This essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art, is a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today. Spanning nearly two centuries of classical dancing, this indispensable book begins in the Romantic era of the 1830s, moves through the great Tchaikovskly ballets of Tsarist St Petersburg, to the inspirational work of Diaghilev at the beginning of the twentieth century and the luminous neo-classicism of Balanchine. Ashton and Macmillan are covered in depth, and the most recent ground-breaking work brings us up to the present day.

这本关于这门经久不衰的艺术的重要袖珍指南，是对当今表演最多的80多部芭蕾舞剧的完美介绍。这本书跨越了近两个世纪的古典舞蹈，从19世纪30年代的浪漫主义时代开始，经过沙皇时期圣彼得堡的伟大的柴可夫斯基芭蕾舞剧，到20世纪初迪亚吉列夫的鼓舞人心的工作和巴兰钦的明亮的新古典主义。阿什顿和麦克米伦的作品被深入介绍，而最近的突破性作品将我们带到了今天。