Research Catalog

Title

The romantic ballet in England, its development, fulfilment, and decline.

Author

Guest, Ivor, 1920-2018.

Publication

London : Phoenix House, [1954]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Lincoln Kirstein Collection.

Subjects

• Ballet
• England
• Dance > Great Britain
• Perrot, Jules, 1810-1892
• Great Britain
• Ballet > England > History
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Contents

Approach to maturity -- Perfecting the illusion -- Two pre-romantic choreographers: D'Egville and Didelot -- Ballet in the post-war years -- The renaissance of the ballet under Ebers -- Maria Mercandotti, the Andalusian Venus -- The dawn of the golden age -- Marie Taglioni, La Déesse de la Danse -- Fanny Elssler, the incomparable dancer-mime -- Pauline Duvernay, Thackeray's vision of loveliness -- Fanny Cerrito, the enchantress of London -- Benjamin Lumley, the great impresario -- Jules Perrot, the flaxman of the ballet -- Two Giselles, Grisi and Elssler -- La Esmeralda -- The Pas de quatre: the romantic ballet at its most sublime -- Some pages of scandal -- The Viennese children -- Visitors from Spain -- Alfred Bunn and the ballet: Clara Webster, Fuoco, Blasis -- Some English dancers -- The end of an era.

Call Number

*MGTB (English) (Guest, I. Romantic ballet in England. 1954)

LCCN

55000354

OCLC

306787

Author

Guest, Ivor, 1920-2018.

Title

The romantic ballet in England, its development, fulfilment, and decline.

Imprint

London : Phoenix House, [1954]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed Term

Ballet England History

Dance Great Britain

Other Form:

Online version: Guest, Ivor Forbes. Romantic ballet in England, its development, fulfilment, and decline. London, Phoenix House [1954] (OCoLC)647702022

Research Call Number

*MGTB (English) (Guest, I. Romantic ballet in England. 1954)

*R-*MGTB (English) Additional copy. Cia Fornaroli Collection.