About this title: The age of Romanticism in the first half of the nineteenth century was one of the greatest periods in the history of ballet. In a span of two decades ballet became what it had never been before, a major theatre art, gaining new vitality and meaning from the ideas of the Romantic movement which rapidly infiltrated each one of its component parts: scenarios, music, decor, choreography and dance style.The main centre of the Romantic Ballet was the Paris Opera, and its high priest was the poet, Theophile Gautier, who wrote the scenarios of "Giselle" and other ballets. It was he who explained the ...
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Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Dance Books Ltd
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780903102452ISBN:0903102455
Description: Good in good dust jacket. 314 pages. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. Tight binding. Clear protective sleeve over dustjacket. read more
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