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The Cambridge companion to ballet
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REF 792.809 Cambridge
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The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / Jennifer Nevile
Ballet de cour / Marina Nordera
English masques / Barbara Ravelhofer
The baroque body / Mark Franko
Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / Dorion Weickmann
The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalisation of an art form / Sandra Noll Hammond
The making of history : John Weaver and the Enlightenment / Tim Blanning
Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / Judith Chazin-Benahum
The French Revolution and its spectacles / Inge Baxmann
Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / Sarah Davis Cordova
Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / Anne Middleboe Christensen
The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / Marian E. Smith
Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / Lynn Garafola
Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / Thérèse Hurley
The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / Lucia Ruprecht
The soul of the shoe / Marion Kant
The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / Erik Näslund
The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century / Tim Scholl
George Balanchine / Matilde Butkas
Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / Juliet Bellow
The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / Jennifer Fisher
From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / Zheng Yangwen
Giselle in a Cuban accent / Lester Tome
European ballet in the age of ideologies / Marion Kant.
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9780521832212
9780521539869
9780521539869