| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I. Traditional Ballets -- Romanticism -- La Sylphide -- Giselle -- Pas de Quatre -- Classicism -- La Bayadere -- The Sleeping Beauty -- The Nutcracker -- Swan Lake -- The classical pas de deux -- Le Corsaire -- Don Quixote -- Spring Waters -- Comedy Ballets -- la Fille Mal Gardee -- Coppelia -- Traditional ballets of the twentieth century -- Romeo and Juliet -- Cinderella -- II. Early Ballet Rebels -- The legacy of Diaghilev -- Michel Fokine -- Vaslav Nijinsky -- III. Modern Ballets -- Ballet since Diaghilev -- Frederick Ashton -- George Balanchine -- Todd Bolender -- Ruthanna Boris -- Agnes De Mille -- Kurt Jooss -- David Lichine -- Eugene Loring -- Jerome Robbins -- Antony Tudor -- IV. Modern and Contemporary Dance -- Martha Graham -- Doris Humphrey -- Jose Limon -- Anna Sokolow -- Merce Cunningham -- Alvin Ailey -- Paul Taylor -- Twyla Tharp. |
| Subject |
Ballets -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Ballet -- History.
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Modern dance -- History.
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| Added Author |
Reimer-Torn, Susan, author.
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| ISBN |
0517539926: $19.95 |
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9780517539927 |
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