The Cambridge companion to ballet / 
edited by Marion Kant. 
 - xli, 353 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
 - Cambridge companions to music .
 - Cambridge companions to music. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> From the Renaissance to the baroque : royal power and worldly display --  The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet /  Ballet de cour /  English masques /  The baroque body /  The eighteenth century : revolutions in technique and spirit --  Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century /  The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalisation of an art form /  The making of history : John Weaver and the Enlightenment /  Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform /  The French revolution and its spectacles /  Romantic ballet : ballet is a woman --  Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 /  Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville /  The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet /  Russian ballet in the age of Petipa /  Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music /  The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public /  The soul of the shoe /  The twentieth century : tradition becomes modern --  The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballets Suedois and its modernist concept /  The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century /  George Balanchine /  Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism /  The nutcracker : a cultural icon /  From Swan Lake to Red girl's regiment : ballet's sinicisation /  Giselle in a Cuban accent /  European ballet in the age of ideologies /  Jennifer Nevile --  Marina Nordera --  Barbara Ravelhofer --  Mark Franko --  Dorion Weickmann --  Sandra Noll Hammond --  Tim Blanning --  Judith Chazin-Bennahum --  Inge Baxmann --  Sarah Davis Cordova --  Anne Middleboe Christensen --  Marian E. Smith --  Lynn Garafola --  Therese Hurley --  Lucia Ruprecht --  Marion Kant --  Erik Naslund --  Tim Scholl --  Matilde Butkas --  Juliet Bellow --  Jennifer Fisher --  Zheng Yangwen --  Lester Tome --  Marion Kant.  Pt. I.  1.  2.  3.  4.  Pt. II.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  Pt. III.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  Pt. IV.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  22.  23.  24. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521832217 9780521832212 0521539862 9780521539869 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ballet<br/>Ballet--History<br/>Ballet--Stories, plots, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.809