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Review Of Swarthmore College Works Dance Faculty Works Dance 4-1-2020 Review Of "La Danse Théâtrale En Europe: Identités, Altérités, Frontières" Edited By A. B. Fabbricatore Olivia Sabee Swarthmore College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-dance Part of the Dance Commons Recommended Citation Olivia Sabee. (2020). "Review Of "La Danse Théâtrale En Europe: Identités, Altérités, Frontières" Edited By A. B. Fabbricatore". Dance Research Journal. Volume 52, Issue 1. 77-79. https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-dance/141 This work is brought to you for free by Swarthmore College Libraries' Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dance Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. dancer’s prior history, his likely Afro-Cuban “Arquitectura del cante jondo” (“The ancestry, his collaborations with French dancer Architecture of Deep Song”), delivered in Cuba Chocolat (144–147), and his fusion of perfor- in 1930—the same lecture that meditates on fla- mance sources in emergent varieties of flamenco. menco’s “black sounds,” which give Goldberg’s Goldberg’s unpacking of the convergence of dance book its title. For a genealogy and reading of and bullfighting suggests that this is not merely a the concept, see Roberta Quance (2011). knee-jerk connection of stereotyped Spanish forms, but the outcome of an intricate perfor- mance history threaded through the equestrian Works Cited circuses which became popular in the nineteenth fl century (140). This history surely ickers in the Jones, Susan. 2013. Modernism, Literature, and “ ” ’ background of La Argentina, Antonia Mercé s Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. signature Corrida dance, in which she gesturally Quance, Roberta. 2011. “On the Way to performed the opposing subject-positions of bull- ‘Duende.’” Journal of Latin American and fi ghter and bull. The dance was choreographed for Iberian tudies 17 (2/3) (August/December): fi her during her rst Paris season at the Moulin 181–194. Rouge in 1910 by her fellow performers Antonio de Bilbao and “Mojigango”; in the latter’sgeneric “ ” stage name is encrypted the mojiganga, which LA DANSE THÉÂTRALE EN Goldberg describes as a parodic dance performed as an interlude in bullfights (138), featuring the EUROPE: IDENTITÉS, ALTÉRITÉS, leaps and acrobatics performed by dancers such FRONTIÈRES as the Afro-Cuban father of Spanish flamenco, art- ist El Negro Meri. edited by Arianna Beatrice Fabbricatore. 2019. Paris: E Sonidos negros prompts us to hear these kinds Hermann Éditeurs. 356 pp., illustrations. 28 paper. ISBN: 9791037001542. of resonances, to dig into the tangled roots of doi:10.1017/S0149767720000091 modern and modernist art forms and practices, to listen for their mutations and borrowings and Theatrical Dance in Europe: Identities, Otherness, resistances across times and across contested and Borders (La danse théâtrale en Europe: spaces. It will be a critical addition not only to fla- identités, altérités, frontières) provides a much menco studies, but to a growing body of transat- needed response to another recent book pub- lantic performance scholarship by authors such lished in France, The Opera Ballet: Three as Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, Robert Farris Centuries of Supremacy Beginning with Louis Thompson, Florencia Garramuño, Elizabeth XIV (Le Ballet de l’Opéra: Trois siècles de Maddock Dillon, and Barbara Fuchs. It is worth suprématie depuis Louis XIV), edited by underlining, in closing, that it’sabeautifullywrit- Mathias Auclair and Christopher Ghristi.1 The ten book: while making space for all the lively, “supremacy” in the subtitle of Auclair and equivocating, mutable gestures which swarm Ghristi’s volume is a symptom of a wider prob- across its pages—creating a stage for bulla—it’s lem in European dance historiography—namely always attentive to narrative style, always con- that clichés and genealogies crafted by dance cerned to shape those gestures into a movement critics and scholars of the past remain unques- sequence. Throughout its pages, the dancing tioned, even when archival sources might reveal body animates history. another story—and in La danse théâtrale en Europe, editor Arianna Beatrice Fabbricatore, Michelle Clayton in partnership with the volume’s authors, has Brown University endeavored to tackle it. However, this is not the editor’sonlygoal; the volume begins with a preface by José Note Sasportes signaling Fabbricatore’s invitation to think about dance history in European terms, 1. Lorca published the text Juego y teoría del emphasizing the importance of the circulation duende (Play and Theory of Duende) in 1933, but of bodies and ideas across borders but also the he first introduced the term in the lecture role played by dance in the construction of DRJ 52/1 • APRIL 2020 77 collective identities and the presentation of self successful for several reasons: it represented and other. These issues form the core that links the political success of the monarch, appealed together the volume’s chapters, grouped into to “taste for the mysterious,” created a space pairs that provide two thematically related studies for farce grounded in otherness, and allowed of a particular subject. Although the volume’s for the questioning of European society that focus is European, France remains central in would not be permissible in representations of this story, as does the opposition of so-called subjects closer to home (74–75). Flavia French and Italian cultural practices and the Pappacena’s chapter “La Scoperta dell’America role played by this type of stereotype construction da Cristoforo Colombo (Gasparo Angiolini, in feeding nationalist discourse. However, this is Turin, 1757): Ideal Model for Foreign surely in part because scholars have historically Relations” (“La Scoperta dell’America da placed France at the center of ballet’s history, Cristoforo Colombo [Gasparo Angiolini, Turin, and one of the tasks undertaken in this volume 1757]: Modèle idéal de politique étrangère”) by a number of its contributors is to interrogate analyzes Angiolini’s ballet within the greater the rhetoric that fed (and continues to feed) context of ballets about colonial subjects, argu- this construction. The narratives the reader ing that Angiolini attended to moral concerns in encounters are thus not centralized around the ballet’s narrative despite choosing not to national institutions and their officially sanc- take a position for or against colonization. tioned histories but rather studies that engage Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg’s chapter critically with historiography and critical dis- “Dominating Europe of Dance: The Rhetoric of course as well as narrate histories of dance in Supremacy at the Académie de Paris during the popular venues. Regarding the latter, Edward Nineteenth Century” (“Dominer l’Europe de la Nye’schapter“On the Importance of Foreign danse: la rhétorique de la suprématie à Actor-Mimes and External Perspectives on l’Académie de Paris au XIXe siècle”)isoneof Romantic Ballet” (“De l’importance des acteurs- the highlights of the volume for its incisive mimes étrangers et du regard externe sur le ballet examination of language used to craft the ideas romantique”) and Marie-Françoise Bouchon’s of so-called national schools of dance. The chapter “Italian Ballet at the Eden-Théâtre author first questions, and then eschews, the (1883–1893) : Fluidity and Resistance of use of national labels in association with ballet Cultural Identities” (“Le ballet italien à schools, opting to label training at the l’Eden-Théâtre [1883–1893]: Fluidité et Académie de Paris as Parisian, rather than résistance des identités culturelles”)providekey using the ideological term, the “French school.” evidence as to the interplay between high and From the end of the Ancien Régime until the popular culture in France’s history. beginning of the Third Republic, Delattre- Furthermore, the volume is explicitly constructed Destemberg argues, “French” dance was pro- with interdisciplinary perspectives in mind, its moted as an ideal to be disseminated across the authors drawn from disciplines ranging from European continent, and the rhetoric used to dance studies to musicology to literary studies. describe it, shared by voices from inside and out- Attention to representations of the exotic— side the dance studio, helped to create a politics whether in ballets of nations or via depictions of of assimilation that privileged French academic colonization—is a recurring theme that features dance. Carlotta Zambelli, for example, though in many of the volume’s essays. Benjamin trained in Italy in the style of Carlo Blasis, classi- Pintiaux, in his chapter “Nations and Taste for fied the Académie Nationale de Musique, her the Foreign in Suites of Dances during the adopted theater, as a superior training ground Baroque Era” (“Nations et goût étranger dans for professionals compared with La Scala. This les suites de danses à l’époque baroque”) for discourse, in which the Paris Opera is upheld example, describes the reference to a particular as the epitome of ballet performance and train- nation as a “stylistic process” within musical ing (which, the author points out, continued to composition (69). Yet, he continues, diplomatic circulate even during the mid-nineteenth cen- usage of these suites of dances created a scenario tury, a time during which the Opera Ballet and in which stylistic differences could be perceived its school encountered major difficulties), con- as
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