Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It
begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of
aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an
art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through
to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain, Denmark, Russia
and contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected
political and cultural upheavals, how dance and dancers were
influenced by the Renaissance and French Classicism, by Revolution
and Romanticism, by Expressionism and Bolshevism, Modernism and the
Cold War. Homans shows how and why 'the steps' were never just the
steps: they were a set of beliefs and a way of life. She takes the
reader into the lives of dancers and traces the formal evolution of
technique, choreography and performance. Her book ends by looking
at the contemporary crisis in ballet now that 'the masters are dead
and gone' and offers a passionate plea for the centrality of
classical dance in our civilization. Apollo's Angels is a book with
broad popular appeal: beautifully written and illustrated, it is
essential reading for anyone interested in history, culture and
art.
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