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Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300207637, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.
Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his a...
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£63,00
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New Adventures of Don Quixote
ISBN: HB: 9780857422095, Seagull Books, December 2014
200 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour plates
Tariq Ali's latest play, "The New Adventures of Don Quixote", can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful tribute to Cervantes's masterwork. The central characters from the original novel, Don Quixote an...
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£22,50
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"How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857422200, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 halftones
Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesse...
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£34,00
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"Loose Screws" and Other Polish Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857421777, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm
An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, "Loose Screws" brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individ...
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£30,00
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Rhythm Field The Dance of Molissa Fenley
ISBN: PB: 9780857422194, Seagull Books, December 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones
Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that in...
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£34,00
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Still
ISBN: PB: 9780300206357, Yale University Press, November 2014
120 pp., 21x14 cm
In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considerin...
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£13,99
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Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
ISBN: HB: 9780226167169, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 335 colour plates
In the 1930s and '40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. Thi...
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£41,50
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Puppet and the Modern
ISBN: HB: 9788074670565, DAP, Arbor Vitae, October 2014
456 pp., 33x21.5 cm, 750 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Czechoslovakia's unique culture of puppet theater reached a glorious apex between about 1900 and 1950, and its visual style was integral to the development of modernist and contemporary theater and animation. "The Puppet an...
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£65,00
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Iphigenia among the Taurians
ISBN: PB: 9780226203621, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
72 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson.  "The New York Times Book Review" calls her work "personal, necessary, and impor...
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£7,50
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Faust A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
ISBN: PB: 9780300189698, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
A classic of world literature, Goethe's "Faust" is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles – dramatic and...
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£14,99
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