The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-century Stage
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the style known as "grotesque"—a virtuoso style that combined French ballet techn
Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Anthony R. DelDonna
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepr
Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Tilden Russell
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-10 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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During the first two decades of the eighteenth century, two evolving dance-historical realms intersected—theory and practice. While the French produced works
Dance in Handel's London Operas
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Sarah Yuill McCleave
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: University Rochester Press

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Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel se
Dance Theory
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Tilden Russell
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"This book began in 2014 as an introduction to the book I was then writing about a small group of dance theorists-five Germans and an Englishman-and their treat