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Choreographing Kandinsky’s ‘Spiritual’ in Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes

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|Aug 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2019-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2601-1182 | Journal ISSN: 1221-2245
Language: English, Romanian, German, French
Page range: 153 - 167
Published on: Aug 17, 2019
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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