-- A comprehensive teaching guide presenting every movement in the classical repertoire, demonstrated by professional dancers in 2,600 photographs.

-- A comprehensive teaching guide presenting every movement in the classical repertoire, demonstrated by professional dancers in 2,600 photographs.

This visual guide to ballet history goes beyond other ballet books, with evocative photography that captures famous ballet dancers and key ballet stories, written with ballet legend Viviana Durante as Editorial Consultant. Discover more than 70 of the most famous ballet dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn the stories behind renowned companies...(展开全部)

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

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. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps a...(展开全部)