Ballet in Western Culture A History of Its Origins and Evolution

Name: Ballet in Western Culture A History of Its Origins and Evolution
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ISBN: 9780205274390

ISBN-10: 0205274390

ISBN-13: 9780205274390

Edition: 1999

Authors: Rachel Lee

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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


From Folk Expression to Seventeenth-Century Court Dance


Origins of Dance


Renaissance Spectacle in Italy


The Ballet de Cour in France


Emergence of Ballet as an Art Form: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century


Baroque Ballet


The Advancement of Professional Ballet


Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet


The Foundations of Romantic Ballet


The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet


The Evolution of Ballet in Russia


Imperial Russian Ballet


The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century


Sergei Diaghilev and the New Dance


The Ballets Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism


Ballet in the Twentieth Century


The Development of Ballet in the United States


Chronology


Glossary


Bibliography


Ballets


Index