Title: Palace protégée and pop-star : Elsa Enkel in Greece, 1913–1933
Source document: Theatralia. 2024, vol. 27, iss. 2, pp. 64-79
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64-79
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ISSN1803-845X (print)2336-4548 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2024-2-5
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80610
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
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.
Note
This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [T1336-G].
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