EMORY-MAIER Ambre

Assistant Professor of Dance

Kent State University

Research expertise

Ballet, choreography and performance in the nineteenth century; questions of ownership, memory, and transference within and through the body.

Contributions

Pratiques

Ballet

Ballet has been used through the centuries as an agent for spoken and unspoken sociability on the stage, in the audience and behind the scenes. Britain had an aversion to the French form of ballet and associated its presentation and culture as indulgent excess.