Choreography & narrative : ballet's staging of story and desire /
Choreography and narrative
Susan Leigh Foster.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1998.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-361) and index.
Introduction -- Pygmalion's No-Body and the Body of Dance -- 1 -- Originary Gestures -- Interlude -- 2 -- Staging the Canvas and the Machine -- Interlude -- 3 -- Narrating Passion and Prowess -- Interlude -- 4 -- Governing the Body -- Interlude -- 5 -- Fugitive Desires -- Interlude -- Conclusion -- Ballet's Bodies and the Body of Narrative