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Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
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Ballet -- Encyclopedias.
Ballet dancers -- Biography.
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Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
Ballet -- Encyclopedias.
Ballet dancers -- Biography.
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The encyclopedia of
world
ballet
/ Mary Ellen Snodgrass.
by
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Call #:
792.803 S673e
Subjects
Ballet
-- Encyclopedias.
Ballet
dancers -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781442245259 (hc.)
Alternate title:
World
ballet
Description:
xxi, 377 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration (some color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index.
Summary:
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 and 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.
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