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  • Tales of a Tiller Girl Part 1 of 3

    by Irene Holland ...
    A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her ... Read more

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  • 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

    ₹479.42

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

    by 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 ... Read more

    ₹479.42

  • Mao's Last Dancer

    by 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 ... Read more

    ₹525.91

  • The Europeans

    Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

    by 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 ... Read more

    ₹525.91

  • Bloomsbury Ballerina

    Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes

    by Judith Mackrell ...
    'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL**'**Superb ... Mackrell, with her insider's knowledge of ballet and theatre, lovingly recreates Lydia's many worlds' GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW**'**A hugely entertaining and informative study of the Ballets Russes star' SPECTATORBorn in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and ... Read more

    ₹553.64

  • Celestial Bodies

    How to Look at Ballet

    by Laura Jacobs ...
    A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, ... Read more

    ₹1,272.03

  • Ballet in the Cold War

    A Soviet-American Exchange

    by Anne Searcy ...
    In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This book explores the first tours of the exchange, by the Bolshoi in 1959 and 1962, by American Ballet Theatre in 1960, and by New York City Ballet in ... Read more

    ₹773.16

  • Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes

    In Search of a Lost Life

    by Judith Chazin-Bennahum ...
    René Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, but also illustrates the central role Blum played in the development of dance in the United States. ... Read more

    ₹816.90

  • 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

    ₹962.51

  • (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

    ₹2,997.54

  • 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

    ₹748.70

  • 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

    ₹179.00 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

    ₹579.00 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

    ₹3,114.48

  • 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

    ₹534.19 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

    ₹659.96

  • The Dancer's Toolkit

    A Step-by-Step Guide for Navigating Your Dance Career

    by Virginie Mécène ...
    Series series The Focal Press Toolkit Series
    The Dancer's Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Navigating Your Dance Career helps young dancers and dancers at any stage of their career prepare themselves to leap from their initial training to the professional world and begin or continue their journey with a plan and with confidence.Divided into five parts, The Dancer's Toolkit provides the logistics, experience, and encouragement necessary for ... Read more

    ₹5,244.48

  • 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

    ₹579.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing the World Smaller

    Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America

    by Rebekah J. Kowal ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century ... Read more

    ₹816.90

  • Propostas pedagógicas para o balé no Brasil no século XXI

    by Neila Cristina Baldi, Daniela Grieco Nascimento e Silva ...
    O livro apresenta um mosaico de propostas pedagógicas para o balé clássico que saem do que comumente professores e professoras dessa técnica têm utilizado: a Pedagogia Tradicional. Nesse sentido, tenta apresentar um panorama de concepções pedagógicas em prática em escolas de dança, ONGs, escolas técnicas e graduações em Dança, de Norte a Sul do país. A ideia é que a obra sirva de inspiração para ... Read more

    ₹119.00 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

    ₹968.30

  • The Dance Historic Illustrations of Dancing

    by An Antiquary ...
    CHAPTER I Egyptian, Assyrian, Hebrew and Phoenician Dancing. CHAPTER II Dancing with the Greeks. CHAPTER III Etruscan-South Italian, Roman Dancing, etc. CHAPTER IV The "Early English" and "Mediaeval" dance to the fourteenth century.CHAPTER V Society dancing from the fifteenth century. CHAPTER VI The Modern Theatre Dance.In this work it is not necessary to worry the reader with speculations as to ... Read more

    ₹288.14 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹668.00