Review: Jan Ciepliński, Szkic dziejów baletu polskiego (London, 1956)
Irena Turska
(Poland)
Abstract
The author discusses Jan Ciepliński’s book Szkic dziejów baletu polskiego [A Draft History of Polish Ballet], which is based on documents passed on to him by Leopold Filatyn and partly published by Henryk Liński in the second volume of the monograph Taniec [Dance] (ed. Mateusz Gliński, Warsaw, 1930), and supplemented by Ciepliński’s own investigations. The reviewer points out the main faults of the book: the absence of references to primary or secondary sources, the lack of structural periodisation desirable in overviews of this kind, and the absence or insufficient scope of critical analysis. The central part of the review addresses factual errors. An important point of criticism is also that due to personal motivations, Ciepliński was unfair in describing the activity of his contemporary dancers and choreographers, as well as the Polish Representative Ballet. Given the unsatisfactory quality of the book, which was published in London, the reviewer feels urged to emphasize the gaps in the domestic publishing market in the field of dance history and theory.
Keywords:
dance, ballet, dance history, ballet history, Jan CieplińskiReferences
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Irena TurskaPoland
Irena Turska (1912-2012) - dance critic and researcher, historian. Graduate of Janina Mieczyńska's School of Rhythm and Artistic Dance. Author of the doctoral dissertation La situation de la danse dans l'ensemble des arts: Prolegomenes à l'esthetique de la danse defended at Ecole Superieure d'Etudes Choregraphiques. She was an inspector for the artistic supervision of ballet at the General Directorate of Theatres, Operas and Philharmonics and a member of the State Verification Commission at the Ministry of Culture and Sports for the normalisation of the professional rights of dancers in Poland. Author of books on dance history, movement theory, dance aesthetics. Lecturer at the State Higher School of Theatre in Lodz (1946-48) and at the Zaoczne Wyższa Studium Nauczycieli Tańca PWSM in Warsaw (1972-1989). Translator of books by Jan Rey, Jean-Georges Noverre.
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