Book contents
- Musicology and Dance
- Musicology and Dance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Conceptual Studies
- Part II Case Histories
- Part III Critical Readings
- Chapter 8 Nijinsky, Modernism, Repression: The Faun Ballet – Once Again – Under Analysis
- Chapter 9 Choreographing Mahler Songs at the Centenary
- Chapter 10 Embodied Heritage: English Country Dance in Austen Screen Adaptations
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - Nijinsky, Modernism, Repression: The Faun Ballet – Once Again – Under Analysis
from Part III - Critical Readings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2020
- Musicology and Dance
- Musicology and Dance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Conceptual Studies
- Part II Case Histories
- Part III Critical Readings
- Chapter 8 Nijinsky, Modernism, Repression: The Faun Ballet – Once Again – Under Analysis
- Chapter 9 Choreographing Mahler Songs at the Centenary
- Chapter 10 Embodied Heritage: English Country Dance in Austen Screen Adaptations
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
David J. Code explores the reception of Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’Apres-midi d’un faune, a 1912 choreographic reworking of Claude Debussy’s orchestral Prélude (1894). He peels off layers of historical reference, looking backwards to Debussy and Stéphane Mallarmé from Faune’s 1912 Nijinskian embodiment. In the process, he questions the ballet’s accepted relationship to cubism in favour of a Matisse-inspired framework for understanding the underlying modernity of the Faun. With attention to scene and character types, structure and style, diegesis, eroticism and Freudian psychological interiority, Code highlights ways in which music and dance might both embody and subvert typically modernist modes of dramatic expression.
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- Musicology and DanceHistorical and Critical Perspectives, pp. 207 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020