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The Cambridge Companion to Ballet by Marion Kant - ISBN: 9780521539869
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This Companion traces the evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century. An international team of writers discuss important and interesting aspects of a much beloved art form that has many friends but few historical reference books.

The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

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    396 pages

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    7 June 2007

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Summary

Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived ‘safe’ nature is not only one of its fascinations but one of the intriguing questions to be explored in this Compa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780521539869
ISBN-10:0521539862
Author:Marion Kant
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:396
Edition:1st
Release Date:7 June 2007
Weight:640g
Dimensions:241mm x 168mm x 18mm
Series:Cambridge Companions to Music
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’ … a stimulating read if your curiosity has already been aroused asto how and why ballet is like it is, and whether it has a future as well as a past.’ Dance Now

About The Author

Marion Kant

Marion Kant teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

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