On Wings of Joy : The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today.
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On Wings of Joy : The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today.
Yazar:
Garfunkel, Trudy.
ISBN:
9781497634411
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (237 pages)
İçerik:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I: The Origins of Ballet -- Overture -- Chapter 1 A Ballet Fit for a Queen -- Chapter 2 A Dancing King Founds a Dancing School -- Part II The Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 3Some Modest Attempts at Change -- Chapter 4 The Father of Modern Ballet andHis Followers -- Part III The Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5 The Revolution of Romanticism -- Chapter 6 The Birth of Romantic Ballet -- Chapter 7 Fairy Sprites and Fiery Beauties -- Chapter 8 A Ballet Called Giselle -- Chapter 9 A Choreographer from the North -- Chapter 10 A Teacher from the South -- Chapter 11 The Closing Years of the Romantic Era -- Chapter 12 Servants of the Czar -- Chapter 13 Petipa and the Flowering of Russian Ballet -- Chapter 14 The Sleeping Beauty -- Chapter 15 A Nutcracker Prince and a Swan Queen -- Part IV The Twentieth Century -- Chapter 16 The Rebel -- Chapter 17 The Impresario -- Chapter 18 Astonish Me! -- Chapter 19 A New Protégé and an Old Ballet -- Chapter 20 After the War -- Chapter 21 The Immortal Pavlova -- Chapter 22 Enter Balanchine -- Chapter 23 The 1930s -- Chapter 24 Ballet in England -- Chapter 25 Englands Radiant Princess and Russias Leaping Lion -- Chapter 26 Ballet in America: -- Chapter 27 But First a School -- Chapter 28 Ballet to Broadway and Back Again -- Chapter 29 And Now a Home -- Chapter 30 A Dance Explosion -- Chapter 31 Responsive to Our Times -- Chapter 32 The Eighties, Nineties and Beyond -- Coda -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Copyright.
Özet:
Trudy Garfunkel, is the author of three books on dance: "Letter to the World: The Life and Dances of Martha Graham", "Start Exploring Ballet", and "On Wings of Joy: The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today"; and a consumer's guide with recipes, "The Kosher Companion". Her essay on Martha Graham appears in "The Oxford Companion to United States History". A public relations, marketing and editorial consultant, she has worked with many authors, artists, photographers, publishing companies, nonprofit and arts organizations, museums, and dance companies.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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