Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque by Franko, Mark
Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque by Franko, Mark

Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in...
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Author: Mark Franko
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Language: English
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Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque by Franko, Mark

Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque

CHF 280.64
Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque by Franko, Mark

Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque

CHF 280.64
Author: Mark Franko
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet - and in today's performances that recall them.

Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from historiography and critical theory, especially the work of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, to offer the reader both a historical and a theoretical interpretation of this genre of dance in France (c. 1615-1654), as well as its aftermath and legacy today.

Through doing so, he reaches conclusions about how sovereignty and power were both perceived by viewers at the time and how they were represented through dance, given that it was the noble class who devised and performed court ballets. He enquires into the role of choreography and theatricality as potentially critical forces operating at the heart of sovereignty.

Franko places the work of Louis Marin on power, representation and movement in French Baroque painting and performance in juxtaposition to that of Benjamin on theater. Other historians whose work is prominent in this study are Ernst Kantorowicz, Michel Foucault and Jos? Antonio Maravall.

With wide breadth in the work of historians, philosophers, political scientists, critical theorists, musicologists and dance historians, this is the culmination of a career's-worth of scholarship and research in the field.

Author: Mark Franko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 01/23/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781350236882

About the Author
Mark Franko is the Laura H. Carnell Professor in the Department of Dance at the Boyer School of Music and Dance, Temple University, USA. Prior to this, he was Professor of Dance and Chair of the Theater Arts Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He is the author of Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment (2018), The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar: French Interwar Dance and the German Occupation (2020), among other books.
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