Apollo's angels a history of ballet
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of...
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New York :
Random House,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Masters and traditions
- pt. 1. France and the classical origins of ballet
- Kings of dance
- The Enlightenment and the story ballet
- The French Revolution in ballet
- Romantic illusions and the rise of the ballerina
- Scandinavian orthodoxy : the Danish style
- Italian heresy : pantomime, virtuosity, and Italian ballet
- pt. 2. Light from the East : Russian worlds of art
- Tsars of dance : imperial Russian classicism
- East goes West : Russian Modernism and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- Left behind? : Communist ballet from Stalin to Brezhnev
- Alone in Europe : the British moment
- The American century I : Russian beginnings
- The American century II : The New York scene
- Epilogue : The masters are dead and gone.
