The Ballets russes and beyond : music and dance in belle-époque Paris / by Caddy, Davinia, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; The Ballets Russes and Beyond; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Examples; Figures; Note on presentation; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: Le Génie de la danse; Period pleasure; Paris dancing; The Midas touch; Revisionism; Music and dance; Musicology and dance; A dual project; Suspended dualities; 2: Ballet at the Opéra and La Fête chez Thérèse; Backward glances: scene and narrative; Backbone: the score; Back-chat: music and drama; Comparing scores; Back to reality? …”
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Behind the scenes at the Ballets russes : stories from a golden age / by Meĭlakh, Mikhail

Subjects: “…Ballets russes History.…”
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Ballerina : the art of women in classical ballet / by Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015

Outrage : the arts and the creation of modernity / by Giuffre, Katherine, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Symbolic warfare in the field of culture -- "A morbid love of the coarse, not to say brutal" : the novels of the Brontë sisters -- "The summit of vulgarity" : the paintings of the Impressionists -- "An eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse" : the poetry of Emily Dickinson -- "Delirious cocksuckers" : Le sacre du printemps and the Ballets Russes -- "Damnable, hellish filth from the gutter of a human mind" : James Joyce's Ulysses -- "No theme, no message, no thought" : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- A permanent revolution.…”
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On stage at the ballet : my life as dancer and artistic director / by Barnett, Robert, 1925-, Crain, Cynthia, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- Military service and a ballet pre-pro -- The original Ballet Russe Tour -- The muny in St. Louis -- First-generation New York City Ballet -- Triumphs, tragedies and tours -- Virginia "Ginger" Barnett -- Atlanta Civic Ballet -- The Atlanta Ballet -- Families and friends -- A new direction -- Passing it along.…”
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The ballet lover's companion / by Anderson, Zoë

Table of Contents: “…S BEGINNINGS""; ""2 THE ROMANTIC BALLET""; ""3 IMPERIAL BALLET""; ""4 THE BALLETS RUSSES AND AFTER""; ""5 NATIONAL BALLETS""; ""6 SOVIET BALLET""; ""7 THE BALLET BOOM""; ""8 INTERNATIONAL BALLET: CROSSING BOUNDARIES""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX OF BALLET TITLES""; ""GENERAL INDEX""…”
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Dans in België 1890-1970 / by Vos, Staf

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Dans in België 1890-1940 / by Vos, Staf

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A revolution in movement : dancers, painters, and the image of modern Mexico / by Snow, K. Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…An Anthropologist Orders a Beer: The Development of Mexican Nationalism -- Mexicanism Russian Style: Roberto Montenegro, Diego Rivera, and the Ballets Russes -- The Precursors of Mexicanism: Anna Pavlova and Tórtola Valencia -- The Philosopher as an Artist Writ Large: JoséVasconcelos, Muralism, and Folk Art -- Dancing a Sandunga in English: Carlos Chavez and Diego Rivera in the United States -- A Question of Technique: Carlos Merida and a Mexican School of Dance -- Competing Modernisms: Anna Sokolow and Waldeen -- Ballets without Ballerinas? …”
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Free as gods : how the Jazz Age reinvented modernism / by Riley, Charles A., II

Table of Contents: “…Freedom: anything goes. Enter the ballets russes ; One of those fabulous flights: Cole Porter ; Stairway to paradise: George Gershwin ; Inevitable Paris beckoned: John Dos Passos and e.e cummings ; Dancing on dynamite: Nancy Cunard ; From flappers to philosophers: F. …”
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Imitation artist : Gertrude Hoffmann's life in vaudeville and dance / by Stalter-Pace, Sunny, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Gertrude Hoffmann's reviews -- 8. Pirating the Ballets Russes -- 9. Mainstream modernism -- 10. All-American artist -- PART IV. …”
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Paul Dukas : composer and critic / by Watson, Laura (Musicologist)

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The vogue for Russia : modernism and the unseen in Britain, 1900-1930 / by Maclean, Caroline

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Choreonarratives : dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Bührle -- Gesture as a means for portraying characters in Viennese mid-18th-century ballet / Karin Fenböck -- The ballets russes and the Greek dance in Paris : Nijinsky's Faune, fantasies of the past, and the dance of the future / Samuel N. …”
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Sacred and secular intersections in music of the long nineteenth century : church, stage, and concert hall /

Table of Contents: “…Veiled allusions to the sacred : secular music during the partitions of Poland / Bogumila Mika ; Futurist constructions of the sacred : the Ballets Russes, Liturgie, and the problem of a musical score / Barbara Swanson ; (Re)constructing Medieval Rus' in Kastalsky's Furnace rite / David Salkowski.…”
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The golden moments of Paris : a guide to the Paris of the 1920s / by Baxter, John, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…The Russians are Coming: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes; Chapter 4. "Who was that Masked Man?": Fantômas, the Vampires, and Judex; Chapter 5. …”
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Through the eyes of a dancer : selected writings / by Perron, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…-- Trey McIntyre project -- Pacific Northwest Ballet : all Tharp -- Boston Ballet : Diaghilev's Ballets Russes centennial celebration -- Spoleto Festival (Festival dei 2Mondi) -- The Forsythe Company : decreation -- Twyla's new musical flies, but . . . -- International exposure : the Tel Aviv Festival -- Lemi Ponifasio -- Necessary weather (revival) : Dana Reitz and Sara Rudner -- Why don't women make dances like that any more? …”

Through the eyes of a dancer : selected writings / by Perron, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…-- Trey McIntyre project -- Pacific Northwest Ballet : all Tharp -- Boston Ballet : Diaghilev's Ballets Russes centennial celebration -- Spoleto Festival (Festival dei 2Mondi) -- The Forsythe Company : decreation -- Twyla's new musical flies, but ... -- International exposure : the Tel Aviv Festival -- Lemi Ponifasio -- Necessary weather (revival) : Dana Reitz and Sara Rudner -- Why don't women make dances like that any more? …”
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