Contribution to Book
Gothic, Ballet, Dance.pdf
The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts
(2019)
Abstract
This essay traces the longevity of the Danse macabre as a Gothic trope beginning in the Middle Ages and coming to define a key aesthetic element of the Gothic from the late Eighteenth Century to the present. One of my key concerns is the dancing skeleton as brought to us by Holbein and then transformed in the ballet blanc of Romanticism, through the grotesque of the Modern, and into the postmodern parodic. Central texts are Giselle, Cocteau's The Young Man and Death, and Fosse's All That Jazz.
Keywords
- Danse macabre,
- dance,
- Gothic performance,
- movie musical,
- ballet
Disciplines
Publication Date
2019
Editor
David Punter
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Series
Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
ISBN
9781474432351
Citation Information
Steven Bruhm. "Gothic, Ballet, Dance.pdf" Edinburgh, UKThe Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019) p. 214 - 228 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stevenbruhm/55/