Bournonville biography patricia mcandrews
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My Theatre Life - Hardcover
Synopsis
Here is one of the truly important source books in the history of the theatre and the dance: the great Danish dancer/ballet-master’s own account of his career and his works. Bournonville’s life spanned three-quarters of the nineteenth century (1805-1879), and fifty of those years he spent as artistic dictator, organizer, and guiding genius of the Royal Danish Ballet – with leaves of absence varying from six months to six years in Naples and Rome, Sweden and Norway, London, imperial Russia, and above all Paris.
There, as a young man in the first heady years of the Romantic movement, Bournonville lived the storied vie de Boh�me, knew the seriocomic pangs of unrequited first love, and made friends whose names would become world famous: Marie and Paul Taglioni, Rossini, Perrot, Meyerbeer, Nourrit, Vestris, to mention a few. There, more importantly, he laid the groundwork for his legacy to the Danish, indeed to international dance: a school, an individual balletic technique, a tradition, and the choreographies of some two-score ballets including La Sylphide, Napoli, Konservatoriet, and others which remain in the active repertoire of many ballet companies today.
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Not only is our teaching collection a resource for learning, so is our staff. Take Patricia McAndrew. Here at LUAG McAndrew is our Coordinator of Volunteers and Education, but in the greater world she is known as one of the few remaining independent dance historians in America. Her greatest feat – the translation of Bournonville’s nearly 700-page memoir, My Theatre Life. For those of you not up on your dance history August Bournonville was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. He created an entire method of ballet technique and training called the Bournonville Method, which is still used today.
McAndrew was born and raised in Bethlehem by her father who was a physician and her mom who was a nurse. Her obsession with dance started when she was seven, when her mother took her to see Danny Kaye and the French dancer Jeanmaire in Hans Christian Andersen, a movie musical. McAndrew would go on to study ballet during her younger years, but with urging from her parents her education took first priority. At 18 she entered Moravian College.
Around the same time, the Royal Danish Ballet toured the United States and McAndrew was able to see Bournonville’s choreography in person. She was hooked. Her adviser at Moravian advised her to delve into the world of Bour
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