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  • The Europeans

    Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

    door Orlando Figes ...
    'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    door Daria Klimentova ...
    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Meer lezen

    5,18 €

  • La Nijinska

    Choreographer of the Modern

    door Lynn Garafola ...
    La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive career. An architect of twentieth-century neoclassicism, she experienced the transformative power of the Russian Revolution and created her greatest work - Les Noces - under the ... Meer lezen

    24,08 €

  • Rudolf Nureyev

    The Life

    door Julie Kavanagh ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily TelegraphBorn on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Hoop in een balletschoen

    door Michaela DePrince ...
    Het buitengewone verhaal van een weesmeisje dat zich een weg danste naar de top van de balletwereld.Michaela DePrince wordt in 1995 geboren in het door een burgeroorlog verscheurde Sierra Leone. Wanneer haar vader door rebellen wordt vermoord en haar moeder aan ondervoeding sterft, belandt Michaela in een weeshuis. Daar wordt ze verwaarloosd, mishandeld en bespot vanwege de witte vlekken op haar ... Meer lezen

    9,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Prima Donna

    door Karen Swan ...
    Ballet, glamour, romance – and tragedy. Prima Donna is an enchanting, exciting story from Karen Swan, bestselling author of The Last Summer and Christmas by Candlelight.Breaking the rules was what she liked best. That was her sport. Renegade, rebel, bad girl. Getting away with it.Pia Soto is the sexy and glamorous prima ballerina, the Brazilian bombshell who's shaking up the ballet world with her ... Meer lezen

    9,95 €

  • City of Night Birds

    A Reese's Book Club Pick

    door Juhea Kim ...
    'A novel that will be read and loved for the next one hundred years, and essential reading for right now. I could not have loved it more.' Coco Mellors, author of Blue Sisters'This story left me thinking about the ways we overcome setbacks and redefine what truly matters.' Reese WitherspoonA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR DECEMBER 2024 * A HARPER'S BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF 2024Slowly recovering from a ... Meer lezen

    Was 14,53 € Nu 11,17 €

  • Igone

    De biografie

    door Marcel Langedijk ...
    Het openhartige en eerlijke verhaal van de enige Nederlandse soliste ter wereld.Op vierjarige leeftijd wordt Igone de Jongh betoverd door de balletvoorstelling The Sleeping Beauty op videoband. Vanaf dat moment weet ze: ik wil naar de balletschool. Naar de top. Dansen wordt haar leven en allesomvattende passie. Maar om de top te bereiken, is passie niet genoeg. Het gaat om keihard werken en heel ... Meer lezen

    12,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Mao's Last Dancer

    door Li Cunxin ...
    Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in search of young peasants to study ballet at the academy in Beijing and he was thrust into a completely unfamiliar world.When a trip to Texas as part of a rare ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • Life in Motion

    An Unlikely Ballerina

    door Misty Copeland ...
    When Misty Copeland first placed her hands on the ballet barre at an after-school community centre, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers. A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most dancers years to master. But when Misty became caught between the control and comfort she found in ... Meer lezen

    3,99 €

  • Life in Motion

    An Unlikely Ballerina

    door Misty Copeland ...
    A bestselling and prizewinning memoir by African American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre—and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old prodigy.Determination meets dance in this New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina ... Meer lezen

    15,65 €

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Ballet But Were Afraid to Ask

    door Grier Cooper ...
    Your burning ballet questions answered...• How do I become a professional ballet dancer?• What do ballerinas eat?or do they eat at all?• Are all men who wear tights gay?These are just a few of the questions you'll find answered here. Feel the pain of what it's like to wear pointe shoes, experience the terror of meeting hot, gun-toting guys while on tour with ballet companies in exotic, distant ... Meer lezen

    Gratis

  • Ballroom Dancing

    door Alex Moore ...
    A guide to ballroom dancing. It includes all the main ballroom dances,along with versions of most dances approved for championships. Thereare diagrams showing every step from both the male and femaleperspective. This tenth edition is revised and updated. ... Meer lezen

    42,92 €

  • Tiny pretty things & Shiny broken pieces

    De complete Spitzen-serie

    door Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton ...
    Vertaald door Elsbeth Witt, Charlaine & Inouchka Kreuning ...
    Serie Boek 12 - Spitzen-serie
    De complete Spitzen-duologie in één bundel! Gigi, Bette en June behoren tot de beste leerlingen van hun exclusieve balletschool in Manhattan. De vrijgevochten Gigi is nieuw op school, en wil alleen maar dansen... maar dat zou weleens dodelijk voor haar kunnen zijn. Voor Bette lijkt alles in haar leven mee te zitten, maar het verlangen om haar talentvolle zus te overtreffen brengt een gevaarlijke ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • Don't Think, Dear

    On Loving and Leaving Ballet

    door Alice Robb ...
    "Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas deserve, and all feminists should note." -Oprah DailyAn incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet.Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ... Meer lezen

    10,62 €

  • Balanchine & the Lost Muse

    Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

    door Elizabeth Kendall ...
    Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the ... Meer lezen

    18,54 €

  • At Your Own Risk

    A Saint's Testament

    door Derek Jarman ...
    Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • Une vie en pointes

    door Ghislaine Thesmar ...
    « J’ai toujours vécu par et pour la danse. Je me suis toujours efforcée de ne pas perdre le fil qui m’a aidée à devenir une interprète, et pas uniquement une danseuse qui enchaîne les pas, les uns après les autres, si parfaite qu’en soit l’exécution. J’ai vécu pour ces instants magiques où la danse confine à l’universel et à l’absolu. » G. T. « Tu es le ballet de mon cœur à toi seule, l’étoile qui ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

    door Luke Jennings, Deborah Bull ...
    The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world, from Giselle and Swan Lake to Cinderella and Steptext. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon alongside classics by Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev ... Meer lezen

    10,80 €

  • Ballet

    From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

    door Anna Paskevska ...
    Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique. Clear photographs show exactly how to execute each movement. Then an eight-year course is presented, taking the student from age 5 or ... Meer lezen

    46,26 €

  • Nureyev

    The Life

    door Julie Kavanagh ...
    Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor, Tatar-peasant background to the most sophisticated circles of London, Paris, and New York. His ... Meer lezen

    9,64 €

  • Turning Pointe

    How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself

    door Chloe Angyal ...
    A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its futureEvery day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the ... Meer lezen

    11,99 €

  • The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

    The Making of Tanztheater

    Bewerkt door Royd Climenhaga ...
    Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections ... Meer lezen

    54,78 €

  • A Company of Swans

    Classic historical romance about love, freedom and ballet

    door Eva Ibbotson ...
    **A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance, from bestselling award-winner Eva Ibbotson.'Her books are utterly delightful' – Daily Mail**In the grey, scholarly world of Cambridge in 1912, Harriet Morton has lived her whole life under the strict rule of her widowed father and miserly aunt. When she is offered the opportunity to dance with the corps de ballet ... Meer lezen

    10,80 €