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Author:   Carol Lee
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9780415942577

ISBN 10:   0415942578
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   09 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part One: From Folk Expression to Seventeenth Century Court Dance 1. Origins of Dance 2. Renaissance Spectacle in Italy 3. The Ballet de Cour in France. Part Two: Emergence of Ballet as an Art Form: Seventeenth to Ninteeenth Century 4. Baroque Ballet 5. The Advamncement of Professional Ballet 6. Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet 7. The Foundations of Romantic Ballet 8. The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet 9. The Evolution of Ballet in Russia 10. Imperial Russian Ballet Part Three: The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century 11. Sergie Diaghilev and the New Dance 12. The Ballet Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism 13. Ballet in the Twentieth Century 14. The Development of Ballet in the United States. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Ballets. Index

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Serves well as a basic foundation for my course devoted solely to ballet history. -- Angelika Gerbes, Professor of Ballet, Ohio State University The text is a good introduction to ballet history . . . it's a great reference source. -- Amy Stoddart, Professor of Dance History, University of Oregon An excellent ballet history book. -- Judith Bennahum, Department Chair, Dance History Program, University of New Mexico

Serves well as a basic foundation for my course devoted solely to ballet history. -- Angelika Gerbes, Professor of Ballet, Ohio State University The text is a good introduction to ballet history . . . it's a great reference source. -- Amy Stoddart, Professor of Dance History, University of Oregon An excellent ballet history book. -- Judith Bennahum, Department Chair, Dance History Program, University of New Mexico

Author Information

Carol Lee established the ballet program at Florida State University in 1965, and has also taught ballet as a guest professor at universities throughout the US and around the world. She has choreographed works for the Tampa Ballet.

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