CIAMPI MATULOVÁ, Jitka. Look, the power of the human spirit again, has broken the hard rock wall here... Ballet Excelsior on the stage of the National Theatre in Prague in 1885. In Shaped by Greed. Reflections and Impacts of Environmental Exploitation in European Visual Cultures 1200—1900. 2023.
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Original name Look, the power of the human spirit again, has broken the hard rock wall here... Ballet Excelsior on the stage of the National Theatre in Prague in 1885
Authors CIAMPI MATULOVÁ, Jitka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Shaped by Greed. Reflections and Impacts of Environmental Exploitation in European Visual Cultures 1200—1900, 2023.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60403 Performing arts studies
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Programme of the conference
Organization unit Theatre Faculty
Keywords in English Excelsior; pozitivism; late Romantic scenography; Luigi Manzotti; Romualdo Marenco; National Theatre in Prag
Tags International impact
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Abstract
The paper focuses on the performance of the originally Italian ballet Excelsior by the National Theatre in Prague in 1885. The aim of the paper is to present the Excelsior ballet in the context of the national revival, the ideas of the productions of the National Theatre as a reflection of the national identity and the positivism of that time. The ballet Excelsior represented a celebration of that section of society whose rise in the social hierarchy was laid on the foundations of progress, of industrial development, which it supported and of course benefited from. Unwilling to see, even at that time, the various problems that were also linked to this progress, it was lulled into a conviction, or rather presented itself as a social class creating the conditions for a better life.
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