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Ballet 101
Author: Robert Greskovic
language: en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date: 2005-11
Presents a look at the world of dance; an analysis of ballet movement, music, and history; a close-up look at popular ballets; and a host of performance tips.
Nicolai Serguéeff and The Sleeping Beauty
Author: Maureen Gupta
language: en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date: 2026-02-17
Tracing the legacy of the man who preserved The Sleeping Beauty’s choreography, through the classic ballet’s evolution from the nineteenth century to the present Nicolai Serguéeff and “The Sleeping Beauty” explores the legacy of a former Russian imperial rehearsal director who fled postrevolutionary Russia with the most complete choreographic records of Marius Petipa’s ballet masterpiece, set to music by Tchaikovsky and first performed in the late nineteenth century. This book traces the impact of this act of preservation on more than a century of Sleeping Beauty productions, examining the resilience of the ballet even as artists have adapted and reinterpreted its traditions to suit changing circumstances. Nicolai Serguéeff’s scores, written in Stepanov notation, became a key resource for staging the ballet around the world. In this book, Maureen Gupta explores five landmark productions of The Sleeping Beauty: productions staged in London by Serguéeff for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1921), Ninette de Valois’s Vic-Wells Ballet (1939), and Mona Inglesby’s International Ballet (1948); and two recent historical reconstructions using Serguéeff’s notations directed by Sergei Vikharev for the Mariinsky/Kirov Ballet (1999) and by Alexei Ratmansky for American Ballet Theatre/La Scala (2015). Through extensive archival research, Gupta provides insight into the nineteenth-century Russian ballet while also highlighting its living tradition and continued relevance. This book demonstrates how The Sleeping Beauty has evolved while maintaining its classical core, resulting in an essential case study for dancers, historians, and choreographers. It combines dance history, musicology, and performance studies to show how a ballet can be both timeless and ever-changing.
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 view Dip in at random or trace the development of dance from cover to cover. Written by former Royal Ballet principal Deborah Bull and leading dance critic Luke Jennings, this ever popular Faber Pocket guide is a must for all ballet-goers - regulars and first-timers alike.