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Bottle Fly

Goldfinger Jacqueline, Wright Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300235012, Yale University Press, November 2018
88 pp., 22.9x14 cm

Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple, their disabled young ward, two lesbian tenants, and the bonds that bind them all together. It is a powerful story born ou...

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In Performance

"Intricate Art of Actually Caring", and Other New Zealand Plays

Mazer Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780857423405, Seagull Books, November 2018
450 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Theater in New Zealand began as a tool of the British Empire, imported along with Christianity, seeds, and other commodities as a way of acculturating the indigenous Maori population. In the decades since, it has been turned to different ends, and is...

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Reflection And Other Plays

Elkunchwar Mahesh

ISBN: PB: 9780857424945, Seagull Books, November 2018
320 pp., 19x15.2 cm

Celebrated Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression in a career that now spans more than four decades, producing works that range from the realist to the symbolic, expressionist to the theater of the...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...

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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas 2007-2017

Dumais-Lvowski Christian, Keersmaekers Floor, Van Aerschot Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300236873, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
256 pp., 33.5x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) is a renowned Belgian choreographer who over nearly four decades has created a legendary and internationally lauded oeuvre, a continuous exploration of the relationship between dance and music that borrows formal...

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Strategic Planning in the Arts A Practical Guide

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781512601749, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Planning today is more important than ever. Both acquisition and allocation of resources are increasingly difficult for arts organizations as a result of emerging technologies, reduced arts education, aging donors, and the advent of new forms of ente...

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Who is Surfing Who Adam Linder

Moshayedi Aram

ISBN: HB: 9783791357904, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
164 pp., 19x13 cm, 70 colour illus.

This monograph surveys the work of the Los Angeles-based choreographer and dancer Adam Linder, whose nuanced and highly evocative work offers a critical reflection on the nature of live performance and the role of dance within museums. Every two yea...

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Melodramatic Moment Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820

Hambridge Katherine G., Hicks Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226543659, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look – from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in "Pandora's Box" to the vicissitudes endlessly re...

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Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Enactments

Performing Utopia

Bowditch Rachel, Vissicaro Pegge

ISBN: PB: 9780857423863, Seagull Books, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In her landmark study "Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre", Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that u...

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