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  • Prima Donna

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    by Jennifer Homans ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history ... Read more

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  • (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

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  • Anthracite - Entrechats

    by Jacques Dombrowski ...
    "Anthracite – Entrechats", c’est le récit d’une vie peu commune : celle de Jacques Dombrowski, né dans les corons du Pas-de-Calais. Petit-fils d’émigré polonais et fils de mineur, il est promis à la mine avant que le courage d’une mère et une rencontre providentielle ne détournent son destin.Confié à des inconnus à sept ans, emmené à Paris, il entre à l’Opéra deux ans plus tard et, de l’ombre des ... Read more

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  • Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg

    Giselle | Paquita | Le Corsaire | La Bayadère | Raymonda

    by Doug Fullington, Marian Smith ...
    Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), La Bayadère (1877), and Raymonda (1898), drawing on a treasure trove of manuscripts that offer explicit written information about how many nineteenth-century ballets were performed in their earliest incarnations. Bursting with details forgotten ... Read more

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  • Carlos Acosta

    The Reluctant Dancer

    by Margaret Willis ...
    Carlos Acosta grew up in a shantytown in Fidel Castro's politically isolated Cuba. Like many boys, he'd skip school to play football or breakdance with his friends. His father's solution to his unruly behaviour was to send him to ballet school where he would be disciplined, trained and fed - for free. It was many years before Carlos came to accept a pursuit he saw as 'sissy'. Today he is one of ... Read more

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  • Mester. Historien om Harald Lander

    by Erik Aschengreen ...
    Erik Aschengreen fortæller historien om en af den danske ballets største skikkelser nogensinde. Harald Lander var ikke blot en usædvanligt talentfuld balletdanser. Han stod også bag genrejsningen af Den Kongelige Ballet, som han i mange år var chef for. Men Harald Lander var også en kontroversiel person, som ofte var omgivet af skandaler, jalousi, misundelse og ikke mindst smukke unge kvinder. Fem ... Read more

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  • The Royal Ballet: 75 Years

    by Zoë Anderson ...
    This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, The Royal Ballet - as it became - was established as one of the world's great companies. It has ... Read more

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  • El cuerpo en la danza

    Postura, movimiento y patología

    by Núria Massó Ortigosa ...
    Series series Danza
    La danza es una forma de expresión con una larga historia y que ha ido adoptando formas diversas junto con la evolución del ser humano. En el camino que recorre el bailarín durante su aprendizaje, encuentra retos a superar de distinta índole (físicos, psicológicos, culturales...). El abordaje de estos retos puede mejorar a través de un mejor conocimiento del propio cuerpo y del propio trabajo.En ... Read more

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  • Mindfulness for Dancers

    by Corinne Haas ...
    The dance world is a rigorous environment that requires a strict focus at an early age. Drawing on her own experience as a professional dancer, Corinne Haas offers a counterbalance to the perfectionism, negative self-talk, and debilitating self-image all too often cultivated in the dance studio alongside technique. Haas knows firsthand how the beauty that resides in us can get lost in the constant ... Read more

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  • Being a Ballerina

    The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life

    by Gavin Larsen ...
    Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield PrizeA look inside a dancer’s worldInspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and ... Read more

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  • R.S.V.P.

    by Karen Hagestad Cacy ...
    R.S.V.P. transports readers to 1958 New York at the grand juncture of the jet set for an addictive, no-holds-barred, gloves-off tale of a New York City dinner party like no other.It is the golden age of the New York City Ballet. Behind the velvet curtains and the thunderous applause of Lincoln Center lies a world of ruthless ambition, fragile egos, and the intoxicating shadow of one man, Company ... Read more

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  • Anni Duemila. L'Italia e Torino

    Parola alla danza

    by giovanni bertuccio ...
    Series Book 9 - Queer e Danza
    Il microcosmo torinese si presta bene a dare un'idea del macrocosmo Italiano. Di quella italianità interpellata nell'esordio e che tanto limita l'Arte e l'evoluzione del pubblico. Pensiamo ad esempio a due dei coreografi che operano nella capitale sabauda: Raphael Bianco e Paolo Mohovich. Il primo della Compagnia EgriBianco, il secondo ex coreografo del Balletto de... ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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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  • 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

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  • The Saint of Petersburg (Dancing Dream #3)

    by Leslie DuBois ...
    Series Book 3 - Dancing Dream
    After being raised in poverty, Sonya Garrison has a dream career and the love of not one, but two gorgeous men. But when she notices how fame and fortune are turning her into the type of person she doesn't want to be, will she be strong enough to change? Can she give up everything she ever wanted, in order to go after what she really needs? ... Read more

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  • Une vie en pointes

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Nutcracker Sweet

    Show-stopping Desserts Inspired by the World's Favorite Ballet

    by Linda Hymes ...
    If you thought this holiday classic was all about Marie saving her Nutcracker prince, think again– it’s all about desserts! Award-winning author Linda Hymes presents a decadent tribute to America’s favorite ballet with a collection of over 60 simple to spectacular desserts. The Nutcracker Sweet: Show-stopping Desserts Inspired by the World’s Favorite Ballet takes a confectionary journey to the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Nini Theilade

    Dansen var det hele værd

    by Lone Kühlmann, Nini Theilade ...
    Hun blev berømt for sin ynde og den sprængfarlige cocktail af uskyld og erotisk udstråling. Fra hun var 14 år dansede hun solo for udsolgte huse over hele Europa og USA. Som 19-årig iscenesatte hun sine egne balletter på Det Kongelige Teater. Hun dansede for Max Reinhardt, indspillede film i Hollywood og var ballerina hos Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Under den glitrende overflade gemte sig et ... Read more

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  • Democracy's Body

    Judson Dance Theatre, 1962–1964

    by Sally Banes ...
    Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. JDT started when Robert Dunn, a student of John Cage, offered a dance composition class in Merce Cunningham's studio. The performers--many of whom ... Read more

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  • HOPE: Indigo Ballet Series, book #2

    by Grier Cooper ...
    Perfection. Beauty. Pain. This is life for Indigo Stevens at the famed New York School of Ballet, where there's no such thing as weakness or privacy and every movement is scrutinized and judged. Indigo hopes she'll be chosen for the company, but her ballet teachers aren't talking and their silence is confusing.When Indigo is singled out for a coveted solo she feels her dreams are finally within ... Read more

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