{"product_id":"apollos-angels-a-history-of-ballet","title":"Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published in hardcover: New York: Random House, 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCopyright date: 2010.;Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-612) and index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAcknowledgments -- Introduction: Masters and Traditions -- Part 1. France and the Classical Origins of Ballet -- Chapter 1. Kings of Dance -- Chapter 2. The Enlightenment and the Story Ballet -- Chapter 3. The French Revolution in Ballet -- Chapter 4. Romantic Illusions and the Rise of the Ballerina -- Chapter 5. Scandinavian Orthodoxy: The Danish Style -- Chapter 6. Italian Heresy: Pantomime, Virtuosity, and Italian Ballet -- Part 2. Light from the East: Russian Worlds of Art -- Chapter 7. Tsars of Dance: Imperial Russian Classicism -- Chapter 8. East Goes West: Russian Modernism and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes -- Chapter 9. Left Behind? Communist Ballet from Stalin to Brezhnev -- Chapter 10. Alone in Europe: The British Moment -- Chapter 11. The American Century I: Russian Beginnings -- Chapter 12. The American Century II: The New York Scene -- Epilogue: The Masters Are Dead and Gone -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJennifer Homans\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, she has written for \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \n\u003ci\u003eInternational Herald Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The only truly definitive history of the most impossibly fantastic art form, ballet . . . an eloquent and lasting elegy to an unlasting art.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delight to read, massively informed yet remarkably agile . . . The story of ballet offers a singular perspective on the evolution of our culture: a fascinating mirror on the arts. Nowhere is this narrative told more amply and compellingly than in Jennifer Homans's triumphant \n\u003ci\u003eApollo's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is a book of immense ambition--a one-volume history of ballet--and of considerable accomplishment. Jennifer Homans, whom we know primarily as \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e's provocative dance critic, shows herself to be both dogged and graceful as a historian--a rare and welcome combination of qualities.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Intellectually rigorous, beautifully written, brilliantly structured.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificent . . . [a] monumental work.\" \n\u003ci\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Each page of this luminous work delights, enlightens and beckons. Every dancer should live with this book, of course, but every person who loves literature and history, is word-struck and story-addicted, should give themselves a treat with \n\u003ci\u003eApollo's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e. Treasure this treasure.\" \n\u003ci\u003e--Jacques d'Amboise\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a wonderful book about how ballet evolved. Written by a gifted dancer, \n\u003ci\u003eApollo's Angels \u003c\/i\u003eis dance history seen from the inside. The wonder to me is how much this accessible, beautifully-crafted book reveals about the times and places in which ballets were made; it makes culture come alive.\"--Richard Sennett, author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Craftsman\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A dancer who is also a historian--who ever dreamed of such an improbable creature? But here is Jennifer Homans and her indispensable book. She puts the understanding of ballet on a whole new footing. Finally the delicacies of ballet have been restored to the indelicacies of history, and the art seems even more wondrous for it. \n\u003ci\u003eApollo's Angels \u003c\/i\u003eis an enlightenment, a remarkable feat of scholarship and sensibility, an affecting mixture of criticism and devotion, an intellectual joy.\"--Leon Wieseltier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Line\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t10 Best Books The New York Times Book Review 2010 National bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER -\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, \u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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, \n\u003ci\u003eApollo's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e--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. 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