The grotesque dancer on the eighteenth-century stage : Gennaro Magri and his world /
The grotesque dancer on the eighteenth-century stage : Gennaro Magri and his world /
Grotesque dancer on the 18th-century stage
edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Bruce Alan Brown.
- xiv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Studies in dance history .
- Studies in dance history (Unnumbered). .
Includes index.
Introduction / Eighteenth-century Italian theatrical ballet : the triumph of the Grotteschi / Gennaro Magri : a grotesque dancer on the European stage / With "chronology of Magri's career" / Magri in Vienna : the apprenticeship of a choreographer / Magri in Naples : defending the Italian dance tradition / International elements of dance training in the late eighteenth century / Magri's Grotteschi / The French connection / Steps, gestures, and expressive dancing : Magri, Ferrere, and John Weaver / Putting together a pantomime ballet / Grotteschi in Italy, 1750-1800 : a preliminary tabulation / Scenarios of selected ballets performed in Northern Italian theaters / Gumpenhuber's descriptions of ballets performed in the Karntnertortheater during 1759 / Scenarios of selected ballets performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples / Selected ballet scenarios from three theaters in Paris / Table of contents of Magri's Trattato -- Steps, other dance terms, and people in Magri's Trattato, part I / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- Salvatore Bongiovanni -- Edited by Patricia W. Rader -- Bruce Alan Brown -- Salvatore Bongiovanni -- Sandra Noll Hammond -- Linda J. Tomko -- Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol G. Marsh -- Moira Goff -- Carol G. Marsh and Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- Edited by Bruce Alan Brown and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- Edited by Bruce Alan Brown -- Edited by Salvatore Bongiovanni -- Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3. App. 4. App. 5. App. 6. App. 7.
"The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage examines the theatrical world of the ballerino grottesco, Magri's own career as a dancer in Italy and Vienna, the genre of pantomime ballet as it was practiced by Magri and his colleagues across Europe, the relationships between dance and pantomime in this type of work, the music used to accompany pantomime ballets, and the movement vocabulary of the grotesque dancer. Appendixes contain scenarios from eighteenth-century pantomime ballets, including several of Magri's own devising, an index to the step-vocabulary discussed in Magri's book, and an index of dancers in Italy known to have performed as grotteschi. Illustrations, musical examples, and dance notations also supplement the text."--BOOK JACKET.
0299203549 9780299203542
2004007796
Magri, Gennaro, active 1779
Ballet dancers--Italy--Biography
Choreographers--Italy--Biography
Ballet--History--Italy--18th century.
GV1785.M2525 / G76 2005
792.8092
Includes index.
Introduction / Eighteenth-century Italian theatrical ballet : the triumph of the Grotteschi / Gennaro Magri : a grotesque dancer on the European stage / With "chronology of Magri's career" / Magri in Vienna : the apprenticeship of a choreographer / Magri in Naples : defending the Italian dance tradition / International elements of dance training in the late eighteenth century / Magri's Grotteschi / The French connection / Steps, gestures, and expressive dancing : Magri, Ferrere, and John Weaver / Putting together a pantomime ballet / Grotteschi in Italy, 1750-1800 : a preliminary tabulation / Scenarios of selected ballets performed in Northern Italian theaters / Gumpenhuber's descriptions of ballets performed in the Karntnertortheater during 1759 / Scenarios of selected ballets performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples / Selected ballet scenarios from three theaters in Paris / Table of contents of Magri's Trattato -- Steps, other dance terms, and people in Magri's Trattato, part I / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- Salvatore Bongiovanni -- Edited by Patricia W. Rader -- Bruce Alan Brown -- Salvatore Bongiovanni -- Sandra Noll Hammond -- Linda J. Tomko -- Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol G. Marsh -- Moira Goff -- Carol G. Marsh and Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- Edited by Bruce Alan Brown and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- Edited by Bruce Alan Brown -- Edited by Salvatore Bongiovanni -- Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3. App. 4. App. 5. App. 6. App. 7.
"The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage examines the theatrical world of the ballerino grottesco, Magri's own career as a dancer in Italy and Vienna, the genre of pantomime ballet as it was practiced by Magri and his colleagues across Europe, the relationships between dance and pantomime in this type of work, the music used to accompany pantomime ballets, and the movement vocabulary of the grotesque dancer. Appendixes contain scenarios from eighteenth-century pantomime ballets, including several of Magri's own devising, an index to the step-vocabulary discussed in Magri's book, and an index of dancers in Italy known to have performed as grotteschi. Illustrations, musical examples, and dance notations also supplement the text."--BOOK JACKET.
0299203549 9780299203542
2004007796
Magri, Gennaro, active 1779
Ballet dancers--Italy--Biography
Choreographers--Italy--Biography
Ballet--History--Italy--18th century.
GV1785.M2525 / G76 2005
792.8092