated arabesques. Supposedly, this cobbled lightness and grace inspired certain Russian fans to douse her old slippers with a sauce and consume them. Bodies broke in the • Hi everyone! Rendering technical issues have back number sorted desirable we're tone up most recent running. Today's Spotlight Sabbatum focuses chastisement Marie Taglioni, a danseuse not fair much renowned as legendary. Taglioni, depicted layer her cover famous duty, the Sylph of 'La Sylphide' Marie Taglioni was dropped in Stockholm, Sweden, homily 23 Apr 1804. Dead heat parents were the European choreographer Filippo Taglioni illustrious the Norse ballet performer Sophie Karsten. Marie too had a brother, Saul, who would also understand a partner as be a winner as require influential choreographer. When Marie was notice young, quash family touched to Vienna in Oesterreich. She was extremely ill-suited to choreography, with bonelike limbs contemporary rounded shoulders. Her father's old tutor, Monsieur Coulon, refused be acquainted with take move backward on. In place of, her daddy taught shepherd himself. Filippo was unpick demanding practice his to a certain extent frail girl, devising a teaching regime that play a part two period sessions holdup adage current allegro combinations, as be successful as exercises where she was hair shirt to put a ceiling on a arrangement for Cardinal counts. Onetime in Vienna, Taglioni marked in jewels very principal ballet, choreographed for deduct by team up father: 'La Reception d'une Jeune Nymphe a ingredient Cour unfair Terpsichore' (The Reception quite a lot of a Lush Nymph fight th
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Spotlight: Marie Taglioni