The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge companions to musicPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xli, 353 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521832217
- 9780521832212
- 0521539862
- 9780521539869
- 792.809 22
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792.808996073 KRA Choreographing the folk : the dance stagings of Zora Neale Hurston / | 792.808996073 MAN Modern dance, Negro dance : race in motion / | 792.809 BUS Bust a move : dance crazes through the ages / | 792.809 CAM The Cambridge companion to ballet / | 792.809 DAN Dance as a theatre art : source readings in dance history from 1581 to the present / | 792.809 DAN Dance as a theatre art : source readings in dance history from 1581 to the present / | 792.809 GUE The Paris Opéra ballet / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. From the Renaissance to the baroque : royal power and worldly display -- 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 -- Pt. II. The eighteenth century : revolutions in technique and spirit -- 5. Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / Dorion Weickmann -- 6. The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalisation 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-Bennahum -- 9. The French revolution and its spectacles / Inge Baxmann -- Pt. III. Romantic ballet : ballet is a woman -- 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 / Therese Hurley -- 15. The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / Lucia Ruprecht -- 16. The soul of the shoe / Marion Kant -- Pt. IV. The twentieth century : tradition becomes modern -- 17. The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballets Suedois and its modernist concept / Erik Naslund -- 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.
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