With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the International Encyclopedia of Dance, from Oxford University Press, covers the full spectrum of dance--theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers. It is edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen and the Dance Perspectives Foundation. Selma Jeanne Cohen received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She studied dance with Martha Graham and Jose Limón, among others, and was editor of Dance Perspectives magazine.

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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, King Lear, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Berenice, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp's Last Tape and Othello, among many others. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Eli Wallach, Zoe Caldwell, Sam Waterston and more.

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