By Susan Leigh Foster
"Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is a vital 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 procedure for writing the historical past of functionality: Foster has chanced on an leading edge means of beautiful on to the kinesthetic mind's eye of her readers, evoking the elusive varieties of the items she reconstructs." ―Joseph Roach
"An striking paintings of scholarship, this elegantly staged study... makes use of the idea that of a culturally built, traditionally particular physique to chop throughout disciplinary boundaries..." ―Library Journal
Foster examines the advance of ballet, and conceptions of the dancing physique, as ballet separated from opera and emerged as an independent paintings shape through the turbulence of 18th-century French society and history.
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