Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire

Contents

• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction: Pygmalion's No-Boby and The Body of Dance
• 1. Originary Gestures 13
• Painting the situations of the soul Vanishing physicalities
• Transgressive gestures Originating the action ballet
• The Bank of Grass (le banc de gazon)
• Telemaque dans l'ile de Calipso (1759)
• On One Side, On the Other; Above and Below
• Arlequin Soldat Magicien, ou le Canonier, Pantomime (1764)
• 2. Staging the Canvas and the Machine
• Spectacular dancing bodies Horizontal and vertical perfection
• Challenging hierarchy The more sensible machine
• Make the Scheme Known
• Jason et Medee (1771)
• The Invigilant Dancer
• Apelles et Campaspe (1776)
• 3. Narrating Passion and Prowess
• Dancing the action A passion for anatomy
• The language of dance The self-filled body
• The Duel
• Mirza (1779)
• The Earth Trembles: The Thunder Roars
• Le Premier Navigateur, ou le Pouvoir de l'Amour (1785)
• Escape into the Heavens
• Hercule et Omphale, Pantomime en 1 Acte (1787)
• 4. Governing the Body
• The street, the stage, the nation Muscular geometry
• Virtuoso docility Governing the Body politic
• The Magically Inscribed Message
• Les Royalistes de la Vendee, ou les Epoux Republicains,
• Pantomime en Trois Actes (1794)
• To Throw Oneself in the Arms Of(Se Jeter dans les bras)
• La Dansomanie (1800)
• Begin and End with Dancing
• Nina, ou La Folle par Amour (1813)
• Tell-Tale Evidence
• Les Pages du Duc de Vendome (1820)
• 5. Fugitive Desires
• Cruel nocturnal dancing Crafting diversion
• Dancing the object of desire The dissolving object of the gaze
• Making Merry/Gazing On
• La Sylphide (1832)
• Maybe Yes; Maybe No
• La Voliere, ou les Oiseaux de Boccace (1838)
• Dark Spaces
• Giselle, ou les Wilis (1841)
• Conclusion: Ballet's Bodies and The Body of Narrative
• apendix
• notes
• bibliography
• index