Ballet in western culture :
Lee, Carol, 1936-
Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution / Carol Lee - New York : Routledge, ©2002. - xiv, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-358) and index.
PART ONE : From folk expression to seventeenth-century court dance / PART TWO : Emergence of ballet as an art form - seventeenth to nineteenth century / PART THREE : The flourishing of ballet in the twentieth century / 1. Origins of dance -- 2. Renaissance spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- 4. Baroque ballet -- 5. The advancement of professional ballet -- 6. Growth and refinement of classical ballet -- 7. The foundations of romantic ballet -- 8. The romantic and post-romantic ballet -- 9. The evolution of ballet in Russia -- 10. Imperial Russian ballet -- 11. Sergei Diaghilev and the new dance -- 12. The Ballets Russes from the pursuit of the avant-garde to neoclassicism -- 13. Ballet in the twentieth century -- 14. The development of ballet in the United States.
9780415942577 0415942578
GBA2-70169
Ballet--History
792.809 / LEE
Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution / Carol Lee - New York : Routledge, ©2002. - xiv, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-358) and index.
PART ONE : From folk expression to seventeenth-century court dance / PART TWO : Emergence of ballet as an art form - seventeenth to nineteenth century / PART THREE : The flourishing of ballet in the twentieth century / 1. Origins of dance -- 2. Renaissance spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- 4. Baroque ballet -- 5. The advancement of professional ballet -- 6. Growth and refinement of classical ballet -- 7. The foundations of romantic ballet -- 8. The romantic and post-romantic ballet -- 9. The evolution of ballet in Russia -- 10. Imperial Russian ballet -- 11. Sergei Diaghilev and the new dance -- 12. The Ballets Russes from the pursuit of the avant-garde to neoclassicism -- 13. Ballet in the twentieth century -- 14. The development of ballet in the United States.
9780415942577 0415942578
GBA2-70169
Ballet--History
792.809 / LEE