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The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant.
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Kant, Marion.
- Description
- xli, 353 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- 'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge companions to music
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge companions online.
- Cambridge companions to music.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Stories, plots, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780521832212 (hbk.)
- 0521832217 (hbk.)
- 9780521539869 (pbk.)
- 0521539862 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007279496
- OCLC
- 81453064
- SCSB-11236785
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library