Ballet and Modern Dance

ISBN-13: 9780500204115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str.

Opis

Dance's extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the contemporary dance world.A generous selection of illustrations completes the picture, taking the reader from the dancing of Louis XIV's court to the experimental choreography of today.For this third edition, Philadelphia-based dance critic James Rutter has written a new introduction and a revised and extended final chapter, "Moving into the New Millennium."

Recenzje

'Immediately readable and impressively panoramic...with a wealth of illustrations and newly-researched detail' - Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction (new, by JR) - 1. A Most Obedient Servant - 2. The Rise of Professionalism - 3. The Development of the Ballet d'Action - 4. Ascent and Descent - 5. Crystallization and Ferment in Russia - 6. First Steps towards a New Form - 7. 'Astonish Me' - 8. Truly Modern - 9. The Decentralization of Ballet - 10. The Metamorphosis of Growth - 11. A Time of Growth - 12. Moving into the New Millennium (revised and extended by JR) - Endmatter

O autorze

Dance historian and author Susan Au was an archivist, dance historianand writer; James Rutter is a freelance arts critic and former lecturerbased in Philadelphia.