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Ballet across Borders

Ballet across Borders

Helena Wulff

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1998
Materia
Sociedad y cultura: general
ISBN:
9781859739983
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This absorbing book is ballet’s ’biography’ -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimacies, pressures and, not least of all, its magic.

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