Karen Eliot
Biographic Data
| ID | 6185262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Eliot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Eliot |
| SIGNATURE | ELIOT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dancing with Merce Cunningham By Marian Preger-Simon. 203 pp. Illustrated. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. $19.95. ISBN 978-0813064857. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Where Burns the Artist's Soul’
The ballerina Tamara Karsavina experienced vast shifts from romantic and post-romantic 1 performance styles to twentieth-century modernism. In the first section of this essay, I give an overview of these shifts; then, I explore Karsavina's writings for insights into her views on performance and artistry. In her writing, she develops her artistic credo and expresses the conviction that to contribute to a living art form, ballet dancers must deepen…
Connections and Missed Connections
At the turn of the twentieth century, many Russian dancers cast aside careers in the highly regarded Imperial Ballet for unknown futures in the West. Emigrating for a variety of personal and artistic reasons, some decided to remain abroad during the revolution and after the Tsar’s assassination. This microhistory explores one moment in the Russian exile movement when former Imperial Ballet dancers Adolph Bolm, Anna Pavlova, and Tamara Karsavina c…
Turning Movement into Words
The Ballerina Tamara Karsavina’s career as a writer deserves attention and warrants a further assessment of her legacy. She left an impressive body of writing that documents her history and describes ballet’s specific and complex vocabulary of movement. I focus on Karsavina’s writing about ballet technique so as to shed light on her teaching approach and dance values through a contrast with those of her near contemporary in the Imperial Ballet Sc…
Memoir as Tribute
In 1949, Marianne Preger (later Preger-Simon), a young and gregarious American college student, traveled to Paris for a year’s study at the Sorbonne. Once introduced to the exciting French, postwar
Dances of Loss, Grief, and Endurance in the Face of Trauma
In her brilliant novel Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes the physical and psychological wounds her character experiences after witnessing the horrific brutali
Kinetic, Kinesthetic, and Modern
The Founding Editors’ Awards, Honoring George Dorris and Jack Anderson in 2018
Kinetic, Mobile, and Modern
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
Dance on Its Own Terms
Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplin…
English in Flavor and Form
When Mona Inglesby's International Ballet made its debut in 1941, the ambitious enterprise prompted commentary, in part, because it came during the German blitz over London. Until the company's demise in 1953, Inglesby was a well-regarded ballerina who, with her company, helped spread ballet throughout Britain by means of educational programs for children and dedication to audiences outside London. Inglesby's record as a company director and prin…
Starved for Beauty
A Little Business for the Eye”
Marking Time
Few Britons could resist the powerful rhetoric of Winston Churchill, whose words to the House of Commons in June 1940 (Churchill 1989) called upon all men, women, and children to do their utmost to serve the war effort. During the worst of the bombings, from 1940 to 1941, in what came to be known as “the blitz,” London and its populace were transformed. J. B. Priestly noted that “for once, [we] felt free, companionable, even—except while waiting …
Marking Time
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Team for a Change
Introducing Mail Art
Postmodern Culture - Volume 3, Number 2, January 1993
Kinetic, Mobile, and Modern
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
Introducing Mail Art
Postmodern Culture - Volume 3, Number 2, January 1993
Team for a Change
Marking Time
Few Britons could resist the powerful rhetoric of Winston Churchill, whose words to the House of Commons in June 1940 (Churchill 1989) called upon all men, women, and children to do their utmost to serve the war effort. During the worst of the bombings, from 1940 to 1941, in what came to be known as “the blitz,” London and its populace were transformed. J. B. Priestly noted that “for once, [we] felt free, companionable, even—except while waiting …
Marking Time
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
A Little Business for the Eye”
Starved for Beauty
English in Flavor and Form
When Mona Inglesby's International Ballet made its debut in 1941, the ambitious enterprise prompted commentary, in part, because it came during the German blitz over London. Until the company's demise in 1953, Inglesby was a well-regarded ballerina who, with her company, helped spread ballet throughout Britain by means of educational programs for children and dedication to audiences outside London. Inglesby's record as a company director and prin…
Dance on Its Own Terms
Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplin…
Kinetic, Mobile, and Modern
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
Kinetic, Kinesthetic, and Modern
The Founding Editors’ Awards, Honoring George Dorris and Jack Anderson in 2018
Dances of Loss, Grief, and Endurance in the Face of Trauma
In her brilliant novel Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes the physical and psychological wounds her character experiences after witnessing the horrific brutali
Memoir as Tribute
In 1949, Marianne Preger (later Preger-Simon), a young and gregarious American college student, traveled to Paris for a year’s study at the Sorbonne. Once introduced to the exciting French, postwar
Turning Movement into Words
The Ballerina Tamara Karsavina’s career as a writer deserves attention and warrants a further assessment of her legacy. She left an impressive body of writing that documents her history and describes ballet’s specific and complex vocabulary of movement. I focus on Karsavina’s writing about ballet technique so as to shed light on her teaching approach and dance values through a contrast with those of her near contemporary in the Imperial Ballet Sc…
Connections and Missed Connections
At the turn of the twentieth century, many Russian dancers cast aside careers in the highly regarded Imperial Ballet for unknown futures in the West. Emigrating for a variety of personal and artistic reasons, some decided to remain abroad during the revolution and after the Tsar’s assassination. This microhistory explores one moment in the Russian exile movement when former Imperial Ballet dancers Adolph Bolm, Anna Pavlova, and Tamara Karsavina c…
‘Where Burns the Artist's Soul’
The ballerina Tamara Karsavina experienced vast shifts from romantic and post-romantic 1 performance styles to twentieth-century modernism. In the first section of this essay, I give an overview of these shifts; then, I explore Karsavina's writings for insights into her views on performance and artistry. In her writing, she develops her artistic credo and expresses the conviction that to contribute to a living art form, ballet dancers must deepen…
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