Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and EvolutionFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Foreword | |
Origins of Dance 1 | |
Summary 21 | |
Domenico da Piacenza Antonio Cornazano | |
The Ballet de Cour in France 37 | 9 |
Art Power and the Divine Right | 19 |
Louis XII as Demigod 48 | 19 |
The Advent of Public Theaters 58 | 19 |
The Evolution of Ballet in Russia 181 | 23 |
Father of Russian Ballet 188 | 23 |
Romanticism in Russia 195 | 23 |
Imperial Russian Ballet 201 | 23 |
Italian Ballerinas in the Imperial Ballet 208 | 23 |
Part Three | 283 |
Ballet Returns to the West 230 | 283 |
The Influence of Isadora Duncan 236 | 283 |
Baroque Ballet 65 | 19 |
JeanBaptiste Lully 72 | 19 |
EighteenthCentury Writings on Ballet 79 | 19 |
Ballet in England 91 | 19 |
The Ballet in Vienna 98 | 23 |
Other EighteenthCentury Choreographers 112 | 23 |
Revolutionary Ballets 118 | 23 |
The Vestris Family 124 | 23 |
The foundations of Romantic Ballet 133 | 23 |
The Creators 145 | 23 |
Giselle 153 | 23 |
Summary 160 | 23 |
August Bournonville 167 | 23 |
The Permanent Establishment of the Ballets Russes 242 | 31 |
The Ballets Russes Visits the New World 249 | 45 |
The Ballets Russes in America 255 | 57 |
Surrealist and Constructivist Experiments in Ballet 269 | 85 |
Ballet in the Twentieth Century 277 | 101 |
Ballet in Soviet Russia 301 | 149 |
Summary 309 | 165 |
Ballet in Colonial American Cities 315 | 177 |
Chronology 340 | 227 |
Glossary 346 | 239 |
Bibliography 355 | 257 |
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