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

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

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner

divdivIgor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many balle

In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the