<i>La Methode graphique</i>: Dance, Notation, and Media, 1852-1912
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-case16234087541160162021-08-31T05:14:20Z <i>La Methode graphique</i>: Dance, Notation, and Media, 1852-1912 Benn, Sophie Luhman Music Dance History Film Studies Dance History Dance Theory Vaslav Nijinsky Arthur Saint-Leon Alice Guy Blache Silent Film Dance Notation Friedrich Albert Zorn France French Dance Photography Grammar Dance is famously ephemeral, and historians of dance must therefore grapple with an astounding number of gaps and uncertainties in the historical record. Often, researchers focus their attention on cultural context, reception history, or the musical score of a dance as the best ways to get close to a choreographic work that has not survived. I propose an alternative approach that centers on the theoretical frameworks that shaped these works. Through an exploration of technologies of representation that were used to record dance in France between 1852 and 1912, including notation, scientific graphs, photography, and film, I demonstrate how dance theory interacted with broader historical discourses concerning representation, temporality, and the body. Attempts to record dance, I argue, reveal how dancers, theorists, and choreographers situated their art in the context of these developments. I also show how methods of dance notation can be taken as a part of a larger history of media and representation in the years around 1900.Chapter One examines three texts that interlock to strengthen our understanding of the world of dance theory and notation: Arthur Saint-Leon’s <i>La Stenochoregraphie</i>, which was re-imagined decades later in Friedrich Albert Zorn’s <i>Grammatik der Tanzkunst</i> and Enrico Cecchetti’s <i>Manuel des exercises</i>. Stepanov notation, the subject of Chapter Two, turned away from the fashioning of dance theory as grammar. Author Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov justifies his methods through reference to the ideas, words, and inventions of two French scientists, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and Etienne-Jules Marey, champion of graphical representation. In Chapter Three, I consider the role of cinematic technologies as a medium used to record dance in the first twenty years of its existence. A case study, the comic film <i>Le Piano irresistible</i> (1907, dir. Alice Guy Blache) illustrates my arguments concerning dance, silence, and humor. I conclude in Chapter Four with an exploration of an iconic work framed by the contexts set forth in the preceding chapters: Vaslav Nijinsky’s <i>L’Apres-midi d’un faune</i> (1912). By focusing on Nijinsky’s well-documented interest in dance notation, I suggest a fresh way of analyzing this well-studied choreographic work. 2021-08-30 English text Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1623408754116016 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1623408754116016 restricted--full text unavailable until 2023-08-13 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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