Dai Ailian was one of the great heroines of ballet in China, where she was an enormously respected and influential figure, both for her wide research into Chinese folk dance and her pivotal role in the establishment of ballet, but her name, and her story, are barely known in the west. This work sets them in a wide social and historical context.
This book chronicles the notorious Race Laws promulgated in 1948 by the South African government, obliging adult citizens to be classified as white, coloured, Indian or black and accordingly restricting them as to where they could live and where they could study or be employed.
Aims to prevent confusion by explaining the precise meanings of over 560 of the French technical terms used in classical ballet. This dictionary addresses the problems of correct spelling and grammar. It contains entries which trace both the historical background and the linguistic origins of particular aspects of ballet terminology. schovat popis