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  • The Ballets Russes and Beyond

    Music and Dance in Belle-Époque Paris

    by Davinia Caddy ...
    Series Book 22 - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
    Belle-époque Paris witnessed the emergence of a vibrant and diverse dance scene, one that crystallized around the Ballets Russes, the Russian dance company formed by impresario Sergey Diaghilev. The company has long served as a convenient turning point in the history of dance, celebrated for its revolutionary choreography and innovative productions. This book presents a fresh slant on this much ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

    by Gail Grant ...
    "Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." — Dance MagazineTeacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Starting Your Career as a Dancer

    Series series Starting Your Career
    In Starting Your Career as a Dancer, author Mande Dagenais explains what it really takes to get into the business, be in the business, and survive in the business. Based on more than twenty-five years of experience in the performing arts as a dancer, teacher, choreographer/director, and producer, Dagenais offers insider advice and shares her vast knowledge while answering questions asked by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cent'anni di danza/ A hundred years of dance

    Kazuo Ohno icona del Butho - Posters & Flyers 1949-2007 / Kazuo Ohno Butho's Icon - Posters & Flyers 1949-2007

    Una visione d'insieme dei luoghi e dei periodi in cui si è costruita e consolidata l'icona del grande Maestro, un lungo viaggio per immagini, un omaggio a Kazuo Ohno, scomparso all'età di 103 anni, mito della più singolare espressione della danza giapponese del novecento, il Butoh. Attraverso fotografie d'epoca e riproduzioni di poster, flyer e programmi dei suoi spettacoli, è ripercorsa la vita e ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Martha Graham in Love and War

    The Life in the Work

    by Mark Franko ...
    Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the World War II era, by restoring their rich historical and personal context. Graham matured as an artist ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • An English Ballet

    A Tribute to Ninette de Valois

    by David Gayle ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Ninette de Valois was an extraordinary woman. Not only did she create The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and the company that has become Birmingham Royal Ballet – in themselves great achievements – but she was a gifted choreographer, dancer, teacher, administrator, speaker and writer. She also identified and developed so many of the talented dancers, choreographers and teachers who went ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

    Theory and Technique

    This dance classic presents a complete beginning course in classical ballet. The founder of this method, Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928), performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. By elaborating on a logical progression of exercises, Cecchetti provided dance with an unprecedented unity — balancing the adagio and allegro, re-establishing the notion of "legato," strengthening the ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

    The Making of Tanztheater

    Edited by Royd Climenhaga ...
    Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

  • Ballerina

    Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

    by Deirdre Kelly ...
    Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection- the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century, who often led double lives as concubines, through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800’s and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dancer in Wartime

    The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

    by Gillian Lynne ...
    London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took place in the faded ballroom.Life was hard, but her talent and dedication shone through and an astonishing journey ensued, which saw Gillian dancing a triumphant debut ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Swans of the Kremlin

    Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia

    Series series Russian and East European Studies
    Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared that the imperial ballet troupes would be disbanded. Instead, the Soviets attempted to mold the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Barre Hopping at Midnight

    A Dani Spevak Short Story

    by Amanda Brice ...
    Series Book 2.5 - The Dani Spevak Mystery Series
    Aspiring ballerina-slash-amateur detective Dani Spevak is back in this humorous short story!Dani and her friends are spending spring break in beautiful Sedona, Arizona for the annual Southwest Teen Arts Festival. But how can she concentrate on performing when her not-quite-boyfriend is in town filing the lead in a hot new vampire movie... and he was seen kissing his costar?“I really dug Amanda ... Read more

    Free

  • Ballet

    From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

    Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique. Clear photographs show exactly how to execute each movement. Then an eight-year course is presented, taking the student from age 5 or ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    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

    $7.99 USD

  • Fernando Alonso

    The Father of Cuban Ballet

    by Toba Singer ...
    Written records of Alonso’s work are scarce, yet Toba Singer’s quest to spotlight his seminal role in the development of the modern ballet canon yields key material: pre-blockade tapes from Lincoln Center, Spanish-language sources from the Museum of Dance in Havana, and interviews with the ballet master himself alongside a broad range of friends, relatives, and collaborators from throughout his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • La etiqueta del baile de salón social

    la más pequeña enciclopedia

    La etiqueta del baile de salón social te enseña un comportamiento razonable en el espacio de baile. Te dice todo del más hermoso idioma - el baile de salón social.Este libro representa el primer paso hacia un espacio de baile mas agradable, hacia una comunidad más amigable y más grande, hacia un mayor respecto para el bailarin cerca de ti. El libro electrónico iBookstore contiene 15 videos hechos ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Don't Sit Here

    DON'T SIT HERE was nominated by Bill Henderson for the Pushcart Editors' Book Award and it was short-listed for the PEN/Revson Fiction Foundation Fellowship Award. The opening chapter was published in THE GREENSBORO REVIEW. Other chapters have been accepted by RARITAN, BOULEVARD, and CONFRONTATION. Nonfiction includes publication in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Plié with Fire (Dancing Dream #3.5)

    by Leslie DuBois ...
    Series Book 3.5 - Dancing Dream
    When Tiki Velasquez has to decide between jail and ballet school, the decision seems obvious. But after living on the streets in order avoid the dance world, sashaying right back into it may be too painful for her to bear. With a quick wit and a hard exterior, most people believe that messing with Tiki is just playing with fire. No one can really see that she’s only trying not to get burned. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • Billy Elliot

    Translated by Heike Brandt ...
    Billy Elliot ist der jüngste Sohn einer Bergarbeiterfamilie. Vater Jackie schlägt sich durch, so gut er kann, während er mit anderen Kumpels gegen die drohende Schließung der Minen streikt. Logisch, dass Billy boxen lernen soll. Doch der entdeckt in der Sporthalle seine Vorliebe fürs Ballett – ein Skandal in der rauen Arbeiterwelt. Fast schon gibt Billy seinen Traum vom Tanzen auf. Als dann aber ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Theatergeschichte

    Eine Einführung

    by Andreas Kotte ...
    Von der antiken Tragödie bis zum "postdramatischen" Theater In sieben klar strukturierten Kapiteln stellt Andreas Kotte die Geschichte des europäischen Theaters von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vor. Dabei geht er Impulsen, Neuerungen und Störfaktoren der Theaterentwicklung ebenso nach wie Veränderungen in den Rahmenbedingungen der Theaterkunst. Worin liegen die Ursprünge von Theater? Gab es ein ... Read more

    $41.20 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

  • The Greatest Male Drummers of All Time: Top 100

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

    $3.99 USD