Authors: Carol Lee, Lee Carol
ISBN-13: 9780415942577, ISBN-10: 0415942578
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Carol Lee established the ballet program at Florida State University in 1965, and has also taught ballet as a guest professor at universities throughout the US and around the world. She has choreographed works for the Tampa Ballet.
Ballet in Western Culture is a history of the development of ballet designed for dance history courses. After a brief discussion of the origins of dance through the middle ages, the author then traces the beginnings of ballet to Renaissance spectacle in Italy and the beginnings of ballet in France. In the second part of the book, the maturation of ballet as a style is studied, from the 1600s through the 1800s, in France, Russia, and other major European countries. Finally, the last part of the book focuses on the changes in ballet through the 20th century, including major movements in the U.S. and Europe. Nicely illustrated with historic prints and photos, the book is easy to read and ideally suited to the dance history student, addressing both historical issues and the evolution of ballet technique.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Pt. 1 | From Folk Expression to Seventeenth-Century Court Dance | |
1 | Origins of Dance | 1 |
2 | Renaissance Spectacle in Italy | 24 |
3 | The Ballet de Cour in France | 37 |
Pt. 2 | Emergence of Ballet as an Art form: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century | |
4 | Baroque Ballet | 65 |
5 | The Advancement of Professional Ballet | 86 |
6 | Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet | 102 |
7 | The Foundations of Romantic Ballet | 133 |
8 | The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet | 164 |
9 | The Evolution of Ballet in Russia | 181 |
10 | Imperial Russian Ballet | 201 |
Pt. 3 | The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century | |
11 | Sergei Diaghilev and the New Dance | 226 |
12 | The Ballets Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism | 254 |
13 | Ballet in the Twentieth Century | 277 |
14 | The Development of Ballet in the United States | 312 |
Chronology | 340 | |
Glossary | 346 | |
Bibliography | 355 | |
Ballets | 359 | |
Index | 362 |