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Download or read book The Dance Encyclopedia written by Anatole Chujoy and published by New York : A. S. Barnes. This book was released on 1949 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete reference library in one volume, the Dance Encyclopedia is brimful of all the essential facts of the dance which have been scattered until now through hundreds of books, many of them inaccessible to most readers because of language and rarity.

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Download or read book The Dance Encyclopedia written by Anatole Chujoy and published by New York : A. S. Barnes. This book was released on 1949 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete reference library in one volume, the Dance Encyclopedia is brimful of all the essential facts of the dance which have been scattered until now through hundreds of books, many of them inaccessible to most readers because of language and rarity.

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Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Dance written by Selma Jeanne Cohen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to historical and descriptive materials on dance, music and costume, numerous entries provide coverage of methodologies, theories, criticism and the history of dance writing and publication.

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