Moving Bodies
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Moving Bodies
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About this listen
Kate Newey and Kate Holmes talk about moving bodies, equipment assisting movement and why we should care about silent moving bodies. They touch upon gendered ideas, costume, risk and how elite ballet developed from the popular entertainment of pantomime.
Entertainments, performers, movements & incidents:
- Entertainment: Pleasure Gardens (including Cremorne & Vauxhall)
- Entertainment: Music Hall
- Entertainment: Concert Dance
- Entertainment: Ballet. For more on differences between romantic & classical see: https://www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk/different-types-ballet
- Entertainment: Nineteenth Century Burlesque – this doesn’t have the same meaning as today. For more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_burlesque
- Aerialist: Jules Léotard
- Physical Culture Movement: Muscular Christianity
- Aerialist: Mademoiselle Azella
- Ballet: Adam, Adolphe (1841) Giselle, ou les Wilis
- Train accident: 1918 Hagenbeck Wallace train wreck
- Stage technology: trap doors. See this video for nineteenth century traps still working at the Gaiety on the Isle of Man.
Want to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of free online resources.
Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.
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