Apollo's Angels
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847082565 (1847082564)
Publish date: September 1st 2011
Publisher: Granta Books (UK)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Art,
Russia,
Music,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Art History
It's hard to write a comprehensive history of anything that is both thorough and engaging, and especially hard when the topic is ballet, which has a history of declining and reemerging at various times in various places around the world. Oh, and it has no system of notation for dance steps, so descr...
The first two-thirds was a fascinatingly detailed history of ballet and its relationship to the politics and events around it, if a bit heave on metaphor and a bit light on physical description. Unfortunately, in the last third it decended into rather snobbish Balanchine hagiography, which pulled it...
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