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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Smartass

    Memoir of a Mouthy Girl

    by Emily Sayre Smith ...
    Perfect for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes of the ballet world, a rousing memoir of a brash young ballerina from a dysfunctional family who achieves her greatest dream only to realize—as she begins to find success—that she’s gay.With a priest for a father and a magician for a mother, Emily Sayre Smith was always going to have an interesting life—for better and for worse. Here, she ... Read more

    14,89 €

  • Paroles De Danse

    Pensées pour élèves, interprètes et enseignants de danse

    by Francisco De La Calleja ...
    Paroles De Danse est une collection de mots de sagesse, d'inspiration, de motivation et d'humour pour les danseurs de tous niveaux. Le professeur de danse, auteur et blogueur Francisco De La Calleja, s’appuie sur l’expérience d’une carrière de 33 ans dans le domaine de la danse et de l’enseignement pour partager son expérience de la performance, de l’apprentissage, de l’enseignement et de la vie ... Read more

    8,47 €

  • (Re:) Claiming Ballet

    Edited by Adesola Akinleye ...
    The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet’s denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • Carmen (Spanish language edition)

    by Margarita del Mazo ...
    Illustrated by Concha Pasamar ...
    The Mérimée classic that Bizet brought to the opera is presented here in a new version, inspired by the choreography by Johan Inger for the Spanish National Dance Company. Discover the story of Carmen through the pure and crystal-clear eyes of a child.I am nine years old. I love playing with my ball and my friend who is a corporal in the Alcalá Dragoon Regiment. My neighbor Carmen is the most ... Read more

    7,30 €

  • SALOME

    Bereicherte Ausgabe. Tragödie in einem Aufzuge: Nach Oskar Wilde's gleichnamiger Dichtung

    by Oskar Wilde, Isabella Heinrich ...
    Translated by Hedwig Lachman ...
    In Oscar Wildes SALOME wird die biblische Geschichte von Salome, der Stieftochter des Tetrarchen Herodes, neu interpretiert. Wilde präsentiert eine kraftvolle und sinnliche Darstellung einer Frau, die von ihrer Begierde nach Johannes dem Täufer besessen ist. Der Autor verwebt geschickt die Themen von Macht, Sexualität und Obsession in einer eleganten und stilvollen Prosa, die den Leser fesselt. ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Империя Дягилева: Как русский балет покорил мир

    by Руперт Кристиансен ...
    Translated by Елена Борткевич ...
    Книга известного критика и «неисправимого балетомана» не просто дань уважения Сергею Дягилеву, выдающемуся антрепренеру, театральному деятелю, знаменитой личности Серебряного века. Мастерски переплетая документальные факты и художественные элементы, автор создал живой портрет целой эпохи. Среди героев правдивой истории о легендарной антрепризе, изменившей представление о танце и ставшей символом ... Read more

    10,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballroom Dancing

    by 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. ... Read more

    42,92 €

  • Offbeat Ballet

    The Interesting Stuff

    by John Bennett ...
    Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession a way of making a living perhaps. For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it is what their hard-earned money is spent on for children to attend ballet classes. This book attempts to draw together the interesting facts facts which are not widely known and answers questions which might not have even been thought of. There is a ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 €

  • Danseuse étoile

    by Gérard Mannoni, Agnès Letestu ...
    La danseuse étoile Agnès Letestu a marqué les plus grands rôles par la profondeur et l’originalité de ses interprétations, à l’Opéra de Paris et sur les scènes les plus prestigieuses, du Bolchoï à la Scala, de Tokyo à Cuba... Elle a mis son extraordinaire virtuosité au service des personnages qu’elle a incarnés, des plus directement passionnels et figuratifs, comme la Dame aux camélias ou Giselle, ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Cartas Sobre A Dança E Sobre Os Balés: Lettres sur la Danse et sur les Ballets

    by Jean Georges Noverre ...
    Cartas sobre a Dança e os Balés (Letters on Dancing and Ballets), de Jean-Georges Noverre é uma obra fundamental na história do balé e foi publicada pela primeira vez em 1760. Noverre foi um visionário que defendia a reforma do balé, buscando libertá-lo das amarras da ópera e da música, para que se tornasse uma forma de arte independente e expressiva. Ele acreditava que o balé deveria contar ... Read more

    5,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance Appreciation

    by Amanda Clark, Sara Pecina ...
    Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This new edition has been revised and updated to include contemporary considerations of the art of dance along with enhanced discussion questions and prompts for the dance student.This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social, cultural, ... Read more

    53,57 €

  • Leni und Oskar und das Geheimnis des Ballettbaums

    Ein Kinderbuch über Körpergefühl, Mut und die Freude am Lernen

    by Mathias Ellmann ...
    Eine Geschichte über Körpergefühl, Mut und die Freude am Lernen.Leni bemerkt vieles, was andere übersehen. Sie hört, wenn ein Raum still wird, spürt Unsicherheit und erkennt, wenn ein Kind sich kleiner macht, als es eigentlich ist. Oskar ist anders. Er möchte loslegen, springen, ausprobieren und sofort zeigen, dass er mutig ist. Doch im Ballettsaal merken beide: Lernen braucht mehr als Mut und ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach

    by Meredith Little, Natalie Jenne ...
    A unique study of dance forms and rhythms in the Baroque composer's repertoire.Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician's repertoire, little has been written about it.The original edition of this book addressed works that bore the names of dances—a considerable ... Read more

    10,80 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gestural Imaginaries

    Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Lucia Ruprecht ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, ... Read more

    40,16 €

  • Lightfoot Dancing: An Australian-Indian Affair

    by Mary Louise Lightfoot ...
    Louise Lightfoot, architect turned dancer, choreographer and ballet producer, pioneered ballet in Australia in the 1930s. After visiting British-Raj India, Lightfoot became a passionate promoter of Indian dance and culture, helping introduce classical Indian dance, especially Kathakali of Kerala, to the Western world. She led a romantic, independent and international life. Told by her niece, this ... Read more

    7,49 €

  • Performers and Their Arts

    Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

    by Simon Charsley, Kadekar Laxmi Narayan ...
    Introduction Part I: Caste, Community and performanceA ritual performance of Kerala, *Vayala Vasudevan Pillai* The Patuas of Bengal, *Makbul Islam* Bards and goddesses: *The Pombalas in Tirupati, Anand Akundy* Explorations in the art forms of the Cindu madigas in Andhra, *Y A Sudhakar Reddy* and *R R Harischandra* Caste identity and perfo... ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Fra et liv med dans

    Erindringsessays

    by Erik Aschengreen ...
    Hele sit liv har Erik Aschengreen været tæt forbundet med dansen og teatrets verden. Nu har han skrevet tyve personlige erindringsessays fra han som niårig dreng i 1940’ernes København samlede på autografer uden for teatrene eller opsøgte kunstnerne privat, til han i 2015 holdt foredrag om August Bournonville i New York og introducerede en gruppe unge dansere fra Den Kongelige Ballet.Bogen kommer ... Read more

    6,18 €

  • Cuban Ballet

    by Octavio Roca ...
    Just as Russian dancers defected from the former Soviet Union in the 1970s, Cuban dancers are now fleeing Castro's regime in droves. Their unique style of ballet is galvanizing the world of dance. This beautifully illustrated book explores the history of Cuban ballet by focusing on the life and career of the indomitable Alicia Alonso. The author also spotlights many of the young dancers who are ... Read more

    8,47 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Everyday Dancer

    by Deborah Bull ...
    The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to uncover the everyday realities of a career in dance. Starting out with the obligatory daily 'class', the book progresses through the repetition of ... Read more

    10,80 €

  • Apollo's Angels

    A History Of Ballet

    by Jennifer Homans ...
    Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain, Denmark, Russia and contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected political ... Read more

    21,72 €

  • Rudolf Nureyev

    As I remember him

    by Patricia Boccadoro ...
    Following an unorthodox first meeting in London in 1964, Patricia Boccadoro got to know Rudolf Nureyev on a personal basis after she moved to live in Paris in the 1970s. In this amusing, informative book, she recounts how exciting it was to see him dance in those heady London years, during his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, before giving a lucid account of his directorship of the Paris ... Read more

    6,46 €