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Effacing Rebellion and Righting the Slanted: Declassifying the Archive of MacMillan's (1965) and Shakespeare's (1597) Romeo and Juliets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2017

Brandon Shaw
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Abstract

Archival evidence of Shakespeare's and Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliets evince patriarchal efforts to efface female rebellion. As Juliet, Lynn Seymour declassifies ballet through recalcitrant stillness and off-balance choreography. Patriarchal institutions enlisted Margot Fonteyn's classifying instinct to efface these balletic transgressions from the archive utilizing strategies corresponding to early modern textual editing practices.

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Archiveballetdance notationfeminismliterature and danceKenneth MacMillanLynn SeymourRomeo and JulietShakespeare
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , August 2017 , pp. 62 - 78
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2017 

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