TY - JOUR
T1 - A Present-Day Morality for the Present Day
AU - Blackburn-Daniels, Sally
PY - 2020/8/5
Y1 - 2020/8/5
N2 - In May 2019 an international cooperative of researchers, performers, and artists staged Vernon Lee’s (Violet Paget, 1856–1935) pacifist drama The Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality (1915) at her Villa Il Palmerino, Florence. The site-specific performance was adapted from Lee’s text by director Angeliki Papoulia and producer Federica Parretti, with a focus on the text’s resonances with the current resurgence of the nationalist far-right movements and anti-immigrant manifestos. This article considers the genesis of this production, the research informing its adaptation, and the subsequent performance of the piece.
AB - In May 2019 an international cooperative of researchers, performers, and artists staged Vernon Lee’s (Violet Paget, 1856–1935) pacifist drama The Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality (1915) at her Villa Il Palmerino, Florence. The site-specific performance was adapted from Lee’s text by director Angeliki Papoulia and producer Federica Parretti, with a focus on the text’s resonances with the current resurgence of the nationalist far-right movements and anti-immigrant manifestos. This article considers the genesis of this production, the research informing its adaptation, and the subsequent performance of the piece.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ntn.2931
U2 - 10.16995/ntn.2931
DO - 10.16995/ntn.2931
M3 - Article
SN - 1755-1560
JO - 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
JF - 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
ER -