Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution / Carol Lee.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0205274390
- 9780205274390
- 792.809
- GV1787. L3197 1999
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792.809 GUE The Paris Opéra ballet / | 792.809 KAS History of dance : an interactive arts approach / | 792.809 KIN Writing in motion : body--language--technology / | 792.809 LEE Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution / | 792.809 MOV Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader / | 792.809 ORI The origins of the Bolero School / | 792.809 PRE Dance for export : cultural diplomacy and the Cold War / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Pt. 1. From Folk Expression to Seventeenth-Century Court Dance -- 1. Origins of Dance -- 2. Renaissance Spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Ballets -- Index.
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