The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet

Contents

• Acknowledgments About the contributors
• Introduction On Contemporaneity in Ballet: Exchanges, Connections, and Directions in Form Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen
• Part I : Pioneers, or Game Changers
• Chapter 1 : William Forsythe: Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and the Forsythescape Ann Nugent
• Chapter 2 : Hans van Manen: Between Austerity and Expression Anna Seidl
• Chapter 3 : Twyla Tharp's Classical Impulse Kyle Bukhari
• Chapter 4 : Ballet at the Margins: Karole Armitage and Bronislava Nijinska Molly Faulkner and Julia Gleich
• Chapter 5 : Maguy Marin's Social and Aesthetic Critique Mara Mandradjieff
• Chapter 6 : Fusion and Renewal in the Works of Ji%ri Kylian Katja Vaghi
• Chapter 7 : Wayne McGregor: Thwarting Expectation at The Royal Ballet Jo Butterworth and Wayne McGregor
• Part II : Reimaginings
• Chapter 8 : Feminist Practices in Ballet: Katy Pyle and Ballez Gretchen Alterowitz
• Chapter 9 : Contemporary Repetitions: Rhetorical Potential and The Nutcracker Michelle LaVigne
• Chapter 10 : Mauro Bigonzetti: Reimagining Les Noces (1923) Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel
• Chapter 11 : New Narratives from Old Texts: Contemporary Ballet in Australia Michelle Potter
• Chapter 12 : Cathy Marston: Writing Ballets for Literary Dance(r)s Deborah Kate Norris
• Chapter 13 : Jean-Christophe Maillot: Ballet, Untamed Laura Cappelle
• Chapter 14 : Ballet Gone Wrong: Michael Clark's Classical Deviations Arabella Stanger
• Part III : It's Time
• Chapter 15 : Dance Theatre of Harlem: Radical Black Female Bodies in Ballet Tanya Wideman-Davis
• Chapter 16 : Huff! Puff! And Blow the House Down: Contemporary Ballet in South Africa Gerard M. Samuel
• Chapter 17 : The Cuban Diaspora: Stories of Defection, Brain Drain and Brain Gain Lester Tome
• Chapter 18 : Balancing Reconciliation at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet Bridget Cauthery and Shawn Newman
• Chapter 19 : Ballet Austin: So You Think You Can Choreograph Caroline Sutton Clark
• Chapter 20 : Gender Progress and Interpretation in Ballet Duets Jennifer Fisher
• Chapter 21 : John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet: A Legacy E. Hollister Mathis-Masury
• Chapter 22 : "Ballet" Is a Dirty Word: Where Is Ballet in Sao Paulo? Henrique Rochelle
• Part IV : Composition
• Chapter 23 : William Forsythe: Creating Ballet Anew Susan Leigh Foster
• Chapter 24 : Amy Seiwert: Okay, Go! Improvising the Future of Ballet Ann Murphy
• Chapter 25 : Costume Caroline O'Brien
• Chapter 26 : Shapeshifters and Colombe's Folds: Collective Affinities of Issey Miyake and William Forsythe Tamara Tomi'c-Vajagi'c
• Chapter 27 : On Physicality and Narrative: Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern (2017) Lucia Piquero Alvarez
• Chapter 28 : Living in Counterpoint Norah Zuniga Shaw
• Chapter 29 : Alexei Ratmansky's Abstract-Narrative Ballet Anne Searcy
• Chapter 30 : Talking Shop: Interviews with Justin Peck, Benjamin Millepied, and Troy Schumacher Roslyn Sulcas
• Part V : Exchanges Inform
• Chapter 31 : Royal Ballet Flanders under Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Lise Uytterhoeven
• Chapter 32 : Akram Khan and English National Ballet Graham Watts
• Chapter 33 : The Race of Contemporary Ballet: Interpellations of Africanist Aesthetics Thomas F. DeFrantz
• Chapter 34 : Copy Rites Rachana Vajjhala
• Chapter 35 : Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de Marseille Sarah Pini and John Sutton
• Chapter 36 : Narratives of Progress and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal Melissa Templeton
• Chapter 37 : Mark Morris: Clarity, a Dash of Magic, and No Phony Baloney Gia Kourlas
• Part VI : The More Things Change . . .
• Chapter 38 : Ratmansky: From Petipa to Now Apollinaire Scherr
• Chapter 39 : James Kudelka: Love, Sex, and Death Amy Bowring and Tanya Evidente
• Chapter 40 : Liam Scarlett: "Classicist's Eye . . . Innovator's Urge" Susan Cooper
• Chapter 41 : Performing the Past in the Present: Uncovering the Foundations of Chinese Contemporary Ballet Rowan McLelland
• Chapter 42 : Between Two Worlds: Christopher Wheeldon and The Royal Ballet Zoe Anderson
• Chapter 43 : Christopher Wheeldon: An Englishman in New York Rachel Straus
• Chapter 44 : The Disappearance of Poetry and the Very, Very Good Idea Freya Vass
• Chapter 45 : Justin Peck: Everywhere We Go (2014), a Ballet Epic for Our Time Mindy Aloff
• Part VII : In Process
• Chapter 46 : Weaving Apollo: Women's Authorship and Neoclassical Ballet Emily Coates
• Chapter 47 : What Is a Rehearsal in Ballet? Janice Ross
• Chapter 48 : Gods, Angels, and Bjoerk: David Dawson, Arthur Pita, and Contemporary Ballet Jennie Scholick
• Chapter 49 : Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Voicing Dance Jill Nunes Jensen
• Chapter 50 : Inside Enemy Thomas McManus
• Chapter 51 : On "Contemporaneity" in Ballet and Contemporary Dance: Jeux in 1913 and 2016 Hanna Jarvinen
• Chapter 52 : Reclaiming the Studio: Observing the Choreographic Processes of Cathy Marston and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Carrie Gaiser Casey
• Chapter 53 : Contemporary Partnerships Russell Janzen
• Index