TY  - BOOK
AU  - Batson,Charles R.
TI  - Dance, desire, and anxiety in early twentieth-century French theater: playing identities 
SN  - 0754651304
AV  - GV1649 .B38 2005
U1  - 792.809440904 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate Pub. Co.
KW  - Ballet
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : dancing France --; 1; Saint/s Sebastian --; 2; Dancing about architecture --; 3; Performing the other --; 4; Men in tights --; 5; Relache
N2  - "The 1990 arrival of Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris marked the beginning of some two decades of collaboration among litterateurs, painters, musicians, and choreographers, many not native to France. Charles Batson's original and nuanced exploration of several of these collaborations integral to the formation of modernism and avant-gardist aesthetics reinscribes performances of the celebrated Russians and the lesser-known but equally innovative Ballets Suedois into their varied artistic traditions as well as the French historical context, teasing out connections and implications that are usually overlooked in less decidedly interdisciplinary studies. Batson not only uncovers the multiple meanings set in motion through the interplay of dancers, musicians, librettists, and spectators, but also reinterprets literary texts that inform these meanings, such as Valery's "L'Ame et la danse.""--BOOK JACKET
ER  -