The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xlii

• Introduction by Marion Kant
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• pp. 1-6

Part I - From the Renaissance to the baroque: royal power and worldly display

• 1 - The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet: a basis for Italian, French and English ballet by Jennifer Nevile
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• pp. 7-18

• 2 - Ballet de cour by Marina Nordera
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• pp. 19-31

• 3 - English masques by Barbara Ravelhofer
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• pp. 32-41

• 4 - The baroque body by Mark Franko
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• pp. 42-50

Part II - The eighteenth century: revolutions in technique and spirit

• 5 - Choreography and narrative: the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century by Dorion Weickmann
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• pp. 51-64

• 6 - The rise of ballet technique and training: the professionalisation of an art form by Sandra Noll Hammond
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• pp. 65-77

• 7 - The making of history: JohnWeaver and the Enlightenment by Tim Blanning
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• pp. 78-86

• 8 - Jean-Georges Noverre: dance and reform by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
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• pp. 87-97

• 9 - The French Revolution and its spectacles by Inge Baxmann
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• pp. 98-110

Part III - Romantic ballet: ballet is a woman

• 10 - Romantic ballet in France: 1830–850 by Sarah Davis Cordova
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• pp. 111-125

• 11 - Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids: the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville by Anne Middleboe Christensen
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• pp. 126-137

• 12 - The orchestra as translator: French nineteenth-century ballet by Marian E. Smith
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• pp. 138-150

• 13 - Russian ballet in the age of Petipa by Lynn Garafola
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• pp. 151-163

• 14 - Opening the door to a fairy-tale world: Tchaikovsky's ballet music by Thérèse Hurley
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• pp. 164-174

• 15 - The romantic ballet and its critics: dance goes public by Lucia Ruprecht
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• pp. 175-183

• 16 - The soul of the shoe by Marion Kant
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• pp. 184-198

Part IV - The twentieth century: tradition becomes modern

• 17 - The ballet avant-garde I: the Ballets Suédois and its modernist concept by Erik Näslund
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• pp. 199-211

• 18 - The ballet avant-garde II: the ‘new’ Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century by Tim Scholl
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• pp. 212-223

• 19 - George Balanchine by Matilde Butkas
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• pp. 224-236

• 20 - Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism by Juliet Bellow
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• pp. 237-245

• 21 - The Nutcracker: a cultural icon by Jennifer Fisher
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• pp. 246-255

• 22 - From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment: ballet's sinicisation by Zheng Yangwen
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• pp. 256-262

• 23 - Giselle in a Cuban accent by Lester Tome
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• pp. 263-271

• 24 - European ballet in the age of ideologies by Marion Kant
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• pp. 272-290

• Notes
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• pp. 291-310

• Bibliography and further reading
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• pp. 311-330

• Index of persons
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• pp. 331-338

• Index of ballets
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• pp. 339-341

• Subject index
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• pp. 342-350

• The Cambridge Companion to Music
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• pp. 351-353