Collaborative projects of symbolist playwrights and early modern dancers.
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Title
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Collaborative projects of symbolist playwrights and early modern dancers.
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Identifier
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AAI9820531
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identifier
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9820531
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Creator
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Fleischer, Mary Rita.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Daniel Gerould
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Date
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1998
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | Dance | Literature, Comparative | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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While symbolist theatre moved away from the depiction of external events and the domination of words towards the evocation of mood and spiritual states, early modern dance rejected the strong emphasis that had been placed on the sheer technical ability of the body and rigidly defined dance vocabularies. For both theatre and dance artists, the problem of how to visualize and reveal inner life and spiritual states gave rise to new experiments in staging and choreography. Within a broadly defined symbolist aesthetic, dance and theatre artists at the turn-of-the-century could find a renewed sense of shared ground between their disciplines which became the basis for many interesting collaborations.;An interest in new forms of dance and movement permeated the theatre as playwrights incorporated dance into their work in a wide range of contexts. In the projects chosen for this study, dance and movement are not limited to a scene or interlude but are integral to the structure of the work. As collaborative projects each of these pieces is dependant on production to attain its full effect and meaning, and therefore the original performance histories are studied to elucidate the complex and unique nature of these works.;Projects discussed include W. B. Yeats's work with Michio Ito on At the Hawk's Well (1916), and with Ninette de Valois on Fighting the Waves (1929), At the Hawk's Well (1933), and The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934); Gabriele D'Annunzio's projects with Ida Rubinstein, primarily Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien (1911) with music by Claude Debussy and choreography by Michel Fokine, and La Pisanelle, ou la mort parfumee (1413), directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and choreographed by Fokine; Hugo von Hofmannsthal's pantomimes for Grete Wiesenthal, Amor und Psyche and Das fremde Madchen (1911), and Die Biene (1916); and Paul Claudel's collaboration with Jean Borlin and the Ballets Suedois on L'Homme et son desir (1921) with music by Darius Milhaud.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
