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From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth-Century Dance, by Elizabeth Aldrich. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1991. xix + 225 pp., illustrations. $17.95 paperbound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Libby Smigel
Libby Smigel
Affiliation:
Performance Initiative Penn Yan, New York
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , Fall 1992 , pp. 52 - 54
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1992

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NOTES

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