The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (Cambridge Companions to Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521539862 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 396 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Marion Kant teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.. The essays reveal the conception, intent and underlying meaning of ballets and recreate the historical reality in which they emerged. 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. Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it
' 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.' 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.' Reference Reviews