{"product_id":"choreography-and-narrative-ballets-staging-of-story-and-desire-9780253212160","title":"Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Undoubtedly, \u003ci\u003eChoreography and Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to dance history research.\" --Nineteenth-Century French Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in dance.\" --Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Invents a new method for writing the history of performance: Foster has found an innovative way of appealing directly to the kinesthetic imagination of her readers, evoking the elusive styles of the pieces she reconstructs.\" --Joseph Roach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressive work of scholarship, this elegantly staged study . . . uses the concept of a culturally constructed, historically specific body to cut across disciplinary boundaries . . .\" --Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFoster examines the development of ballet, and conceptions of the dancing body, as ballet separated from opera and emerged as an autonomous art form during the turbulence of 18th-century French society and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10366206\"\u003eSusan Leigh Foster\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.03h x 7.06w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253212160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253212162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER003010\"\u003eDance | Classical \u0026amp; Ballet\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Leigh Foster, Choreographer, dancer, and writer, is Professor of Dance at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance and editor of Choreographing History and Corporealities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press (Ips)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44564761215213,"sku":"9780253212160","price":46.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_bb49c391-8fd5-44bc-858c-9d10ee3db531.jpg?v=1701855018","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/choreography-and-narrative-ballets-staging-of-story-and-desire-9780253212160","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}