This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa -- creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake -- tells the full story of his lif

These highly entertaining memoirs of Marius Petipa, the great Franco-Russian choreogapher had never before been translated into English before their first publi

An engaging and provocative re-evaluation of ballet's development from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century.

The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa's career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.

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