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My Theatre Life
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Born in Copenhagen in the early nineteenth-century and trained by his father, French ballet master, Antoine Bournonville, August Bournonville was an iconoic dance master and principal choreography of the Royal Danish Ballet with his incorporation of French Romanticism in his ballet choreography. Known for detailed, quick footwork and delicate arm and torso contrast, Bournonville’s style of dance became known as the Bournonville Method, today considered the unfiltered 19th century technique of the French school of classical dance. Over a century since his death, Bournonville’s influence remains seen on the Danish and greater European stage, imported to theatre classes and stages across the world.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page
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  1. Portrait of August Bournonville
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Illustrations
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  1. Foreword
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  1. Introduction
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  1. Translator’s Note
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Volume One
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  1. Preface
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  1. I. The Dance
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  1. II. Pantomime
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  1. III. The Ballet
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  1. IV. Myself
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  1. V. Celebrities
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  1. VI. Parallels
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  1. VII. The Results of My Endeavors
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  1. VIII. Ballet Compositions
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  1. IX. Lyric Attempts
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  1. Volume Two: Theatre Life and Reminiscences
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  1. Introduction
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  1. I. Reflections
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  1. II. The Year 1848
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  1. III. Old Memories (With Notices of the Finest Members of the Ballet from 1829 to 1864)
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  1. IV. Divertissements
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  1. V. Ballet Compositions: Second Period
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  1. VI. Danish National Festivals
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  1. VII. Ballet Compositions: Third Period
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  1. VIII. Three Years in Stockholm
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  1. IX. Dramatic Celebrities of the Danish Stage
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  1. X. A Retrospect
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  1. Volume Three
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  1. Part I. The Theatre Crisis and the Ballet
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  1. Introduction
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  1. I. The Theatre Crisis
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  1. II. Works Done for the Royal Danish Theatre by A.B.
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  1. Part II. Memoirs and Period Pictures
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  1. Introduction
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  1. I. Memoirs and Period Pictures
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  1. II. Danish National Festivals (The Constitution Festival, 1854)
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  1. III. End-Word
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  1. Part III. Travel Memoirs, Reflections, and Biographical Sketches
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  1. I. Travel Memoirs
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  1. I. Travel Memoirs (2)
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  1. II. Reflections
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  1. III. Biographical Sketches Drawn from Memory
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  1. Index A-J
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  1. Index K-Z
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Additional Information

ISBN
9780819577917
Related ISBN(s)
9780819550354
DOI
10.1353/book.77778external link
MARC Record
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OCLC
1193105854
Launched on MUSE
2020-09-09
Language
English
Open Access
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