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One dead at the Paris Opera Ballet : La Source 1866-2014

Title
One dead at the Paris Opera Ballet : La Source 1866-2014 / Felicia McCarren.
Author
McCarren, Felicia M.
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description
viii, 214 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"At its debut in 1866, La Source already had it all: dagger-wielding Muslims dominating veiled women, a magic flower in a green ecology, and a full blown environmental crisis at the end. When the Paris Opera ballet restages this Orientalist and colonial drama in 2011, and again in 2014, the contemporary context of homegrown jihad, climate politics and a law banning the dissimulation of the face in public spaces, keeps it relevant. At four historic performances, over 150 years, this book explores the resonance of La Source's double narrative in its contemporary contexts: the biopolitics of bodily hybridity and regeneration and the cosmopolitics of the exploitation of human and natural resources"--
Series Statement
Oxford studies in dance theory
Uniform Title
Oxford studies in dance theory.
Subject
  • Opéra de Paris. Ballet > History
  • Opéra de Paris. Ballet
  • Opéra de Paris
  • Source (Choreographic work : Saint-Léon)
  • Source (Choreographic work : Bart after Saint-Léon)
  • Ballet > Social aspects > History. > France
  • Ballet > Political aspects > France
  • Orientalism in dance > France > History
  • Ballet > Social aspects
  • Orientalism in dance
  • Ballet
  • France
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-210) and index.
Contents
Veil, flower, and dagger : gender, ecology and orientalism in La source -- The natural history and cultural history of La source : 1866 -- La source after Suez : 1875 -- Not the Arab Spring : La source, 2011 -- Resources : La source, 2014.
Call Number
*MGTZ (Source) 22-5046
ISBN
  • 9780190061814
  • 0190061812
  • 9780190061821
  • 0190061820
LCCN
2019045622
OCLC
1137751590
Author
McCarren, Felicia M., author.
Title
One dead at the Paris Opera Ballet : La Source 1866-2014 / Felicia McCarren.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Oxford studies in dance theory
Oxford studies in dance theory.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-210) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: McCarren, Felicia M. One dead at the Paris Opera Ballet. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] 9780190262778 (DLC) 2019045623
Research Call Number
*MGTZ (Source) 22-5046
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