<P>At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhower inaugurated a program of cultural exchange that sent American dancers and other artists to political «hot spots» overseas. This peacetime gambit by a warrior hero was a resounding success.</P><P>Among the artists chosen for international duty were Jos&#233; Lim&#243;n, who led his company on the first government-sponsored tour of South America; Martha Graham, whose famed...
<P>Rethinking the Sylph gathers essays by a premier group of international scholars to illustrate the importance of the romantic ballet within the broad context of western theatrical dancing. The wide variety of perspectives – from social history to feminism, from psychoanalysis to musicology – serves to illuminate the modernity of the Romantic ballet in terms of vocabulary, representation of gender, and iconography. The collection highlights previously unexplored aspects of the...
