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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas 2007-2017
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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£45,00
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Strategic Planning in the Arts A Practical Guide
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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£23,00
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Who is Surfing Who Adam Linder
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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£27,50
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Melodramatic Moment Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820
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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£41,00
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Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
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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£26,00
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£79,00
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Performing Utopia
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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£26,50
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Season in the Congo
ISBN: PB: 9780857424877, ISBN: HB: 9781905422944, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the...
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£12,99
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£13,50
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Charandas Chor And Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857424952, Seagull Books, February 2018
376 pp., 19x15.2 cm
A towering figure in twentieth-century theater in India, Habib Tanvir was an actor, director, and playwright, working in Hindi and Urdu. He founded the Naya Theater in 1959, through which he created remarkable works drawing on the history and traditi...
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£18,99
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Comedies
ISBN: PB: 9780857424693, Seagull Books, February 2018
224 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers have...
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Medical Clowning The Healing Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857423870, Seagull Books, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Clowns are not just the stuff of backyard children's parties anymore. These days, clown doctors see patients – especially children – to introduce humor and imagination into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins of medical clowning can...
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