Ballet & modern dance, a concise history.

Author: Anderson, Jack

Published: 1992

A history of the development of Western theatrical dance - specifically ballet and modern dance - since the... [full description]

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Ballet and modern dance.

Author: Au , Susan

Published: 1988, 2002

An excellent short history of ballet and modern dance, from the French court ballets of the 16th century to the work of... [full description]

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Ballet in western culture.

Author: Lee , Carol

Published: 1998

A history of the origins and evolution of classical ballet.

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The Cambridge companion to ballet.

Author: Kant, Marion

Published: 2007

The evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century, discussed in a... [full description]

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Dance history.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet & June Layson

Published: 1983, 2004

The only book to address the rationale, process, and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. It offers a... [full description]

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Dance, rituals of experience.

Author: Highwater, Jamake

Published: 1992

A view of the history of dance which contrasts its role in Western civilisation with its significance in other cultures.

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Dancing at the dawn of agriculture.

Author: Garfinkel, Yosef

Published: 2003

As the nomadic hunters and gatherers of the ancient Near East turned to agriculture for their livelihood and settled... [full description]

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A history of dancing.

Author: St.-Johnston, Reginald

Published: 2008

Reginald St.-Johnston's A History of Dancing (1906) was the first book published in English on its subject in... [full description]

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A history of music and dance in Florida.

Author: Housewright, Wiley L.

Published: 1992

Eye and ear witness accounts from the first permanent settlement in 1565 to the end of the Civil War in 1865.

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A history of theatre.

Author: Wickham, Glynne

Published: 1992

In this masterly survey Glynne Wickham outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3,000... [full description]

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I see America dancing: selected readings, 1685 - 2000.

Author: Needham, Maureen

Published: 2002

A collection of original writings on dance that testify to the richness, breadth, and scope of the dance heritage of... [full description]

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Legacies of twentieth-century dance.

Author: Garafola, Lynn

Published: 2004

Lynn Garafola has written some of the most influential historical studies and criticism in the field of dance.... [full description]

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May I have the pleasure? The story of popular dancing.

Author: Quirey, Belinda

Published: 1976, 2002

The long awaited reprint of Belinda Quirey's famous history of the development of social dancing, from its origins in... [full description]

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Origin of mime and dance.

Author: Berkut, Mikhail

Published:

An extensive investigation into the origins of mime and dance, covering the subject matter in considerable detail.... [full description]

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Preservation politics, dance revived, reconstructed, remade.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 2001

The proceedings of a conference held at the University of Surrey Roehampton in 1997, the first major European... [full description]

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Rethinking dance history.

Author: Carter, Alexandra

Published: 2004

From the ballets de cours of the seventeenth century to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, this fascinating... [full description]

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Satan in the dance hall.

Author: Giordano, Ralph G.

Published: 2008

Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City explores... [full description]

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Twentieth century dance in Britain: a history of five dance companies.

Author: White, Joan W.

Published:

First published in 1985, this book traces the histories of five dance companies: the Rambert Dance Company (then Ballet... [full description]

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