1st Edition | A HISTORY OF BALLET AND DANCE

Like New -- Excellent Condition -- Perfect Gift Hardcover with Dust Jacket A HISTORY OF BALLET AND DANCE Written by Alexander Bland (1909 – 1982) Praeger Publishers, Inc. -- New York: First Edition | First Printing | 1976 Printed and Bound in Italy 192 pages The story told here of how ballet and dance developed through the ages sheds light on the changing values and fashions of society. The close relationships of dance with music, theater, and design are also examined. Besides providing portraits of several superstars from Vestris and Taglioni to Fonteyn and Nureyev, Alexander Bland discusses the little-publicized theoreticians of the art. And his chronology of key events in the long history of dance contributes an overall perspective.