Making a Ballet is a survey of the processes which bring a ballet
to the stage; it successfully dispels much of the mystique that
surrounds what is a hard-learned and very arduous craft. A
historical introduction describes something of the collaborations
and creativity that made the nineteenth century ballet. Then Mary
Clarke and Clement Crisp, through the direct testimony of a
distinguished gallery of choreographers, dancers, musicians and
painters, examine the varying elements that are combined in
twentieth century ballet and the relevance of the changes that have
occurred in the conditions of work and the methods of
collaboration. Choreographers describe their creative processes,
dancers discuss the way a role develops and the way the classroom
steps are adapted for the stage; composers and conductors tell how
ballet scores are commissioned and arranged and designers relate
the many problems associated with providing the sets and costumes.
As relevant today as at its first publication in 1974, this welcome
reissue of Making a Ballet is fully illustrated, and the authors
also provide documentation of the famous collaborations of Petipa
and Tchaikovsky, Nijinska and Goncharov and Ashton and Lanchbery.
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