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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, Jitka

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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

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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Programme of the conference

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.
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