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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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  • 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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  • From Gaolbird to Lyrebird

    A life in Australian Ballet

    by Barry Kitcher ...
    Barry Kitcher’s delightful memoir tells the improbable story of a boy from the Australian bush who fell under the spell of ballet and found himself in the midst of some of the most exciting developments in Australian ballet history. He danced with the Borovansky Ballet, Australia’s most important and successful professional company before government subsidy lead to the formation of The Australian ... Read more

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  • Constant Lambert

    Beyond <I>The Rio Grande</I>

    by Stephen Lloyd ...
    To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, most lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a ... Read more

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  • Girl from the Southside

    A Life and Times in the Art of Ballet

    by D. Joseph Benson ...
    This captivating biography unveils the extraordinary life and career of ballet choreographer Dorothy Percival. From her humble beginnings in Tracy, California, during the Great Depression to her role as a soloist for the Sacramento Ballet, this book traces Percival's remarkable journey as she defied societal norms to become a trailblazer for women of color in the world of ballet. Possessing a keen ... Read more

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  • Infinite Steps

    Thirty-Three Dancers and Their Lives in Ballet

    by Gavin Larsen, Gene Schiavone ...
    Portraits of dancers rendered through reflective storytelling and exquisite photography, illustrating the varieties of individual paths within the world of balletInfinite Steps invites readers into the deeply personal journeys of thirty-three ballet dancers from around the world, tracing their paths from first pliés to final bows and beyond. Through intimate profiles by writer and dancer Gavin ... Read more

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  • Práctica de la danza

    by Liane Simmel ...
    Series series Danza
    Bailar es algo más que aprender unos pasos. La danza no se reduce únicamente a aspectos físicos y, sin embargo, el cuerpo es el instrumento del bailarín. Conservarlo sano, reconocer a tiempo las sobrecargas y prevenir las lesiones son condiciones imprescindibles para bailar durante mucho tiempo y sin molestias. Ya sea en el ballet clásico, el hip hop o el jazz, la salsa, el claqué o el baile ... Read more

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  • Birmingham Royal Ballet

    by Birmingham Royal Ballet ...
    'I came to Birmingham with the view to being creative, and today I believe we have not only successfully secured the future of the Company, but the whole dance culture in the city of Birmingham. We are geared for great things.' - David Bintley, BRB DirectorTwenty years ago, Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) took the brave step to set up on its own in Birmingham. It was the making of this marvellous ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Balé Essencial

    Seu Manual Completo para o Mundo da Dança

    by Eka A.I. Salbei ...
    Translated by Eka A.I. Salbei ...
    Series Book 1 - Balé
    Descubra o fascinante universo do balé com "Balé Essencial", o seu manual de balé detalhado para iniciar e aprofundar a sua jornada na dança. Este livro ilustrado de balé guia você desde os momentos iniciais, como a importante escolha da escola de balé, oferecendo critérios para avaliar a qualidade do ensino, até os procedimentos de inscrição para a sua primeira aula experimental.Este guia aborda ... Read more

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  • Shoko Nakamura & Wieslaw Dudek

    by Jan Stanislaw Witkiewicz ...
    Das Tänzerpaar Shoko Nakamura und Wieslaw Dudek gehört zur Spitze der internationalen Ballettszene. Es bedient sich einer traditionellen Bewegungssprache, die, präzise und hoch stilisiert, absolute Hingabe fordert. Die gebürtige Japanerin Shoko Nakamura kam nach Stationen am Stuttgarter Ballett und am Wiener Staatsopernballett an das Staatsballett Berlin unter Vladimir Malakhov, der sie 2007 zur ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Composers of All Time: Top 100

    by alex trostanetskiy ...
    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Composers 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 Composers of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy ... Read more

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  • El arte del dançado y sus exelencias y primer origen, reprobando las acciones deshonestas

    Edición enriquecida. Exploración profunda de la danza y reflexiones morales

    by Juan de Esquivel Navarro, Vega Santana ...
    El libro "El arte del dançado y sus exelencias y primer origen, reprobando las acciones deshonestas" de Juan de Esquivel Navarro se presenta como un profundo análisis de la danza, vista no solo como una expresión artística, sino también como un fenómeno social y moral en su contexto histórico. Con un estilo claro y didáctico, el autor explora las diferentes manifestaciones de la danza, sus ... Read more

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  • The Physically Disabled Dancer and the Affirmative Model of Disability

    by Lawrence Shapiro ...
    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

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  • Shapes of American Ballet

    Teachers and Training before Balanchine

    by Jessica Zeller ...
    In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian émigrés had been working for decades to build a national ballet with ... Read more

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  • I Was a Dancer

    A Memoir

    by Jacques D'Amboise ...
    “Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary ... Read more

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  • Der Ballett-Lehrbaum

    Effektives Lehren und Lernen im Ballett durch Körperwissen, Motivation, Selbstbehauptung und künstlerische Entwicklung

    by Mathias Ellmann ...
    Wie kann Ballett so gelehrt und gelernt werden, dass Technik, Gesundheit, Motivation und künstlerische Entwicklung zusammenwirken?Ballett wird häufig über Disziplin, Wiederholung und technische Präzision definiert. Doch erfolgreiche Ballettpädagogik umfasst weit mehr als die korrekte Ausführung von Bewegungen.Der Ballett-Lehrbaum stellt ein ganzheitliches Modell für effektives Lehren und Lernen im ... Read more

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  • Grande Adagio

    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

    PHP368.97 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El arte de la danza y otros escritos

    by Isadora Duncan ...
    Series Book 33 - Fuentes de Arte
    Los escritos sobre danza de Isadora Duncan constituyen una de las más brillantes reflexiones de una coreógrafa sobre su trabajo. Su valor se acrecienta si tenemos en cuenta que fue precisamente Duncan quien, con mayor consciencia y decisión que Loie Fuller o Ruth St. Denis, convirtió la danza libre, no basada en los códigos de ballet, en un arte. El arte de la danza, tal como fue definido y ... Read more

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  • Fierce and Delicate

    Essays on Dance and Illness

    by Renée K. Nicholson ...
    Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.Renée Nicholson’s professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of elaborate platter tutus to strange language barriers and unrealistic expectations of the body. In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often ... Read more

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  • Boston Ballerina

    A Dancer, a Company, an Era

    by Laura Young, Janine Parker ...
    As a charter member of Boston Ballet and its predecessor, New England Civic Ballet, Laura Young has been affiliated with the company longer than any other dancer in its history. This book is both a memoir of her personal journey and a fascinating account of Boston Ballet’s rise from a regional troupe to the internationally recognized company that it is today. It is interspersed with ruminations on ... Read more

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  • Women in Love

    by David Herbert Lawrence ...
    "An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expressions which greeted the publication of "Women in Love". Yet Lawrence regarded this novel as his best book and F. R. Leavis considered it Lawrence's supreme masterpiece. The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the ... Read more

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  • Behind the Red Velvet Curtain

    An American Ballerina in Russia

    by Elizabeth Shockman, Joy Womack ...
    In 2012 Joy Womack made history when she became the first American ballerina to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet Theater in Moscow, Russia.Dancing in Moscow was not the Onion Dome fairy tale she’d hoped for. The Bolshoi and its school were filled with cutthroat competition, acts of violence, and coaches who encouraged obsessive devotion. They sent her on stage with broken bones, helped her ... Read more

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  • Stars of American Ballet

    by Howard Dando ...
    'Stars of American Ballet' embarked on a journey that made international headlines as the first performing arts company to appear before multi-racial audiences during apartheid in South Africa.Stars proceeded to then perform record-breaking tours in 66 American cities per year and cited by the New York Times as "The resurgence of Balanchine's legendary Ballet Caravan."The Journal offers insights ... Read more

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