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  • Chapter 8 - Nijinsky, Modernism, Repression: The Faun Ballet – Once Again – Under Analysis

  • from Part III - Critical Readings
  • Edited by Davinia Caddy, Maribeth Clark
  • Book:
    Musicology and Dance
    Published online:
    09 September 2020
    Print publication:
    27 August 2020, pp 207-230

  • Summary

    David J. Code explores the reception of Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’Apres-midi d’un faune, a 1912 choreographic reworking of Claude Debussy’s orchestral Prélude (1894). He peels off layers of historical reference, looking backwards to Debussy and Stéphane Mallarmé from Faune’s 1912 Nijinskian embodiment. In the process, he questions the ballet’s accepted relationship to cubism in favour of a Matisse-inspired framework for understanding the underlying modernity of the Faun. With attention to scene and character types, structure and style, diegesis, eroticism and Freudian psychological interiority, Code highlights ways in which music and dance might both embody and subvert typically modernist modes of dramatic expression.