Arthur Schnitzler's 'The Bridal Veil' at the American Laboratory Theatre

Article Abstract:

The American Laboratory Theatre's 1928 production of Arthur Schnitzler's ballet-pantomime 'The Bridal Veil' was in keeping with the group's aim of introducing their audience to new and innovative forms. Schnitzler's text had been used earlier by Russian avant-garde directors who disagreed with the Stanislavskian theater of psychological realism. The 1928 production, directed and choreographed by Elizabeth Anderson-Ivantzova, was the first such attempt by the Laboratory Theatre and it was one of their more successful ventures. An overview of the critical response indicates that even the critics who disagreed with stylized, anti-realistic productions were impressed by James Reynolds' set, the pantomime choreography and the performance of the dancers.

Analysis, Dance production, The Bridal Veil (Ballet), Pantomime, Anderson-Ivantzova, Elizabeth

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Dance Heritage Coalition

Article Abstract:

The Dance Heritage Coalition Planning Group was formed in Jun 1991 to fulfill the need for an organization which could organize the research and preservation of documents about dance history. William Keens Company's report 'Images of Dance' brought up the need for such an organization. The Planning Group proposes to stay in touch with the dance community through its mailing list and intends to involve the members of the community in various projects. The projects will be concerned with accessing material on dance, documenting dance and preserving the documents and educating members of the dance community and outsiders.

Associations, Dance, dancing

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What constitutes a dance?: investigating the constitutive properties of Antony Tudor's 'Dark Elegies.'

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Antony Tudor's 'Dark Elegies' is used to discuss which elements constitute a dance work. The work is first analyzed in a choreological sense according to the Labanotation score. Floor patterns and the use of soloists and chorus are taken into account. The movement language, spatial and narrative construction and costumes can also be analyzed in terms of their treatment of the theme of gender difference. Tudor uses all these elements to construct a world in which women grieve and men heal the grief.

Dark Elegies (Ballet), Tudor, Antony

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