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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2011
      June 2007
      ISBN:
      9781139001625
      9780521832212
      9780521539869
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521832212
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.83kg, 396 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 396 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Dance, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
      Collection:
      The Cambridge Companions to Music
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Dance, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
    Collection:
    The Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Cambridge Companions to Music
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    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.

    Reviews

    ' … a stimulating read if your curiosity has already been aroused as to how and why ballet is like it is, and whether it has a future as well as a past.'

    Source: Dance Now

    'This volume has a place in the libraries of dance institutions, but history departments may find it of use, as will anyone with a keen interest in classical and modern dance.'

    Source: Reference Reviews

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