Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborations.

✍ Scribed by Mary Fleischer

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborations explores the dynamic relationship between Symbolist theatre and early modern dance across Europe from the 1890s through the 1930s. Gabriele D'Annunzio's projects with Ida Rubinstein; Hugo von Hofmannsthal's pantomimes for Grete Wiesenthal; W. B. Yeats's work with Michio Ito and Ninette de Valois; and Paul Claudel's collaborations with Jean B?rlin and the Ballets Su?dois are studied in depth to shed new light on an evolving dance-theatre form within Symbolist culture. Buoyed by the era's heightened interest in the expressive qualities of the body, these playwrights were highly invested in the authority of language, yet were drawn to the capacity of dance to evoke spiritual or psychological states which words could not completely capture. In its belief of fundamental correspondences among the arts, Symbolism encouraged experimentation across disciplines, and this study traces interconnections among many of its significant figures including Max Reinhardt, Claude Debussy, Gertrud Eysoldt, Edward Gordon Craig, Bronislava Nijinksa, Isadora Duncan, Jaques Dalcroze, Darius Milhaud, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mariano Fortuny, Terence Gray, George Antheil, Eleonora Duse, and Michel Fokine.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 8
Illustrations and Photographs......Page 10
Preface......Page 18
1. Theatre and Dance—A Symbolist Dialogue......Page 24
I. D'Annunzio and the Sensorial Body......Page 42
II. Ida Rubinstein......Page 51
III: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien......Page 65
IV. La Pisanelle, ou La Mort parfumée......Page 100
I. Hofmannsthal and the Expansion of Language......Page 116
II. Grete Wiesenthal......Page 135
III. The Hofmannsthal-Wiesenthal Pantomimes......Page 152
I. Yeats and the Vitality of the Body......Page 172
II. A Certain Noble Dancer of Japan......Page 186
III. At the Hawk's Well......Page 200
5. W.B. Yeats and Ninette de Valois......Page 238
I. Ninette de Valois......Page 242
II. Fighting the Waves......Page 256
I. Claudel and the Motion of the Body......Page 276
II. The Ballets Suédois......Page 291
III. L'Homme et son désir......Page 305
7. Dance-Theatre as a Collaborative Genre......Page 326
Bibliography......Page 334
B......Page 358
C......Page 359
D......Page 360
F......Page 361
H......Page 362
K......Page 363
M......Page 364
O......Page 365
R......Page 366
S......Page 367
T......Page 368
Z......Page 369