TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Carol TI - Ballet in western culture: a history of its origins and evolution SN - 0205274390 AV - GV1787. L3197 1999 U1 - 792.809 PY - 1999///] CY - Boston PB - Allyn and Bacon KW - Ballet KW - History KW - Dance N1 - 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 ER -