Apollo's angels :a history of ballet
- 作者: Homans, Jennifer,
- 出版: New York : Random House ©2010.
- 版本: 1st ed.
- 稽核項: xxv, 643 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations (some color) ;25 cm.
- 標題: Dance , Ballet , Ballet History. , History. , Dance History.
- ISBN: 0812968743 , 9780812968743
- ISBN: 9780679603900 , 0679603905
- 附註: 100年度教育部「獎勵大學教學卓越計畫」購藏. 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界. Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-612) and index. Introduction : Masters and traditions -- pt. 1. France and the classical origins of ballet -- Kings of dance -- The Enlightenment and the story ballet -- The French Revolution in ballet -- Romantic illusions and the rise of the ballerina -- Scandinavian orthodoxy : the Danish style -- Italian heresy : pantomime, virtuosity, and Italian ballet -- pt. 2. Light from the East : Russian worlds of art -- Tsars of dance : imperial Russian classicism -- East goes West : Russian Modernism and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes -- Left behind? : Communist ballet from Stalin to Brezhnev -- Alone in Europe : the British moment -- The American century I : Russian beginnings -- The American century II : The New York scene -- Epilogue : The masters are dead and gone.
- 摘要: Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. 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. Jennifer Homans, a historian and critic who was also a professional dancer, traces the evolution of technique, choreography, and performance in clear prose, drawing readers into the intricacies of the art with vivid descriptions of dances and the artists who made them.--From publisher description.
- 系統號: 005047910
- 資料類型: 圖書
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.” NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • LOS ANGELES TIMES • SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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