Description |
xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
A history of the development of ballet from the origins of dance through the 20th century |
Notes |
Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, 1999 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index |
Subject |
Ballet -- History.
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Dance -- History.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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ISBN |
041594256X cased |
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0415942578 paperback |
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