Filter By Subjects
Ballet History HISTORY General PERFORMING ARTS Dance Classical PERFORMING ARTS GeneralFilter By Authors
Homans, Jennifer.Filter By Subjects
Ballet History HISTORY General PERFORMING ARTS Dance Classical PERFORMING ARTS GeneralFilter By Authors
Homans, Jennifer.Homans, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 HOMHomans, Jennifer.
Summary: One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, Apollo's Angels is the first cultural history of ballet ever written.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 792.8 HOMHomans, Jennifer.
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010