Ballet class : an American history / Melissa R. Klapper.
Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of Clure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. One hundred years late...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Overture
- First movements.
- A (very selective) early history of ballet in America
- Ballet class
- The Russians are coming: The impact of European teachers on American ballet class
- Brought to you by the Ford Foundation: Mid-Century innovation and the dance boom
- Themes and variations.
- Up a steep and very narrow stairway: Teachers, studios, and the business of ballet
- Race and ballet in America: A troubled/troubling history
- Yes, boys take ballet class too
- Diplomates of dance: Ballet and higher education
- An art or a sport? Recitals and competitions
- Ballet bodies
- Think pink: Ballet and girl culture
- Ballet and popular culture in America.