The Art of Ballet
by Mark Edward Perugini
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About this eBook
- Author
- Perugini, Mark Edward, 1876?-1948
- Credits
- E-text prepared by deaurider, Susan Carr, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Ballet
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63550
- Release Date
- October 25, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE ART OF BALLET
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.BOOK I: THE FIRST ERA
- 6.OVERTURE ON THE ART OF BALLET
- 7.CHAPTER I A DISTINCTION, AND SOME DIFFERENCES
- 8.CHAPTER II EGYPT
- 9.CHAPTER III GREECE
- 10.CHAPTER IV MIME AND PANTOMIME: ROME, HIPPODROME—OBSCURITY
- 11.CHAPTER V CHURCH THUNDER AND CHURCH COMPLAISANCE
- 12.CHAPTER VI THE BANQUET-BALL OF BERGONZIO DI BOTTA, 1489, AND THE FAMOUS “BALLET COMIQUE DE LA REINE,” 1581
- 13.CHAPTER VII THOINOT ARBEAU’S “ORCHÉSOGRAPHIE,” 1588
- 14.CHAPTER VIII SCENIC EFFECT: THE ENGLISH MASQUE AS BALLET
- 15.CHAPTER IX BALLET ON THE MOVE
- 16.CHAPTER X COURT BALLETS ABROAD: 1609-1650
- 17.CHAPTER XI THE TURNING POINT: LE ROI SOLEIL AND HIS ACADEMY OF DANCING, 1651-1675
- 18.BOOK II: THE SECOND ERA
- 19.CHAPTER XII SOME EARLY STARS AND BALLETS
- 20.CHAPTER XIII PANTOMIME AT SCEAUX: AND MLLE. PRÉVÔT
- 21.CHAPTER XIV ITALIAN COMEDY AND THE THEATRES OF THE FAIR
- 22.CHAPTER XV WATTEAU’S DEBT TO THE STAGE
- 23.CHAPTER XVI THE SPECTATOR AND MR. WEAVER
- 24.CHAPTER XVII A FRENCH DANCER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
- 25.CHAPTER XVIII LA BELLE CAMARGO
- 26.CHAPTER XIX THE HOUSE OF VESTRIS
- 27.CHAPTER XX JEAN GEORGES NOVERRE
- 28.CHAPTER XXI GUIMARD THE GRAND: 1743-1816
- 29.CHAPTER XXII DESPRÉAUX, POET AND—HUSBAND OF GUIMARD
- 30.CHAPTER XXIII A CENTURY’S CLOSE
- 31.BOOK III: THE MODERN ERA
- 32.CHAPTER XXIV THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 33.CHAPTER XXV CARLO BLASIS
- 34.CHAPTER XXVI MARIE TAGLIONI (“SYLPHIDE”)
- 35.CHAPTER XXVII CARLOTTA GRISI (GISELLE)
- 36.CHAPTER XXVIII FANNY CERITO (“ONDINE”)
- 37.CHAPTER XXIX LUCILE GRAHN (“EOLINE”)
- 38.CHAPTER XXX THE DECLINE AND REVIVAL
- 39.CHAPTER XXXI THE ALHAMBRA: 1854-1903
- 40.CHAPTER XXXII THE ALHAMBRA 1904-1914
- 41.CHAPTER XXXIII THE EMPIRE 1884-1906
- 42.CHAPTER XXXIV THE EMPIRE 1907-1914
- 43.CHAPTER XXXV FINALE: THE RUSSIANS AND—THE FUTURE
- 44.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:
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