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The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world, from Giselle and Swan Lake to Cinderella and Steptext. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon alongside classics by Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev and Balanchine.
Features include:
- plot summaries
- an analysis of each ballet's principal themes
- useful background and historical information
- a unique, behind-the-scenes, performer's-eye view
Dip in at random or trace the development of dance from cover to cover. Written by former Royal Ballet principal Deborah Bull and leading dance critic Luke Jennings, this ever popular Faber Pocket guide is a must for all ballet-goers - regulars and first-timers alike.
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The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet, by Deborah Bull and Luke Jennings, with in-depth descriptions of over eighty famous works of ballet, is essential reading for ballet dancers, enthusiasts, and beginners alike.
About the Author
Luke Jennings is the dance critic for The Observer and has written extensively about dance and contemporary culture for the New Yorker and in the UK press. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker and the author of several novels - Breach Candy (1993), Atlantic (1995) Beauty Story (1998) and of a personal memoir Blood Knots (2010).
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0571309747
- ISBN 13 9780571309740
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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