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  • Nureyev

    The Life

    Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor, Tatar-peasant background to the most sophisticated circles of London, Paris, and New York. His ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Buzz

    The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

    Series series Screen Classics
    A biography of the director and choreographer who kept America entertained through the Great Depression: “[A] fascinating read.” —PlaybillCharacterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley’s unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director’s chair, Berkeley is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 102 Amazing Niall Horan Facts! (One Direction)

    Learn all about your favorite One Direction member!This fact book on Niall Horan includes:-What kinds of girls he likes to date.-All about his first kiss.-His upcoming plans with One Direction for 2013.-His favorite movies, foods, restaurants, sports, hobbies, songs, and more!Do you know all about him? Download today and find out! ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Love Saves the Day

    A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979

    by Tim Lawrence ...
    Opening with David Mancuso's seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America’s suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Grands portés de pas de deux (Color)

    En un ballet, el "pas de deux" casi siempre es el momento dramático y a la vez lírico en que se produce el nudo o el desenlace de la acción, o el juego del amor y de la muerte, que es la base de toda dramaturgia. El "pas de deux" alcanza el punto culminante y nos dirige hacia el desenlace. Esta obra aporta un completo estudio de esta técnica para la mayoría de los bailarines que están en la última ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It Takes Two

    A Novel

    by Patrizia Chen ...
    Francesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life. Stuck in a stale marriage with grown children who have long since fled the coop, and desperate to escape the endless cycle of Upper East Side dinner parties and charity luncheons, she jumps at the chance to write an article about Buenos Aires for a glossy travel magazine.Francesca is instantly captivated by Buenos Aires’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts

    An Illustrated Guide to Strength, Flexibility, Training, and Injury Prevention

    by Emily Scherb ...
    An illustrated guide to anatomy and biomechanics for aerialists who want to optimize their performance and train safelySpecifically designed for aerialists—including those who do trapeze, silks, and other aerial arts— Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts is an invaluable resource for those who want to optimize their performance and train safely.Using a biomechanical and movement-based approach, Emily ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mis pensamientos por Ana

    Quizás lo más importante que haya en la vida es el amor, y aunque le damos importancia, hay muchas veces que lo anteponemos a un sinfín de despropósitos que creemos nos harán más felices, y realmente lo que hacen es malgastar nuestro limitado tiempo en este, a veces, absurdo mundo. Amar a nuestros semejantes, amar a nuestra familia, amar a nuestras madres, y sobre todo amar a esa persona que ... Read more

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  • Movement for Actors (Second Edition)

    In this updated rich resource for actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. Readers will gain remarkable insights into the physical skills and techniques used in a wide variety of performance styles through ready-to-use exercises and approaches. Included in this new edition are chapters covering:Stage combatYoga for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Jazz Dance Today Essentials

    The video text dance series

    Series series The video text dance series
    Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial levels. It has been used as the primary textbook in the field and has been read worldwide by ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choreographing Copyright

    Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance

    by Anthea Kraut ...
    Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.S. dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their raced and gendered politics, showing how dancers have embraced intellectual property rights as a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Body and Earth

    An Experiential Guide

    by Andrea Olsen ...
    "Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Don't Think, Dear

    On Loving and Leaving Ballet

    by Alice Robb ...
    "Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas deserve, and all feminists should note." -Oprah DailyAn incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet.Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Historia del baile y la rueda del casino-salsa

    Bailes como las contradanzas y danzas españolas, las fiestas de Quinces, los bailes populares y de salón en la década del 50 y los juegos en los bailes, fueron probables antecedentes que influyeran en el origen del casino y su rueda. Los posibles movimientos o pasillos que surgieron pudieron delimitar la estructura y los pasillos de un baile tan cubano como el casino, que también para otros es ... Read more

    $3.54 USD

  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
    Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • On Wings of Joy

    The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today

    “A lucid and interesting history” of ballet—from sixteenth-century French Royalty to contemporary masters—“that reads like a novel” (Kirkus Reviews).In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the development of ballet. Beginning with the birth of the art in the sixteenth-century French court of Catherine d’ Medici ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hip Hop Dance

    Meanings and Messages

    Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Body of a Dancer

    by Renee D'Aoust ...
    "A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."-Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's KissesThe award-winning writer Renée E. D'Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York during the nineties. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Trained ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 28 Artists & 2 Saints

    by Joan Acocella ...
    Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Dance Nation

    by Clare Barron ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhere in America, a revolution is coming.An army of competitive dancers is ready to take over the world, one routine at a time.With a pre-teen battle for power and perfection raging on and off stage, Dance Nation is a ferocious exploration of youth, ambition and self-discovery.Winner of the Susan Smith ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Moment Of Movement

    Dance Improvisation

    Dance improvisation, the intriguing phenomenon of the creative process alive in the moving body, exists powerfully, sublimely - lending insight, solving problems, allowing moments of transcendence, diversion, and delight. Flourishing especially since the postmodern movement of the 1960s, it has come into its own in the performing arts. While there are many books containing ideas for developing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Solkattu Manual

    An Introduction to the Rhythmic Language of South Indian Music

    Solkattu, the spoken rhythms and patterns of hand-clapping used by all musicians and dancers in the classical traditions of South India, is a subject of worldwide interest—but until now there has not been a textbook for students new to the practice. Designed especially for classroom use in a Western setting, the manual begins with rudimentary lessons in the simplest South Indian tala, or metric ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Encore Performance (with embedded videos)

    How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

    To enhance your reading experience, this edition of Encore Performance contains embedded videos of the Tap Pups performing.The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance ... Read more

    $13.99 USD