{"product_id":"nicolai-serguzseff-and-the-sleeping-maureen-gupta-9780813079486","title":"Nicolai Serguéeff and the Sleeping Beauty: A Living Ballet Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing the legacy of the man who preserved \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eSleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e's choreography, through the classic ballet's evolution from\u003cbr\u003ethe nineteenth century to the present\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicolai Serguéeff\u003cbr\u003eand \"The Sleeping Beauty\" \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the legacy of a former Russian imperial rehearsal\u003cbr\u003edirector who fled postrevolutionary Russia with the most complete choreographic\u003cbr\u003erecords of Marius Petipa's ballet masterpiece, set to music by Tchaikovsky and first\u003cbr\u003eperformed in the late nineteenth century. This book traces the impact of this\u003cbr\u003eact of preservation on more than a century of \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eproductions, examining the resilience of the ballet even as artists have\u003cbr\u003eadapted and reinterpreted its traditions to suit changing circumstances.\u003cbr\u003eNicolai Serguéeff's\u003cbr\u003escores, written in Stepanov notation, became a key resource for staging the\u003cbr\u003eballet around the world. In this book, Maureen Gupta explores five landmark\u003cbr\u003eproductions of \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e: productions staged in London by\u003cbr\u003eSerguéeff for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1921), Ninette de Valois's\u003cbr\u003eVic-Wells Ballet (1939), and Mona Inglesby's International Ballet (1948); and two\u003cbr\u003erecent historical reconstructions using Serguéeff's notations directed by\u003cbr\u003eSergei Vikharev for the Mariinsky\/Kirov Ballet (1999) and by Alexei Ratmansky\u003cbr\u003efor American Ballet Theatre\/La Scala (2015).\u003cbr\u003eThrough extensive\u003cbr\u003earchival research, Gupta provides insight into the nineteenth-century Russian ballet\u003cbr\u003ewhile also highlighting its living tradition and continued relevance. This book\u003cbr\u003edemonstrates how \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e has evolved while maintaining its\u003cbr\u003eclassical core, resulting in an essential case study for dancers, historians, \u003cbr\u003eand choreographers. It\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecombines\u003cbr\u003edance history, musicology, and performance studies to show how a ballet can be\u003cbr\u003eboth timeless and ever-changing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen Gupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813079489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813079486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Maureen Gupta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46961978573055,"sku":"9780813079486","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08d9f580-0e38-44d6-9771-d683f8a5f04c.jpg?v=1750648955","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nicolai-serguzseff-and-the-sleeping-maureen-gupta-9780813079486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}