 The Cambridge companion to ballet.
Author: Kant, Marion Published: 2007 The evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century, discussed in a series of essays by some major and very well chosen contributors, and covering many new and unexpected aspects of ballet, its history and aesthetics, its evolution of plot and narrative, etc. The 24 sections include Jennifer Nevile on early dance manuals, Mark Franko on the baroque body, Sandra Noll Hammond on the rise of ballet technique, Judith Chazin-Bennahum on Noverre, Marian E Smith on French nineteenth-century ballet, Lynn Garafola on Russian ballet in the age of Petipa, Erik Näslund and Tim Scholl on 20th century avant-garde ballet, and Marion Kant on European ballet in the age of ideologies. An essential purchase for anyone interested in the history of ballet. |
