Ballet, Folk Dance, and the Cultural History of Interwar Modernism
The Ballet Job
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rishona Zimring (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-114 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mod.2014.0076 |
| OpenAlex | W2090769356 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay singles out the Camargo Society's 1931 production of Job as an ‘emblematic’ modernist ballet. Whereas Sacre is emblematic of the pre-war crucible of the modernist avant-garde, Job is emblematic of the culturally reparative interwar years. To approach Job as an emblematic and innovative artwork of interwar modernism, we should locate its genealogy both in the radical, liberatory, experimentalist, and primitivist energies of Sacre, and in the accessibility and identificatory experiences of galvanizing forms of popular dance. Additionally, Job was influenced by the revival of traditionalist forms of participatory dance, which answered a newfound need for reassurance, restoration, and coherence. Job is the product of multiple dance influences in an interwar context, some, but not all, conventionally ‘modernist’. Our understanding of their importance to the cultural history of both the avant-garde and interwar modernism is enhanced if we trace them and appreciate Job's innovative and reparative meanings anew
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ballet · Context (archaeology · Crucible (geodemography · Dance · Interwar period · Modernism (music · Sociology · Visual arts · World War II · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Sports, Gender, and Society
Creating a Canon, Creating the ‘Classics’ in Twentieth‐Century British Ballet
Sir Geoffrey Keynes and the Ballet Job
The Cosmopolitanism of Commerce and the Allure of Difference
The festival and the abbey
The Camargo society
Virginia Woolf and the Dance
Come Dance with Me
Ernst Toller, Wilfred Wellock and Ashley Dukes
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |