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The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant.

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

'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.

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