`The Great Hansen' An Introduction to the Work of Joseph Hansen, a Forgotten European Choreographer of the Late Nineteenth Century, with a Chronology of His Ballets

Pritchard, Jane

`The Great Hansen' An Introduction to the Work of Joseph Hansen, a Forgotten European Choreographer of the Late Nineteenth Century, with a Chronology of His Ballets / Jane Pritchard .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008

Dance Research -- Vol. 26, núm. 2, Winter 2008, p. 73


RESUMEN: This feature on the choreographer, Joseph Hansen (1842-1907), falls into four parts. The choreochronicle of works which outlines the ballets he created; an essay which contextualises his work; a list of roles he performed after having officially forsaken the stage; discussion of the content of the Hansen Archive at the Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra, Paris followed by information on material relating to Hansen's ballets for the Alhambra, London, held in the Theatre Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.