304 pp, include selected reading guide, a cultural chronology, and index. Illustrated endpapers, 250 illustrations including 18 in colour, colour illustrated dustwrapper. The dustjacket is rubbed across both top and bottom edges, and has a short tear at the top left of the front panel, and is price clipped. The book is tight and clean. In this book the author presents a comprehensive and absorbing history of the art from its earliest beginnings until today. Starting with the origins of the dance in primitive religious rites, he goes on to discuss the dances of the ancient Greek and Hebrew civilisations, the strange frenzies of the medieval dance of death tradition, and the origin of national dances. The dance in all its forums is analysed, and the book ends with a discussion of the place of dance in the cinema, television and musical play, and with a valuable brief history of the methods used to record dance movements in notation and on film. the publisher advises that this book must not be offered in all important for sale into the United States of America or Canada. Please respect the publishers wish. Size: quarto - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Please refer to the accompanying picture(s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Dance; Inventory No: 0241840. Bookseller Inventory # 0241840