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Festival of Ballet

Festival of Ballet

George Balanchine
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This book attempts to tell the stories of ballets of lasting importance in the history of the art and to provide a record of significant new work performed in the past twenty-five years - ballets that are still part of the contemporary repertory or ballets that made an enduring impression at the time.

Ballets of lasting importance - and by that we mean ambition fulfilled - ballets like La Sylphide, Giselle, and Swan Lake, have held the stage for more than a hundred years; La Fille Mal Gardée for almost two hundred. The new ballets that we see nowadays with increasingly frequency all aspire to the same longevity. While few succeed, many remain in the active repertory longer than is imagined. A great number, like Petrouhka, come and go; others disappear entirely.

The new pieces of the modern repertory, and now fortunately there are many of them every year produced by the growing number of ballet companies, are all candidates for lasting value and inclusion in the quasi-permanent repertory. Hopefully, many described in this book will last.
Language
English
Pages
838
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
W.H. Allen & Co
Release
September 25, 1978
ISBN
0491020376
ISBN 13
9780491020374

Festival of Ballet

George Balanchine
0/5 ( ratings)
This book attempts to tell the stories of ballets of lasting importance in the history of the art and to provide a record of significant new work performed in the past twenty-five years - ballets that are still part of the contemporary repertory or ballets that made an enduring impression at the time.

Ballets of lasting importance - and by that we mean ambition fulfilled - ballets like La Sylphide, Giselle, and Swan Lake, have held the stage for more than a hundred years; La Fille Mal Gardée for almost two hundred. The new ballets that we see nowadays with increasingly frequency all aspire to the same longevity. While few succeed, many remain in the active repertory longer than is imagined. A great number, like Petrouhka, come and go; others disappear entirely.

The new pieces of the modern repertory, and now fortunately there are many of them every year produced by the growing number of ballet companies, are all candidates for lasting value and inclusion in the quasi-permanent repertory. Hopefully, many described in this book will last.
Language
English
Pages
838
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
W.H. Allen & Co
Release
September 25, 1978
ISBN
0491020376
ISBN 13
9780491020374

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