Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World - Softcover

Fisher, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300105991 ISBN 13: 9780300105995

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

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Book by Fisher Ms Jennifer

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"A lively historical and cultural analysis of The Nutcracker."-Publishers Weekly "A book for dance outsiders and insiders, for all grownups who have lived the Nutcracker experience and wondered about its sometimes crazy mix of history, kids, and pure stage magic."-Lynn Garafola, coeditor of The Ballets Russes and Its World

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The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season. In this entertainingly informative book, Jennifer Fisher offers new insights into the Nutcracker phenomenon, examining it as a dance scholar and critic, a former participant, an observer of popular culture, and an interviewer of those who dance, present, and watch the beloved ballet. Fisher traces The Nutcracker's history from its St. Petersburg premiere in 1892 through its emigration to North America in the mid-twentieth century to the many productions of recent years. She notes that after it was choreographed by another Russian immigrant to the New World, George Balanchine, the ballet began to thrive and variegate: Hawaiians added hula, Canadians added hockey, Mark Morris set it in the swinging sixties, and Donald Byrd placed it in Harlem. The dance world underestimates The Nutcracker at its peril, Fisher suggests, because the ballet is one of its most powerfully resonant traditions. After starting life as a Russian ballet based on a German tale about a little girl's imagination, The Nutcracker has become a way for Americans to tell a story about their communal values and themselves.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300105991
• ISBN 13: 9780300105995
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254