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John Singer Sargent painted Study for "The Spanish Dancer" during the Golden Age of Flamenco (1860-1915), when the improvisational style of dancing became a popular theatrical spectacle. Flamenco is generally performed by a solo dancer to the accompaniment of a guitarist, singer, and palmero, who provides percussion with handclaps.
Though today flamenco is associated today with a loud, rhythmic stamping of the heels, when Sargent saw flamenco performed in the late 19th century, it would have been only the male dancers who stamped their feet. Female dancers, such as the one shown here, only brushed their feet across the dance floor; their performance relied instead on the movements of their upper body and emphatic gestures to create drama.
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Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy (1974.1.FA) from All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts, September 2009.
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Warren Adelson, "John Singer Sargent," lecture 2001.
Description: speaker is director of Adelson Galleries, New York; discusses catalogue raisonne; Antique Arts Society presentation?
Location: Orientation Theater
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General Description
John Singer Sargent painted Study for "The Spanish Dancer" during the Golden Age of Flamenco (1860-1915), when the improvisational style of dancing became a popular theatrical spectacle. Flamenco is generally performed by a solo dancer to the accompaniment of a guitarist, singer, and palmero, who provides percussion with handclaps.
Though today flamenco is associated today with a loud, rhythmic stamping of the heels, when Sargent saw flamenco performed in the late 19th century, it would have been only the male dancers who stamped their feet. Female dancers, such as the one shown here, only brushed their feet across the dance floor; their performance relied instead on the movements of their upper body and emphatic gestures to create drama.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy (1974.1.FA) from All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts, September 2009.
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I changed the status of this note from routed to completed- June 14, 2016.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
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