Encyclopedia of World Ballet
written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 1944- (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015, originally published 2015), 421 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling ballet to thrive and delight audiences all over the globe. In The Encyclopedia of World Ballet, Mary Ellen Snodgrass surveys the emergence of ballet from ancient Asian models to the present, providing overviews of rhythmic movement as a subject of art, photography, and cinema. Entries in this volume reveal the nature and purpose of ballet, detailing specifics about leaders in classic design and style, influential costumers and companies, and trends in technique, partnering, variation, and liturgical execution. This reference covers: Choreographers Composers Costumers Dance companies Dancers Productions Set designers Techniques Terminology Among the principal figures included here are Alvin Ailey, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pierre Beauchamp, Sergei Diaghilev, Agnes DeMille, Nacho Duato, Isadora Duncan, Boris Eifman, Mats Ek, Erté, Martha Graham, Inigo Jones, Louis XIV, Amalia Hernández Navarro, Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Agrippina Vaganova. This work also features dance companies from the Americas, Australia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and Vietnam. Productions include such universal narrative favorites as Coppélia, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Scheherazade, Firebird, and Swan Lake. Featuring a chronology that identifies key events and figures, this volume highlights significant developments in stage presentations over the centuries. The Encyclopedia of World Ballet will serve general readers, dance instructors, and enthusiasts from middle school through college as well as professional coaches and performers, troupe directors, journalists, and historians of the arts.
- Field of Interest
- Dance
- Author
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 1944-
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield
- Content Type
- General reference book
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Sub Genre
- Ballet
- Original Publication Date
- 2015
- Page Count
- 421
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Place Published / Released
- Lanham, MD
- Subject
- Dance, Music & Performing Arts, History and Philosophy of Dance, Choreographers, Dance performances, Dance companies, Dancers, Dance and dancing, Ballet, História e Filosofia da Dança, Historia y Filosofía de la Danza
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- História e Filosofia da Dança, Historia y Filosofía de la Danza