Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution / Carol Lee

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, ©2002.Description: xiv, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415942577
  • 0415942578
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.809 LEE
Contents:
PART ONE : From folk expression to seventeenth-century court dance / 1. Origins of dance -- 2. Renaissance spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- PART TWO : Emergence of ballet as an art form - seventeenth to nineteenth century / 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 -- PART THREE : The flourishing of ballet in the twentieth century / 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-358) and index.

PART ONE : From folk expression to seventeenth-century court dance / 1. Origins of dance -- 2. Renaissance spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- PART TWO : Emergence of ballet as an art form - seventeenth to nineteenth century / 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 -- PART THREE : The flourishing of ballet in the twentieth century / 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.

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