The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

✍ Scribed by Deborah Bull, Luke Jennings

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Series: Faber Pocket Guides
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art, is a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today. Spanning nearly two centuries of classical dancing, this indispensable book begins in the Romantic era of the 1830s, moves through the great Tchaikovskly ballets of Tsarist St Petersburg, to the inspirational work of Diaghilev at the beginning of the twentieth century and the luminous neo-classicism of Balanchine. Ashton and Macmillan are covered in depth, and the most recent ground-breaking work brings us up to the present day.

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