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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans " review by Veronica Horwell

Veronica Horwell salutes a meticulous and magical survey of balletWhen I reached the final chapter of Jennifer Homans's history of ballet, I knew that, sadly, it would come to dominate not the book " it's a throwaway 10 pages, a tiny percentage of the text " but the public perception of it. Homans wrote it as an elegiac epilogue and in it gently suggests that classical ballet may be over, its creations only on museum…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on December 31, 2010

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