{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-contemporary-ballet-9780190871499","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel | Jill Nunes Jensen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dance - Classical \u0026amp; Ballet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn distinction to many extant histories of ballet, \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e prioritizes connections between ballet communities as it interweaves chapters by scholars, critics, choreographers, and working professional dancers. The book looks at the many ways ballet functions as a global practice in the 21st century, providing new perspectives on ballet's past, present, and future. As an effort to dismantle the linearity of academic canons, the fifty-three chapters within provide multiple entry points for readers to engage in balletic discourse. With an emphasis on composition and process alongside dances created, and the assertion that contemporary ballet is a definitive era, the book carves out space for critical inquiry. Many of the chapters consider whether or not ballet can reconcile its past and actually become present, while others see ballet as flexible and willing to be remolded at the hands of those with tools to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46418007654551,"sku":"9780190871499","price":29005.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190871499.webp?v=1769069513","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-contemporary-ballet-9780190871499","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}