The Cambridge Companion to BalletMarion Kant Cambridge University Press, 7 jun 2007 - 353 páginas Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is not only one of its fascinations but one of the intriguing questions to be explored in this Companion. The essays reveal the conception, intent and underlying meaning of ballets and recreate the historical reality in which they emerged. The reader will find new and unexpected aspects of ballet, its history and its aesthetics, the evolution of plot and narrative, new insights into the reality of training, the choice of costume and the transformation of an old art in a modern world. |
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Introduction Marion Kant | 1 |
Ballet de cour Marina Nordera 19 | 19 |
English masques Barbara Ravelhofer 32 | 32 |
the ballet daction of | 53 |
John Weaver and the Enlightenment | 78 |
The French Revolution and its spectacles Inge Baxmann 98 | 98 |
18301850 Sarah Davis Cordova 113 | 113 |
the women in the Danish romantic | 126 |
The soul of the shoe Marion Kant 184 | 184 |
the Ballets Suédois and its modernist | 201 |
George Balanchine Matilde Butkas 224 | 224 |
Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism Juliet Bellow 237 | 237 |
ballets sinicisation | 256 |
European ballet in the age of ideologies Marion Kant 272 | 272 |
Notes 291 | 291 |
Bibliography and further reading 311 | 311 |
Russian ballet in the age of Petipa Lynn Garafola 151 | 151 |
Tchaikovskys ballet | 164 |
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