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A History of Ballet
Random House Trade Paperbacks
December 2011
On Sale: November 29, 2011
672 pages
ISBN: 0812968743
EAN: 9780812968743
Kindle: B003EY7IH2
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Non-Fiction
For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has
stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions
serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and
beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history
of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From
ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of
its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV
(himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through
the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St.
Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught
their art to a generation in the United States and in
Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation
of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former
professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of
dedicated practice.
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