In The Encyclopedia of worldwide Ballet, Mary Ellen Snodgrass surveys the emergence of ballet from historic Asian versions to the current, delivering overviews of rhythmic flow as a topic of paintings, images, and cinema. Entries during this quantity show the character and function of ballet, detailing specifics approximately leaders in vintage layout and elegance, influential costumers and corporations, and developments in strategy, partnering, version, and liturgical execution.

This reference covers:

• Choreographers
• Composers
• Costumers
• Dance companies
• Dancers
• Productions
• Set designers
• Techniques
• Terminology

Among the significant figures integrated listed below are Alvin Ailey, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pierre Beauchamp, Sergei Diaghilev, Agnes DeMille, Nacho Duato, Isadora Duncan, Boris Eifman, Mats Ek, Erté, Martha Graham, Inigo Jones, Louis XIV, Amalia Hernández Navarro, Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Agrippina Vaganova. This paintings additionally gains dance businesses from the Americas, Australia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and Vietnam. Productions contain such common narrative favorites as Coppélia, The Nutcracker, The snoozing good looks, Scheherazade, Firebird, and Swan Lake.

Featuring a chronology that identifies key occasions and figures, this quantity highlights major advancements in degree displays over the centuries. The Encyclopedia of global Ballet will serve normal readers, dance teachers, and fanatics from heart institution via collage in addition to specialist coaches and performers, troupe administrators, reporters, and historians of the humanities.