The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

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.

Author: Marion Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 396
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521539869

About the Author
Kant, Marion: - Marion Kant teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

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