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2023
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
CIAMPI MATULOVÁ, JitkaBasic information
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
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60403 Performing arts studies
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Organization unit
Theatre Faculty
Keywords in English
Excelsior; pozitivism; late Romantic scenography; Luigi Manzotti; Romualdo Marenco; National Theatre in Prag
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International impact
Změněno: 5/1/2024 23:38, doc. MgA. Hana Průchová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
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.