The Delsarte Heritage

Ruyter, Nancy Lee Chalfa

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“…One of those was François Delsarte, a French oratory, acting, and dance teacher whose speculative “Delsarte system” became influential in the United States after his death in 1871. Curry dismissed Delsarte's mystical philosophy, which derived from Catholicism (“The Law of Trinity”) and from Swedenborg (“The Law of Correspondence”), and rested on an artificial “system of threes,” not on “nature” (Ruyter , 63). Nonetheless, it is obvious that the spirit of Delsartism pervaded Curry's thinking.…”

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Modernism at the University

Somers

2017

Orbis Litterarum

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As models of academic literary study, it would appear that elocution and New Criticism could not be further apart. While elocution (the theory and art of reading aloud) supposedly belonged to a pre‐modernist, genteel type of criticism derived from traditional rhetoric, New Criticism is considered the quintessentially modern, serious, and professional type of criticism. Yet, a close look at the elocutionary tradition by means of two concise case studies – those of turn‐of‐the‐century elocutionists Samuel Silas Curry and Solomon Henry Clark – shows more similarities than differences. It is therefore argued that the demise of elocution as a mode of literary study was not caused by the revolutionary action of the New Critics, but by impersonal, institutional factors that played into the hands of New Criticism. The focus on elocution helps to raise the right questions about the complex relation between modernism and rhetoric, and about the delineation of a modernist canon by the New Critics, who supposedly adopted the anti‐rhetorical aesthetic dicta of high modernism. Yet, this article argues that the exclusion of the American “New Poets” from the modernist canon can only be explained by the same pressure of academic professionalization that had advantaged New Criticism in academia.

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Section: The “New Elocution”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Modernism at the University

Somers

2017

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“…Apesar do contexto social restritivo na América, um contexto conservador e que tendia a estigmatizar a dança como um divertimento de cunho erótico, sem um lugar no mundo da arte, e menos ainda na educação, o método expandiu-se de modo surpreendente, e virou moda social nos EUA, influenciando o american way of life. Enquanto Isadora Duncan e Ruth SaintDenis cresciam nos Estados Unidos, entre os anos de 1880 e 1890, o delsartismo estava no auge de sua popularidade em meio às classes americanas média e alta, particularmente entre as mulheres (Ruyter, 1996). O delsartismo americano não era um culto esotérico reservado apenas a alguns eleitos, ele era conhecido e ensinado em todos os Estados Unidos, tocando boa parte das classes média e superior.…”

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A Influência do Pensamento de François Delsarte sobre a Modernidade da Dança

Grebler

2012

Rev. Bras. Estud. Presença

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RESUMO -A Influência do Pensamento de François Delsarte sobre a Modernidade daDança -Estudo que se refere à influência que o pensamento de François Delsarte exerceu sobre os pioneiros da modernidade da dança. Tendo rejeitado os manuais da retórica gestual de sua época para realizar um estudo rigoroso do comportamento humano em situações de limite emocional, Delsarte estabeleceu princípios e sistematizou exercícios que permitiram aos pioneiros da dança moderna um método alternativo de interpretação e criação, mais centrado no sujeito e em sua relação com o ambiente do que na cópia de um gesto autorizado pela tradição artística. De posse dos princípios de Delsarte, os criadores modernos tomaram o corpo como matéria-prima de uma pesquisa que não mais se definia pelo vocabulário tradicional, mas sim pela busca de uma corporeidade subjetiva. Palavras-chave: Artes Cênicas. Teoria da Dança. História da Dança. Criação Coreográfica. Pedagogia da Dança.ABSTRACT -The Influence of François Delsarte's Ideas on the Modernity of Dance -This study discusses the influence François Delsarte's ideas had on the pioneers of modern dance. Having rejected books on gestural rhetoric of his own time to conduct a rigorous study on human behavior in strong emotional situations, Delsarte established principles and systematized exercises that provided the pioneers of modern dance an alternative method of interpretation and creation, more centered on the subject and on their relationship with the environment, than on the imitation of traditional gestures. Delsarte's system allowed modern creators to consider the took as a raw material for a research that was no longer defined by traditional techniques, but by the pursuit of a subjective form of corporeality. Keywords: Performing Arts. Dance Theory. Dance History. Choreography. Dance Pedagogy. RÉSUMÉ -L'Influence de la Pensée de François Delsarte sur la Modernité de la Danse -L'étude porte sur l'influence que la pensée de François Delsarte a exercé sur les pionniers de la danse moderne. Après avoir rejeté les manuels de la rhétorique de son temps pour effectuer une étude rigoureuse du comportement humain dans des situations de seuil émotionnel, Delsarte a établi des principes et systématisé des exercices ayant fourni aux pionniers de la danse moderne une autre méthode d'interprétation et de création, davantage centrée sur le sujet et sur sa relation avec l'environnement, que sur la copie d'un geste approuvé par la tradition artistique. Partant des principes de Delsarte, les créateurs modernes ont pris le corps comme matière première pour une recherche qui ne se dfinit plus par le vocabulaire traditionnel, mais plutôt par la quête d'une matérialité subjective. Mots-clés: Arts du Spectacle. Théorie de la Danse. Histoire de la Danse. Création Choré-graphique. Pédagogie de la Danse.

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Reading Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog with Deutsch, Nietzsche and Nijinsky

Gardner

2022

Australian Feminist Studies

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The Delsarte Heritage

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A Influência do Pensamento de François Delsarte sobre a Modernidade da Dança

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