The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

List of illustrations vii Foreword Ivor Guest xi Notes on contributors xiv Chronology xxi Introduction 1(8) Marion Kant Part I From the Renaissance to the baroque: royal power and worldly display The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet: a basis for Italian, French and English ballet 9(10) Jennifer Nevile Ballet de cour 19(13) Marina Nordera English masques 32(10) Barbara Ravelhofer The baroque body 42(11) Mark Franko Part II The eighteenth century: revolutions in technique and spirit Choreography and narrative: the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century 53(12) Dorian Weickmann The rise of ballet technique and training: the professionalisation of an art form 65(13) Sandra Noll Hammond The making of history: John Weaver and the Enlightenment 78(9) Tim Blanning Jean-Georges Noverre: dance and reform 87(11) Judith Chazin-Bennahum The French Revolution and its spectacles 98(15) Inge Baxmann Part III Romantic ballet: ballet is a woman Romantic ballet in France: 1830-1850 113(13) Sarah Davis Cordova Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids: the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville 126(12) Anne Middleboe Christensen The orchestra as translator: French nineteenth-century ballet 138(13) Marian E. Smith Russian ballet in the age of Petipa 151(13) Lynn Garafola Opening the door to a fairy-tale world: Tchaikovsky's ballet music 164(11) Therese Hurley The romantic ballet and its critics: dance goes public 175(9) Lucia Ruprecht The soul of the shoe 184(17) Marion Kant Part IV The twentieth century: tradition becomes modern The ballet avant-garde I: the Ballets Suedois and its modernist concept 201(11) Erik Naslund The ballet avant-garde II: the `new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century 212(12) Tim Scholl George Balanchine 224(13) Matilde Butkas Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism 237(9) Juliet Bellow The Nutcracker: a cultural icon 246(10) Jennifer Fisher From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment: ballet's sinicisation 256(7) Zheng Yangwen Giselle in a Cuban accent 263(9) Lester Tome European ballet in the age of ideologies 272(19) Marion Kant Notes 291(20) Bibliography and further reading 311(20) Index of persons 331(8) Index of ballets 339(3) Subject index 342