Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

by Jennifer Homans

Book Overview

One of The New York Times Book Review 's 10 Best Books of the Year For 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. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400060605
• ISBN13: 9781400060603
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.7"