Cover; The Ballets Russes and Beyond; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Examples; Figures; Note on presentation; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: Le Génie de la danse; Period pleasure; Paris dancing; The Midas touch; Revisionism; Music and dance; Musicology and dance; A dual project; Suspended dualities; 2: Ballet at the Opéra and La Fête chez Thérèse; Backward glances: scene and narrative; Backbone: the score; Back-chat: music and drama; Comparing scores; Back to reality? A counter-narrative; Backing up (conclusion); 3: Nijinsky's Faune revisited; Synopsis; Illusionism
ContemporaneityThe audio-visual contract; A web of affinity; Disciplinary resistance (conclusion); 4: Metaphors of invasion: the Ballets Russes and the French press; Puff; Confronting the press; Cosmopolitics; La Saison russe: les ballets juifs; L'invasion des barbares; From cosmopolitisme through primitivisme; Tripatouillage; Metaphors of invasion; Bad press; Vers l'erreur (conclusion); 5: Beyond and behind Le Coq d'or; The origins of Le Coq d'or; Le Coq d'or in the press; Superposition; The French response: opera (and singing); Ballet (and gesture)
The 'gesticulation' of opera: operatic performanceThe influence of music; Dance within opera; Opera-ballet; Danced opera; A trump card and a passport (conclusion); Select bibliography; Archives; French newspapers and journals; Books, articles and unpublished theses; Index
Summary
A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris
