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Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets: Exploring the Early Choreography of a Master by Elizabeth Kattner 9780813066646
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.14In the first book to focus exclusively on George Balanchine's early Russian ballets, most of which have been lost to history, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a... -
Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life Mike Brearley 9781472133984
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.24If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be understood. If they said 'it's not cricket', they probably would be (though... -
From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet Tim Scholl 9780415756211
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a... -
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RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $4.87If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be understood. If they said 'it's not cricket', they probably would be (though... -
The Science of Folk-Lore by Alexander Haggerty Krappe
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $69.07First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously working in the legacy of Savigny and the Brothers Grimm,... -
Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions by Margaret M. McGowan
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.75The union of the two royal houses - the Habsburgs and the Bourbons - in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and... -
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage by Amit Sarwal 9781032069449
Booksplease Price: $126.17The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a... -
Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity by Eduardo de la Fuente 9780415811439
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of... -
Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 by Ellen Lockhart 9780520284432
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $92.93This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of... -
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties: Volume 2 by Moisei Ostrogorski
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.81Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis... -
Europe Dancing: Perspectives on Theatre, Dance, and Cultural Identity Andree Grau 9780415171038
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54Europe Dancing examines the dance cultures and movements which have developed in Europe since the Second World War. Nine countries are represented in this unique collaboration between European dance... -
Reforming the Electoral Process in America: Toward More Democracy in the 21st Century by Brian L. Fife 9780313372278
Booksplease Price: $128.21Calling for increased civic engagement, this book makes a compelling case for reforms that will democratize American elections and provide more power to the people. Quick-fix plans to "restore... -
No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century by Nancy Reynolds
Booksplease Price: $65.00The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographsWinner of the 2005 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Publication in... -
Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays by Kimberly Poppiti 9780367222710
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.It includes four annotated plays: Timour the Tartar by Matthew G. Lewis, The Battle of Waterloo by J... -
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts by Matthew Reason 9780367695842
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $92.15The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.This study considers... -
The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig Olga Taxidou 9789057550461
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous... -
Logic, Form and Grammar by Peter Long
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43The notion of logical form and its applications are at the heart of some of the classical problems in philosophical logic and are the focus of Peter Long's investigations in the three essays that... -
Dance Appreciation by Amanda Clark
Booksplease Price: $103.61Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the... -
Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Joseph Cirincione 9780415925969
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.00The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) poses the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States. As Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has noted, The greatest... -
You, the Choreographer: Creating and Crafting Dance Vladimir Angelov 9780367444464
RRP: $132.28Booksplease Price: $122.62YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography. The book is... -
Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore Stephanie Burridge 9780815369431
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $105.84This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape,... -
The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925 by Simon Shepherd
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900-1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early... -
East Meets West in Dance: Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue John Solomon 9783718656042
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $110.75East Meets West in Dance chronicles this development in the words of many of its best known and most active exponents. This collection of articles provides a theoretical discussion of the promises... -
The Demise and Rebirth of American Third Parties: Poised for Political Revival? by Bernard Tamas 9780815356394
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Virtually all academic books on American third parties in the last half-century assume that they have largely disappeared. This book challenges that orthodoxy by explaining the (temporary) decline of... -
British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 Matthew Riley 9781138246027
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.75Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and... -
Ballet: The Definitive Illustrated Story by DK
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.25Uncover the most mesmerising moments in ballet history with this scintillating visual guide.Written with ballet legend Viviana Durante, this book will introduce you to the most famous performers and... -
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, Method and Praxis by Michael D. Giardina 9780367247553
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together... -
On the High Wire: With an introduction by Paul Auster Philippe Petit 9781474622431
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24'A book of instructions to those who will dare one day the impossible. I bow my head in reverence' Werner Herzog'Petit is an artist whose theatre is the sky' Robin Williams'Fascinating. You will... -
Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle by Marian Smith 9780691146492
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $68.92Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s),... -
The Ice Swan by J'nell Ciesielski
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $15.73Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian...