Dance Embodiment of Sentimentalism in the Case of «The Wayward Daughter» Ballet
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This article presents an analysis of The Wayward Daughter, famed for being the most enduring piece in the ballet repertory all over the world. Sentimentalism, which influenced ballet as well, leaving its mark on the form and content of this art, contributed also to the creation of The Wayward Daughter in 1789. The context for this study of «The Wayward Daughter» by Jean Dauberval (the ballet’s originator and first choreographer) is provided by aesthetic, philosophical and cultural views and assumptions of great eightennth-century thinkers (e.g. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot). Their ideas had become foundtions for the modern art of ballet, which has also been heavily influenced by one of the greatest reformers of the art of dance, Jean Georges Noverre. His student, Dauberval, using the rules developed by his Noverre, created the comic ballet and broke the monopoly of tragic ballets in vogue at the time. Thanks to its fast-paced action, somewhat naïve yet funny plot and numerous charming choreographic sequences, «The Wayward Daughter» is entertaining even for today’s audiences. Apart from analysing how the premises of sentimentalism apply to the form and content of a ballet show, the article discusses one of the most famous 20th-century choreographies for the ballet, devised by Frederick Ashton, which is performer by many ballet companies around the world to this day.
Keywords:
ballet, ballet history, dance, dance history, Jean Georges Noverre, Jean Dauberval, «The Wayward Daughter», sentimentalismReferences
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Agnieszka NarewskaJagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4470-0522
doctoral student at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University. Graduate of the Krakow Vocational Ballet School, MA in Polish Philology and MA in Art. Studied Comparative Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Choreography and Dance Theory at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Since 2010, she has been a teacher of classical dance and dance history at KVBS (KZSzB). At the Jagiellonian University she teaches the course “To Dance Literature. Choreographic staging of Shakespeare's works”. Publishes on taniecPOLSKA.pl, in Teatr, Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk and in post-conference monographs. Member of the Polish Choreological Forum.
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