The Ballets Russes and Beyond

Davinia Caddy is Senior Lecturer at the School of Music, University of Auckland. Her articles and reviews have appeared in publications including the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 19th-Century Music, the Cambridge Opera Journal, Music and Letters and Opera Quarterly.

• 1. Introduction: Le Génie de la danse; 2. Ballet at the Opéra and La Fête chez Thérèse; 3. Nijinsky's Faune revisited; 4. Metaphors of invasion: the Ballets Russes and the French press; 5. Beyond and behind Le Coq d'or.

'This richly absorbing study of the Ballets Russes in Paris illuminates the interplay (both synthesis and disjunction) between music and gesture in modernist choreography on the lyric stage. Davinia Caddy makes a vital and beautifully written contribution to our understanding of ways of using the body in opera and ballet in the early twentieth century.' Susan Rutherford, University of Manchester