Doug Fullington
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Forthcoming
Five Ballets from Paris to St. Petersburg:
Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Raymonda
by Doug Fullington and Marian Smith (Oxford University Press)
Available in 2024
Pre-order on Amazon
EDITIONS
Forthcoming
Adolphe Adam, Giselle ou Les Wilis
critical edition by Doug Fullington and Marian Smith
under contract by Bärenreiter Verlag as part of
OPERA: Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen
Giselle matériel, MAT-332 (1‒53), Bibliothèque-musée de l'opéra, Paris.
ARTICLES
Forthcoming
“A notation Stepanov et La belle au bois dormant: Des productions historiquement documentées et de quelques particularites” [Stepanov notation and The Sleeping Beauty: Historically informed productions and some peculiarities], in A la recherche de Marius Petipa II: entre romantisme, orientalisme et avant-garde, edited by Tiziana Leucci and Pascale Melani, Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine [MSHA].
"Pavel Gerdt and the princes’ variations in 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'The Nutcracker,' and 'Swan Lake,'" Danza e Ricerca, 14 (December 2022), 161–182.
"Nutcracker: Choreography," with co-author Phil Chan, Final Bow for Yellowface, 2019.
"Finding the Balance: Pantomime and Dance in Ratmansky’s New/Old Sleeping Beauty," Oxford Music Handbooks, Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Popular Balanchine: A look at the flip side of a ballet genius,” Dance Studio Life (2016).
“Paquita’s noble heritage revealed,” Dancing Times, vol. 105, no. 1257 (May 2015): 31–35 (reprint of Bayerisches Staatsballett program article).
“The Stepanov Notations of the Harvard Theatre Collection,” Ballet/Tanz Magazine (December 2013): 52–55.
“Giselle’s Seattle Revival,” with co-author Marian Smith, Dancing Times, vol. 101, no. 1210 (June 2011): 30–33.
“Restoring Le Corsaire in Munich,” Dancing Times, vol. 97, no. 1157 (January 2006).
“Erik Bruhn,” Ballet Review, vol. 30, no. 2 (Summer 2002).
“Pacific Northwest Ballet returns to London,” Dancing Times, vol. 92, no. 1102 (June 2002).
“Balanchine’s Apotheosis,” Ballet Review, vol. 28, no. 3 (Fall 2000) (reprint of Edinburgh International Festival program article).
“The River Variations in Petipa’s La Fille du Pharaon,” Dancing Times, vol. 91, no. 1083 (December 2000): 249–255.
“Comparing Bournonville now with Petipa then,” Dance View, vol. 17, no. 3 (Summer 2000).
“Secrets of The Sleeping Beauty,” Ballet Alert!, no. 8 (May 1999).
“Raymonda at 100,” Ballet Review, vol. 26, no. 4 (Winter 1998).
“Alexandra Danilova on Raymonda,” Ballet Review, vol. 26, no. 4 (Winter 1998).
ACADEMIC PAPERS
"A common source for two accounts of Giselle," Convegno internazionale, "GISELLE nostra contemporanea: ricostruzione, conservazione e riletture," AIRDanza, Rome, December 15–17, 2022. Video of conference proceedings on December 15, 2022.
Ph.D. dissertation: A source study of two ballets and a divertissement by Marius Petipa, University of Washington, 2022.
"Elements of Spanish dance in two nineteenth-century productions of Paquita," Congreso Internacional en Madrid, "Marius Petipa: del ballet romántico al clásico," Madrid, October 25–26, 2018. Published in Marius Petipa: Del Ballet Romántico al Clásico, ed. Laura Hormigón, Serie: Debate, 29, Asosiación de Directores de Escena de España (Madrid, 2020).
"Stepanov choreographic notation and Russian émigrés in the early twentieth century," Marius Petipa Centenary conference, Paris, October 18–19, 2018.
"Recovering lost dances preserved in Stepanov notation," International Research Conference, "Marius Petipa’s Ballet Empire: From Rise To Decline," presented by The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Organizing committee on the preparation and convening of the celebration of Marius Petipa’s bicentennial anniversary, A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, The State Institute for Art Studies, and The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, Moscow, June 6–8, 2018.
"Reconstructing Petipa: Giselle and Paquita," with co-presenter Marian Smith, symposium "From Bordeaux to Saint Petersburg, Marius Petipa (1818–1910) and the ‘Russian’ Ballet," Bordeaux, October 21–23, 2015. Published in De la France à la Russie, Marius Petipa, ed. Pascale Melani, Slavica Occitania, 43 (Toulouse, 2016).
"Forward toward Petipa: Russian ballet in the West and a call for stylistic diversity within classical ballet," European Association of Dance Historians conference, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, February 2003.
PROGRAM ARTICLES
"Paquita’s noble heritage revealed," Bavarian State Ballet, December 2014.
"The 1890 Sleeping Beauty," Pacific Northwest Ballet, January 2014.
"Coppélia Act III: The Festival of the Bells," Pacific Northwest Ballet, June 2012.
"Reviving Giselle," with co-author Marian Smith, Pacific Northwest Ballet, June 2011.
"Re-imagining The Seasons," Pacific Northwest Ballet, November 2009.
"Revisiting Balanchine’s 1972 Stravinsky Festival," Pacific Northwest Ballet, April 2007.
"Restoring Le Corsaire," Bayerisches Staatsballett, January 2007.
"Stravinsky and the Dance," Pacific Northwest Ballet, February 2005.
"Frederick Ashton and Façade," Oregon Ballet Theatre, May 2004.
"Make Mine Mixed," Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2004.
"Swan Lake: The legacy of the 1895 revival," Pacific Northwest Ballet, 1998.
"Balanchine’s Apotheosis," Pacific Northwest Ballet, May 1997; Edinburgh International Festival, August 1998.
PROGRAM NOTES
Coppélia (Delibes/Balanchine-Danilova), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2010.
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky/Balanchine), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2015.
Jewels (Fauré-Stravinsky-Tchaikovsky/Balanchine), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2017.
Opus 19/The Dreamer (Prokofiev/Robbins), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2017.
Prodigal Son (Prokofiev/Balanchine), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2015.
La Source (Delibes/Balanchine), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2017.
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky/Stowell), Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2003.
REVIEWS
Performance review, "Raymonda," The Ballet of La Scala, Milan, Dancing Times, vol. 102, no. 1217 (January 2012): 60.
Book review, Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle, by Marian Smith (Princeton, 2000), Dancing Times, vol. 91, no. 1093 (September 2001).
Performance review, "The Sleeping Beauty reconstructed," Ballet Review, vol. 28, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 79–88.
INTERVIEWS
"'Raymonda' and Ballet Herstory" with Alastair Macaulay and Sergey Konaev, 2022.
"Giselle: Questions and Answers" with Alastair Macaulay and Maina Gielgud, Jane Pritchard, Alexei Ratmansky, Marian Smith, 2020.
"Further Annals of The Sleeping Beauty: A Questionnaire" with Alastair Macaulay and Alexei Ratmansky, Ballet Review, vol. 43, no. 4 (Winter 2015–2016): 82–109.
"Doug Fullington, archéologue du ballet romantique" with Bénédicte Jarrasse and Romain Feist, Dansomanie, 2015.
"Doug Fullington – on Stepanov Notation" with Marina Harss, DanceTabs, 2015.
"Seven questions about sacred polyphony with Doug Fullington" with Kevin Birnbaum, The Candle, 2012.
"Seattle's Tudor Choir: Twenty Years Of Vocal Excellence" with Dave Beck, KUOW Seattle, 2012.
PODCASTS
"Dance historian Doug Fullington on Le Baiser de la Fée or The Fairy's Kiss," Conversations on Dance, 2017.
"PNB's Doug Fullington: Examining the history behind The Nutcracker," Conversations on Dance, 2016.
Ballet Talk podcasts, Pacific Northwest Ballet, various from 2015–2023.
Coppélia, San Francisco Ballet, 2011.