“Karole Armitage, Bronislava Nijinska and their Philosophies of (a Contemporary) Ballet: Dancing into the Margins” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet
Features viewpoints from scholars, choreographers, dancers, and dance critics. Highlights contributions from choreographers around the globe. Includes a significant range of cultural and historical contexts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
In distinction to many extant histories of ballet, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet prioritizes connections between ballet communities as it interweaves chapters by scholars, critics, choreographers, and working professional dancers. The book looks at the many ways ballet functions as a global practice in the 21st century, providing new perspectives on ballet's past, present, and future. As an effort to dismantle the linearity of academic canons, the fifty-three chapters within provide multiple entry points for readers to engage in balletic discourse. With an emphasis on composition and process alongside dances created, and the assertion that contemporary ballet is a definitive era, the book carves out space for critical inquiry. Many of the chapters consider whether or not ballet can reconcile its past and actually become present, while others see ballet as flexible and willing to be remolded at the hands of those with tools to do so.
Co-written with Molly Faulkner, PhD.
Farrugia-Kriel, Kathrina and Jill Nunes-Jensen, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, Oxford University Press, 2021.