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Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre (2025)
Book
Minden, G. (in press). Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre. Oxford University Press

Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes holds a renowned position in the history of modernism across various arts. The company's daring productions brought together leading artists working in diverse fields - from Igor Stravinsky to Pablo Picasso, from Bron... Read More about Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre.

“verse-play” or “spoken ballet”? W. H. Auden, Rupert Doone, and a New Poetic Drama (2023)
Journal Article
Minden, G. (2023). “verse-play” or “spoken ballet”? W. H. Auden, Rupert Doone, and a New Poetic Drama. Modernism/modernity, 30(4), 743-765. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a925906

This article draws on previously neglected archival material to reexamine the first poetic drama written for Rupert Doone’s Group Theatre, W. H. Auden’s The Dance of Death (1933). I show that Doone, guided by the Ballets Russes’s “marriage of the art... Read More about “verse-play” or “spoken ballet”? W. H. Auden, Rupert Doone, and a New Poetic Drama.