The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521832217 ISBN 13: 9780521832212

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This Companion traces the evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century. An international team of writers discuss important and interesting aspects of a much beloved art form that has many friends but few historical reference books.

About the Author:

Marion Kant teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521832217
• ISBN 13: 9780521832212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Kant Marion