The nursery as circus: Dancing the childlike to Fauré's Dolly Suite, 1913

In 1913, at the Théâtre des Arts in Paris, a controversial but highly successful ballet choreographed a circus-style pantomime to the music of Fauré's Dolly Suite. With its apparently incongruent relation of dance to music, the ballet displayed, as one reviewer put it, ‘criticisms in action’. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coombes, T
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2017