Lee, Carol,  1936- <br/><br/>
Ballet in western culture :  a history of its origins and evolution / 
Carol Lee 
 - New York :  Routledge,  ©2002. 
 - xiv, 368 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-358) and index.  
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415942577 0415942578 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label> GBA2-70169  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ballet--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.809  / LEE