Apollo's Angels : A History Of Ballet

Apollo's Angels : A History Of BalletAuthor: Homans, Jennifer Ballet Published on 1 September 2011 by Granta Books in the United Kingdom. Paperback 672 pages 216 x 140 x 45 796g Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain,

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