Girl from the North Country (NHB Modern Plays) / by McPherson, Conor, Dylan, Bob

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Fanny Elssler in America : comprising seven facsimiles of rare Americana--never before offered the public--depicting her astounding conquest of America in 1840-42, a memoir, a libretto, two verses, a penny-terrible blast, letters and journal, and an early comic strip--the sad tale of her impresario's courtship /

The body, the dance and the text : essays on performance and the margins of history /

Table of Contents: “…Gradations of presence : armida in nineteenth-century Italian dance librettos /…”
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Carnival theater : Uruguay's popular performers and national culture / by Remedi, Gustavo

Table of Contents: “…Carnival Celebrates the National Popular Epic; Conclusion: From the Garden of the Comparsas; Appendix: Librettos of Principal Murgas from the Montevideo Carnival, 1988; Notes.…”
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The Nutcracker Casse-Noisette = Der Nussknacker /

The sentient archive : bodies, performance, and memory /

Table of Contents: “…/ Laurajane Smith -- Sideways glances : painting and dancing / Sarah Crowner -- Leap before you look : honoring the libretto in Giselle and Apollo / Nancy Goldner -- Body as signifier / Patricia Hoffbauer -- Performing the archive : introduction Linda Caruso Haviland -- [Untitled] / Bebe Miller -- My body, the archive / Deborah Hay -- Choreographing somatic memories and spatial residues / Jayachandran Palazhy -- Tremulous histories / Jenn Joy -- Exit/exist-embodiment / Gregory Maqoma -- Afterlives and transformations : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland -- Pavilion of secrets / Marcia B. …”
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The sentient archive : bodies, performance, and memory /

Table of Contents: “…/ Laurajane Smith -- Sideways glances : painting and dancing / Sarah Crowner -- Leap before you look : honoring the libretto in Giselle and Apollo / Nancy Goldner -- Body as signifier / Patricia Hoffbauer -- IV. …”

Ballet's magic kingdom : selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 / by Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926

Table of Contents: “…The Book of Exaltations: The ABCs of Classical Dance (1925) -- Principles of Classical Dance -- Choreography -- Ballet -- Verticality -- The Toes -- Turnout -- Exposing the Essence -- Croisé and Effacé -- Elevation -- The Nature of Classical Dance -- The Arms -- Music -- Features and Forms -- Positions -- Plié -- Battements -- Rond de Jambe -- The Exercise's Finale -- In the Center -- Coupé -- Gliding Movements -- Fouetté -- Straight and Crooked Lines -- Attitude and Arabesque -- Pirouette -- En Tournant The Clock's Chimes -- Postscript -- Allegro -- Leap, Jump, Flight -- Earth and Sky -- Beats -- Sissonne (Sisol) -- Entrechat -- The Line Upward -- Technique -- Pas de Basque -- Summa summarum -- A Bird's-Eye View -- Male Dancing: A Synthesis -- Acrobatism -- The Ballet Master -- Myth and Fairy Tale -- The Soul's Reserves -- The Ballet Libretto -- The Danseur -- The Corps de Ballet -- Mime -- Vis medicatrix (Strength, the Healer) -- Glossary of Names -- Index.…”
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