By Susan Leigh Foster
ISBN-10: 0253212162
ISBN-13: 9780253212160
ISBN-10: 0253330815
ISBN-13: 9780253330819
"Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is a crucial contribution to bop heritage research." ―Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"This paintings is a landmark within the box and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and college researchers in dance." ―Choice
"Invents a brand new process for writing the background of functionality: Foster has discovered an leading edge means of beautiful on to the kinesthetic mind's eye of her readers, evoking the elusive types of the items she reconstructs." ―Joseph Roach
"An awesome paintings of scholarship, this elegantly staged study... makes use of the idea that of a culturally developed, traditionally particular physique to chop throughout disciplinary boundaries..." ―Library Journal
Foster examines the improvement of ballet, and conceptions of the dancing physique, as ballet separated from opera and emerged as an self reliant paintings shape through the turbulence of 18th-century French society and history.
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