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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Klapper, Melissa R., author. Ballet class New York : Oxford University Press, [2019] (DLC) 2019003627 (OCoLC) 1089259222 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Melissa R Klapper |
ISBN: | 9780190908690 0190908696 9780190908713 0190908718 9780190908706 019090870X |
OCLC Number: | 1089280874 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 403 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Overture -- First movements. -- A (very selective) early history of ballet in America -- Ballet class 101 -- The Russians are coming : The impact of European teachers on American ballet class -- Brought to you by the Ford Foundation : Mid-Century innovation and the dance boom -- Themes and variations. -- Up a steep and very narrow stairway : Teachers, studios, and the business of ballet -- A troubled/troubling history : race and ballet in America -- Yes, boys take ballet class too -- Diplomates of dance : Ballet and higher education -- An art or a sport? Recitals and competitions -- Ballet bodies -- Think pink: Ballet and girl culture -- Ballet and popular culture in America. |
Responsibility: | Melissa R. Klapper. |
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Klapper pulls together information from an array of oral histories, archives, dance magazines, children's books and memoirs. As a professor of history, she may have an academic background but the book never feels like an academic tome ... a fascinating read. * Seeing Dance * Ballet Class is a thoroughly delightful and informative read - a well-rounded study that looks at ballet class through several different lenses. For dance history buffs, significant attention is paid to the early days of ballet class and the events that drove its rise and popularity...Ballet Class is an academic book to be sure, but has a very approachable style. * Heather Desaulniers, CriticalDance * Ballet Class has provided a solid and wide-ranging foundation - I hope others will hasten to take this as an opportunity to build even further. * Emma Cohen, Thinking Dance * This thoughtful and capacious book starts informally with the author assessing her own childhood ballet classes - then opens out to chart ballet's rise to prominence among America's most cherished childhood traditions. Along the way she does justice to a number of under-sung ballet teacher-pioneers, takes on ballet's problematic relations to such topics as body image, gender, and race - and ends up offering nothing less than a two-century-long social history ofAmerican culture itself. * Elizabeth Kendall, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies, The New School for Social Research, author of Balanchine and the Lost Muse Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer * At a time when the relevance of ballet for the 21stcentury context is under scrutiny, this lively account provides much needed personal and meticulously researched revelations into its beloved (though not unproblematic) role in providing comfort, challenge, discipline, artistry, fitness, creativity, and empowerment to generations of regular girls and boys across America. * Naomi Jackson, Associate Professor of Dance, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University * Of the myriads of little girls who fell in love with ballet the first time they faced the mirror, few became ballerinas. I imagine that fewer became prize-winning historians, but Melissa R. Klapper did. She has returned to the dance studio with this definitive history of America's ballet classes. Ballet students end class with a reverence to their teacher. I bow to Melissa Klapper.Her remarkable book takes those who remember the five positions back to their days inballet class. * Pamela S. Nadell, Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History at American University and author of America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today * Read more...


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