The Cambridge companion to ballet.
The Cambridge companion to ballet.
Esta guía muestra la evolución del ballet como un arte teatral desde el siglo XV hasta el siglo XX.
Contenido:
Foreword Ivor Guest; Chronology; Introduction Marion Kant; Part I. From the Renaissance to the Baroque: Royal Power and Worldly Display: 1. The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet: a basis for Italian, French and English ballet Jennifer Nevile; 2. Ballet de Cour Marina Nordera; 3. English masques Barbara Ravelhofer; 4. The Baroque body Mark Franko; Part II. The Eighteenth Century: Revolutions in Technique and Spirit: 5. Choreography and narrative: the ballet d’action of the eighteenth century Dorion Weickmann; 6. The rise of ballet technique and training: the professionalism of an art form Sandra Noll Hammond; 7. The making of history: John Weaver and the enlightenment Tim Blanning; 8. Jean-Georges Noverre: dance and reform Judith Chazin-Benahum; 9. The French Revolution and its spectacles Inge Baxmann; Part III. Romantic Ballet: Ballet is a Woman: 10. Romantic ballet in France: 1830-1850 Sarah Davis Cordova; 11. Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids: the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville Anne Middlebo Christensen; 12. The orchestra as translator: French nineteenth-century ballet Marian E. Smith; 13. Russian ballet in the age of Petipa Lynn Garafola; 14. Opening the door to a fairy tale world: Tchaikovsky’s ballet music Thérèse Hurley; 15. The romantic ballet and its critics: dance goes public Lucia Ruprecht; 16. The soul of the shoe Marion Kant; Part IV. The Twentieth Century: Tradition Becomes Modern: 17. The ballet avant-garde I: the Ballet Suedois and its modernist concept Erik Näslund; 18. The ballet avant-garde II: the ‘new’ ballet: Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century Tim Scholl; 19. George Balanchine Matilda Butkas; 20. Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism Juliet Bellow; 21. The Nutcracker: a cultural icon Jennifer Fisher; 22. From Swan Lake to Red Girl’s Regiment: ballet’s sinicisation Yangwen Zhen; 23. Giselle in a Cuban accent Lester Tome; 24. European ballet in the age of ideologies Marion Kant.
Contributors
Ivor Guest, Marion Kant, Jennifer Nevile, Marina Nordera, Barbara Ravelhofer, Mark Franko, Dorion Weickmann, Sandra Noll Hammond, Tim Blanning, Judith Chazin-Benahum, Inge Baxmann, Sarah Davis Cordova, Anne Middlebo Christensen, Marian E. Smith, Lynn Garafola, Thérèse Hurley, Lucia Ruprecht, Erik Näslund, Tim Scholl, Matilda Butkas, Juliet Bellow, Jennifer Fisher, Yangwen Zhen, Lester Tome.
Cambridge, 2007. 394 pp. Encuadernación en rústica. Idioma: inglés.