Ballet Beyond Tradition

Paskevska, Anna

ISBN 10: 0415970180 / ISBN 13: 9780415970181

Published by Routledge, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ballet Beyond Tradition
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415970180
• ISBN 13: 9780415970181
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and control that comes only from years of progressive training.

Ballet Beyond Tradition seeks to reconcile these age-old conflicts and bring a new awareness to ballet teachers of the importance of a holistic training regimen that draws on the best that modern dance and movement-studies offers.

About the Author

Anna Paskevska is the author of one of the best-regarded books on kinesiology and dance, Both Sides of the Mirror, first published in 1982, and issued in a 2nd edition in 1992. She also is the author of Ballet: From the FirstPlié to Mastery, a syllabus for ballet teaching (Routledge, 2002). She is past Chair of the Dance Department at the Chicago Academy of Arts.