{"product_id":"ruth-page-joellen-a-meglin-9780190205164","title":"Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work","description":"In \u003cem\u003eRuth Page: The Woman in the Work, \u003c\/em\u003e the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: choreographer, artistic director, and impresario. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom extensive dramaturgical analysis of her most famous ballets -- La Guiablesse, Frankie and Johnny, Billy Sunday, Revenge, The Merry Widow, Camille, Carmina Burana, and Alice -- to embodied re-imagining of an avant-garde solo performed in a \"sack\" designed by Isamu Noguchi, this biography follows the global reach of Ruth Page's career spanning the greater part of the twentieth century. In the process of discovering the woman in the work, one encounters with an international cast of dancers (Anna Pavlova, Harald Kreutzberg, Frederic Franklin, Alicia Markova), composers (William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Jerome Moross, Darius Milhaud), visual artists (Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchew, Antoni Clavé), and companies (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Ballets des Champs-Elysées, London Festival Ballet). Disrupting notions that New York was the only cradle of the American ballet, and George Balanchine, its exponent to eclipse all others, \u003cem\u003eRuth Page\u003c\/em\u003e explores the woman's unique sensibility, corporeal praxis, and collaborative ethos to reveal her Chicago-centered network of creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joellen A. Meglin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190205164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190205164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 2.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023","brand":"Joellen A. Meglin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982225932543,"sku":"9780190205164","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_913c99ba-4963-468d-93b3-bd8ff427cc36.jpg?v=1683259936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ruth-page-joellen-a-meglin-9780190205164","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}