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Ballets Russes and Blackface
(Cambridge University Press; Dance Studies Association, 2020)
lehtiartikkeliPrompted by Achille Mbembe's reading of how racial assignation functions, this article examines the recurrences of two blackface ballet characters, the Golden Slave in Schéhérazade and the Blackamoor in Petrouchka, on ... -
Choreographing Histories : Critical Perspectives on Dance Histories in Nordic Dance Practices and Scholarship
(Senter for dansepraksis, 2023)
lehtiartikkeliThis text is based on a roundtable organised by the five authors at the 2022 NOFOD conference in Copenhagen. As scholars and practitioners invested in the research and teaching of dance history both inside and outside ... -
Comedy Ballet as Social Commentary : Till Eulenspiegel (1916)
(2014)
lehtiartikkeliIn 1916, during the American tours of the Ballets Russes company, Vaslav Nijinsky created a choreography to Richard Strauss's tone poem Till Eulenspiegels lustische Streiche, nach alter Schelmenweise, in Rondo Form ... -
Critical Silence : The Unseemly Games of Love in Jeux (1913)
(2009)
lehtiartikkeliFollowing my article on Vaslav Nijinsky's L' Aprè s-midi d' un Faune (1912), I turn my attention to Jeux, the first of Nijinsky's two choreographies for the 1913 season of the Ballets Russes. Made to a commissioned score ... -
Dancing without Space – On Nijinsky's L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1912)
(2009)
lehtiartikkeliThree-dimensional theatrical space is often taken for granted as a precondition of dance. Already in 1912, the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky provoked much discussion with a work that seemingly turned the performance into ... -
From historical materiality to performance : Choreographic functions of the costumes in The Rite of Spring (1913)
(Intellect, 2021)
lehtiartikkeliExamining the surviving costumes of the 1913 production of The Rite of Spring, this article explores how costumes functioned in the Russian ‘new ballet’ choreography, of which the Ballets Russes Company is the most ... -
"Great Horizons Flooded with the Alien Light of the Sun" : Le Sacre du Printemps in the Russian context
(2013)
lehtiartikkeliEven a century after the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, Russian contemporary sources offer a wealth of material on the Ballets Russes and particularly on Nijinsky's 1913 choreography that are rarely read and never ... -
Historical materiality of performance : On the costumes of The Rite of Spring (1913)
(Intellect, 2020)
lehtiartikkeliBy focusing on surviving costumes of the 1913 production of The Rite of Spring, this article asks how a close examination of costumes and their role in historical performance practice can change our understanding of a ... -
On “Contemporaneity” in Ballet and Contemporary Dance : Jeux in 1913 and 2016
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
kirjan osaDanced histories are not linear but circular, as dancing bodies return and reinterpret past dances. Theorizing the import of contemporaneity as an evaluative notion, this chapter examines a practice-based research ... -
Staging a ‘Children’s Classic’, teaching racism: Pippi Longstocking ([2005] 2019)
(Intellect, 2024)
lehtiartikkeliIn 2019, the Finnish National Ballet company brought onstage the 2005 Royal Swedish Ballet production Pippi Longstocking, based on Astrid Lindgren’s works for children. This article uses the ballet production as an example ... -
'The Russian Barnum' : Russian Opinions on Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1909–1914
(2008)
lehtiartikkeliThis article discusses the little-known Russian reviews of Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. It argues that Diaghilev's reputation and social position in Imperial Russia affected how his troupe and the works famous in ... -
The World of Art in the Russian World : Post-Soviet Rewritings of Russian Ballet
(Bloomsbury, 2024)
kirjan osaThis chapter explores how two ballets, Swan Lake and The Rite of Spring, have figured in representations of Russia – whether in the Imperial, Soviet, or Post-Soviet contexts. Although definitions of what counts as aesthetically ...
