Ratmansky

2021 ◽  
pp. 649-668
Author(s):  
Apollinaire Scherr
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Swan Lake ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Wide Swath

This chapter explores how the work of post-Soviet choreographer Alexei Ratmansky pursues what he calls “a brilliant development that wasn’t actually fulfilled.” With a paradoxical faith in historical continuity (given the Stalin-era “interruption”), this Russian émigré takes up not only where early Soviet ballet left off in the mid-1930s but even before, with Marius Petipa before twentieth-century gigantism got its hands on him. Whether through the relaxed posture, the dizzying but nonchalant steps, the crosshatched steps, or the corps in relation to the soloist, Ratmansky’s ballets bring out what an authoritarian system—of nation, ballet troupe, or ballet—represses. This applies to all his work: the original creations, adaptations, and historical reconstructions. The chapter treats a wide swath of his ballets, with particular attention to Swan Lake, Russian Seasons, and The Shostakovich Trilogy.

Indigenous Intellectuals in Contemporary Ecuador: Encounters with “Seven Erroneous Theses about Latin America”

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Soledad Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Analytical Term ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Indigenous Movement ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Siglo Xx

The indigenous intellectuals who were part of the foundation of the Ecuadorean indigenous movement of the 1980s contributed to the theoretical and political grounding of the concept of the plurinational state that is now recognized in the country’s new constitution. This concept constitutes a critique of the idea of nationhood that developed in Latin America throughout the twentieth century. A comparative reading of these intellectuals’ work on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s “Seven Erroneous Theses about Latin America” reveals two themes: colonial continuity and historical continuity. Both can be seen as a “settling of scores” with colonialism understood both as a historical period and as an analytical term for understanding the social reality of Latin America. Los intelectuales indígenas que formaron parte de la fundación del movimiento indígena ecuatoriano hacia la década de 1980 contribuyeron a la fundamentación teórica y política de la noción de Estado plurinacional, hoy reconocida por la nueva constitución del Ecuador. Sus principales antecedentes se encuentran en la elaboración de una crítica a la idea de nación tributaria de la corriente de pensamiento que se forjó en Nuestramérica a lo largo del siglo XX. Una lectura comparada de las obras escritas por estos intelectuales indígenas ecuatorianos en el marco de la conmemoración de los cincuenta años de la publicación de las “Siete tesis equivocadas sobre América Latina,” de Rodolfo Stavenhagen, revela dos elementos que aparecen reiteradamente a lo largo de su producción escritural: la idea de “continuidad colonial” y la idea de “continuidad histórica.” Ambas nociones remiten a un tema específico que se relaciona con cierto “ajuste de cuentas” con el colonialismo en tanto hecho histórico y en tanto categoría para el análisis de la realidad social en América Latina.

Uneasy Heads: Difficulties with Royal Hats

Costume ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Clair Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Royal Women

This article looks at two hundred years of British royal hats. We think of royal heads as crowned, though they are almost invariably hatted, and crowns haunt royal hats even when they are materially absent. It is unthinkable that the present Queen might preside at an official occasion bareheaded. Hats have had strong hierarchic, economic and social implications and, even if no longer mandatory, a hat is still a dramatic personal signature. For British royalty, whose image is public property, headgear must suggest not only style and glamour but also dignity of office. Royal men reached for military headgear to convey authority but, in time, this became camouflage. Queens, initially lacking impressive hats, appeared uncertain. But from the early twentieth century, as the monarchy became increasingly feminized, royal women, seeking a path between the imperatives of fashion and historical continuity, created memorable personal images — sometimes idiosyncratic, often enchanting — to which the hat was a final, distinctive flourish.

Roman Colonization in Twentieth-Century Historiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-171
Author(s):  
Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Roman Imperialism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Academic Tradition

This chapter discusses the development of the Roman colonial discourse after the pivotal studies of Niebuhr and Mommsen. It shows how a juridical perspective on Roman colonization prospered especially in Italy, where the new sociological wave that had fundamentally changed German scholarship never really took root. The approach of scholars like Ettore di Ruggiero and Plinio Fraccaro, characterized by fluid juridical categories and sensibility for historical change, resulted in very innovative studies and crucial new insights, which however have found little support in the international academic community. The chapter shows how the marginalization of this academic tradition can be explained by the fact that in recent scholarship, Roman colonization is predominantly studied in the context of Roman imperialism or urbanism. It provides several examples of how specialized juridical insights and discussions strongly affect historical reconstructions of Roman imperial strategies and fundamentally alter our understanding of Roman colonial landscapes.

David Gill FRS (1843–1914): The Making of a Royal Astronomer

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Astronomical Instrumentation ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
Observational Accuracy ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Local Detail ◽  
Attention To Detail

David Gill was an outstanding astronomer over several decades at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century. He was famous for his observational accuracy, for his painstaking attention to detail, and for his hands-on knowledge of the fine points of astronomical instrumentation. Astronomy, though, was a second professional career for David Gill. This account maps out the surprising and unusual path of David Gill’s life before he became Her Majesty’s Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. It covers aspects of his education, his horological career, his employment by Lord Lindsay to oversee the Dunecht observatory, his personal expedition to Ascension Island and his appointment as Her Majesty’s Astronomer at the age of 34. The account includes local detail and images not found in the main biography of David Gill. It ends with some detail of Gill’s continuing interest in clocks after his appointment.

Reimarus, Schweitzer, and Modern Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 129 (6) ◽  
pp. 254-264
Author(s):  
Robert Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Christian Origins

The 250th anniversary of Reimarus’ death can be marked by questioning Albert Schweitzer’s stimulating but tendentious evaluation of the most remarkable of all historical reconstructions of Jesus and Christian origins, and by considering how far Reimarus anticipated twentieth-century research, and asking how this work might still challenge and inform modern theology and biblical studies.

Mikhail Bakhtin’s Discourse Typologies: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Slavic Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Bagby
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Historical Continuity

All layers seemed to hover near the surface, dark ghosts scratching through the faded blush of roses.The Lynchers, John WidemanMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1898-1975) is currently one of the most respected thinkers in Soviet literary criticism of the twentieth century. His compendious knowledge of world literature, his sensitivity to difference and historical continuity in art, and his ability to formulate precisely the opaque relationships between the author, his text, and his reader indicate a genius that is enviable and perhaps inimitable.

As the producer of the two highest grossing lms of all time, Titanic and Avatar, Jon Landau keeps a relatively low prole. Landau has been director James Cameron’s hands-on producer ever since he was hired to produce Titanic (1997), for which they won the Best Picture Academy Award. The two rst met when Landau was an executive at Twentieth Century Fox in the early 1990s. Landau currently holds the COO title at Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. Landau grew up around the arts in New York, where his parents Ely and Edie Landau produced independent lms (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962; The Man in the Glass Booth, 1975; Hopscotch, 1980). He followed into their profession, starting on small lms in the 1980s. The work eventually took Landau to Los Angeles, where his rst full producing job came on RKO/Paramount’s Campus Man (1987). Though that lm didn’t turn heads, Landau was able to move on to bigger studio projects. The visual effects experience Landau gathered on Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) brought him the opportunity to work as a co-producer on another Disney project, Warren Beatty’s comic adaptation Dick Tracy (1990). From there, Landau took an executive position as head of physical production at Fox, where he worked on lms including The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Power Rangers (1995), Mrs. Doubtre (1993), Aliens 3 (1992), and True Lies (1994). He followed his studio stint with Titanic and joined Cameron at Lightstorm, where Landau served as a producer on Steven Soderbergh’s sci- remake Solaris (2002) before embarking on the multi-year development journey for Avatar (2009). The 3D phenomenon broke new ground with performance-capture technology and techniques. Landau and Cameron were again nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, though The Hurt Locker (2008) took the prize in 2010. But Landau and team had plenty to celebrate when the lm went on to shatter all-time revenue records, including the one held by their own reigning champ, Titanic. More Avatar lms are in the works.

2013 ◽  
pp. 117-118
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Performance Capture ◽  
The One ◽  
Production Company ◽  
Executive Position

Taylor, Charles (1931–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Science Ethics ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Among the most influential of late twentieth-century philosophers, Taylor has written on human agency, identity and the self; language; the limits of epistemology; interpretation and explanation in social science; ethics; and democratic politics. His work is distinctive because of his innovative treatments of long-standing philosophical problems, especially those deriving from applications of Enlightenment epistemology to theories of language, the self and political action, and his unusually thorough integration of ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ philosophical concerns and approaches. Taylor’s work is shaped by the view that adequate understanding of philosophical arguments requires an appreciation of their origins, changing contexts and transformed meanings. Thus it often takes the form of historical reconstructions that seek to identify the paths by which particular theories and languages of understanding or evaluation have been developed. This reflects both Taylor’s sustained engagement with Hegel’s philosophy and his resistance to epistemological dichotomies such as ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’ in favour of a notion of ‘epistemic gain’ influenced by H.G. Gadamer.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

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