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The grotesque dancer on the eighteenth-century stage : Gennaro Magri and his world / edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Bruce Alan Brown.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xiv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0299203549
  • 9780299203542
Other title:
  • Grotesque dancer on the 18th-century stage
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8092 22
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.M2525 G76 2005
Contents:
Introduction / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- 1. Eighteenth-century Italian theatrical ballet : the triumph of the Grotteschi / Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- 2. Gennaro Magri : a grotesque dancer on the European stage / Salvatore Bongiovanni -- With "chronology of Magri's career" / Edited by Patricia W. Rader -- 3. Magri in Vienna : the apprenticeship of a choreographer / Bruce Alan Brown -- 4. Magri in Naples : defending the Italian dance tradition / Salvatore Bongiovanni -- 5. International elements of dance training in the late eighteenth century / Sandra Noll Hammond -- 6. Magri's Grotteschi / Linda J. Tomko -- 7. The French connection / Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol G. Marsh -- 8. Steps, gestures, and expressive dancing : Magri, Ferrere, and John Weaver / Moira Goff -- 9. Putting together a pantomime ballet / Carol G. Marsh and Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- App. 1. Grotteschi in Italy, 1750-1800 : a preliminary tabulation / Edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- App. 2. Scenarios of selected ballets performed in Northern Italian theaters / Edited by Bruce Alan Brown and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- App. 3. Gumpenhuber's descriptions of ballets performed in the Karntnertortheater during 1759 / Edited by Bruce Alan Brown -- App. 4. Scenarios of selected ballets performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples / Edited by Salvatore Bongiovanni -- App. 5. Selected ballet scenarios from three theaters in Paris / Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- App. 6. Table of contents of Magri's Trattato -- App. 7. Steps, other dance terms, and people in Magri's Trattato, part I / Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick.
Review: "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.
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Includes index.

Introduction / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- 1. Eighteenth-century Italian theatrical ballet : the triumph of the Grotteschi / Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- 2. Gennaro Magri : a grotesque dancer on the European stage / Salvatore Bongiovanni -- With "chronology of Magri's career" / Edited by Patricia W. Rader -- 3. Magri in Vienna : the apprenticeship of a choreographer / Bruce Alan Brown -- 4. Magri in Naples : defending the Italian dance tradition / Salvatore Bongiovanni -- 5. International elements of dance training in the late eighteenth century / Sandra Noll Hammond -- 6. Magri's Grotteschi / Linda J. Tomko -- 7. The French connection / Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol G. Marsh -- 8. Steps, gestures, and expressive dancing : Magri, Ferrere, and John Weaver / Moira Goff -- 9. Putting together a pantomime ballet / Carol G. Marsh and Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- App. 1. Grotteschi in Italy, 1750-1800 : a preliminary tabulation / Edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- App. 2. Scenarios of selected ballets performed in Northern Italian theaters / Edited by Bruce Alan Brown and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell -- App. 3. Gumpenhuber's descriptions of ballets performed in the Karntnertortheater during 1759 / Edited by Bruce Alan Brown -- App. 4. Scenarios of selected ballets performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples / Edited by Salvatore Bongiovanni -- App. 5. Selected ballet scenarios from three theaters in Paris / Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- App. 6. Table of contents of Magri's Trattato -- App. 7. Steps, other dance terms, and people in Magri's Trattato, part I / Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick.

"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.

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