The Nature of the Beast: Dance Critics and Criticism

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Notes

¹Horst Koegler, “My Berlin,” translated by Ilona Landgraf, Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 36, no. 1 (2013): 103–12.

²Edwin Denby, Dance Writings, ed. Robert Cornfield and William MacKay (1986; reprinted, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007), 539.

³Ibid., 541.

⁴Ibid., 540, 533.

⁵Ibid., 538.

⁶Ibid., 541, 538–39.

⁷On the relationship between poetry and dance, see Jack Anderson, “On the Move: Poetry and Dance,” Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 33, no. 2 (2010): 251–67.

⁸Joellen A. Meglin, “Behind the Veil of Translucence: An Intertextual Reading of the Ballet Fantastique in France, 1831–1841. Part Three: Resurrection, Sensuality, and the Palpable Presence of the Past in Théophile Gautier's Fantastic,” Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 28, no. 1 (2005): 67–142.

The manifesto was published as the preface to his 1835 novel Mademoiselle de Maupin; the quotation comes from an 1848 review of La Vivandière. “Le vrai, l’unique, l’éternel sujet d’un ballet, c’est la danse.” Théophile Gautier, quoted in Joellen A. Meglin, “Behind the Veil of Translucence: An Intertextual Reading of the Ballet Fantastique in France, 1831–1841. Part Three: Resurrection, Sensuality, and the Palpable Presence of the Past in Théophile Gautier's Fantastic,” Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 28, no. 1 (2005): 84.

See the upcoming special issue of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, which will focus on Dance and Literature: Interwoven and Untangled.

⁹Lynne Conner, Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850–1934 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997); David Gere, ed., Looking Out: Perspectives on Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural World (New York: Schirmer Books/Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995).

¹⁰Marshall Sahlins, Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981), 9.

¹¹Lesley-Anne Sayers, “‘She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend’: Images of Femininity and Dance Appreciation,” in Dance, Gender and Culture, ed. Helen Thomas (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 164–83.

¹²B. H. Haggin, introduction to Looking at the Dance by Edwin Denby (New York: Horizon Press, 1968), xix.

¹³Arlene Croce, preface to Afterimages (New York: Afred A. Knopf, 1977), ix.