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Books: Dance history



Cover imageBallet & 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]

Paperback [1479-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageBallet 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]

Paperback [0887-PB] £ 8.95 Add to order


Ballet in western culture.

Author: Lee , Carol

Published: 1998

A history of the origins and evolution of classical ballet.

Paperback [1828-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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]

Paperback [5078-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance as a theatre art.

Author: Cohen, Selma Jeanne

Published: 1992

The development of dance from sixteenth-century Europe to the present day, shown in the form of the original writings... [full description]

Paperback [1644-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


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]

Paperback [1401-PB] £ 20.99 Add to order


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.

Paperback [0397-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order


Cover imageDancing 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]

Hardback [0333-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order


Cover imageHistory of dance: an interactive arts approach.

Author: Kassing, Gayle

Published: 2007

An in-depth look at dance from the dawn of time through to the 20th century. Using an investigative approach, the books... [full description]

Hardback [5068-HB] £ 41.00 Add to order


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.

Paperback [0532-PB] £ 20.50 Add to order


Cover imageA 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]

Paperback [2416-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order


Cover imageI 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]

Hardback [0315-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order

Paperback [0315-PB] £ 14.00 Add to order


Cover imageLegacies 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]

Paperback [0789-PB] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageMay 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]

Paperback [2595-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageMoving history/Dancing cultures, a dance history reader.

Author: Dils, Ann & Ann Cooper Albright

Published: 2001

This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. The editors... [full description]

Paperback [0915-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Cover imageOrigin 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]

Hardback [5070-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order


Cover imagePreservation 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]

Paperback [0884-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageRethinking 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]

Hardback [0420-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order

Paperback [0420-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order



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