{"product_id":"ruth-page-the-woman-in-the-work-hardcover","title":"Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoellen A. Meglin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRuth Page: The Woman in the Work, \u003c\/em\u003e the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: choreographer, artistic director, and impresario. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom extensive dramaturgical analysis of her most famous ballets -- La Guiablesse, Frankie and Johnny, Billy Sunday, Revenge, The Merry Widow, Camille, Carmina Burana, and Alice -- to embodied re-imagining of an avant-garde solo performed in a \"sack\" designed by Isamu Noguchi, this biography follows the global reach of Ruth Page's career spanning the greater part of the twentieth century. In the process of discovering the woman in the work, one encounters with an international cast of dancers (Anna Pavlova, Harald Kreutzberg, Frederic Franklin, Alicia Markova), composers (William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Jerome Moross, Darius Milhaud), visual artists (Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchew, Antoni Clavé), and companies (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Ballets des Champs-Elysées, London Festival Ballet). Disrupting notions that New York was the only cradle of the American ballet, and George Balanchine, its exponent to eclipse all others, \u003cem\u003eRuth Page\u003c\/em\u003e explores the woman's unique sensibility, corporeal\u003cbr\u003epraxis, and collaborative ethos to reveal her Chicago-centered network of creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoellen A. Meglin\u003c\/strong\u003e, long-time editor of\u003cem\u003e Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts\u003c\/em\u003e and professor emerita of Dance at Temple University, has published extensively on Ruth Page and American ballet. Her re-imagination of Page's solo \u003cem\u003eExpanding Universe \u003c\/em\u003ewas recently presented at the 92nd-Street Y and the Noguchi Museum in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 584\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 x 9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49144453234840,"sku":"9780190205164","price":99.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/L1hwRmNucnZqVTAyT2NNUnhwVC9Vdz09.webp?v=1779418501","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/ruth-page-the-woman-in-the-work-hardcover","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}