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Performing Arts

Trisha Brown Choreography as Visual Art (1962-1987)

Rosenberg Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780819576620, ISBN: HB: 9780819576613, Casemate, Wesleyan University Press, December 2016
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 129 illus.

Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown...

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Celia, a Slave

Seyda Barbara, Wright Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300197068, Yale University Press, November 2016
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm

The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of law. The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, for...

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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Power and Succession in the History Plays

Lake Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300222715, Yale University Press, November 2016
688 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakes...

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Balanchine Teaching

Lassalle Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780871301000, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, November 2016
36 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1961, Nancy Lassalle, long-time ballet patron and associate of Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet, was given permission to photograph a two-day teacher seminar led by George Balanchine at the School...

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The German List

Tumult

Enzensberger Hans Magnus

ISBN: HB: 9780857423702, Seagull Books, November 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which "Tumult" is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters th...

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Ballet Lover's Companion

Anderson Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780300223415, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and crit...

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Staging History 1780-1840

Burden Michael, Heller Wendy, Hicks Jonathan, Lockhart Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9781851244560, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
224 pp., 21x21 cm, 79 colour illus.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical wor...

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Poetry

Alexandra Sequence

Redmond John

ISBN: PB: 9781784102043, Carcanet, September 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

In "The Alexandra Sequence" John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the "mummers play", a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpo...

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Philosophy

50 Drawings to Murder Magic

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9780857423504, Seagull Books, September 2016
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 halftones

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, "50 Drawings to Murder Magi...

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In Performance

Tahrir Tales Plays from the Egyptian Revolution

Albakry Mohammed, Maggor Rebekah

ISBN: PB: 9780857423412, Seagull Books, August 2016
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfo...

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