Ballet : an illustrated history / Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : A. and C. Black, 1974, ©1973.Description: 245 p. : 253 ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0713613424
  • 9780713613421
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.809 CLA
LOC classification:
  • GV1787 .C562 1974
Contents:
Preface -- General Bibliography -- 1. How It All Began -- 2. The Age of Reason and Technique -- 3. The Romantic Movement -- 4. Marius Petipa and the Imperial Russian Ballet -- 5. Émigrés: Diaghilev and Pavlova -- 6. Bridging the Gap: The Baby Ballerinas -- 7. The Building of the British Ballet -- 8. America: Two Kinds of Dancing -- 9. Soviet Ballet: Vaganova and Her Pupils -- 10. Today's Ballet.
Summary: "This concise history of the ballet combines an intelligent and meticulously-researched text with a profusion of attractive and unhackneyed photographs, while the detailed captions to the illustrations are an essential complement to both. It charts the emergence of the art from the Renaissance courts to its arrival in the professional theatre in the eighteenth century, and follows the expansion of dancing techniques from the early dancing masters through the Romantic period and the golden age of the ballerina to the late nineteenth-century masterpieces of the Russian ballet, the glories of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe and the remarkable expansion of ballet in our time in Europe and America. The result will prove not only an invaluable guide to those who are discovering the pleasures of ballet and want to know more of its background. but also a useful companion for all ballet lovers. There is an index, and full lists of further reading at the end of each chapter, as signposts for those who wish to study in greater depth." -- Book Jacket
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792.809 CAS Dancing through history / 792.809 CLA Ballet : 792.809 CLA Introducing ballet / 792.809 CLA Ballet : 792.809 COH Dance as a theatre art : 792.809 COH Dance as a theatre art : 792.809 CON Three centuries of ballet :

Includes bibliographical references

Preface -- General Bibliography -- 1. How It All Began -- 2. The Age of Reason and Technique -- 3. The Romantic Movement -- 4. Marius Petipa and the Imperial Russian Ballet -- 5. Émigrés: Diaghilev and Pavlova -- 6. Bridging the Gap: The Baby Ballerinas -- 7. The Building of the British Ballet -- 8. America: Two Kinds of Dancing -- 9. Soviet Ballet: Vaganova and Her Pupils -- 10. Today's Ballet.

"This concise history of the ballet combines an intelligent and meticulously-researched text with a profusion of attractive and unhackneyed photographs, while the detailed captions to the illustrations are an essential complement to both. It charts the emergence of the art from the Renaissance courts to its arrival in the professional theatre in the eighteenth century, and follows the expansion of dancing techniques from the early dancing masters through the Romantic period and the golden age of the ballerina to the late nineteenth-century masterpieces of the Russian ballet, the glories of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe and the remarkable expansion of ballet in our time in Europe and America. The result will prove not only an invaluable guide to those who are discovering the pleasures of ballet and want to know more of its background. but also a useful companion for all ballet lovers. There is an index, and full lists of further reading at the end of each chapter, as signposts for those who wish to study in greater depth." -- Book Jacket

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