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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

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • A Company of Swans

    Classic historical romance about love, freedom and ballet

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    **A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance, from bestselling award-winner Eva Ibbotson.'Her books are utterly delightful' – Daily Mail**In the grey, scholarly world of Cambridge in 1912, Harriet Morton has lived her whole life under the strict rule of her widowed father and miserly aunt. When she is offered the opportunity to dance with the corps de ballet ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    by Daria Klimentova ...
    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

    S$ 8.49 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 18.74 SGD

  • Different Drummer

    The Life of Kenneth MacMillan

    by Jann Parry ...
    Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling. However, MacMillan was tormented by an acute sense of being an outsider, and often at odds with the institutions in which he worked.A real-life Billy Elliot from a Scottish working class family, MacMillan demonstrated a prodigious talent for dancing from an early age. ... Read more

    S$ 23.32 SGD

  • The Place of Dance

    A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making

    by Andrea Olsen, Caryn McHose ...
    The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the science of body with creative practice. This workbook integrates experiential anatomy with the process of moving and dancing, with a particular ... Read more

    S$ 22.12 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballet Confidential

    A personal behind-the-scenes guide

    by David McAllister ...
    Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal dancer mid-show? Here is your tell-all guide, an all-access pass for ballet lovers and the ... Read more

    S$ 14.60 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • Balanchine & the Lost Muse

    Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

    by Elizabeth Kendall ...
    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

    S$ 30.07 SGD

  • Alla Osipenko

    Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet

    by Joel Lobenthal ...
    Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky (then-Kirov) Ballet, where her lines, shapes, and movements both exemplified the venerable traditions ... Read more

    S$ 37.92 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 15.36 SGD

  • A Treatise on the Art of Dancing

    Mastering the Art of Dance: Techniques, History, and Insights

    by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini ...
    In *A Treatise on the Art of Dancing*, Giovanni-Andrea Gallini presents a comprehensive exploration of dance as both an artistic and social practice in 18th-century Europe. Gallini's prose is characterized by an elegant yet accessible style, deftly intertwining technical details with philosophical musings about the role of dance in society. Throughout the treatise, he discusses various dance forms ... Read more

    S$ 2.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rudolf Nureyev

    The Life

    by Julie Kavanagh ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily TelegraphBorn on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling ... Read more

    S$ 19.06 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 67.79 SGD

  • The Royal Opera House Guidebook

    by Royal Opera House ...
    The Royal Opera House receives over 1 million visitors a year. Published jointly by the ROH and Oberon Books, this is the first ever guide to the magnificently rebuilt theatre. The guide covers the fascinating and turbulent history of the theatre at Covent Garden since the early 18th century, its recent redevelopment, the majestic auditorium and Linbury Studio, rehearsal studios, and world-class ... Read more

    S$ 12.38 SGD

  • The Greatest Female Drummers of All Time: Top 100

    by alex trostanetskiy ...
    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

    S$ 5.49 SGD

  • 全民跳芭蕾

    Let's do ballet

    by 芭蕾群陰Ballet Monsters ...
    Series series 藝術設計
    第一本《芭蕾女孩的祕密日記》於2014年出版，兩本差別在於，每天練舞8小時，與8天練舞1小時所產生的差異性……不論你是小資上班族（或經理人）、家庭主婦（或貴婦）、熱中減肥者（或想增肥者）……也不論你是身材高挑（或者矮胖）、環肥（還是燕瘦）……只要你有瘋狂的芭蕾魂，一定可以在書中找到你自己。穿上你的tutu，全民一起跳芭蕾！網路人氣幽默畫家——芭蕾群陰Ballet Monsters，再度揭開芭蕾舞界的血淚心酸史（與暗黑面），更一針見血道出普羅大眾學芭蕾的內心OS。從內心獨白到抱怨，從默默學習到愛現（甚至還想開直播），不只舞台是戰場，練舞教室更是互相較勁的修羅場！全書保證讓你捧腹大笑，拍案叫絕！ ... Read more

    S$ 9.99 SGD

  • Zapatillas rosas

    by Karla Barboza ...
    “Zapatillas rosas” narra la historia de una pequeña niña que encuentra en el ballet una actividad que pone contento a su corazón después de haberse mudado a una nueva ciudad. La pequeña Diana trabaja con esfuerzo y dedicación para obtener el papel de bailarina principal en la puesta en escena de su academia de ballet, ¿podrá conseguir este rol? Descúbrelo en “Zapatillas rosas”. ... Read more

    S$ 5.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    S$ 10.78 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 11.98 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 34.65 SGD

  • Turning Pointe

    How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself

    by Chloe Angyal ...
    A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its futureEvery day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Shakespeare and Ballet

    Gender, Sexuality, Race and Politics on Stage

    by Professor David Fuller, Professor Mark Thornton Burnett ...
    Series series Shakespeare and Adaptation
    "A fascinating and highly readable account." - Sir Stanley Wells"An outstanding, remarkable book." - Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida, USAThis new and comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities is also the first to foreground the importance of music to the aesthetics and meanings of Shakespeare dance-works.Organised around adaptations of key ... Read more

    S$ 128.17 SGD

  • Don't Act, Just Dance

    The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture

    by Catherine Gunther Kodat ...
    At some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told “don’t act, dear; just dance.” The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps—but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates ... Read more

    S$ 38.58 SGD