Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans

Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans

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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 positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, migr dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings a dancer's grace and sure-footed agility to the page.

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Jennifer Homans was a professional dancer trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Ballet Theatre, and The School of American Ballet. She performed with the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Currently the dance critic for The New Republic, she has written for The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Review of Books, and The Australian. She earned her B.A. at Columbia University and her Ph.D. in modern European history at New York University, where she is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence.

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ISBN 13	9781400060603
ISBN 10	1400060605
Title	Apollo's Angels
Author	Jennifer Homans
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Microfilm
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-11-02
Number of pages	672
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2012, Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2010
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