UPC: 9780190205164 | Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work (Hardcover)

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In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who in her art sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre gender race class and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: choreographer artistic director and impresario. From extensive dramaturgical analysis of her most famous ballets — La Guiablesse Frankie and Johnny Billy Sunday Revenge The Merry Widow Camille Carmina Burana and Alice — to embodied re-imagining of an avant-garde solo performed in a sack designed by Isamu Noguchi this biography follows the global reach of Ruth Page s career spanning the greater part of the twentieth century. In the process of discovering the woman in the work one encounters with an international cast of dancers (Anna Pavlova Harald Kreutzberg Frederic Franklin Alicia Markova) composers (William Grant Still Aaron Copland Jerome Moross Darius Milhaud) visual artists (Noguchi Pavel Tchelitchew Antoni Clavé) and companies (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Ballets des Champs-Elysées London Festival Ballet). Disrupting notions that New York was the only cradle of the American ballet and George Balanchine its exponent to eclipse all others Ruth Page explores the woman s unique sensibility corporeal praxis and collaborative ethos to reveal her Chicago-centered network of creativity.