The Art and the Dance
Full title: The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergére
Creator / Author: Beth Genné
Item Type / Page count: Book / 139p
When Published: 1996
Publisher / Place of Publication: Society of Dance History Scholars / U.S.A.
About: The ballet ‘Bar aux Folies-Bergére’ took inspiration from and was based around a famous painting of the same name by Édouard Manet. The choreography for the ballet was executed by Ninette de Valois. This book looks at her formative years as a choreographer with specific reference to this ballet. De Valois’s handwritten notebook for the production provides an invaluable insight into her artistic vision and this notebook is reproduced in facsimile with a transcription.
ID number(s): 0965351912
Contents: List of illustrations — “Will be Valuable Someday”: Preface — Acknowlegdements — “Wonder Child” in the School of Hard Knocks: De Valois’s Early Years — “Everything of Value”: De Valois and Diaghilev — “The Future of the Ballet”: De Valois and Modern Choreography — “A Strange, Noble, Unforgettable Figure: De Valois, Yeats, Baylis, and Rambert — Bar aux Folies-Bergére — The Notebook: Introduction, Facsimile and Transcription — Notes — Index.
WW Connection #1: Ninette de Valois (née Edris Stannus) was born at Baltyboys, Blessington, Co. Wicklow in 1898. The family moved to England in 1905.
Extra #1: includes twenty-six black & white photographs
Extra #2: Check OCLC WorldCat.org for this publication in libraries worldwide.
Extra #3: For information, Ninette de Valois was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1974 for her contribution to European culture.
Extra #4: Browse the 1901 Census entry for Ninette de Valois (née Edris Stannus) in Boystown Lower, Co.Wicklow
Extra #5: Link to the website of the Dance Studies Association (formerly The Society of Dance History Scholars)