Making Ballet American

Author	: Andrea Harris
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 289
Release	: 2018
ISBN-10	: 9780199342242
ISBN-13	: 0199342245
Rating	: 4/5 (42 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Making Ballet American by : Andrea Harris

Download or read book Making Ballet American written by Andrea Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating ballet within twentieth-century modernism, this book brings complexity to the history of George Balanchine's American neoclassicism. It intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the construction of American neoclassical ballet.

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