redbookish Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 I posted this on the Ballet Talk for Dancers board, but realised it should go here as well! Margot Fonteyn biography Link to comment
carbro Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 Thanks for this, redbookish, and welcome to BalletTalk! It is just fabulous that ballet got this recognition -- or at least a work devoted to one of ballet's most celebrated practitioners. Clicking --> here <-- will get you to STR's homepage. Scroll down to "Act V, Scene 3" for the notice. I am more than a little shocked at the number of obvious errors of language on a supposedly literate (or at least literary) site . And they're not even American! I hope you'll drop by often and keep us posted on what you're seeing -- and reading! Link to comment
dirac Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I add my thanks to carbro's, redbookish. Daneman's book caused quite a bit of discussion on Ballet Talk -- the link to the discussion is below if you'd like to take a look, and/or post your own thoughts. Welcome! http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.p...opic=17923&st=0 Link to comment
redbookish Posted June 12, 2005 Author Share Posted June 12, 2005 Thanks for the welcome. I spend rather a lot (too much!!!) of time on Ballet Talk for Dancers, and don't get to this side of the board often enough. As for the STR web-site spelling & so on, I can only say that I think the document was put together quite quickly after the AGM, and taken from various speakers' notes and e-mails, and obviously some glitches weren't proof-read out . The STR is run by true amateurs (as in lovers of the art), so sometimes these things happen... As for my reading now, I'm procrastinating on an editor's deadline for a chapter on Ibsen and Realism for a book on British theatre. Not much ballet in that, I'm afraid ... Link to comment
bart Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 (edited) Ibsen and ballet. An interesting juxtaposition, redbookish -- and not impossible. Sorry that this is off-topic, but here's my question. Other than Peer Gynt, have any of Ibsen's plays been used as the basis of a ballet, as Birgit Cullberg did with Strindberg's Miss Julie? I MOVED THIS QUESTION TO ITS OWN THREAD. Edited June 13, 2005 by bart Link to comment
Paul Parish Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 WOw, it beat out the 3 volume Cambridge histry of English Theatre.... Link to comment
redbookish Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 WOw, it beat out the 3 volume Cambridge histry of English Theatre.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, a couple of the judges comment on this in the comments that the STR web-site publishes. I'm reviewing the Cambridge History right now for a scholarly journal, and it's an extraordinary intellectual undertaking. But I think the STR tries to keep a nice balance between scholarly and more generalist books. This is one of the organisation's strong points as a meeting place for academics and enthusiasts (not that the two categories are mutually exclusive!). Link to comment
Renata Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Hi! I wondered whether anyone had read the Fonteyn biolgraphy and if so what your thoughts were on reading it. I had some mixed thoughts on the book and I am a great admirer of Fonteyn and saw her dance many times. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Hi! I wondered whether anyone had read the Fonteyn biolgraphy and if so what your thoughts were on reading it. I had some mixed thoughts on the book and I am a great admirer of Fonteyn and saw her dance many times. There were many responses on initial publication on this thread: http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.p...opic=17923&st=0 We welcome additional thoughts from those who've read it since that time. Link to comment
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