Ballet is a dying art, according to Jennifer Homans’s bestselling history of ballet, Apollo’s Angels.
Ballet is a dying art, according to Jennifer Homans’s bestselling history of ballet, Apollo’s Angels. Sensationalist as it may sound, this claim is cogently argued at the end of the book, which turns dreary ballet history into an engaging narrative.
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