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The Bandit Ballerina: Some Sources of Jules Perrot's Catarina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Susan Au
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Sylphides and wilis, white gauze and moonlit glades: these are the stereotypical images of the Romantic ballet. A cursory look at the lithographs of the period leaves the viewer with visions of an airy-fairyland far removed from industry, labor, colonialism, or any of the bigger and beastlier concerns of the early nineteenth century. But despite its bias towards otherworldliness, the Romantic ballet was not entirely divorced from the concerns of its time. It shared many interests with the drama, literature, and fine arts of the period and like them drew many of its themes from the material world, although it tended to select and exploit these themes for their color and spectacle rather than utilize them to convey sociological truths or instigate reform. An example of such a “realistic” ballet is Jules Perro's Catarina, whose protagonist is a more robust creature than the sylphs and fays that dominated the period: a female bandit.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring/Summer 1978 , pp. 2 - 5
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1978

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