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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history
Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies
Performing for Napoleon: Production Quarrels at the Paris Opéra
by Elisa Cazzato Those who have familiarity with the work backstage in a theatre or dance production will know that this is where quarrels and logistic tensions often occur. In my research at the Paris Opéra, I take a look…
“So Revealing”: Yes, there was plenty of ballet in early America
By Lynn Matluck Brooks Ballet in early America? Didn’t we have to wait for the Russians to show up in the 1910s with the Ballets Russes, and for those who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s and ’30s?…
What do these three Victorian actresses have in common?
by Amanda Hodgson What do these three Victorian actresses have in common? They all acted at one time or another at the Adelphi Theatre, but another thing they have in common, and the thing that interests me, is that they…
Lost in translation: The influence of André Levinson and Arnold Haskell in Spain
by Ana Abad-Carlés and Marina Peñaranda-Abad Our article for Dance Research 41(2) came to us in a very serendipitous way, when we saw that the Prologue to the Spanish edition of Serge Lifar’s book La Danse had been written by…
Writing Dancing and the Stance
by ‘Funmi Adewole Elliott Over the years I have carried out several research projects as a practitioner, at times with funding from organisations like the Arts Council and Chisenhale Dance Space or with support from The Space at Clarence Mews.…
A Conversation on the Nature of Practice in Hip-Hop
Creativity, Skill, Integrity, Intelligence and Community
Making art is messy
by Simon Ellis Making art is messy. Artists make lots of decisions under less-than-ideal conditions without a clear understanding of how the work will turn out and how it will be felt and experienced by others. When we make artistic…
Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is our Mother. Rumi These words echo down through the ages from when Mevlana (”Our Master”) Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273), first…