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Studying and analyzing The ?Midsummer Night Dream? ballet of William Shakespeare on the basis of choreography, stage design and musical

2010
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Advisor: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Sibel Erdenk

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ABSTRACT ?A Midsummer Night's Dream? is one of the well known commedia of William Shakespeare which Felix Mendelssoh composed. The handiwork is focused to love and marriage in a romantic comedy. It has a fantastic atmosphere that is created by crowding mortals and supernatural. It took long time to adapt this originally theater script handiwork to ballet. ?A Midsummer Night's Dream? is written In the late 16th century, whilst it is composed on the year 1826, by Mendelson and adapted to ballet art in the late 19th century. The theater script handiwork was full of stage details, but in the ballet version some characters are eliminated with some environments, so that the script is staged with limited details. There are many other versions of this script which is adapted by different choreographers. Dances are acted by classic ballet steps and point shoes. In the choreography of romantic love pas de deux, the variation and coda of after pas de deux which shows the technical power of dancer, hasn?t been done. But he choreographers enforced the character of ?Puck? with some turn and jump movements which need technical power and stability. While the stage is romantic comedy, the combination of music and dance takes out the romantic side of the stage in the ballet version ?A Midsummer Night's Dream? has a very significant position as a theater script in the repertory and it takes place in ballet repertory after the late 19th century.

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Dr. Özge Çalışlar

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Özge Çalışlar (Master Thesis). Studying and analyzing The ?Midsummer Night Dream? ballet of William Shakespeare on the basis of choreography, stage design and musical, 2010, Dokuz Eylül University.

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