The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

Contents

• Foreword Ivor Guest; Chronology;
• Introduction Marion Kant;
• Part I . From the Renaissance to the Baroque: Royal Power and Worldly Display:
• 1. The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet: a basis for Italian, French and English ballet Jennifer Nevile;
• 2. Ballet de Cour Marina Nordera;
• 3. English masques Barbara Ravelhofer;
• 4. The Baroque body Mark Franko;
• Part II . The Eighteenth Century: Revolutions in Technique and Spirit:
• 5. Choreography and narrative: the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century Dorion Weickmann;
• 6. The rise of ballet technique and training: the professionalism of an art form Sandra Noll Hammond;
• 7. The making of history: John Weaver and the enlightenment Tim Blanning;
• 8. Jean-Georges Noverre: dance and reform Judith Chazin-Benahum;
• 9. The French Revolution and its spectacles Inge Baxmann;
• Part III . Romantic Ballet: Ballet is a Woman:
• 10. Romantic ballet in France: 1830-50 Sarah Davis Cordova;
• 11. Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids: the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville Anne Middlebo Christensen;
• 12. The orchestra as translator: French nineteenth-century ballet Marian E. Smith;
• 13. Russian ballet in the age of Petipa Lynn Garafola;
• 14. Opening the door to a fairy tale world: Tchaikovsky's ballet music Therese Hurley;
• 15. The romantic ballet and its critics: dance goes public Lucia Ruprecht;
• 16. The soul of the shoe Marion Kant;
• Part IV . The Twentieth Century: Tradition Becomes Modern:
• 17. The ballet avant-garde I: the Ballet Suedois and its modernist concept Erik Naslund;
• 18. The ballet avant-garde II: the 'new' ballet: Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century Tim Scholl;
• 19. George Balanchine Matilda Butkas;
• 20. Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism Juliet Bellow;
• 21. The Nutcracker: a cultural icon Jennifer Fisher;
• 22. From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment: ballet's sinicisation Yangwen Zhen;
• 23. Giselle in a Cuban accent Lester Tome;
• 24. European ballet in the age of ideologies Marion Kant.