Choreography and Narrative

<p>Undoubtedly <i>Choreography and Narrative</i> is an important contribution to dance history research. --Nineteenth-Century French Studies<br /><br />This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate graduate and faculty researchers in dance. --Choice<br /><br />Invents a new method for writing the history of performance: Foster has found an innovative way of appealing directly to the kinesthetic imagination of her readers evoking the elusive styles of the pieces she reconstructs. --Joseph Roach<br /><br />An impressive work of scholarship this elegantly staged study . . . uses the concept of a culturally constructed historically specific body to cut across disciplinary boundaries . . . --Library Journal<br /><br />Foster examines the development of ballet and conceptions of the dancing body as ballet separated from opera and emerged as an autonomous art form during the turbulence of 18th-century French society and history.</p>