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    Ballet

    by Maja Plesner ...
    Narrated by Susanne Storm ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    Har du prøvet at gå til ballet?Mange børn drømmer om at danse ballet. Det er en fed måde at bruge kroppen på, og du bliver stærk. Men du skal kunne lide at stå på en scene og kunne huske mange ting: smile, ranke ryggen, strække fødderne, danse de rigtige trin, smile ...Lyt med, og bliv klogere på ballettens verden. Maja Plesner er uddannet journalist og arbejder til dagligt med kommunikation og ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

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    Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    by Jennifer Homans ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 27 min

    For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Being a Ballerina

    The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life

    by Gavin Larsen ...
    Narrated by Lexi Mae ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer's continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Balanchine Variations

    by Nancy Goldner ...
    Narrated by Celeste Lawson ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    Artistic profile of one of the 20th century's great choreographers. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descriptions of what the dancers actually do.Beginning with Apollo (1928), Balanchine's first extant work, and ending with one of his ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Ecstasy of Being, The: Mythology and Dance

    The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

    by Joseph Campbell ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    Joseph Campbell's collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell's unpublished manuscript "Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts," the book he was working on when he died.Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell's wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Лекция «Свадьба Фигаро». Карнавал без масок: ангелы любви»

    by Роман Насонов ...

    Unabridged

    45 min

    Женщины проявляют взаимопомощь и открывают путь торжеству разума и морали. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    På skrå brædder og bonede gulve

    Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter. Erindringer

    by Trine Munk-Petersen ...
    Narrated by Trine Munk-Petersen, Vibeke Hastrup ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Balletdanser, skoleleder, førstedame, underviser, koreograf og instruktør. Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter er dedikeret til balletten. Hun har været tilknyttet Det Kongelige Teater i 66 år, og hun arbejder stadig.Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter fortæller i erindringsbogen På skrå brædder og bonede gulve til journalist Trine Munk-Petersen om sin opvækst i en teaterfamilie, om skiftende balletmestre, ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

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    Лекция «Так поступают все женщины». Что есть любовь?»

    by Роман Насонов ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    Неопытность, искушение, борьба и падение. Истина момента и правда циников. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Воспоминания

    by Матильда Кшесинская ...
    Narrated by Ирина Азимова ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 39 min

    Судьба знаменитой балерины, неповторимой и загадочной Матильды Кшесинской, подруги наследника престола и жены великого князя, не перестает привлекать к себе внимание. В мемуарах, которые она написала вместе с мужем, великим князем Андреем Владимировичем, Кшесинская знакомит с семейными преданиями и рассказывает о наиболее ярких эпизодах своей творческой судьбы в России и в эмиграции. ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Ballerina Mindset

    How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence

    by Megan Fairchild ...
    Narrated by Megan Fairchild ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    Learn how to thrive in intense, competitive environments with these secrets from one of America's premiere ballerinas--and get a sneak peek at what her life is really like.Ballet may look glamorous and effortless to audience members, but it requires grueling discipline. It's a competitive and physically and mentally demanding career that combines elite athleticism, artistry, and performance. Not ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

    by Simon Morrison ...
    Narrated by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 20 min

    On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia’s most illustrious institutions into scandal.Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on to preserve Russia’s lengthy artistic legacy and to mirror its neo-imperial ambitions. As ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Bringing ballet to the townships of South Africa

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    A sprawling township outside of South Africa's biggest city of Johannesburg has become synonymous with a continued struggle nearly two decades after the end of apartheid. But while many cultural divides still remain, some black South Africans are now turning to ballet, once reserved for wealthy whites. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Martin Seemungal has the story. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Что такое балет?

    by Полина Киселёва ...
    Narrated by Игорь Гмыза ...

    Unabridged

    35 min

    Аудиокнига расскажет юным слушателям об удивительном мире мире балета: где возникло это искусство, кто придумал балетную терминологию, во что одевались первые балерины, как проходит экзерсис у станка, зачем нужны пуанты и многое другое. Также слушатели познакомятся с биографиями самых известных артистов, сюжетами знаменитых балетов и забавными историями из балетной жизни.Для младшего школьного ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Капитанская дочка (мюзикл)

    by Андрей Петров ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    Ещё один мюзикл Санкт-Петербургского театра «Рок-Опера» по мотивам повести А.С.Пушкина на музыку Народного артиста России Андрея Петрова и его дочери. В 2003 г. это произведение стало одним из центральных событий российско-американского фестиваля «Играем мюзикл вместе».Исполняют: Антон Авдеев, Анна Позднякова, Рафик Кашапов, Роман Никитин, ШВячеслав Ногин, Кирилл Смирнов, Александр Кавин, Владимир ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Лекция «Ускользающий Амадеус»

    by Роман Насонов ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Сложный культурный ландшафт эпохи Моцарта, вступление на самостоятельный жизненный путь и уникальное призвание композитора. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Истории мирового балета

    by Илзе Лиепа ...
    Narrated by Илзе Лиепа ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 37 min

    «Истории мирового балета» – новая книга Илзе Лиепа – балерины, артистки театра и кино, председателя президиума Благотворительного фонда «Илзе Лиепа».«Мне бы очень хотелось открыть балет в его многообразии как можно большему количеству читателей, зрителей, учеников. Ведь балет – это еще и наше национальное достояние. А мир балета живет и развивается вместе с выдающимися личностями: балеринами, ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Dance Theatre of Harlem

    by Judy Tyrus, Paul Novosel ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham, Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    From its modest beginnings in the 1960s in a Harlem church basement, to its meteoric rise to international fame, the Dance Theatre of Harlem ignited the world with one simple, still-revolutionary statement: All can do ballet. Into the 21st century, as the world, and the country, continue their historical struggles and triumphs, the story of this haven for dancers of all colors and backgrounds ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Лекция «Идоменей, царь Критский». Не Глюк»

    by Роман Насонов ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    Первый оперный шедевр молодого Моцарта, история его появления и главная сюжетная линия. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Distance Home

    by Paula Saunders ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    MUST A CHILD'S PAST DEFINE THEIR FUTURE?'Luminous . . . heartbreaking . . . I haven’t read anything this good in a long time' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'Deeply involving . . . rich, shimmering, sensuous' Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit From the Goon SquadIn 1960s rural America two siblings grow up in a place of love and turmoil. Rene is the apple of her father’s ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Swan Dive

    The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

    by Georgina Pazcoguin ...
    Narrated by Georgina Pazcoguin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    'Swan Dive is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy backstage.' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesAward-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet – the gritty, hilarious, some ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Лекция «Свадьба Фигаро». Карнавал без масок: демоны ревности»

    by Роман Насонов ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    История создания и драматургическая динамика оперы по мотивам второй части трилогии Бомарше. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Come Back to Me (A Seal Island novel)

    A gripping love story from the author of THE ITALIAN VILLA

    by Daniela Sacerdoti ...
    Narrated by Angus King, Eilidh Beaton, Gillian Hay ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    From the bestselling author of WATCH OVER ME, Daniela Sacerdoti's latest Seal Island novel is a romantic, moving and uplifting story of three different lives, connected by a thread.** Over 1 million copies sold of Daniela Sacerdoti's novels **When all seems lost...Matt - grief-stricken after his beloved wife's death, he arrives on Seal Island desperate to hide from the world.Grace - the island's ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mary's Last Dance

    The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer

    by Mary Li ...
    Narrated by Taylor Owynns ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 32 min

    'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.'Mary Li (ne� McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin published his bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer - but that book told only half the story.Growing ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century

    by Jennifer Homans ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    34 hours

    Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century-the New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." His radical approach to choreography-and life-reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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