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Attitudes.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Attitudes.(ballet and nationalism)

Article Excerpt
A LITTLE MORE than a half-century ago, a young but quite extraordinarily perceptive critic--myself in fact--in his first book, Ballet in Britain since the War, wrote: "One of the most significant differences between ballet today and ballet the day before yesterday is the rise of nationalism. When Diaghilev first came to Western Europe, his company represented a purely Russian interpretation of the ballet tradition. In time this became international in its influences; recently we have had a return to nationalism in ballet. We go to French ballet, American ballet, and British ballet, all with marked racial characteristics." Apart from the innocently clumsy use of the word racial, was that really true then? And is it true now?

THIS CONCEPT of nationalism in ballet was based...

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