Dancing the fairy tale
An edition of Dancing the fairy tale (2015)
Producing and Performing the Sleeping Beauty
By Laura Katz Rizzo
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press
Language
eng
Pages
196
Description:
In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself and a powerful case study for examining the art and the variables surrounding its production, performance, and reception. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical ballet - specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over the course of nearly seventy years - Katz Rizzo looks at not only the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet but also the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form. -- from back cover.