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THE ART OF BALLET
from a photograph by E. O. Hoppé
THE
ART OF BALLET
BY MARK E. PERUGINI
LONDON: MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
First published 1915
TO
MY WIFE
Some may possibly wonder to find here no record of Balletin Italy, or at the Opera Houses of Madrid, Lisbon,Vienna, Buda-Pest, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Warsaw,or Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg), not to speak of theUnited States and South America. This, however, would beto miss somewhat the author’s purpose, which is not to tracethe growth of Ballet in every capital where it has been seen.To do so effectively were hardly possible in a single volume.A whole book might well be devoted to the history of the artin Italy alone, herein only touched upon as it came to havevital influence on France and England in the nineteenthcentury. We have already had numerous volumes dealingwith Russian Ballet; and since the ground has been extensivelyenough surveyed in that direction there could be noparticular advantage in devoting more space to the subjectthan is already given to it in this work, the purpose of whichonly is to present—as far as possible from contemporarysources—some leading phases of the history of the modern Artof Ballet as seen more particularly in France and England.
A brief series of biographical essays “Cameos of theDance,” by the same writer, was published in The WhitehallReview in 1909; various articles on the subject also beingcontributed to The Evening News, Lady’s Pictorial, IllustratedSporting and Dramatic News, Pall Mall Gazette andother London journals during 1910 and 1911; and a seriesof “Sketches of the Dance and