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  • Ballet Infantil

    Tu Primer Libro de Ballet Clásico y Danza para Niñas

    Translated by Fama A.I. Salvia ...
    Series Book 2 - Ballet
    Adéntrese en el fascinante mundo del ballet con "Ballet Infantil: Tu Primer Libro de Ballet Clásico y Danza para Niñas". Este libro de ballet para niñas ofrece una introducción detallada y accesible a la danza clásica, diseñada para acompañar a las jóvenes bailarinas en sus primeros pasos.La obra explora el camino hacia el ballet infantil, presentando la formación en danza como un valioso proceso ... Read more

    RM 70.89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raising the Barre

    Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker

    Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams -- along with her youthful self-assurance -- and she stepped away from the barre.Fast forward four decades. Lauren -- suddenly, powerfully ... Read more

    RM 35.79

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

    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

    RM 47.29

  • Pirouettes

    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

    RM 31.77 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ser danza

    Burbujas y esferas en la isla del ballet

    ¿Cómo convertirse en primera figura de una compañía internacional de ballet? Con una mirada que trasciende lo técnico y se adentra en lo poético, Sarahí Lay Trigo nos invita a reflexionar sobre las profundidades y los secretos del mundo profesional del ballet. Lejos de un manual o tratado sobre formación dancística, Ser danza es un viaje hacia el corazón del ser que danza. A través de una ... Read more

    RM 59.61 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging Bodies

    The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality

    Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2014)For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her ... Read more

    RM 68.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt

    Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers, and Performers Part 1

    Edited by Janita R. Hall-Swadley ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
    In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works. He honors Gluck, the musical prophet, as the cultivator of dramatic truth in the Romantic opera ... Read more

    RM 401.89

  • Eight Female Classical Ballet Variations

    by Nina Danilova ...
    From the graceful flutter of Princess Florine at Sleeping Beauty's wedding to the playful jetées in the first act of Giselle, the variation - or short solo work - is one of the key elements of classical ballet. Arguing that true artistry requires in-depth knowledge, author Nina Danilova has worked with students for many years to focus on performing individual variations with the greatest extent of ... Read more

    RM 207.59

  • The Greatest Maestros of All Time: Top 100

    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

    RM 15.87

  • Reworking the Ballet

    Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

    Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets.In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these contemporary reworkings destroy and recreate their source material, turning ballet from a classical ... Read more

    RM 230.61

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    RM 135.17

  • The Greatest Female Drummers of All Time: Top 100

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Female Drummers 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 Female Drummers of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look ... Read more

    RM 15.87

  • Vaganova Today

    The Preservation of Pedagogical Tradition

    Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded on impeccable technique and centuries of tradition, has a reputation for elite standards, and its graduates include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Diana Vishneva. Yet the “Vaganova method” has come ... Read more

    RM 75.59

  • Belly Dance

    The Dance of Mother Earth

    by Tina Hobin ...
    Tina Hobin - acknowledged expert and practitioner of belly dance, with many years experience of teaching and dancing throughout the world - introduces us to the history of this ancient and mystical dance in an accessible style, both enjoyable and easy to read. Tracing the evolution of belly dance from prehistoric fertility rites, the cult of the shaman and temple dances of Ancient Egypt, she ... Read more

    RM 54.69

  • Laina & The Vamp

    by B. K. Smith ...
    For every woman who ever loved a Vampire."What is your passion?" Vladimir asked Laina."White," she replied without hesitation. "I eat cottage cheese and pot cheese, farmer's cheese, ricotta, mozzarella, meringue, Reddi-whip, Cool Whip, mashed potatoes, white rice, spring turnips, and I drink non-fat milk and occasionally one glass of Chardonnay–maybe two."The Vampire watched her. Was she kidding? ... Read more

    RM 23.82 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sports Romance: On The Stage

    Only the Brave Try Ballet / Married for Their Miracle Baby / Billionaire's Bride for Revenge

    Series series Mills & Boon M&B
    Is the ballerina's desire too strong to resist?Perfect for fans of: Fake dating Sports romance Revenge–Includes 3 titles!Only the Brave Try Ballet by Stefanie LondonAustralian football pro Grant Farley is nursing an injury and needs to get back into shape fast. Ballet wouldn't be his first or even last choice, but needs must. Enter tantalisingly prim teacher Jasmine Bell. One disapprovin... ... Read more

    RM 38.39

  • Embodied Gospel

    The Power, Purpose, and Prayer of Ballet Technique

    The book, Embodied Gospel: The Power, Purpose, and Prayer of Ballet Technique, explores ballet technique as a physical practice revealing Jesus Christ through its core steps, positions, and patterns. The history of ballet points us to a foundation of unique codes and symbols previously forgotten in the technique. As this revelation unfolds, the cross of Jesus Christ, the forgiveness of sins, and ... Read more

    RM 39.73

  • Balanchine & the Lost Muse

    Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

    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 ... Read more

    RM 90.69

  • Still Got It, Never Lost It!

    by Louie Spence ...
    Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing on Ice.‘I did everything my sisters did, that’s how my dancing days started – they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.’ – Louie SpenceFrom a very early age Louie was a little boy who loved to dance and had high ambitions. He attended every disco dance ... Read more

    RM 26.79

  • The Physically Disabled Dancer and the Affirmative Model of Disability

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning‑disabled performer.This is the first book ever written by a physically disabled dancer on the subject of physically disabled dancers. Inherent in ... Read more

    Was RM 242.54 Now RM 214.71

  • Dancing in the Vortex

    The Story of Ida Rubinstein

    by Vicki Woolf ...
    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    Paris at the turn of the century - Art Nouveau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Folies Bergere. This was the atmosphere which nurtured the artistic development of the remarkable dancer and choreographer Ida Rubinstein.This long-awaited biography gives us a unique insight into the life of a remarkable woman, responsible for a fascinating chapter of our artistic heritage. She was a chameleon, a ... Read more

    RM 274.36

  • Diaghilev's Empire

    How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

    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

    RM 61.99

  • Marchés

    Livre super top ... Read more

    Free

  • Marius Petipa

    The Emperor's Ballet Master

    One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to theatres and inspire new generations of dancers, as does The Nutcracker during the winter holidays. These are his best-known works, but ... Read more

    RM 113.39