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Mime, music and drama on the eighteenth-century stage
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Edward Nye |
"The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention wa… |
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Ballerina
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Deirdre Kelly |
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection? the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th cen… |
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On Wings of Joy
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Trudy Garfunkel |
In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the development of ballet. Beginning with the birth of the art in the … |
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Frederick Ashton and his ballets
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David Vaughan |
xx, 522 p. : 26 cm |
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Dancing and ballet
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Olive Ordish |
Discusses the evolution of many forms of dance, including folk, ballroom, stage, social, classical ballet, and modern dance. |
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The Triumph of Pleasure
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Georgia J. Cowart |
"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the co… |
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The Bolshoi Ballet School
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Sophia N. Golovkina |
77 p. : 32 cm |
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