The Ballet Lover's Companion

The Ballet Lover's Companion

by Zoe Anderson
The Ballet Lover's Companion

The Ballet Lover's Companion

by Zoe Anderson

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Overview

This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern choreographers. She provides a wealth of facts and insights, including information familiar only to dance world insiders, and considers such recent works as Alexei Ramansky's Shostakovich Trilogy and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale as well as older ballets once forgotten but now returned to the repertory, such as Sylvia. To enhance enjoyment of each ballet, Anderson also offers tips on what to look for during a performance.
 
Each chapter introduces a period of ballet history and provides an overview of innovations and advancement in the art form. In the individual entries that follow, Anderson includes essential facts about each ballet’s themes, plot, composers, choreographers, dance style, and music. The author also addresses the circumstances of each ballet’s creation and its effect in the theater, and she recounts anecdotes that illuminate performance history and reception.
 
Reliable, accessible, and fully up to date, this book will delight anyone who attends the ballet, participates in ballet, or simply loves ballet and wants to know much more about it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300154290
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 05/29/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
File size: 679 KB

About the Author

Zoe Anderson is dance critic for The Independent and author of The Royal Ballet: 75 Years. She lives in London, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xii

A Glossary of Ballet Terms xiii

1 Ballet's Beginnings 1

2 The Romantic Ballet 6

3 Imperial Ballet 32

4 The Ballets Russes and After 67

5 National Ballets 114

6 Soviet Ballet 175

7 The Ballet Boom 205

8 International Ballet: Crossing Boundaries 270

Notes 334

Index of Ballet Titles 341

General Index 346

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