How Long to Read Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body

How Long Does it Take to Read Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body by Mark Franko

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Description

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied ideological connotations, most important among which was the expression of noble resistance to the increasingly absolutist monarchy. Frankos analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. Dance as Text thus provides a picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite spectacle, the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Molieres use of court ballet traditions.

How long is Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body?

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body by Mark Franko is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body aloud.

What Reading Level is Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body?

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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