Palace protégée and pop-star : Elsa Enkel in Greece, 1913–1933

Anna Leon

doi:10.5817/TY2024-2-5

Palace protégée and pop-star : Elsa Enkel in Greece, 1913–1933

Roč.27,č.2(2024)

Anna Leon

https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2024-2-5

Trvalý odkaz (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80610

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Abstrakt

Elsa Enkel was a German-born dance artist in operetta and revue theatre, active in early-20th-century Greece. Her career was heavily subsidised by the Greek monarchy in exchange for promoting royalist positions in the turbulent years around World War I; but she was also part of the rapidly developing entertainment market, adapting to ticket-buying audiences' tastes. Enkel's work exemplifies the tensions of light musical theatre ballet between royalist and market-driven pressures, and illustrates the role of this ballet as a Western cultural export that participated in Greece's development of a West-leaning, post-Ottoman identity.

Klíčová slova:
Elsa Enkel; ballet in Greece; early-twentieth-century ballet; dance and WWI; ballet and royalism

Stránky:
64–79

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