More than any other twentieth-century composer, Igor Stravinsky is associated in the popular imagination with dance: ranging from his early Ballets Russes successes Firebird and Petrushka, the years of scandal and experimental works like Le Sacre du Printemps and Les Noces, through to the celebrated collaboration with George Ballanchine. Yet, so far, little has been written about the composer's shifting views on dance across his career, the importance of his concert as well as ballet scores, or his appeal to a century of choreographers well beyond any established canon, representing modern dance as well as ballet.Stephanie Jordan's ground-breaking survey and close examination of a range of Stravinsky dances - some familiar, some lesser-known - sheds new, unexpected light upon a composer central to Western artistic tradition and increasingly important to an emerging world culture.This book is set to become essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of dance, music and interdisciplinary studies, and will be invaluable to a broader audience of music and dance practitioners and enthusiasts.

Author Biography

Stephanie Jordan is a Research Professor in Dance at Roehampton University, London. She trained both academically and professionally as a dancer and musician, and is known internationally as a writer and conference presenter on dance. Her books include Striding Out: Aspects of Contemporary and New Dance in Britain (1992) and Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth Century Ballet (2000), both published by Dance Books.