Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution /
Carol Lee.
- xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- From Folk Expression to Seventeenth-Century Court Dance -- Origins of Dance -- Renaissance Spectacle in Italy -- The Ballet de Cour in France -- Emergence of Ballet as an Art form: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century -- Baroque Ballet -- The Advancement of Professional Ballet -- Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet -- The Foundations of Romantic Ballet -- The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet -- The Evolution of Ballet in Russia -- Imperial Russian Ballet -- The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century -- Sergei Diaghilev and the New Dance -- The Ballets Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism -- Ballet in the Twentieth Century -- The Development of Ballet in the United States -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Ballets -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. Pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. 3. 11. 12. 13. 14.