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The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon. Dip in at random or trace the development of dance from cover to cover. Written by former Royal Ballet principal Deborah Bull and leading dance critic Luke Jennings, this ever popular Faber Pocket guide is a must for all ballet-goers - regulars and first-timers alike.
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Luke Jennings is the dance critic for The Observer and has written extensively about dance and contemporary culture for the New Yorker and in the UK press. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker and the author of several novels - Breach Candy (1993), Atlantic (1995) Beauty Story (1998) and of a personal memoir Blood Knots (2010).
Deborah Bull was a Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, noted particularly for her performances in the works of Forsythe and MacMillan. Formerly Creative Director of the Royal Opera House, she is now Director, Cultural partnerships at King's College London, as well as a writer and broadcaster. She has written and presented several programmes for BBC TV and radio, including the award-winning 'The Dancer's Body'. She is the author of The Vitality Plan (1998), Dancing Away (1998) and (with Luke Jennings) The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet (2004) and The Everyday Dancer (2011). She was awarded a CBE in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0571309747
- ISBN 13 9780571309740
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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