Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans

Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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, émigré 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."

Jennifer Homans, a former professional dancer who trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Ballet Theatre, and the School of American Ballet, is now the New Republic's dance critic.

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ISBN 13	9780812968743
ISBN 10	0812968743
Title	Apollo's Angels
Author	Jennifer Homans
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2011-11-29
Number of pages	720
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010
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