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Title:

The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xli, 353 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Ballet.
Ballet--History.
Ballet--Stories, plots, etc.
Ballet.
Ballet--Histoire.
Ballet--Histoires, intrigues, etc.

Other Authors:

Kant, Marion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / Jennifer Nevile -- Ballet de cour / Marina Nordera -- English masques / Barbara Ravelhofer -- The baroque body / Mark Franko -- Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / Dorion Weickmann -- The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalism of an art form / Sandra Noll Hammond -- The making of history : John Weaver and the enlightenment / Tim Blanning -- Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / Judith Chazin-Benahum -- The French Revolution and its spectacles / Inge Baxmann -- Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / Sarah Davis Cordova -- Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / Anne Middleboe Christensen -- The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / Marian E. Smith -- Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / Lynn Garafola -- Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / Thérèse Hurley -- The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / Lucia Ruprecht -- The soul of the shoe / Marion Kant -- The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / Erik Näslund -- The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century Tim Scholl -- George Balanchine / Matilde Butkas -- Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / Juliet Bellow -- The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / Jennifer Fisher -- From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / Zheng Yangwen -- Giselle in a Cuban accent / Lester Tome -- European ballet in the age of ideologies / Marion Kant.

Series:

Cambridge companions to music

ISBN:

0521539862 (pbk.)
9780521539869 (pbk.)
0521832217 (hbk.)
9780521832212 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007279496

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk) — 792.809 C178c