Style notes -- Overture -- Chapter 1. Prologue -- Chapter 2. The travelling dancer -- Chapter 3. Russian debut -- Chapter 4. Looking back, moving forward -- Chapter 5. Ballet wars, real and imagined -- Chapter 6. Questions of style and structure -- Chapter 7. At home and at work -- Chapter 8. The Vsevolozhsky reforms -- Chapter 9. Big music, big dance -- Chapter 10. Enter Vladimir Teliakovsky -- Apotheosis -- Appendices -- The chain of command -- The Petipa Family -- List of works -- Illustrations -- Archives and libraries
Summary
This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa -- creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake -- tells the full story of his life and work in the remarkable context in which he lived
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 8, 2020)
