Ballet : An Illustrated History

Name: Ballet : An Illustrated History
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ISBN: 9780241130681

ISBN-10: 0241130689

ISBN-13: 9780241130681

Edition: 2nd 1992

Authors: Mary Clarke, Clement Crisp, Antoinette Sibley

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"A definitive history of ballet which combines a stimulating text with a profusion of attractive and unusual images. First published twenty years ago, it has been fully updated for this new edition." "This comprehensive history charts the emergence of ballet in the Renaissance courts and follows its complex development right up to the remarkable explosion of ballet and modern dance in our time in Europe and America. It examines the arrival during the eighteenth century of ballet in the professional theatre and follows the expansion of dancing techniques from the early dancing masters through the Romantic period and the golden age of the ballerina. It explores the late nineteenth-century…

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List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Illustration Acknowledgements
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
How It All Began	p. 1
The Age of Reason and Technique	p. 20
The Romantic Movement	p. 46
Marius Petipa and the Imperial Russian Ballet	p. 76
Emigres: Diaghilev and Pavlova	p. 98
Bridging the Gap: The Baby Ballerinas	p. 135
The Building of British Ballet	p. 152
America: Two Kinds of Dancing	p. 200
Soviet Ballet: Vaganova and her Pupils	p. 231
Ballet Today	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 297
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