From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the century that shaped him
Jennifer Homans Boeken
Jennifer Homans, een voormalig professioneel danseres en huidig danscriticus, brengt een rijke kennis van ballet in haar schrijven. Haar kritische essays, gepubliceerd in toonaangevende publicaties, zijn gebaseerd op een diepe waardering voor de kunstvorm en de historische context ervan. Homans richt zich op de analyse van dans en de evolutie ervan, waarbij ze de esthetische en culturele betekenis benadrukt. Haar werk biedt lezers inzichtelijke perspectieven op de wereld van de dans vanuit het oogpunt van zowel een ervaren artieste als een gerespecteerd geleerde.
When the Facts Change
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The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan.
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.”