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The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage Gennaro Magri and His World Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Bruce Alan Brown Studies in Dance History, Lynn Garafola, Series Editor "Indispensable to the dance historian and practitioner of early dance." —Marion Smith, University of Oregon Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the virtuoso style that combined French ballet technique with a vigorous athleticism that made Italian dancers in demand all over Europe. Gennaro Magri's Trattato teorico-prattico di ballo, the only work from the eighteenth century that explains the practices of midcentury Italian theatrical dancing, is a starting point for this investigation of an influential type of ballet and its connections to the operatic and theatrical genres of its day. Illustrations, music examples, and dance notations supplement the text. Rebecca Harris-Warrick is professor of music at Cornell University. Bruce Alan Brown is professor of music history at the University of Southern California. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

February 2005 LC: 2004007796 GV 384 pp. 7 x 10 26 drawings, 9 tables, 2 b/w photos ISBN 0-299-20354-9 Paper $35.00s To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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