Frederick Ashton's Ballets
Style, Performance, Choreography
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 January 2025
- ISBN 9780197747117
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 236x169x24 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 570
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Short description:
The second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but also presents a detailed account of Ashton's work and dances, demonstrating his remarkable choreographic and artistic talent. Having danced with the Royal Ballet Company during the years Ashton was Director, author Geraldine Morris also draws on her years as an academic in the field.
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The second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but also presents a detailed account of Ashton's work and dances, demonstrating his remarkable choreographic and artistic talent. Having danced with the Royal Ballet Company during the years Ashton was Director, author, Geraldine Morris also draws on her years as an academic in the field.
As well as highlighting the dances, the book explores the contribution made by Ashton's collaborators, both designers and musicians. Central is the issue of identity and how style can be retained in dance, despite alterations in training. It considers the problem of how the values of ballet training change, thereby affecting contemporary performances of his works. Through eight works Morris examines the various sources that Ashton used, whether they were dances with words, or those influenced by dancers' movement style, jazz dance, abstraction, mysticism, or narrative. With this new material, the second edition makes a significant contribution to dance scholarship.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Problem of Style and Discerning the Movement
Chapter 2. The Foundations of Ashton's Style: Training and Dance Influences
Chapter 3. Unconventional Dances: Ashton's Style in Ballets with Words
Chapter 4. Non-narrative Ballets: 1950s Decorum and the Swinging 60s
Chapter 5. Expressive Abstraction: Dante Sonata and Symphonic Variations
Chapter 6. Narrative Dances: An Abundance of Real Dancing
Conclusion: Where Now for Ashton Style?
Bibliography
Index
