The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide – spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance – with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world, from Giselle and Swan Lake to Cinderella and Steptext. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon alongside classics by Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev and Balanchine.Features include:– plot summaries- an analysis of each ballet's principal themes- useful background and historical information- a unique, behind-the-scenes, performer's-eye viewDip in at... Next