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Ballet Ballet History Ballets Stories, plots, etc Dance Performance Royal Ballet.Gruen, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1981
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 792.8 GRUHomans, Jennifer.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 HOMSummary: Discover more than 70 of the most famous ballet dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn the stories behind renowned companies such as The Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. Explore the lives and achievements of dancers across the centuries, such as Margot Fonteyn, Carlos Acosta, and Darcey Bussell. Meet composers and choreographers, from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Limited, DK, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018