A Ballet-maker's Handbook

by JoanLawson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $4.39

  From a lifetime's experiences of teaching, lecturing and writing about ballet technique and history, Joan Lawson explores in depth all aspects of the choreographer's taks and art. The book, which is a result of the prompting of the late Sir Frederick Ashton, falls into four parts. The first part is Sources of Inspiration - music, literature, painting and dance itself; Ballet Materials - music and dancers; Ballet Making - style, basic structure, the grammar of choreography; Styles of Ballet - classical, demi-caractere, romantic, national and modern. Each part contains numerous examples from a huge range of ballets of the 19th and 20th centuries, some of the best known choreographed by Coralli and Perrot ( Giselle 1841), Petipa and Ivanov ( Swan Lake 1895), Nijinska ( Les Noces 1923), Balanchine ( Apollo 1928), Ashton ( La Fille Mal Gardee 1960) and MacMillan ( Romeo and Juliet 1965).