The Royal Ballet: 75 Years
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This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company’s growth, and its great cultural importance – an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.
In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, The Royal Ballet – as it became – was established as one of the world’s great companies. It has produced celebrated dancers, from Margot Fonteyn to Darcey Bussell, and one of the richest repertoires in ballet.
The company danced through the Blitz, won an international reputation in a single New York performance and added to the glamour of London’s Swinging Sixties. It has established a distinctive English school of ballet, a pure classical style that could do justice to the 19th-century repertory and to new British classics.
Leading dance critic, Zoë Anderson, vividly portrays the extraordinary personalities who created the company and the dancers who made such an impact on their audiences. She looks at the bad times as well as the good, examining the controversial directorships of Norman Morrice and Ross Stretton and the criticism fired at the company as the Royal Opera House closed for redevelopment.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Faber & Faber, Main edition (19 April 2007) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 384 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0571227961 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0571227969 |
| Dimensions | 12.7 x 2.8 x 19.7 cm |
by Amazon Customer
The history of the Royal Ballet.Very interesting.
by Sonia Burtenshaw
Interesting history
by Lottie Plotter
I enjoyed the whole book but particularly towards the end. I have some of the performances on DVD and I am looking forward to rewatching them.
by JSR
Helped me greatly for my a level dance. Great read, good info, logically set out. Would recommend if you have a interest in ballet
by Tabbyangel
This book is useful for research into the history of the Royal Ballet with plenty of information and good photographs.
by Catherine Mackillican Pope
Very interesting book. The first half better than the second half. I think because it covered the early history along with contemporary events which made it come alive. But well worth reading.
by Mrs D Price
A quite comprehensive and interesting history of the Royal Ballet. I would have appreciated information about, and a description of, the ballets which they chose to put on. Also more about the dancers and the choreographers. A useful tome to consult.
by Jackie
This was a present for my Son, so I haven’t read it myself, but he was delighted with it.