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  • Life in Motion

    An Unlikely Ballerina

    by 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 ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Ballerina Body

    Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Lighter, Stronger, and More Graceful You

    by Misty Copeland ...
    In her first health and fitness book, celebrated ballerina Misty Copeland shows you how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and how to refine the body you were born with to be lean, strong and flexible, with step-by-step advice, meal plans, workout routines and words of inspiration.Misty offers her own time-tested, ballet-inspired movements that are perfect for women who want to ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Lavender & Butterflies

    A Futuristic Ballet

    by Mandy Fason ...
    Lavender daydreams of being a ballet dancer. She works very hard to become part of the Butterfly Nation Ballet Company. The Butterfly Nation Ballet is a futuristic presentation when planets are left to their own living energy. Elixitines are butterfly people in search of a safe haven because their planet Elixitine becomes uninhabitable. They have traveled through space to take refuge on Earth ... Read more

    3,56 €

  • Daethon & Arundel

    A ballet in four acts

    by David Hotchkiss ...
    Separated by class and by eighteenth century societal rules, a lowly palace servant, Daethon, and the young prince, Arundel, fall in love in a world beset by dangers. Set in the wild lands between Austria and Hungary, they find themselves caught between vampires, witches and the scheming plots of Arundel's power-hungry sister, Lorelle. Daethon & Arundel, a full ballet in four acts, is the first ... Read more

    10,27 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance Discourses

    Keywords in Dance Research

    Edited by Susanne Franco, Marina Nordera ...
    Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches – with specific case studies – and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance.With an introduction exploring the history of dance studies and the development of central themes and areas of concerns in the field, the book is then ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Tempo Di Marcia

    Stories from the history of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet

    by Craig Jurgensen ...
    Book chronicles the history of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet from its founding in 1955 to 2015. The Italian word marcia, in the music dictionary, means to dance - in march tempo. The proper name - Marcia - in real life, refers to the person who formed a dance school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Marcia Dale Weary, therefore was well named for her life's work. Tempo di Marcia, the book ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • Swans of the Kremlin

    Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia

    by Christina Ezrahi ...
    Series Book 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared that the imperial ballet troupes would be disbanded. Instead, the Soviets attempted to mold the ... Read more

    49,60 €

  • Balanchine

    A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance

    Edited by Eleni Hofmeister ...
    This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and ... Read more

    48,70 €

  • Maurice Béjart

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Partez à la découverte de Maurice Béjart avec ce Grand Article Universalis !En rendant la danse accessible à un large public par des représentations dans des lieux non conventionnels (palais des sports, stades...), le Français Maurice Béjart a été l'un des danseurs et, surtout, chorégraphes les plus populaires dans le monde. Paradoxalement, il est resté un homme secret ...Un ouvrage spécialement ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Dich tanzen zu sehen

    Roman

    by Maggie Shipstead ...
    Translated by Karen Nölle ...
    Ein fesselnder Tanz um Liebe, Leidenschaft und LebenslügenJoan steht der Abschied vom Ballett bevor: Sie ist schwanger und ihre Karriere als Tänzerin wahrscheinlich beendet. Sie heiratet Jacob, und das Paar zieht aus New York an die Westküste, wo sich beide stumm nach der Welt des Balletts verzehren: Joan nach dem Tanz, Jacob nach der Tänzerin, die Joan gewesen ist.Doch ein Leben für den Tanz ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Bournonville på scenen set gennem Edv. Lehmanns streg

    by Klaus Neiiendam ...
    August Bournonville er det betydeligste navn i dansk ballethistorie, og selvom det ikke var ham, der grundlagde den kongelige danske ballet, genskabte han balletkorpset og gjorde det til et af de bedste i Europa.Men scenekunsten er en flygtig kunst, hvilket Bournonville selv var ganske klar over. I anledning af 100-året for Bournonvilles død udgav teaterhistoriker Klaus Neiiendam denne bog, der – ... Read more

    6,46 €

  • The Sleeping Beauties

    by Lucy Ashe ...
    An unputdownable tale of obsession**, jealousy and heartache against the backdrop of WW2**May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling optimistic. As she returns the last few evacuees to London from her Devonshire manor, she vows to protect dance-obsessed daughter Jasmine from further peril.But a chance meeting with a Sadler’s Wells ballet dancer changes everything.When the beautiful, ... Read more

    11,45 €

  • Kinesemiotics

    Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space

    by Arianna Maiorani ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by a community of users.It begins with a theoretical overview and review of existing literature on the main approaches to movement-based ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • The Greatest Maestros of All Time: Top 100

    by alex trostanetskiy ...
    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Maestros of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating The Greatest Maestros of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and ... Read more

    3,00 €

  • Bernstein and Robbins

    The Early Ballets

    by Sophie Redfern ...
    Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins stand as giants of the musical-theatre world, but it was ballet that launched their stage careers and established their relationship. With Fancy Free (1944), their triumphant debut collaboration produced by Ballet Theatre, Bernstein, Robbins, and set designer Oliver Smith-all in their mid-twenties- captured the spirit of wartime New York, created ... Read more

    17,16 €

  • Battement Jeté

    by Ciro Nacci ...
    Composizione pianistica per l'accompagnamento della lezione di danza classica.Ad uso dei pianisti accompagnatori nei licei coreutici, scuole di danza, accademie, teatri. ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ballet Codex

    by Tim Taylor ...
    The Ballet CodexNeural Architecture, Precision, and the Hidden Discipline of Classical BalletClassical ballet is often described in terms of beauty, grace, and artistry. Yet behind every effortless movement lies an invisible structure of discipline, timing, and neurological precision.The Ballet Codex explores the unseen architecture that allows elite dancers to perform with stability, control, and ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • And Then Came Dance

    The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

    Edited by Stanley J. Rabinowitz ...
    Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of ... Read more

    24,16 €

  • A Dancer in Wartime

    The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

    by Gillian Lynne ...
    London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took place in the faded ballroom.Life was hard, but her talent and dedication shone through and an astonishing journey ensued, which saw Gillian dancing a triumphant debut ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • A Body of Work

    Dancing to the Edge and Back

    by David Hallberg ...
    David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood—an all-American ... Read more

    16,03 €

  • Alighting from the Air

    Tamara Karsavina, Dancer and Writer

    by Karen Eliot ...
    Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) was known as a renowned ballerina, writer, and intellectual. Drawing from Karsavina's many published and unpublished writings, Alighting from the Air demonstrates how her experiences and training contributed to the development of her aesthetic credo. She became a celebrated principal dancer at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, assumed a leading role in Sergei ... Read more

    42,60 €

  • Dansaren

    by Óskar Guðmundsson ...
    Translated by Jonas Frizell - Nuanxed ...
    Series Book 1 - Ylfa och Valdimar
    December 1982. Lekande barn hittar ett lik på en kulle i centrala Reykjavik. Den erfarna utredaren Valdimar får hand om fallet tillsammans med Ylfa, som är ny vid Islands polis. Det står snabbt klart för dem att en synnerligen brutal mördare är på fri fot. Några gator bort står unge Tony i lära som snickare hos sin morfar. Han växte upp med en sjuk och alkoholiserad mor, som en gång var Islands ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Wish (Indigo Ballet Series #1)

    by Grier Cooper ...
    For Indigo Stevens, ballet classes at Miss Roberta's ballet studio offer the stability and structure that are missing from her crazy home life. At almost 16, she hopes this is the year she will be accepted into the New York School of Ballet. First she must prove she's ready, and that means ignoring Jesse Sanders – the cute boy with dimples who is definitely at the top of Miss Roberta's List of ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Diaghilev's Empire

    How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

    by Rupert Christiansen ...
    Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such legendary names as Nijinsky, Fokine, Stravinsky, and Picasso, this intriguingly complex genius produced a series of radically original art works that had a revolutionary impact throughout the western world.Off stage and in its wake came scandal and sensation, as the great ... Read more

    14,83 €