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Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing

Gennaro Magri - HARDBACK Price: $49.95

First published in Naples in 1779, Magri’s treatise on dance technique and execution is the single most important work bridging the gap between pre-romantic ballet technique and the beginnings of classical technique as we know it today

As a result of the author’s idiosyncratic use of Italian the work was long thought to be untranslatable, a handicap here triumphantly overcome by the English dance scholar Mary Skeaping

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