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Duran Duran's Rio

Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii

Out of Space

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

Rave New World

The Musical Matrix Reloaded

Making Ballet American

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

French Connections: From Discotheque to Daft Punk - The Birth of French Touch

Baakisimba

From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square

The Kolbergs of Eastern Europe

Eine Geographie der Triosonate

DJing in New York

There and Black Again

The end-of-the-century party

Beethoven’s Irish Songs Revisited

Simplified Lindy Hop for Men

Performing Queer Modernism

TISM's Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

Wildfire

The Second Summer of Love

Scatman John

Why Would a Unicorn Learn Ballet and French