'More Natural Than Nature, More Artificial Than Art' The Dance Criticism of Arthur Symons
Pritchard, Jane
'More Natural Than Nature, More Artificial Than Art' The Dance Criticism of Arthur Symons / Jane Pritchard .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2003
54 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 21, núm. 2, Winter 2003, p. 36 - 89
RESUMEN: "Dance criticism as a serious concern in Britain dates inly from the 1920s, when T. S. Eliot, among others, contributed to the arguments stimulated by Diaghilev." This was the opinion expressed by Peter Brinson in an address to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures&Commerce in 1989. Many others subscribe to this view, which is the result of the prevailing belief that there was no dance of real significance in this country prior to performances by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the pioneering work of Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. This small selection from the writing of Arthur Symons, a prolific commentator on dance in the 1890s and early 1900s, will, I hope, encourage reassessment of such attitudes.
'More Natural Than Nature, More Artificial Than Art' The Dance Criticism of Arthur Symons / Jane Pritchard .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2003
54 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 21, núm. 2, Winter 2003, p. 36 - 89
RESUMEN: "Dance criticism as a serious concern in Britain dates inly from the 1920s, when T. S. Eliot, among others, contributed to the arguments stimulated by Diaghilev." This was the opinion expressed by Peter Brinson in an address to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures&Commerce in 1989. Many others subscribe to this view, which is the result of the prevailing belief that there was no dance of real significance in this country prior to performances by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the pioneering work of Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. This small selection from the writing of Arthur Symons, a prolific commentator on dance in the 1890s and early 1900s, will, I hope, encourage reassessment of such attitudes.