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Vaudeville Ballet

Vaudeville Ballet

Amberg, G. (2013). Ballet in America-The Emergence of an American Art. Read Books Ltd. Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2021, January 1). Albertina Rasch. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albertina-Rasch

Friedler, S. E., & Glazer, S. (Eds.). (1997). Dancing female: lives and issues of women in contemporary dance (Vol. 12). Taylor & Francis.

 

Glasstone, R. (1984). Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research, 2(1), 68-73. doi:10.2307/1290781

 

Homans, J. (2010). Apollo's angels: A history of ballet. New York: Random House

 

Järvinen, H. (2010). Failed Impressions: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in America, 1916. Dance Research Journal, 42(2), 77-108. Retrieved May 28, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/23266899

 

Lewis, R. M. (Ed.). (2007). From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830–1910. JHU Press.

 

Scholick, J. (2017). Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training Before Balanchine by Jessica Zeller (review). Dance Research Journal, 49(3), 98-101. https://ezproxy.spl.org/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.spl.org/pqrl?accountid=1135?url=https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.spl.org/scholarly-journals/shapes-american-ballet-teachers-training-before/docview/2029759741/se-2?accountid=1135

 

Stalter-Pace, S. (2020). Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance. Northwestern University Press.

 

Steichen, J. (2015). The American Ballet's Caravan. Dance Research Journal, 47(1), 69-94. Retrieved May 28, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43966858

Witt, A. L. (2018). Networks of Performance and Patronage: Russian Artists in American Dance, Vaudeville, and Opera, 1909-1947 (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University).

 

Zeller, J. (2016). Shapes of American ballet: Teachers and training before Balanchine. Oxford University Press.

Sexy Dancing and You

Sexy Dancing and You

Sex, Dance, and Asexuality - Meghan Varner

Bannerman, Henrietta. "Martha Graham's House of the Pelvic Truth: The Figuration of Sexual Identities and Female Empowerment." Dance Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, Summer2010, pp. 30-45. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/login?url=http://

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Claid, Emilyn. Yes? No! Maybe... Seductive Ambiguity in Dance. Routledge, 2006.

 

Deresiewicz, William. "The Salome Factor." American Scholar, vol. 74, no. 2, Spring2005, pp. 112-116. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/login?url=http://

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Hanna, Judith L. Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. The University of Chicago Press, 1988.

 

Klask, Caitlin. “Opus 19/The Dreamer: A PNB Premiere.” Wordpress, 6 Nov. 2017,

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Looseleaf, Victoria. "Is It Sexist to Be Sexy?" Dance Magazine, vol. 82, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 44-46. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/loginurl=http://search.

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Macel, Emily. "They Did What?!." Dance Magazine, vol. 80, no. 11, Nov. 2006, pp. 60-62.EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/

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“Opus 19/The Dreamer.” NYCBallet, 6 Nov. 2017, http://www.nycballet.com/ballets/o/opus-19-the-dreamer.aspx.

 

Vaill, Amanda. Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins. Broadway Books, 2006.

 

Vivas, Judita. "Dramaturgies of the Naked Skin: Homo Nudus Plays Sexuality." Platform (17510171), vol. 9, no. 1, Spring2015, pp. 12-29. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=108715738&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Jeni LeGon

Jeni LeGon

Jeni Le Gon - YouTube

 

Swing Is Here To Stay (1937) - YouTube

 

Living in a Great Big Way - Hooray For Love (1935) - YouTube

Broussard-Simmons, V. (2002). Guide to the Jeni LeGon papers. In Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved from https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/NMAH.AC.0829.pdf

Favors, J. (2017). Race Women: New Negro Politics and the Flowering of Radicalism at Bennett College, 1900–1945. The North Carolina Historical Review, 94(4), 391-430. doi:10.2307/45185396

Frank, R. E. (1994). Tap! The greatest tap dance stars and their stories 1900-1955 (Rev. ed., pp. 118-127). New York, NY: Da Capo Press.

Morrison, M. (2014). Tap and Teeth: Virtuosity and the Smile in the Films of Bill Robinson and Eleanor Powell. Dance Research Journal, 46(2), 21-37. Retrieved March 25, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43966700

Petty, M. J. (2016). Stealing the show: African American performers and audiences in 1930s Hollywood. Univ of California Press.

Tucker, S. (2013). Swing: From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen). Daedalus, 142(4), 82-97. Retrieved March 25, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43298001

Weber, B. (2012). Jeni LeGon, Singer and Solo Tap-Dancer, Dies at 96. The New York Times.

Pointe and Propaganda

Pointe and Propaganda

Art in Turmoil : The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76, UBC Press, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cornish/detail.action?docID=3412899.

 

Ban, Wang. Words and Their Stories : Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution, BRILL, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cornish/detail.action?docID=682404.

 

Banes, Sally. Before, Between, and Beyond : Three Decades of Dance Writing, edited by Andrea Harris, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cornish/detail.action?docID=3444805.

 

Cui, Shuqin. Women Through the Lens : Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema, University of Hawaii Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cornish/detail.action?docID=3413396.

 

Gerdes, Ellen V. P. “Contemporary ‘Yangge’: The Moving History of a Chinese Folk Dance Form.” Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, 2008, pp. 138–147. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27568439.

 

Gray, Jonathan. "A Beijing Anniversary." Dancing Times, vol. 105, no. 1253, Jan. 2015, pp. 19-23. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/loginurl=http://search.ebscohost.com/
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Harss, Marina. "China's National Ballet, from Heroic Sermon to Sensual Hybrid." International New York Times, Jul 03 2015, p. 10. ProQuest. Web. 8 Apr. 2018 .

 

Lawrance, Alan. China Under Communism, Taylor & Francis Group, 1998. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cornish/detail.action?docID=168890.

 

Macel, Emily. "Beijing Dance Academy." Dance Spirit, vol. 14, no. 3, Mar. 2010, pp. 60-62. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=48319244&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

 

Sims, Caitlin. "China Ascendant." Pointe, vol. 6, no. 6, Dec2005/Jan2006, pp. 44-49. EBSCOhost, proxy.cornish.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=19156517&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Riot of Spring

Riot of Spring

Balkan wars. (2019). In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Balkan-Wars.

Beaumont, C. W. (1941). Complete book of ballets. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.

Chua, D. K. L. (2007). Rioting with Stravinsky: A particular analysis of The Rite of Spring. Music Analysis, 26(1‐2), 59-109.

Haskell, A. (1977). Balletomania: Then and now. New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc.

Homans, J. (2010). Apollo's angels: A history of ballet. New York: Random House

McDougall, W. A. (2019). 20th-century international relations. In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155.

Reef, J., & Walsh, S. (2017). The Rite of Spring at 100. Indiana University Press.

“Royal opera house: Stravinsky staged.” Films Media Group, 2002, avod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=79331&xtid=138745. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.

Durante, V. (Ed.). (2018). Rite of Spring. In Ballet: The definitive illustrated story (pp. 164-165). New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley Limited.

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