Iris Julia Bührle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5645342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris Julia Bührle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bührle |
| SIGNATURE | BÜHRLE I J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dancing Shakespeare: Ballet Adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Works from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Three Hamlet ballets from World War II to the Ukrainian crisis
Breaking with a tradition of action-filled ballets with a heroic protagonist, a number of 20th- and 21st-century choreographies of Hamlet have probed the psychological and political themes of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. Inspired by theatre and film productions, choreographers have also used the medium’s visual language to comment on Shakespeare’s text and open up its interpretive potentialities. This article analyses three adaptations: Robert …
Shakespeare Ballets in Germany: From Jean-Georges Noverre to John Neumeier
William Shakespeare has inspired more ballets than any other writer in the history of dance. This chapter deals with Shakespeare’s reception on the German ballet stage from the eighteenth century to the present day. During this period, choreographers continuously developed the movement vocabulary of dance and found new ways to transpose Shakespeare’s works into ballets. One of the most innovative creators of literature ballets in the twentieth ce…
Juliet’s Mute Soliloquies: Visualizing Thought Processes in Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo and Juliet
This article analyses the ways in which Rudolf Nureyev’s depiction of Juliet in his 1977 Romeo and Juliet ballet comments on and expands Shakespeare’s characterization of his tragic heroine. It argues that Nureyev uses the specific possibilities of his medium to accentuate the aspects of Juliet’s role that make her stand out among the female protagonists in Shakespeare’s tragedies: her capacity to reflect on her actions and her moments of inner s…
Brigands in Pointe Shoes and Selfless Spirits: Salvage and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century Ballets
This paper deals with scenes of salvage and salvation in a number of nineteenth-century ballets which were mostly inspired by works of literature, and their afterlives. The term ‘salvage’ will be used in several metaphorical senses here. By tracing back ‘salvage’ to its wider etymological origins in the Latin word ‘saluus’, which refers to both physical and spiritual salvation, I will employ this term to describe the saving of the bodies and soul…
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Brigands in Pointe Shoes and Selfless Spirits: Salvage and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century Ballets
This paper deals with scenes of salvage and salvation in a number of nineteenth-century ballets which were mostly inspired by works of literature, and their afterlives. The term ‘salvage’ will be used in several metaphorical senses here. By tracing back ‘salvage’ to its wider etymological origins in the Latin word ‘saluus’, which refers to both physical and spiritual salvation, I will employ this term to describe the saving of the bodies and soul…
Shakespeare Ballets in Germany: From Jean-Georges Noverre to John Neumeier
William Shakespeare has inspired more ballets than any other writer in the history of dance. This chapter deals with Shakespeare’s reception on the German ballet stage from the eighteenth century to the present day. During this period, choreographers continuously developed the movement vocabulary of dance and found new ways to transpose Shakespeare’s works into ballets. One of the most innovative creators of literature ballets in the twentieth ce…
Juliet’s Mute Soliloquies: Visualizing Thought Processes in Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo and Juliet
This article analyses the ways in which Rudolf Nureyev’s depiction of Juliet in his 1977 Romeo and Juliet ballet comments on and expands Shakespeare’s characterization of his tragic heroine. It argues that Nureyev uses the specific possibilities of his medium to accentuate the aspects of Juliet’s role that make her stand out among the female protagonists in Shakespeare’s tragedies: her capacity to reflect on her actions and her moments of inner s…
Three Hamlet ballets from World War II to the Ukrainian crisis
Breaking with a tradition of action-filled ballets with a heroic protagonist, a number of 20th- and 21st-century choreographies of Hamlet have probed the psychological and political themes of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. Inspired by theatre and film productions, choreographers have also used the medium’s visual language to comment on Shakespeare’s text and open up its interpretive potentialities. This article analyses three adaptations: Robert …
Dancing Shakespeare: Ballet Adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Works from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Art (4 works) · Ballet (4 works) · Dance (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · Dream (2 works) · History (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works)