Apollo's angels : a history of ballet / Jennifer Homans.

Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Homans, Jennifer, 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, ©2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Ballet > History.