 Dancing lives: five female dancers from the ballet d'action to Merce Cunningham.
Author: Eliot, Karen Published: 2007 Working from the premise that dance history can be studied as it has been created in and through the bodies of dancers, Karen Eliot examines the lives and careers of five popular female dancers: Giovanni Baccelli, Adèle Dumilâtre, Tamara Karsavina, Moira Shearer, and Catherine Kerr. Notable dancers in European ballet, Russian ballet, and American modern dance genres, these women represent an historical cross section of performance, training, and technique in Western theatrical dance since the eighteenth century. |
