The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

There are many ballet books on the market, all the way from Angelina Ballerina to information on technique, nutrition, the structure of a class, and coffee table books of photographs from ballet companies. The Cambridge Companion to Ballet offers something different in that it deals less with the minutiae of ballet and is more of a historical treatment of the development of ballet through the centuries to what it is today. Through a collection of chronological essays one can trace the evolution of ballet as a discipline and as a spectacle from the court dances in renaissance Italy and pre‐revolutionary...