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Sarah Gutsche-Miller

Associate Professor

Faculty of Music

BIO

Sarah Gutsche-Miller is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Her research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century dance, dance music, nationalism, and women in the performing arts has appeared in several edited collections and in journals including Dance Research, Dance Research Journal, Journal of Musicology, and American Music. Her first book, Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871–1913, brings to light a forgotten ballet culture and repertoire, challenging the myth that Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes were responsible for a ballet revival in early twentieth-century Paris.

Gutsche-Miller is currently working on two SSHRC-funded projects. The first examines the modernist ballets created by the forgotten but once illustrious choreographer Madame Mariquita for the Paris Opéra-Comique between 1898 and 1918. The second explores the hundreds of ballets integrated into Parisian boulevard-theatre spectacles in the second half of the nineteenth century in relation to ballets at the Opéra, Opéra-Comique, and music halls. The broader goals of both projects include: recovering an art form that held a central place in fin-de-siècle French culture; tracing networks of creative and performance artists across commercial entertainment venues and subsidized theatres; and studying popular genres and institutions as significant players in a complex web of cultural transfer.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Music
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2013 - present
  • Affiliate Faculty
    University of Toronto, Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance, Toronto, Canada2018 - present
  • Member
    University of Toronto, Institute for Dance Studies, Toronto, Canada2018 - present
  • Member
    University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music, Toronto, Canada2018 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD Musicology
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • MA Musicology
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Performance
    Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • B. Mus., Honours Performance
    University of Western Ontario, Canada

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
    Barnard College, New York, United States

AVAILABILITY

  • Industry Projects

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