A History of Classical Ballet

Description

Jade books printed in Hong Kong 1983. 96 pages, good condition. Inside front cover personal dedication with no name which we suspect is by one of the dancers featured in two photos in the book. Larger hardback with dust cover.

This fine book covers the development of ballet to the present day (1983). It goes from choreographers such as Petipa and Ivanov, through Nijinsky, Balanchine to Anthony Tudor and Kenneth Macmillan. It covers dancers from Marie Taglioni, through Tamara Karasvina, Anna Pavlova to Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. This book also provides background histories for the world’s leading companies and is fully illustrted with over 100 colour and black and white photographs.