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Women's work [electronic resource] : making dance in Europe before 1800 / edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks.

Contributor(s): Brooks, Lynn Matluck | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in dance history (Unnumbered): Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007Description: ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Women dancers -- Europe -- History | Dance -- Europe -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 792.8094 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti -- Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves -- At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye -- The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte -- Françoise Prévost : the unauthorized biography / Régine Astier -- The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Sallé? / Sarah McCleave -- In pursuit of the dancer-actress / Moira Goff -- Elisabeth of Spalbeek : dancing the passion / Karen Silen -- Galanterie and gloire : women's will and the eighteenth-century worldview in Les Indes galantes / Joellen A. Meglin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti -- Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves -- At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye -- The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte -- Françoise Prévost : the unauthorized biography / Régine Astier -- The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Sallé? / Sarah McCleave -- In pursuit of the dancer-actress / Moira Goff -- Elisabeth of Spalbeek : dancing the passion / Karen Silen -- Galanterie and gloire : women's will and the eighteenth-century worldview in Les Indes galantes / Joellen A. Meglin.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.