'Sauvages,' sex roles, and semiotics: representations of Native Americans in the French ballet, 1736-1837, part one, the eighteenth century

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Native Americans were treated as an elite race in French ballet of the 18th century. The ballets 'Les Sauvages' and 'Les Indes galantes' portrayed women Native Americans as socially free and friendly with white invaders.

18th century AD

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'Sauvages,' sex roles, and semiotics: representations of Native Americans in the French ballet 1736-1837, part two, the nineteenth century

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Eighteenth-century French ballets demonstrated how French views of sex roles were projected onto Native American society. By the 19th century, focus in such productions as 'Les Sauvages de la Floride' and 'Les Mohicans' emphasized female vulnerability, heathenism, cannibalism, and the warrior ethic.

United States, Social aspects

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Behind the veil of translucence: an intertextual reading of the ballet fantastique in France, 1831-1841. Part One. ancestors of the sylphide in the conte fantastique

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The research on the ballet fantastique using the metaphor of the science is presented. Particular sensibilities that emerged out of specific cultural circumstances are used to explain the meanings and sensuous dimensions of the French ballet fantastique.

Evaluation, Ballets, French romanticism

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