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Robert Le Diable: The Ballet of the Nuns (Language of Dance)
Robert Le Diable The Ballet of the Nuns - Language of Dance Author:Ann Hutchinson Guest, Knud Arne Jurgensen Robert le Diable: The Ballet of the Nuns offers a new approach to the study of one of the most ground-breaking works in European ballet history. Based on the choreographic notations made by the great nineteeth-century Danish choreographer, August Bournonville, this spectral dance scene has been recreated by Knud Arne Jurgensen with the precision... more » afforded by Labanotation, here recorded by Ann Hutchinson Guest. Supported by extensive historical source materials and study and performance notes, this book not only enables us to unearth a hitherto lost ballet from the Romantic period, but also represents the most accurate possible reflection of the very pulse of Romantic ballet.« less