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Ballet is a paradox much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairytale detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who createdit. Yet ballet has a history little known and rarely presented. These greatworks have dark sides and moral ambiguities not always nor immediatelyvisible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceivedsafe nature is not only one of its fascinations but one of the intriguingquestions to be explored in this Companion. The essays reveal the conceptionintent and underlying meaning of ballets and recreate the historical reality inwhich they emerged. The reader will find new and unexpected aspects of balletits history and its aesthetics the evolution of plot and narrative newinsights into the reality of training the choice of costume and thetransformation of an old art in a modern world. «
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