Olivia Sabee
Biographic Data
| ID | 956304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Sabee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabee |
| SIGNATURE | SABEE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1252-4536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
L’imaginaire du menuet sur les scènes étatsuniennes des années 1790
Après le soulèvement d’août 1791 à Saint-Domingue qui a démarré la Révolution haïtienne, un nombre considérable de danseur.euse.s quittèrent l’Isle pour les Etats-Unis, où iels commencèrent à monter des spectacles à côté des acteur.ice.s anglophones. Parmi ses spectacles comptait des ballets « dansantes », des pantomimes, des opéras, des comédies et tragédies, des danses de corde et autres acrobaties et des feux d’artifice. La belle danse était i…
Performing Liberty and Empire on the Ballet Stage
Maximilien Gardel's ballet Mirsa (1779) takes place on an unidentified French colonial island in the Americas. This popular ballet was restaged and reworked across Europe, as well as in the French provinces (including in port cities), the French Antilles, and eventually the United States. This article documents the movement of three dancers who played key roles in its transmission: Alexandre Placide, Jean-Baptiste Francisqui, and Suzanne Théodore…
The Rat de l'Opéra and the Social Imaginary of Labour
Mid-nineteenth-century literary and theatrical depictions of rats de l'Opéra (young girls training and performing with the Paris Opéra) emphasize their physical and material hardships, dubious morals, and shapeshifting abilities. Physiologies , tell-all histories of the Paris Opéra, and vaudeville livrets each underscore these qualities of the rat in their portrayals of her, yet they also emphasize her role as a labourer. Taken together, these re…
Ballet as Discourse
In 2011, the Paris Opera Ballet remounted La Source, an 1866 ballet with a libretto by Charles Nuitter, choreography by Arthur Saint-Leon, and a musical score by Leo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus. Sain
Jean Coralli and the Romantic Ballet
Today Giovanni, or Jean, Coralli is best remembered for his role as the choreographer of Giselle. Although this contribution to the ballet canon would represent a major accomplishment on its own, J
Networks of Enlightenment
Reviewed by: Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters ed. by Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein Olivia Sabee (bio) Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein, editors. Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters. Liverpool UP, 2019. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. xii + 303 pages. ISBN: 978-1786941961 In Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters, edi…
Constructing the Myth of Marie Taglioni
Icones du Ballet Romantique: Marie Taglioni et sa famille By Madison U. Sowell, Debra H. Sowell, Francesca Falcone, and Patrizia Veroli. 247 pp. Rome: Gremese, Editions de Grenelle, 2016. €45,00. I
Théophile Gautier's Ballet d'Action
This essay examines how critic and librettist Théophile Gautier retrospectively defined the term ballet d'action. Earlier ballet theorists and critics had used the term ballet en action to signify narrative ballet more generally, but Gautier derisively employed the term ballet d'action to refer to ballets steeped in pantomime and complicated narrative and relying on plot for cohesion. Moreover, he sharply contrasted ballets à spectacle, which pla…
Dancing the Social Contract
Gradual changes in the relationship between ballet and narrative took place in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. Through an intertextual analysis of livrets for eighteenth-century ballets, Revolutionary festivals, and early to mid-nineteenth-century ballets, as well as Revolutionary rhetoric, I explore the echoes of political concerns in the new ways narrative came to be expressed onstage. I focus especially on how these changes …
Noverre's Anonymous Composers
Noverre's Anonymous Composers:Mozart and Les Petits Riens Olivia Sabee (bio) When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in Paris in 1778 with his mother, he was a twenty-two year-old composer trying to establish his name in one of the most critical musical cities of Europe. In this paper, through Mozart's ballet Les Petits Riens, I will explore the situation of the anonymous ballet composer, one that is usually argued as having come to be in the ninete…
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Noverre's Anonymous Composers
Noverre's Anonymous Composers:Mozart and Les Petits Riens Olivia Sabee (bio) When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in Paris in 1778 with his mother, he was a twenty-two year-old composer trying to establish his name in one of the most critical musical cities of Europe. In this paper, through Mozart's ballet Les Petits Riens, I will explore the situation of the anonymous ballet composer, one that is usually argued as having come to be in the ninete…
Dancing the Social Contract
Gradual changes in the relationship between ballet and narrative took place in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. Through an intertextual analysis of livrets for eighteenth-century ballets, Revolutionary festivals, and early to mid-nineteenth-century ballets, as well as Revolutionary rhetoric, I explore the echoes of political concerns in the new ways narrative came to be expressed onstage. I focus especially on how these changes …
Théophile Gautier's Ballet d'Action
This essay examines how critic and librettist Théophile Gautier retrospectively defined the term ballet d'action. Earlier ballet theorists and critics had used the term ballet en action to signify narrative ballet more generally, but Gautier derisively employed the term ballet d'action to refer to ballets steeped in pantomime and complicated narrative and relying on plot for cohesion. Moreover, he sharply contrasted ballets à spectacle, which pla…
Constructing the Myth of Marie Taglioni
Icones du Ballet Romantique: Marie Taglioni et sa famille By Madison U. Sowell, Debra H. Sowell, Francesca Falcone, and Patrizia Veroli. 247 pp. Rome: Gremese, Editions de Grenelle, 2016. €45,00. I
Jean Coralli and the Romantic Ballet
Today Giovanni, or Jean, Coralli is best remembered for his role as the choreographer of Giselle. Although this contribution to the ballet canon would represent a major accomplishment on its own, J
Networks of Enlightenment
Reviewed by: Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters ed. by Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein Olivia Sabee (bio) Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein, editors. Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters. Liverpool UP, 2019. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. xii + 303 pages. ISBN: 978-1786941961 In Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters, edi…
Ballet as Discourse
In 2011, the Paris Opera Ballet remounted La Source, an 1866 ballet with a libretto by Charles Nuitter, choreography by Arthur Saint-Leon, and a musical score by Leo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus. Sain
The Rat de l'Opéra and the Social Imaginary of Labour
Mid-nineteenth-century literary and theatrical depictions of rats de l'Opéra (young girls training and performing with the Paris Opéra) emphasize their physical and material hardships, dubious morals, and shapeshifting abilities. Physiologies , tell-all histories of the Paris Opéra, and vaudeville livrets each underscore these qualities of the rat in their portrayals of her, yet they also emphasize her role as a labourer. Taken together, these re…
L’imaginaire du menuet sur les scènes étatsuniennes des années 1790
Après le soulèvement d’août 1791 à Saint-Domingue qui a démarré la Révolution haïtienne, un nombre considérable de danseur.euse.s quittèrent l’Isle pour les Etats-Unis, où iels commencèrent à monter des spectacles à côté des acteur.ice.s anglophones. Parmi ses spectacles comptait des ballets « dansantes », des pantomimes, des opéras, des comédies et tragédies, des danses de corde et autres acrobaties et des feux d’artifice. La belle danse était i…
Performing Liberty and Empire on the Ballet Stage
Maximilien Gardel's ballet Mirsa (1779) takes place on an unidentified French colonial island in the Americas. This popular ballet was restaged and reworked across Europe, as well as in the French provinces (including in port cities), the French Antilles, and eventually the United States. This article documents the movement of three dancers who played key roles in its transmission: Alexandre Placide, Jean-Baptiste Francisqui, and Suzanne Théodore…
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