 Stravinsky dances: Re-visions across a century.
Author: Jordan, Stephanie Published: 2007 More than any other twentieth-century composer, Igor Stravinsky is associated in the popular imagination with dance: ranging from his early Ballets Russes successes The Firebird and Petrushka, the years of scandal and experimental works like Le Sacre du printemps and Les Noces, through to the celebrated collaborations with George Balanchine. Yet little, so far, has been written about the composer's shifting views on dance across his career, the importance of his concert as well as ballet scores, or his appeal to a century of choreographers representing modern dance as well as ballet. Stephanie Jordan's ground-breaking survey and close examination of a range of Stravinsky dances - some familiar, others less so - sheds new, unexpected light upon a composer central to Western artistic tradition and increasingly important to an emerging world culture. Her book, which includes copious music and Labanotation examples, is essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of dance, music and interdisciplinary studies, as well as lay readers interested in the work of one of the twentieth-century's greatest composers. |
