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title	:	Rethinking the Sylph : New Perspectives On the Romantic Ballet Studies in Dance History (Unnumbered)
author	:	Garafola, Lynn.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0819563269
print isbn13	:	9780819563262
ebook isbn13	:	9780585371283
language	:	English
subject	Ballet--Europe--History--19th century.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	GV1643.R48 1997eb
ddc	:	792.8/094/09034
subject	:	Ballet--Europe--History--19th century.

Page i Rethinking the Sylph

Page ii STUDIES IN DANCE HISTORY Lynn Garafola, Series Editor Society of Dance History Scholars Editorial Board Chair: Judith C. Bennahum, University of New Mexico Sally Banes (ex officio), University of Wisconsin-Madison Barbara Barker, University of Minnesota Shelley C. Berg, Southern Methodist University Mary Cargill, Columbia University Thomas DeFrantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joan Erdman, Columbia College Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Cornell University Stephanie Jordan, Roehampton Institute, London Susan Manning, Northwestern University Carol Martin, New York University Marian Smith, University of Oregon Barbara Sparti, independent scholar, Rome Titles in Print Looking at Ballet: Ashton and Balanchine, 19261936 The Origins of the Bolero School Carlo Blasis in Russia Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930s Dancing in Montreal: Seeds of a Choreographic History Balanchine Pointework The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and "Bar aux Folies-Bergre" Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine: From Vaudeville to the "Ziegfeld Follies" Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet

Page iii Rethinking the Sylph New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet A Studies in Dance History Book edited by Lynn Garafola

Page iv Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1997 by Wesleyan University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book Cover: Kimberley Glasco as Giselle. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. National Ballet of Canada.

Page v Contents Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction Lynn Garafola 1 National Dance in the Romantic Ballet Lisa C. Arkin and Marian Smith 11 Feminism or Fetishism: La Rvolte des Femmes and Women's Liberation in France in the 1830s Joellen A. Meglin 69 Marriage and the Inhuman: La Sylphide's Narratives of Domesticity and Community Sally Banes and Nol Carroll 91 Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet We Love to Hate Jody Bruner 107 Women of Faint Heart and Steel Toes Judith Chazin-Bennahum 121 Blasis, the Italian Ballo, and the Male Sylph Giannandrea Poesio 131 Ballet Dancers at Warsaw's Wielki Theater Janina Pudelek* 143 The Arrival of the Great Wonder of Ballet, or Ballet in Rome from 1845 to 1855 Claudia Celi 165 Salvatore Taglioni, King of Naples Lavinia Cavalletti 181 Jules Janin: Romantic Critic John V. Chapman 197

Page vi Appendixes National Dance in the Romantic Ballet Lisa C. Arkin and Marian Smith 245 Ballets Performed in Rome from 1845 to 1855 at the Teatro di Apollo and Teatro Argentina Claudia Celi 253 Ballets by Salvatore Taglioni Lavinia Cavalletti 259 Bibliography 263 Contributors 275 Index 277

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