Rehearsal Problems: Gus Giordano's The Rehearsal and the Serious Business of Middlebrow Dance
Rehearsal Problems: Gus Giordano's The Rehearsal and the Serious Business of Middlebrow Dance
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排练问题：格斯·佐丹奴的《中眉舞的排练与严肃事务》
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10.1353/tj.2019.0031
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发表时间：
2019
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0.5
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J. Hamera
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作者：
J. Hamera
摘要：爵士编舞家格斯·佐丹奴的获奖舞蹈《排演》体现了20世纪70年代和80年代初白人中产阶级舞蹈令人担忧的局限性，以及这一时期美国音乐会舞蹈史上类似作品的矛盾地位。中庸舞蹈对评论家和历史学家来说是一个问题，因为它既不精湛，也不创新，也不反对。然而，它也是一个文化生产丰富的地区，具有相当大的潜力，可以阐明当地和地区的阶级形成历史，白人种族巩固，以及随着这一时期经济从制造业向金融业转变而出现的对阶级流动的担忧。本文将《排演》作为一份历史文献，作为佐丹奴20世纪70年代和80年代早期美学的一个例子，作为他职业生涯中主张在结构性经济变革时期重新审视中流舞蹈的关键时刻，并探讨舞蹈对战后中产阶级以繁荣和流动性交换专业精神的交易的惊人的尖锐和先见之见的批判，考察其背景、叙事线、编舞和动作词汇。就在那笔交易开始破裂的时候。
Abstract:Jazz choreographer Gus Giordano's award-winning dance The Rehearsal exemplifies the fraught liminality of white middlebrow dance during the 1970s and early '80s, and the ambivalent place of works like it in US concert dance histories of the period. Middlebrow dance is a problem for critics and historians, because it is neither virtuosic nor innovative nor oppositional. Yet it is also a rich area of cultural production with considerable potential to illuminate local and regional histories of class formation, white racial consolidation, and emerging anxieties about class mobility as the economy changed from manufacturing to finance in this period. This essay examines the context, narrative arc, choreography, and movement vocabulary of The Rehearsal as a historical document, as an example of Giordano's 1970s and early '80s aesthetics, and as a pivotal moment in his career to argue for a reexamination of middlebrow dance in times of structural economic change, and to probe the dance's surprisingly biting and prescient critique of the postwar middle-class bargain exchanging prosperity and mobility for professionalism, just as that bargain was beginning to unravel.