The strength of ballet lies in its narrative of centuries of unbroken artistic development, which […]
2 The Transgenerational Continuum of Ballet
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The Transgenerational Continuum of Ballet
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Hanna JärvinenA Cultural History of Ballet – Five Centuries of a European Art Form
In European art dance, one stands above the rest: ballet. The power of this dance […]
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Mikael AaltonenWilliam Forsythe’s Postdramatic Ballet and Choreographic Installations
American choreographer William Forsythe (b. 1949 in New York) has been choreographing works from the […]
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Hanna JärvinenOrientalism in Ballet
The history of ballet has always represented Europeanness through what is its other and what […]
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Jukka O. MiettinenThe Long History of Orientalism
In dance as well as other arts, Orientalism[1] is usually understood as an exoticising and […]
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Hanna JärvinenThe Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps, 1913) is widely regarded as Nijinsky’s most […]