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Canton, Katia
The Fairy Tale Revisited
A Survey of the Evolution of the Tales, from Classical Literary Interpretations to Innovative Contemporary Dance-Theater Productions
Second Printing
Series: New Connections - Volume 9
Year of Publication: 1996
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1994, 1996. VI, 186 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8204-2309-8 pb.
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Weight: 0.270 kg, 0.595 lbs
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Book synopsis
What are Fairy Tales? What do they mean? Despite conventional wisdom, they are not ageless and universal stories. Through the adaptation of oral studies into literary texts, these tales have been edited, rewritten and modified according to the zeitgeist of the authors. They have been designed within particular socio-historical and cultural contexts. The book looks at the literary work of Charles Perrault in seventeenth-century France and the Brothers Grimm in nineteenth-century Germany. It also presents the Fairy Tale Ballets by Marius Petipa who choreographed Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker for the Imperial Ballet in Russia. Finally, under a postmodern infatuation with convention, it discusses contemporary Dance-Theatre Fairy Tales works, such as Pina Bausch's Bluebeard, Maguy Marin's Cinderella, and Kinematic's The Maiden Without Hands.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Author: Katia Canton received an M.A. in Performance Studies and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from New York University. She is a Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Sâo Paulo, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and art critic for many publications in Brazil.
Reviews
«...this is an unusual and useful study.» (M.R. Pukkila, Choice)
Series
New Connections: Studies in Interdisciplinarity. Vol. 9
General Editor: Shirley Paolini