TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Carol TI - Ballet in western culture: a history of its origins and evolution SN - 9780415942577 U1 - 792.809 21 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Ballet KW - History N1 - 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 ER -