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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dream Brother
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Crown I Love Lucy Book
Book SynopsisIn answer to countless requests from I Love Lucy fans around the world, Bart Andrews has revised, updated, and expanded his classic book on TV's most beloved series.B & W photographs throughout.
£19.08
Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of PreCinema
Book SynopsisThis set collects together for the first time rare and scattered material on the history of pre-cinema. It includes articles on stereoscopic photography; the use of kaleidoscopes; optical illusions; theatre design; magic lanterns and mirrors; shadow theatre, and much more. The articles are taken from sources such as The Magazine of Science, The Art Journal, The British Journal of Photography, Scientific American, American Journal of Science and Arts, and The Mirror.
£720.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Disability and Contemporary Performance Bodies on
Book SynopsisDisability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and ''medical theatre'' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.Trade Review"'Timely and much needed. As a dancer, choreographer, community workshop artist, and top-notch scholar, Kuppers is uniquely qualified to address the myriad issues that arise when putting disability studies and performance studies into dialogue with one another.' - Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University"Table of ContentsList of figures, Acknowledgements, Figure acknowledgements, Performance and disability: An introduction, 1. Practices of reading difference, 2. Freaks, stages, and medical theaters, 3. Deconstructing images: Performing disability, 4. Outsider energies, 5. Encountering paralysis: Disability, trauma, and narrative, 6. New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers, Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness, silence, and space in mental health settings, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£40.84
Taylor & Francis Ltd Invisible Connections Dance Choreography and
Book SynopsisThe first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat's fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating and performing work, and how opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration are available on a scale never before imaginable.Drawing upon the work of practioners and theorists in the arts, communications and technology theorists and , Invisible Connections makes special reference to Popat's series of Internet-based choreography projects from with online communities around the globe, and explores:* methods by which such technologies can facilitate creative collaborations between performers and viewers* how sharing creative processes between online communities can enrich the artistic palette and provide arts-based learning* how the Cartesian duality of the mind-body split is challenged by the physicality of danciTable of ContentsIntroduction: Invisible Connections: Beyond the Proscenium Arch Section 1: Creativity and Interactivity for Online Collaborations Chapter 1. Creativity and Devising Chapter 2. Interacting Online Chapter 3. Choreography with Internet Communities Section 2: Three Online Choreography Projects Chapter 4. Three Online Choreography Projects Chapter 5. Three Projects: Choreographic Processes Chapter 6. Three Projects: Bridging the Cartesian Divide Section 3: Future Directions Chapter 7. Applications in Theatre and Performance Chapter 8. Future Directions Appendix A: Technical Issues Kris Popat Bibliography
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Yes No Maybe Seductive Ambiguity in Dance
Book SynopsisCovering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance.Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing.Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge, Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new danceâs legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator relationships, and investigates questions of subjectivity, absence and presence, identity, gender, race and desire using psychoanalytical, feminist, postmodern, post-structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. Artists and practitioners, professional performers, teachers, choreographers and theatre-goers will all find this book an informative and insightful read.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Setting the Scene 2. X6: A Hinge in Time Part 1: Yes? Fantasies of Perfection: Setting the Scene for Change 3. Upward Line 4. Watching Ballet: Illusion Becoming Real 5. Performing Ballet: Real Becoming Illusion 6. Classical Androgyny 7. Cracking the Myth 8. The Oedipal Narrative 9. An Articulate Silence 10. Dying to Please Part 2: No! Coming down to Earth as Dancing Subjects 11. Expressions from the Lifeworld 12. Figures of Parody 13. Subverting Tragedy 14. Feminist Battles with Androgyny 15. Within the Frame of Nw Dance 16. Letting go of the Mirror 17. A Figure of Jouissance 18. K/no/w Body of Illusion: Seduction in Reverse 19. Derrida’s Presents 20. Parallel Emergences 21. Different Visibilities 22. Negation of Seduction 23. The Other of the Other 24. Kristeva’s Crunch 25. Collective Strategies 26. The X6 Legacy 27. Drawn to the Mainstream 28. Repertory versus Project 29. Middle-Mush Part 3: Maybe... Full Body, Empty Body and Ambiguous Points of Play 30. Process to Product 31. Full Body Empty Body 32. The Chameleon 33. Boys Transcending 34. His Look is his Gaze 35. Bodies of Pleasure 36. Letting go of Fear 37. Re-Figuring Androgyny 38. Queer Living 39. Re-Dressing the Girls Conclusion 40. Eye Flight Notes Bibliography
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Judson Dance Theater Performative Traces
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: transatlantic crossings, 2 Cunningham, Judson, and the historical avant-garde, 3 Minimalism, theory, and the dancing body, 4 Allegories of the ordinary and particular, 5 Before and after 1968: dance, politics, and the avant-garde, 6 Repetition: Brown, Bausch, and De Keersmaeker, 7 Traces of intimacy and relationless relations, 8 The Judson tradition at the start of a new century, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£35.14
Taylor & Francis Beyond Dance Labans Legacy of Movement Analysis
Book SynopsisBeyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies to their field, few know the full story of how this technique has developed and grown. For many who enter into the fields of dance movement therapy, performance, and communications, there are valuable lessons to be learned from Laban and his follower's works. Beyond Dance offers a concise introduction to this world. Refreshingly free of jargon and easy to understand, the work offers dance students â and others interested in human movement â a full picture of the many possibilities inherent in Laban's theories. For many who will pursue careers 'beyond dance', this work will be a useful guidebook into related areas.This will be ideally suited to students of Laban movement theory in dance and movement therapy, and will be used in advanced courses in these areas as useful, brief introduction to the field.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Introductio n Chapter One: Laban in Europe His early life Ascona and After Labanotation Chapter Two: Laban's War Effort His arrival in England - Dartington Lisa Ullmann and Education Laban and F. C. Lawrence Lilt in Labour Chapter Three: Shape and Effort Warren Lamb and the Art of Movement Studio Choreutics Eukinetics Laying Down the Rules of Movement Analysis Shape - The Three Planes of Movement Effort - The Three Qualities of Movement Laban's Eight Basic Efforts The Importance of Flow Chapter Four: Arriving at Aptitude Assessment Working on the Factory Floor The Laban Lawrence Effort Assessment Aptitude Assessment The 3-Stage Decision-Making Process Adding Shape to the Formula Posture and Gesture Into Team-Building Chapter Five: Action Profilers International Broadening the Base: Pamela Ramsden The Body-Mind Connection The Motivation to Interact The Overall Factors Sharing and Private Behavior Training Profilers Research and Validation Problems for Action Profiling Chapter Six: Movement Analysis and Personality Childhood Development - Judith Kestenberg Some Basic Personality Types The Communicator The Confronter Action Man / Woman Chapter Seven: Movement and Gender The Gender War Male and Female in Movement The Importance of Flow - Again Some Interpretations Putting on the Pressure Caring and Sharing Making Decisions Vive la Difference Chapter Eight: All the World's a Stage Movement and Politics Movement Analysis and Therapy Ritualized Behavior Social Considerations of Movement and Gender Personal Relationships Punishment and Rehabilitation Movement as a Common Denominator Appendix I: Warren Lamb's Profile of Rudolf Laban Appendix II: The Laban Lawrence Effort Assessment Appendix III: An Aptitude Assessment for a Marketing Director Bibliography
£37.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Water Framework Directive
Book Synopsis Deals with new EC legislation the Water Framework Directive; the main driver within Europe for groundwater monitoring which addresses integrated water resource management across 27 different countries Provides comprehensive approach and guidance on the theoretical and practical aspects for implementing the directive Edited by EC representatives involved in the setting up of the framework, along with colleagues in various water institutions who have the task of implementing the legislation Part of the Water Quality Measurement Series Table of ContentsSeries Preface ix Preface xi List of Contributors xiii SECTION 1 GENERAL WFD MONITORING FEATURES 1 1.1 Water Status Monitoring under the WFD 3 Philippe Quevauviller 1.2 Chemical Monitoring of Surface Waters 11 Peter Lepom and Georg Hanke 1.3 The Monitoring of Ecological Status of European Freshwaters 29 Angelo G. Solimini, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Jacob Carstensen, Gary Free, Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, Niels Jepsen, Peeter Noges, Sandra Poikane and Wouter van de Bund SECTION 2 CASE STUDIES ON MONITORING DIFFERENT AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS UNDER THE WFD 61 2.1 Lake Monitoring in Sweden 63 Hakan Marklund 2.2 River Monitoring 77 Elena Perez Gallego 2.3 Groundwater Monitoring: Implementation in Two Member States 87 Rob Ward, Johannes Grath and Andreas Scheidleder 2.4 Coastal and Marine Monitoring 103 Patrick Roose SECTION 3 ANALYTICAL TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WFD MONITORING 131 3.1 Emerging Methods for Water Monitoring in the Context of the WFD 133 Richard Greenwood and Graham A. Mills 3.2 Diagnostic Water Quality Instruments for Use in the European Water Framework Directive 153 J.L. Maas, C.A. Schipper, R.A.E. Knoben, M.J. van den Heuvel-Greve, P.J. den Besten and P.G-J. de Maagd SECTION 4 MODELLING TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WFD MONITORING 163 4.1 Joint Modelling and Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystems 165 J.C. Refsgaard, L.F. Jorgensen, A.L. Hojberg, C. Demetriou, G. Onorati and G. Brandt 4.2 Integrated River Basin Management: Harmonised Modelling Tools and Decision-making Process 181 Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz and Fred F. Hattermann SECTION 5 HYDROGEOLOGICAL COMPONENTS AND GROUNDWATER STATUS 195 5.1 Groundwater Quality Monitoring: The Overriding Importance of Hydrogeologic Typology (and Need for 4D Thinking) 197 Didier Pennequin and Stephen Foster 5.2 Contribution of Hydrogeological Mapping to Water Monitoring Programmes 215 Wilhelm F. Struckmeier 5.3 Establishing Environmental Groundwater Quality Standards 229 Dietmar Muller SECTION 6 SEDIMENT MONITORING 241 6.1 Sediment Dynamics and their Influence on the Design of Monitoring Programmes 243 Sue White 6.2 Monitoring Sediment Quality Using Toxicity Tests as Primary Tools for any Risk Assessment 255 Wolfgang Ahlf, Ute Feiler, Peter Heininger and Susanne Heise SECTION 7 RISK ASSESSMENT LINKED TO MONITORING 271 7.1 River Basin Risk Assessment Linked to Monitoring and Management 273 Jos Brils, Damia Barcelo, Winfried E.H. Blum, Werner Brack, Bob Harris, Dietmar Muller, Philippe Negrel, Vala Ragnarsdottir, Wim Salomons, Thomas Track and Joop Vegter 7.2 Emerging Contaminants in the Water-sediment System: Case Studies of Pharmaceuticals and Brominated Flame Retardants in the Ebro River Basin 287 Mira Petrovic, Ethel Eljarrat, Meritxell Gros, Agustina de la Cal and Damia Barcelo 7.3 Assessment of Metal Bioavailability and Natural Background Levels – WFD Monitoring from the Perspective of Metals Industry 299 Patrick Van Sprang, Katrien Delbeke, Lidia Regoli, Hugo Waeterschoot, Frank Van Assche, William Adams, Delphine Haesaerts, Claire Mattelet, Andy Bush, Lynette Chung and Violaine Verougstraete 7.4 Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: the Euro-limpacs Project 313 Richard W. Battarbee, Martin Kernan, David M. Livingstone, Uli Nickus, Piet Verdonschot, Daniel Hering, Brian Moss, Richard F. Wright, Chris D. Evans, Joan O. Grimalt, Richard K. Johnson, Edward Maltby, Conor Linstead and Richard A. Skeffington SECTION 8 ENSURING DATA QUALITY 355 8.1 NORMAN – Network of Reference Laboratories for Monitoring of Emerging Substances 357 Jaroslav Slobodnik and Valeria Dulio 8.2 Data Quality Assurance of Sediment Monitoring 371 Ulrich Forstner, Susanne Heise, Wolfgang Ahlf and Bernard Westrich SECTION 9 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 387 9.1 Reporting Requirements for Priority Substances 389 Valeria Dulio and Anne Morin SECTION 10 CONCLUSIONS 409 10.1 Needs for an Operational Science–Policy Mechanism in Support of WFD Monitoring – National and Regional Examples 411 Philippe Quevauviller, Bob Harris and Philippe Vervier 10.2 Support for WFD Research Needs: Current Activities and Future Perspectives in the Context of RTD Framework Programmes 445 Andrea Tilche Index 459
£216.55
John Wiley & Sons Inc Illicit Drugs in the Environment Occurrence
Book SynopsisIllicit drugs are an emerging class of environmental contaminants and mass spectrometry is the technique of choice for their analysis.Trade Review"It provides analytical techniques, explains why illicit drugs - a new class of contaminants - have become an environmental issue, and offers instruction in how to estimate the amount of contaminants in the environment and addresses their behavior and potential toxic effects." (Book News, 1 August 2011) Table of ContentsPREFACE. CONTRIBUTORS. I INTRODUCTION. 1 ILLICIT DRUGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT (Christian G. Daughton). II THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ILLICIT DRUGS. 2 METABOLISM AND EXCRETION OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN HUMANS (Manuela Melis, Sara Castiglioni, and Ettore Zuccato). III MASS SPECTROMETRY IN ILLICIT DRUGS DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT – CURRENT AND NOVEL ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS. 3 ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WASTEWATERS AND SURFACE WATERS (Renzo Bagnati and Enrico Davoli). 4 WIDE-SCOPE SCREENING OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN URBAN WASTEWATER BY UHPLC-QTOF MS (Félix Hernádez, Juan V. Sancho, and Lubertus Bijlsma). 5 DETERMINATION OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE WATER CYCLE BY LC–ORBITRAP MS (Pim de Voogt, Erik Emke, Rick Helmus, Pavlos Panteliadis, and Jan A. van Leerdam). IVA MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: OCCURRENCE AND FATE IN WASTEWATER AND SURFACE WATER. 6 OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WASTEWATER IN SPAIN (Cristina Postigo, Miren López de Alda, and Damia Barcelò). 7 OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WASTEWATER AND SURFACE WATER IN ITALY (Sara Castiglioni and Ettore Zuccato). 8 OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN SURFACE WATER AND WASTEWATER IN THE UK (Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern). 9 ON THE FRONTIER: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AND THE OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS INTO SURFACE WATERS IN THE UNITED STATES (Tammy Jones-Lepp, David Alvarez, and Bommanna Loganathan). 10 MONITORING NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS IN SURFACE WATER IN NEBRASKA (USA) (Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, and Daniel D. Snow). IVB MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: ILLICIT DRUGS IN DRINKING WATER. 11 PRESENCE AND REMOVAL OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN CONVENTIONAL DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PLANTS (Maria Huerta-Fontela, Maria Teresa Galceran, and Francesc Ventura). 12 ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WATER USING DIRECT-INJECTION LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY (Rebecca A. Trenholm and Shane A. Snyder). IVC MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: PRESENCE IN AIR AND SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER. 13 PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES IN URBAN AIRBORNE PARTICULATES (Angelo Cecinato and Catia Balducci). V APPLICATIONS OF ILLICIT DRUG ANALYSIS IN THE ENVIRONMENT. 14 ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATION FOR ECOTOXICOLOGY (Guido Domingo, Kristin Schirmer, Marcella Bracale, and Francesco Pomati). 15 DRUG ADDICTION–POTENTIAL OF A NEW APPROACH TO MONITORING DRUG CONSUMPTION (Norbert Frost). 16 ASSESSING ILLICIT DRUG CONSUMPTION BY WASTEWATER ANALYSIS: HISTORY, POTENTIAL, AND LIMITATION OF A NOVEL APPROACH (Ettore Zuccato and Sara Castiglioni). 17 COCAINE AND METABOLITES IN WASTEWATER AS A TOOL TO CALCULATE LOCAL AND NATIONAL COCAINE CONSUMPTION PREVALENCE IN BELGIUM (Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Lieven Bervoets, Philippe G. Jorens, Ronny Blust, Hugo Neels, and Adrian Covaci). 18 MEASUREMENT OF ILLICIT DRUG CONSUMPTION IN SMALL POPULATIONS: PROGNOSIS FOR NONINVASIVE DRUG TESTING OF STUDENT POPULATIONS (Deepika Panawennage, Sara Castiglioni, Ettore Zuccato, Enrico Davoli, and M. Paul Chiarelli). VI CONCLUSIONS. 19 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES (Roberto Fanelli). INDEX.
£80.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Fit and Healthy Dancer
Book SynopsisRegardless of the grace of their movement, dancers experience injuries more often than the lugs bucking heads on the rugby field or in the boxing ring.Trade Review"...This book is both interesting and informative....there is muchin the content to benefit any teacher of movement and dance, aswell as full-time students and professionals..." (Dance Teacher,Volume 48, Number 7) "...will undoubtedly be an excellent reference document for thedancer and the dance teacher..." (Physiotherapy in Sport)Table of ContentsBibliography of Editors and Authors xiii Contributors xv Foreword by Sir Peter Wright xvii Foreword by Cynthia Harvey xix Preface xxi Acknowledgements xxv Part I Energy and Food For Exercise And Fitness 1 Yiannis Koutedakis 1 Energy for Exercise and fitness 3 1 Summary 3 2 Introduction 4 3 Definition of Energy 4 4 Measurement of Energy 6 5 Metabolism 7 6 Energy Requirements 8 7 Energy Intakes 11 8 Calculation of Energy Intakes 12 9 Energy Balance 13 10 Production of Energy: the Human Energy Systems 15 11 The Effects of Fitness on the Human Energy Systems 20 12 Conclusions 21 13 Further Reading 22 2 Food for Exercise and Fitness 23 1 Summary 23 2 Introduction 24 3 Carbohydrates 25 4 Dietary Fibre 28 5 Fats 29 6 Proteins 32 7 Vitamins 34 8 Minerals 37 9 Water and Fluid Replacement 41 10 General Dietary Recommendations 44 11 Ergogenic Aids 45 12 Conclusions 47 13 Further Reading 48 Referencesto Part I 49 Part II Fit To Dance 51 Yiannis Koutedakis and N.C. Craig Sharp 3 Non-artistic Components of Dance Performance 53 1 Introduction 53 2 Biomechanical 53 3 Hereditary 55 4 Medical 56 5 Nutritional 57 6 Psychological 58 7 Technological 58 8 Physiological 59 9 Conclusions 63 10 Further Reading 64 4 Muscle and its Physiology 65 1 Introduction 65 2 Types of Muscle 66 3 Types of Skeletal Muscle Fibre 67 4 Motor Units and their Function 70 5 Muscle Force and Cross-sectional Area 73 6 The Structure of the Muscle 73 7 The Mechanism of Muscle Contraction 81 8 Types of Muscle Contraction 84 9 Control and Reflex 85 10 Conclusions 87 11 Further Reading 87 5 The Main Physical Fitness Components and Dance 89 1 Introduction 89 2 Aerobic (Cardiorespiratory) Fitness 92 3 Anaerobic Fitness 105 4 Muscular Strength (and Power) 114 5 Muscular Flexibility and Joint Mobility 128 6 Body Composition 141 7 Conclusions 152 8 Further Reading 153 6 Fitness and Training 155 1 Introduction 155 2 Physical Training 156 3 Warm-up and Cool-Down 162 4 Fatigue 171 5 Conclusions 183 6 Further Reading 183 Acknowledgement 184 References to Part II 185 Part III The Healthy Dancer 193 Introduction 195 7 Overtraining Burnout 197 Yinnis Koutedakis 1 Summary 197 2 Introduction 197 3 Definition of Terms 198 4 Factors Contributing to Overtraining 199 5 Diagnosis of Overtraining 203 6 Symptoms 203 7 Signs 201 8 Overtraining and the Immune System 206 9 Overtraining and Loss of Muscle Strength 207 10 Seasonal Variations in Overtraining 209 11 Diet and Overtraining 210 12 Prevention of Overtraining 210 13 Management of Overtraining 211 14 Conclusions 212 15 Further Reading 212 References 213 8 Asthma and Dance 215 Ray Carson 1 Summary 215 2 Introduction 215 3 Definition of Asthma 216 4 Diagnosis 216 5 Disease Mechanisms 218 6 Effects on Performance 221 7 Prevention 223 8 Treatment 226 9 Conclusions 228 10 Further Reading 228 References 228 9 Body Weight Control 231 Paul Pacy 1 Summary 231 2 Introduction 231 3 Elements of Body Weight—Body Fat 232 4 Are There Ideal Body Weights? 233 5 Factors Affecting Body Weight 234 6 The Role of Nutrition 236 7 Eating Habits and Body Weight Control 240 8 Body Weight After Retirement 246 9 Conclusions 247 10 Further Reading 247 Acknowledgment 247 References 248 10 Body Weight and Bone Density 249 Roger Wolman 1 Summary 249 2 Introduction 246 3 Menstrual Effects of Low Body Weight 250 4 Bone Density and Osteoporosis 254 5 Effects of Low Body Weight on the Skeleton 257 6 Reduced Bone Density 260 7 Management of Low Bone Density and Osteoporosis 260 8 Conclusions 262 9 Further Reading 263 References 263 11 Anatomical and Physiological Gender Differences 265 N. C Craig Sharp 1 Summary 265 2 Introduction 265 3 Gender Formation 266 4 Anatomical Aspects 267 5 Physiological Aspects 273 6 Conclusions 277 7 Further Reading 277 References 277 12 Children and Dance 279 Colin Boreham 1 Summary 279 2 Introduction 280 3 Growth, Maturation and Physical Performance 281 4 Individual Differences in Maturation 284 5 Health Benefits of Dance in Children 284 6 Training for Dance in Children 284 7 Temperature Regulation and Fluid Balance 289 8 Conclusions 290 9 Further Reading 290 References 291 13 Life After a Professional Dance Career 293 Susie Dinan 1 Summary 293 2 Introduction 294 3 International Recognition of the Needs of Dancers in Transition 295 4 The Dancer’s Dilemma 296 5 The Dancer’s Destiny 300 6 Current Initiatives in Dance Education 306 7 Support and Success for Dancers in Transition 307 8 Ageing and the Dancer 309 9 Conclusions 320 10 Further Reading 321 Acknowledgements 321 References 321 Glossary 323 Index 339
£60.26
The University of Michigan Press The Sixties Center Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Sixties, Center Stage expands our vision of this critical decade, reminding experimental-theater partisans that Broadway, established Off Broadway, high-profile festivals, and the nascent regional theater were sites of equally challenging innovation. Even more important, Harding and Rosenthal aim to dismantle the boundary between the mainstream and the fringe—to demonstrate that there was far easier exchange of ideas, preoccupations, and methods between the two camps than we usually acknowledge."" - Marc Robinson, Yale University""The editors successfully tackle the dichotomy that has long existed in the scholarly literature about American theater during the turbulent 1960s. Well-written, readable, entertaining, well-organized, and convincing, this book inspires readers to continue their search for ways in which false dichotomies can be exploded in other writings."" - Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College
£39.35
The University of Michigan Press Showing Off Showing Up
Book SynopsisExamines acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. The book's theoretical introduction and essays reveal how diverse, particularly efficacious genres of showing are theoretically connected and why they merit more concerted attention.Trade ReviewFrom top to bottom, the pieces of Showing Off, Showing Up are compelling, well-researched, and stand at the forefront of performance studies scholarship and hold the potential to move the field forward in very significant ways. It will find an appreciative audience with scholars and students in the field."" - Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University
£38.93
LUP - University of Michigan Press Queer Nightlife
Book SynopsisFocuses on queer and trans people of colour who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation.
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Kinethic California
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Performing the Greek Crisis
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£27.50
University of Michigan Press Dancing Opacity
£31.96
The University of Michigan Press Bodies in Commotion
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance.Trade ReviewA testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." —Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
£26.55
The University of Michigan Press I Want to Be Ready
Book SynopsisPresents a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. This book also offers an understanding of the 'freedom' of improvisational dance. It is suitable for those interested in dance history and criticism, and for interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies.Trade Review"This book will become the single most important reflection on the question of improvisation, a question which has become foundational to dance itself. The achievement of I Want to Be Ready lies not simply in its mastery of the relevant literature within dance, but in its capacity to engage dance in a deep and abiding dialogue with other expressive forms, to think improvisation through myriad sites and a rich vein of cultural diversity, and to join improvisation in dance with its manifestations in life so as to consider what constitutes dance's own politics." - Randy Martin, Tisch School of Arts at New York University"
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press The Sixties Center Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Sixties, Center Stage expands our vision of this critical decade, reminding experimental-theater partisans that Broadway, established Off Broadway, high-profile festivals, and the nascent regional theater were sites of equally challenging innovation. Even more important, Harding and Rosenthal aim to dismantle the boundary between the mainstream and the fringe—to demonstrate that there was far easier exchange of ideas, preoccupations, and methods between the two camps than we usually acknowledge."" - Marc Robinson, Yale University""The editors successfully tackle the dichotomy that has long existed in the scholarly literature about American theater during the turbulent 1960s. Well-written, readable, entertaining, well-organized, and convincing, this book inspires readers to continue their search for ways in which false dichotomies can be exploded in other writings."" - Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College
£80.95
The University of Michigan Press Showing Off Showing Up
Book SynopsisExamines acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. The book's theoretical introduction and essays reveal how diverse, particularly efficacious genres of showing are theoretically connected and why they merit more concerted attention.Trade ReviewFrom top to bottom, the pieces of Showing Off, Showing Up are compelling, well-researched, and stand at the forefront of performance studies scholarship and hold the potential to move the field forward in very significant ways. It will find an appreciative audience with scholars and students in the field."" - Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University
£84.95
The University of Michigan Press Performing the Greek Crisis
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£61.70
University of Michigan Press Dancing Opacity
£92.00
The University of Michigan Press Performing America
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£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Rebel Dance Renegade Stance
Book SynopsisUmi A. Vaughan reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers.
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press The Body in Crisis
Book SynopsisA major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalizationTable of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa Translators’ Note by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran Preface to the English Edition by Christine Greiner Introduction Part I: Networks of Destabilization Chapter 1: The Agents of the Crisis Chapter 2: Metaphorical Epidemics: The Appetite for DeterritorializationPart II: Operators of Resistance Chapter 3: Principles of Experience: The Profaning Aptitudes of the Organism Chapter 4: Circuits of ActivationPart III: Paradigms of Immunization Chapter 5: Systemic Crises Bibliography Notes
£54.10
Dover Publications Inc. Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bills Wild West
Book SynopsisWonderful behind-the-scenes look at the life and career of Annie Oakley. More than 100 rare photographs, posters, handbills, and other memorabilia.
£10.44
Dover Publications Inc. Life is a Dream
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Dover Publications Inc. Trips Rock Life in the SixtiesâAugmented Edition
Book SynopsisRock journalist Ellen Sanders (Hit Parader, Vogue) draws upon her professional and personal experiences to chronicle pop culture's highs and lows in the turbulent years from 1962-69. Includes a new Foreword and more.
£17.81
University of California Press Empire of Ecstasy
Book SynopsisInterprets the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. This book presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer.
£46.40
University of California Press Inside Prime Time
Book SynopsisReveals how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. This book describes the elements of the television order, and argues that the proliferation of cable channels have not fundamentally changed the business mentality.
£33.43
University of California Press Overhearing Film Dialogue
Book SynopsisDiscusses dozens of classic and contemporary films ranging from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Terms of Endearment", from "Stagecoach" to "Reservoir Dogs". This book studies the use of dialogue in American film. It shows why dialogue has been neglected in the analysis of narrative film.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Study of Filmic Speech PART ONE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS 1. The Functions of Dialogue in Narrative Film 2. Structural and Stylistic Variables 3· Integration PART TWO DIALOGUE AND GENRE 4· Verbal Frontiers: Dialogue in Westerns 5· Word Play: Dialogue in Screwball Comedies 6. Words as Weapons: Dialogue in Gangster Films 7· Misunderstandings: Dialogue in Melodramas Conclusion Notes Select Filmography Bibliography Index
£22.95
University of California Press Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the popular theatre that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917.Trade Review"The fullest and most interesting account of how the Russian public seized upon the theater as an art form, as entertainment, and as an instrument of popular education. Swift makes Ostrovsky, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, and Tolstoy come alive, bringing great clarity to the larger context in which Russia's great dramatists thought about theater, its audience, and its functions."-Jeffrey Brooks, author of When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Dates Introduction Chapter One: The Urban Theatrical Landscape Chapter Two: People's Theater and Cultural Politics Chapter Three: Censorship and Repertoire Chapter Four: Theater, Temperance, and Popular Culture Chapter Five: Workers' Theater, Proletarian Culture, and Respectability Chapter Six: The People at the Theater: Audience Reception Conclusion Epilogue Appendix of Titles Notes Bibliography Index
£44.10
University of California Press The Dark Mirror German Cinema Between Hitler and
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The text examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s.Trade Review"Lutz Koepnick's The Dark Mirror provides one of the finest, most compelling and suggestive accounts to date of the multiple locations of German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Charting the shifting relationships between institutional contexts and individual acts of reception, Koepnick persuasively shows how the German cinema and its filmmakers-both in exile and in Nazi Germany-contributed to a fragile, stratified, indeed, "nonsynchronous" public sphere."-Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History "Lutz Koepnick's brilliant study debunks the received wisdom concerning Nazi German and Hollywood film of the 1930s and 40s. Using detailed analyses of 8 films, with special focus on sound and music, he insists upon the disjointed contexts and uneven relationships of American and German filmmaking. Historically nuanced and theoretically savvy, this remarkable book offers something for everyone: Americanists, Germanists, historians, students of cinema sound and music, those interested in debates between art and popular forms, and European and Hollywood production."-Caryl Flinn, author of Strains of UtopiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dark Mirror PART 1: HOLLYWOOD in BERLIN, 1933--1939 Chapter 1 Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry Chapter 2 Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel Chapter 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire Chapter 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity PART 2: BERLIN in HOLLYWOOD, 1939--1955 Chapter 5 Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions Chapter 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood Chapter 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism Chapter 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody Epilogue: "Talking about Germany" Notes Index
£24.65
University of California Press In Other Los Angeleses
Book SynopsisA marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about 'multicentric' Los Angeles, finding its centers of activity, moving and changing as the margins have reconstituted themselves. This work describes performance art as an intermedia visual art form that uses theatrical elements in presentation.Trade Review"Will be a 'must read' for anyone studying performance art or the art and culture of Southern California.... Cheng is a brilliant and original thinker and...writes with a lively, engaged and engaging poetic style through which she attempts to enact the very passion and performativity that she explores in her objects of study."-Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the Subject; "Dazzling on many levels, a major contribution not only to performance art scholarship but more generally to contemporary American art, feminist, and cultural studies.... In Other Los Angeleses is going to transform performance studies because of the richness of Cheng's facts and scholarship and the equal richness of her theoretical frameworks and references."-Moira Roth, author of Difference indifferenceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Inscribing Multicentricity: Performing Other Los Angeleses 2. Out of Order: Reading, Writing, Performing (in) L.A. 3 Engendering Other/Selves: Suzanne Lacy 4. Elia Arce: A Skin Test and a Tongue Transplant 5. A Hetero-locus in Process: Self Performances at Highways 6. What's in a Name?: Marking Sacred Naked Nature Girls 7. Kinesthetic Transmutation of Theatricality: Consuming Art Performances Epilogue Notes Index
£23.40
University of California Press Radio Active
Book SynopsisTells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. Argues that the 1930's witnessed the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between between advertising and activism.Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction. The Dialectic between Advertising and Activism Part I. Cultural Critics in the Age of Radio Chapter 1. The Psychology of Radio Advertising: Audience Intellectuals and the Resentment of Radio Commercials Chapter 2. "Poisons, Potions, and Profits": Radio Activists and the Origins of the Consumer Movement Part II. Consumers on the March: CIO Boycotts, Active Listeners, and Consumer Time Chapter 3. The Consumer Revolt of "Mr. Average Man": Boake Carter and the CIO Boycott of Philco Radio Chapter 4. Washboard Weepers: Women Writers, Women Listeners, and the Debate over Soap Operas Chapter 5. "I Won't Buy You Anything But Love, Baby": NBC, Donald Montgomery, and the Postwar Consumer Revolt Conclusion. High-Class Hucksters: The Rise and Fall of a Radio Republic Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Chanteuse in the City
Book SynopsisPresents a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. This book offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the cafe-concert.Trade Review"Conway's entirely original research is well structured and clearly written, imparts expert readings, and is strengthened by historical groundedness. This is an extremely important book." - Christopher Faulkner, author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir; "Conway's study offers fresh, challenging perspectives on French film history, on women in French cinema, and on the relationship between film of the 1930s and the city of Paris." - Judith Mayne, author of Cinema and Spectatorship"
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University of California Press The Way Hollywood Tells It
Book SynopsisHollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? This book argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well.Trade Review"David Bordwell is our best writer on the cinema. He is deeply informed about films, he loves them, and he writes about them with a clarity and perception that makes the prose itself a joy to read. Because he sees movies so freshly and deeply he isn't deceived by the usual categories and finds excellence and experiment in unexpected places." - Roger Ebert "There is no shortage of scholarly literature on contemporary Hollywood, but none of it lives up to the standards set by Bordwell here. No one else has this range, depth, sophistication or authority. More remarkable still, Bordwell pulls this off with remarkable lightness of touch." - Murray Smith, University of Kent"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Blockbuster part i: a real story 1. Continuing Tradition, by Any Means Necessary 2. Pushing the Premises 3. Subjective Stories and Network Narratives 4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie part ii: a stylish style 1. Intensified Continuity: Four Dimensions 2. Some Likely Sources 3. Style, Plain and Fancy 4. What's Missing? Appendix: A Hollywood Timeline, 1960--2004 Bradley Schauer and David Bordwell Notes Index
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University of California Press Agnes Varda between Film Photography and Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeRoo’s work is a welcome and significant contribution to scholarship on a still too-neglected filmmaker and has much to offer those wanting an introduction to Varda and key issues animating critical reception of her films. The book is a well-researched, accessible, and timely addition to expanding scholarship on Varda as a pioneering and dynamic French filmmaker whose multifaceted oeuvre is central to ongoing and urgent debates about feminist film practice, filmmaking as an intermedia art form, and the ethics and aesthetics of documentary practice." * H-France *“DeRoo’s nuanced approach yields altogether new understandings of key works in Varda’s oeuvre. . .the readings in Agnès Varda: Between Film, Photography, and Art reveal both the breadth and depth of Varda’s artistic sophistication and political acumen.” * ASAP/Journal *"DeRoo’s book provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda’s works. Her interpretations are acutely attentive, acknowledging the many sites of emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexity that arise as a result of Varda’s use of multimedia." * Women in French Studies *"Rebecca DeRoo’s Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art, which takes as its central problem the intermediality and intertextuality of Varda’s work in the context of history, society, and feminism, is, then, to be greeted with great interest." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"Quietly visionary in the way it deconstructs and reconstructs readings of Varda, DeRoo’s book enacts its own kind of cinematic labour, offering interpretive space for an understanding of Varda as a deeply politicised, strategically canny and immensely generous interlocutor with the people and the places that she filmed." * French Screen Studies *"Debunking the image of an apolitical Varda and reframing her place in the history of French film, DeRoo demonstrates convincingly that the aesthetic and the political are inseparably enmeshed. . . .This deftly argued and engagingly written book is a must for researchers interested in Varda and in French cinema more widely. Making a brilliant contribution to the burgeoning field of intermediality studies, it will also prove a most welcome tool for teaching purposes." * French Studies: A Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Reinterpreting Varda: The Mother of the New Wave Reframes Its Histories 2. Complicating Neorealism and the New Wave: La Pointe Courte 3. Filmic and Feminist Strategies: Questioning Ideals of Happiness in Le Bonheur 4. Reconsidering Contradictions: Feminist Politics and the Musical Genre in L’une chante, l’autre pas 5. The Limits of Documentary: Identity and Urban Transformation in Daguerréotypes 6. Melancholy and Merchandise: Documenting and Displaying Widowhood in L’île et elle 7. Varda Now: Autobiography, Memory, and Retrospective Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Agnes Varda between Film Photography and Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeRoo’s work is a welcome and significant contribution to scholarship on a still too-neglected filmmaker and has much to offer those wanting an introduction to Varda and key issues animating critical reception of her films. The book is a well-researched, accessible, and timely addition to expanding scholarship on Varda as a pioneering and dynamic French filmmaker whose multifaceted oeuvre is central to ongoing and urgent debates about feminist film practice, filmmaking as an intermedia art form, and the ethics and aesthetics of documentary practice." * H-France *“DeRoo’s nuanced approach yields altogether new understandings of key works in Varda’s oeuvre. . .the readings in Agnès Varda: Between Film, Photography, and Art reveal both the breadth and depth of Varda’s artistic sophistication and political acumen.” * ASAP/Journal *"DeRoo’s book provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda’s works. Her interpretations are acutely attentive, acknowledging the many sites of emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexity that arise as a result of Varda’s use of multimedia." * Women in French Studies *"Rebecca DeRoo’s Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art, which takes as its central problem the intermediality and intertextuality of Varda’s work in the context of history, society, and feminism, is, then, to be greeted with great interest." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"Quietly visionary in the way it deconstructs and reconstructs readings of Varda, DeRoo’s book enacts its own kind of cinematic labour, offering interpretive space for an understanding of Varda as a deeply politicised, strategically canny and immensely generous interlocutor with the people and the places that she filmed." * French Screen Studies *"Debunking the image of an apolitical Varda and reframing her place in the history of French film, DeRoo demonstrates convincingly that the aesthetic and the political are inseparably enmeshed. . . .This deftly argued and engagingly written book is a must for researchers interested in Varda and in French cinema more widely. Making a brilliant contribution to the burgeoning field of intermediality studies, it will also prove a most welcome tool for teaching purposes." * French Studies: A Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Reinterpreting Varda: The Mother of the New Wave Reframes Its Histories 2. Complicating Neorealism and the New Wave: La Pointe Courte 3. Filmic and Feminist Strategies: Questioning Ideals of Happiness in Le Bonheur 4. Reconsidering Contradictions: Feminist Politics and the Musical Genre in L’une chante, l’autre pas 5. The Limits of Documentary: Identity and Urban Transformation in Daguerréotypes 6. Melancholy and Merchandise: Documenting and Displaying Widowhood in L’île et elle 7. Varda Now: Autobiography, Memory, and Retrospective Notes Bibliography Index
£25.50
University of California Press Hollywood Remaking
£71.00
University of California Press Hollywood Remaking
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University of California Press Unhomed
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Audition Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get
Book SynopsisWhen Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there.Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important how for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for that chance-in-a-million role!Twelve guideposts for actors plus:Style • Pace • Over-Acting • Distractions • Risks • Drama • Musical Theater • Comedy • Self-Rescue • Seduction • Eye Contact. . . And more!
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Lulu.com Eilandje bewoner Deel 2
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Faber & Faber Diaghilevs Empire
Book SynopsisSerge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such legendary names as Nijinsky, Fokine, Stravinsky, and Picasso, this intriguingly complex genius produced a series of radically original art works that had a revolutionary impact throughout the western world.Off stage and in its wake came scandal and sensation, as the great artists and mercurial performers involved variously collaborated, clashed, competed while falling in and out of love with each other on a wild carousel of sexual intrigue and temperamental mayhem. The Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and they changed social behaviour.The Ballets Russes came to an official end after many vicissitudes with Diaghilev's abrupt death in 1929. But the achievements of its heroic prime had established a paradigm that would continue to define the terms and set the standards for th
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