TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conyn,Cornelius
TI  - Three centuries of ballet: with eighty-four plates in half-tone 
AV  - GV1787 .C58
U1  - 792.809 20
PY  - 1948///
CY  - Sydney, Wellington
PB  - London, Australasian Pub. Co.
KW  - Ballet
KW  - History
N1  - Ch I. Cultural Development of the Dance; Origin ; Evolution ; Musical Interpretation ; Birth of Ballet ; Technical Foundations ; Coda --; Ch II. Classical and Romantic Ballet; What's in a Name? ; Ballet in its Infancy ; Development in Europe ; Aims of Classical Interpretation --; Ch III. Variations on a Ballet Theme; National Forms of ballet ; Transition ; Modern Expressionist Groups ; Future --; IV. The Diaghilev Era; The Company and its Leader ; The Three periods of the Ballet Russe ; The Artists ; Successors of the Ballet Russe --; V. The Twentieth Century; Revolt against Academic Principles ; Modern-Academic Ballet ; Pre-war Development ; Post-war Developments --; VI. Revolution in the Dance World; Greek dancing and Eurhthymics ; The Central-European Schools ; The Survivors --; VII. Followers of the Central-European Schools; The Europeans ; Combination of ballet and Folk-Dance ; Influence on Oriental Dancers --; VIII. Famous Ballet Dancers; The Rôle of the Dancer ; The Eighteenth Century ; The Nineteenth Century ; And up to our own Day --; IX. Choreography and Choreographers; Background ; The Master Choreographer ; Leonid Massine ; George Balanchine and Others --; X. Elements of the Stage Dance; Music ; Dance Style ; Décor ; Costume --; XI. Literature and the Ballet; Ballet and Dance Theatre ; Famous Ballet Themes ; Literary Values in Modern Ballet --; XII. The Dance in Spain; The Bull-fight considered as a Form of Ballet ; Regional Dancing ; The Gipsy Influence ; Modern Stage Dancing --; XIII. Creation of a Ballet; Initiation ; Collaboration ; Les Forces Errantes --; XIV. Epilogue: From Tribal Dance to Ballet Blanc; Dark Africa ; The Maori "Haka-Haka" ; Polynesian Rhythms ; The Royal Ballet of Java ; Trance Dancing in Bali ; Cuardro Flamenco ; Metropolitan Interlude ; Ballroom Dancing ; Au Revoir to Ballet
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