Ballet And Modern Dance

Description

Dance's extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the contemporary dance world.

A generous selection of illustrations completes the picture, taking the reader from the dancing of Louis XIV's court to the experimental choreography of today.

For this third edition, Philadelphia-based dance critic James Rutter has written a new introduction and a revised and extended final chapter, "Moving into the New Millennium."

Reviews

Will be of benefit to all dance lovers.

Author description

Dance historian and author Susan Au was an archivist, dance historian and writer; James Rutter is a freelance arts critic and former lecturer based in Philadelphia.

Table of contents

Introduction (new, by JR); 1. A Most Obedient Servant; 2. The Rise of Professionalism; 3. The Development of the Ballet d'Action; 4. Ascent and Descent; 5. Crystallization and Ferment in Russia; 6. First Steps towards a New Form; 7. 'Astonish Me'; 8. Truly Modern; 9. The Decentralization of Ballet; 10. The Metamorphosis of Growth; 11. A Time of Growth; 12. Moving into the New Millennium (revised and extended by JR); Endmatter.