The Cambridge companion to ballet /
The Cambridge companion to ballet /
edited by Marion Kant.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2007
- xli, 353 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I - From the Renaissance to the baroque : 1. The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / 2. Ballet de cour / 3. English masques / 4. The baroque body / PART II - The eighteenth century : 5. Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / 6. The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalism of an art form / 7. The making of history : John Weaver and the enlightenment / 8. Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / 9. The French Revolution and its spectacles / PART III - Romantic ballet : 10. Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / 11. Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / 12. The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / 13. Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / 14. Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / 15. The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / 16. The soul of the shoe / PART IV - The twentieth century : 17. The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / 18. The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century / 19. George Balanchine / 20. Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / 21. The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / 22. From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / 23. Giselle in a Cuban accent / 24. European ballet in the age of ideologies / Jennifer Nevile -- Marina Nordera -- Barbara Ravelhofer -- Mark Franko -- Dorion Weickmann -- Sandra Noll Hammond -- Tim Blanning -- Judith Chazin-Benahum -- Inge Baxmann -- Sarah Davis Cordova -- Anne Middleboe Christensen -- Marian E. Smith -- Lynn Garafola -- Thérèse Hurley -- Lucia Ruprecht -- Marion Kant -- Erik Näslund -- Tim Scholl -- Matilde Butkas -- Juliet Bellow -- Jennifer Fisher -- Zheng Yangwen -- Lester Tome -- Marion Kant.
'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.
9780521832212 (hbk.) 0521832217 (hbk.) 9780521539869 (pbk.) 0521539862 (pbk.)
Ballet --History
Ballet--Stories, plots, etc.
792.809 / KAN
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I - From the Renaissance to the baroque : 1. The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / 2. Ballet de cour / 3. English masques / 4. The baroque body / PART II - The eighteenth century : 5. Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / 6. The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalism of an art form / 7. The making of history : John Weaver and the enlightenment / 8. Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / 9. The French Revolution and its spectacles / PART III - Romantic ballet : 10. Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / 11. Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / 12. The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / 13. Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / 14. Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / 15. The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / 16. The soul of the shoe / PART IV - The twentieth century : 17. The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / 18. The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century / 19. George Balanchine / 20. Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / 21. The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / 22. From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / 23. Giselle in a Cuban accent / 24. European ballet in the age of ideologies / Jennifer Nevile -- Marina Nordera -- Barbara Ravelhofer -- Mark Franko -- Dorion Weickmann -- Sandra Noll Hammond -- Tim Blanning -- Judith Chazin-Benahum -- Inge Baxmann -- Sarah Davis Cordova -- Anne Middleboe Christensen -- Marian E. Smith -- Lynn Garafola -- Thérèse Hurley -- Lucia Ruprecht -- Marion Kant -- Erik Näslund -- Tim Scholl -- Matilde Butkas -- Juliet Bellow -- Jennifer Fisher -- Zheng Yangwen -- Lester Tome -- Marion Kant.
'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.
9780521832212 (hbk.) 0521832217 (hbk.) 9780521539869 (pbk.) 0521539862 (pbk.)
Ballet --History
Ballet--Stories, plots, etc.
792.809 / KAN