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Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance
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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£16,99
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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Power and Succession in the History Plays
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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£25,00
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Balanchine Teaching
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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£22,00
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Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work
ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...
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£26,50
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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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Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue
ISBN: PB: 9780226006314, ISBN: HB: 9780226491158, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm
An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...
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£52,00
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Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones
What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...
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£25,00
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£37,00
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Whispers of a Savage Sort And Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781563684203, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Oh, why can't the deaf community be more like a family?" is the plaint of a character in Raymond Luczak's title play Whispers of a Savage Sort. It also goes far in characterizing the main thread that runs through his remarkable collection of work of...
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