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  • La Nijinska

    Choreographer of the Modern

    by Lynn Garafola ...
    La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive career. An architect of twentieth-century neoclassicism, she experienced the transformative power of the Russian Revolution and created her greatest work - Les Noces - under the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise

    In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually result in the creation of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet, the first decade of their collaborative efforts was anything but assured. Tracing the tangled histories of two of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Company of Swans

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin.Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good.Performing ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Ballet But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Grier Cooper ...
    Your burning ballet questions answered...• How do I become a professional ballet dancer?• What do ballerinas eat?or do they eat at all?• Are all men who wear tights gay?These are just a few of the questions you'll find answered here. Feel the pain of what it's like to wear pointe shoes, experience the terror of meeting hot, gun-toting guys while on tour with ballet companies in exotic, distant ... Read more

    Free

  • 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

  • Basic Principles of Classical Ballet

    Although the stars of Russian ballet Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina possessed a national manner of dancing, there was no truly Russian school of dancing until the 1930s. The development of this school was largely due to Mme. Vaganova (1879–1951), not only a great dancer but also the teacher of Galina Ulanova and many others and an unsurpassed theoretician.The principles of Vaganova's system are ... Read more

    $7.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Prima Donna

    by Karen Swan ...
    Prima Donna is an excitingly glamorous novel from Karen Swan, author of the bestselling Christmas at Tiffany's.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 outrageous behaviour. She's wild and precocious, and she's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

    In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded ... Read more

    $15.99 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

  • Save Me The Waltz

    Series Book 4 - Handheld Defiants
    Written in six weeks and drawing from the life she shared with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz is a classic novel of one woman’s experience in a fast-moving Jazz Age society.Alabama Beggs is a Southern belle who makes her début into adulthood with wild parties, dancing and drinking, and flirting with the young officers posted to her hometown during World War I. When Lieutenant David Knight ... Read more

    $8.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • LUCY NEGRO, REDUX

    The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet

    Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body

    Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes on new and complex meanings at the intersections of performance art, popular culture, and fitness. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Serge Diaghilev

    by Serge Lifar ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • All The Pretty Scenery

    Seventeen-year-old ballet dancers Emmanuel Ortiz and Hàoyǔ Chao share a relentless rivalry as long-lived as it is fervent. Things only become more intense with the introduction of a high-stakes production, to which is attached a prestigious scholarship and life-changing ramifications for the winner. Desperate to escape his small town, Perafori, as well as the lingering shadows of the past, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Like a Bomb Going Off

    Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

    by Janice Ross ...
    Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • 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

    $20.99 USD