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I. A Dance Director's Investigation into Selected Constitutive Properties of Antony Tudor's Dark Elegies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

John Giffin
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The question of what constitutes the essential elements of a choreographer's work is an important one for the dance director. This study concentrates on identifying some of the constitutive properties of Antony Tudor's 1937 masterpiece Dark Elegies. I will present some aspects of the work's compositional form and some details of its movement vocabulary. I will also compare these with traditional classical ballet usages of these elements.

The Labanotation score of Dark Elegies was written by Airi Hynninen in 1980 during a revival of the ballet under Tudor's personal supervision. I believe it provides a complete and detailed record of the work's essential structural and stylistic properties. This score is the primary source for my choreographic investigation.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , Fall 1992 , pp. 19 - 24
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1992

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