One dead at the Paris Opera Ballet : La source 1866-2014
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One dead at the Paris Opera Ballet : La source 1866-2014
(Oxford studies in dance theory)
Oxford University Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a public thinking about ethnic and exotic others at the same time-and in the same ways-as they were thinking about plants. Along with these stereotypes, with a flower promising hybridity in a green ecology, and the
death of the embodied Source recuperated as a force for regeneration, the ballet can be read as a fable of science and the performance as its demonstration. Programmed for the opening gala of the new Opera, the Palais Garnier, in 1875 the ballet reflected not so much a timeless Orient as timely colonial
policy and engineering in North Africa, the management of water and women.
One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet takes readers to four historic performances, over 150 years, showing how- through the sacrifice of a feminized Nature- La Source represented the biopolitics of sex and race, and the cosmopolitics of human and natural resources. Its 2011 reinvention at the Paris Opera, following the adoption of new legislation banning the veil in public spaces, might have staged gender and climate justice in sync with the Arab Spring, but opted instead for
luxury and dream. Its 2014 reprise might have focused on decolonizing the stage or raising eco-consciousness, but exemplified the greater urgency attached to Islamist threat rather than imminent climate catastrophe, missing the ballet's historic potential to make its audience think.
目次
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Veil, Flower, and Dagger: Gender, Ecology and Orientalism in La Source
Chapter 2: The natural history and cultural history of La Source: 1866
Chapter 3: La Source after Suez: 1875
Chapter 4: Not the Arab Spring: La Source, 2011
Chapter 5: Resources: La Source, 2014
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