L M Brooks

Datos Biográficos

ID646367
NOMBREL M Brooks
NOMBRESL M
APELLIDOBrooks
FIRMABROOKS L M
AFILIACIONESFranklin & Marshall College
ORCID0000-0002-5472-160X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS74
TOTAL DE CITAS8
TOTAL COMO AUTOR74
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1928
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Fanny and Phrenology

    L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2026

    In 1841, U.S. phrenologist Lorenzo Fowler published The Phrenological Developments and Characters of J. V. Stout, the Sculptor, and Fanny Elssler, the Actress, analyzing the heads of a ballerina megastar and an artist who made a statue of her. Performances by Elssler, the most renowned ballet dancer to have crossed the Atlantic, subjected her to condemnation, commentary, adulation, and misunderstanding, drawing exceptional attention to stage danc…

  • La danza dibujada

    Open AccessL M BrooksARTICLEAnales de Historia del Arte2025Referencias: 7

    Este artículo se basa en las obras de Edward W. Clay (1799-1857), ciudadano de Filadelfia, quien realizó grabados y caricaturas en los que reflejaba la vida estadounidense. Su producción artística revela sus intereses, observaciones y prejuicios, así como los de algunos habitantes de la joven nación. Centrándose en tres obras de temática dancística realizadas por Clay, este ensayo plantea qué revelan estos dibujos sobre las inquietudes y aspiraci…

  • So Revealing

    Open AccessL M BrooksARTICLEDance Research2023

    Starting in the late 1820s, romantic ballet swept over US stages, most often presented by European ballerinas who revealed a new movement world, new theatrical expressivity, and their bodies to viewers curious, shocked, inspired, and moved by their performances. These dancers were subject to visual, aesthetic, and moral scrutiny – notable in both graphic and textual descriptions emerging from US presses. Three ballerinas are the subject of this p…

  • Founding Editors’ Awards, Honoring Richard Ralph in 2019–2020

    Joellen A Meglin, L M Brooks et al.ARTICLEDance Chronicle2020

    The biennial Founding Editors’ Awards, instituted by Dance Chronicle in 2015, constitute a favorite endeavor for the editors of the journal in the seasonal cycle of dance research. It allows us to

  • The Ballets Russes Remembered

    L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2019

  • Kinetic, Mobile, and Modern

    Joellen A Meglin, Karen Eliot et al.ARTICLEDance Chronicle2017Citada por: 1

    When American Ballet Theatre premiered in America Alexei Ratmansky's two-act re-creation of Le Coq d'or (The Golden Cockerel) on June 6, 2016, New York Times critic Alastair Macaulay pronounced Ric

  • Founding Editors' Awards Honoring Barbara Palfy in 2015

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2016

  • Embodied Texts, Textual Choreographies

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2016

  • Peregrinations of an Editor

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2015

    "Peregrinations of an Editor." Dance Chronicle, 38(1), pp. 1–2 Notes1Clare Croft, “Feminist Dance Criticism and Ballet,” Dance Chronicle, vol. 37, no. 2 (2014): 195–217.2Ibid., 210.3Ann Daly, “The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers,” quoted in Croft, “Feminist Dance Criticism and Ballet,” 210.4The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.vv. “enormity” and “enormous.”5Oxford English Dictionary: The Definitive Record of the Englis…

  • Language and Dance

    L M Brooks, Joellen A MeglinARTICLEDance Chronicle2015

    The reciprocity between dancing and writing engages a double motion and involves a synergy, even symbiosis, that animates not only the body but also words, ideas and ambient.—Kenneth King*Kenneth K

  • In Memoriam

    George Dorris, Jack Anderson et al.ARTICLEDance Chronicle2015

  • Music and Dance

    L M Brooks, Joellen A MeglinARTICLEDance Chronicle2014

  • The Nature of the Beast

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2014

    Notes1Horst Koegler, "My Berlin," translated by Ilona Landgraf, Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 36, no. 1 (2013): 103-12.2Edwin Denby, Dance Writings, ed. Robert Cornfield and William MacKay (1986; reprinted, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007), 539.3Ibid., 541.4Ibid., 540, 533.5Ibid., 538.6Ibid., 541, 538-39.7On the relationship between poetry and dance, see Jack Anderson, "On the Move: Poetry and Dance,"…

  • An American Ballroom Companion

    L M BrooksARTICLEJournal of American History2014

  • Music and Dance

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2013

  • Where Are All the Women Choreographers in Ballet

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2012

  • In Memoriam

    L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2011

    Elizabeth Sawyer came to my attention as I was stepping into the co-editorship of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts in 2007. George Dorris, who had co-edited the journal for th

  • A Bold Step Forward

    L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2011

  • Preserving the Ephemeral

    L M Brooks, Joellen A MeglinARTICLEDance Chronicle2011Citada por: 1

  • Today’s Dances Tomorrow

    L M Brooks, Joellen A MeglinARTICLEDance Chronicle2011Citada por: 1

    In our first issue of Dance Chronicle this year, volume 34, number 1, we presented a first set of articles addressing a theme we had disseminated in a call for papers last year: “Preserving Dance a

  • The Cutting Edge Continues

    L M Brooks, Joellen A MeglinARTICLEDance Chronicle2010

  • Why a Special Issue on Martha Graham

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2010

  • Paradigms Shift

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2010

  • The Cutting Edge Now

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2009

  • Ballet on a Small Planet

    Joellen A Meglin, L M BrooksARTICLEDance Chronicle2008