TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kant,Marion
TI  - The Cambridge companion to ballet
T2  - Cambridge companions to music
SN  - 0521832217
U1  - 792.809 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ballet
KW  - History
KW  - Stories, plots, etc
N1  - 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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