TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kant,Marion
TI  - The Cambridge companion to ballet
SN  - 9780521832212 (hbk.) 
U1  - 792.809 20
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ballet
KW  - History
KW  - Stories, plots, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet
ER  -