
Text as Dance Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque
Mark Franko
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…
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Text as Dance Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque
Mark Franko
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.