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The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet
Bull, Deborah; Jennings, Luke
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Description for The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet
Paperback.
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 Tchaikovsky 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.
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 Tchaikovsky 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571207244
SKU
V9780571207244
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-21
About Bull, Deborah; Jennings, Luke
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 of 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, ... Read more
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