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  • 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

  • Spinning

    Choreography for Coming Home

    by Janine Kovac ...
    When Janine Kovac gives birth to micro preemie twins nearly four months before they are due, she channels the grace and strength that carried her through a successful ballet career. The human body has amazing healing powers if you just know how to listen to it. But old habits bring up old haunts and bitter memories—the futile quest for perfection and a career-ending injury. In the sterile, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Som jeg kendte dem

    Erik Aschengreen, der i mere end 40 år var balletanmelder i Det Berlingske Hus, fortæller om mennesker, han har mødt igennem et langt liv. Tonen er varm, humoristisk og personlig, når Aschengreen genoplever mødet med mennesker, som har betydet noget for ham. Som jeg kendte dem er 28 profiler fra dansens – og andre – verdener. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Social Dance

    A Short History

    by Arthur Franks ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As well as its role in social history, the book analyses the role of dance as a prime creative power in Renaissance spectacles which depicted and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Soar

    A Life Freed by Dance

    McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass of the TV and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • So, You Want To Be a Ballet Dancer?

    Making It In the Rough & Tumble World of Professional Ballet

    “A revealing book about the grueling—and glamorous—world of ballet” (Daily News, New York).Is everything really so beautiful at the ballet? For Miami City Ballet principal dancer Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg it is; but it wasn’t always so. Learn how she made it through all of her high jinx mishaps, missteps, and tribulations, and continued on to a glorious career as a prima ballerina with an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sissonne

    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

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shoko Nakamura & Wieslaw Dudek

    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

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shapes of American Ballet

    Teachers and Training before Balanchine

    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

    $47.99 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

  • Serenade

    A Balanchine Story

    by Toni Bentley ...
    Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era."Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in love with ballet…. [A] delicate balance of personal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

  • Révérence

    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

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ruth Page

    The Woman in the Work

    In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Rudolf Nureyev

    As I remember him

    Following an unorthodox first meeting in London in 1964, Patricia Boccadoro got to know Rudolf Nureyev on a personal basis after she moved to live in Paris in the 1970s. In this amusing, informative book, she recounts how exciting it was to see him dance in those heady London years, during his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, before giving a lucid account of his directorship of the Paris ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Rudolf Nureyev

    Da quel giorno del giugno 1961, quando all’aeroporto di Parigi «scelse la libertà» gabbando i servizi segreti sovietici, sino alla sua ultima apparizione in pubblico prima che l’Aids lo uccidesse, nel 1993, Rudolf Nureyev ha attraversato la scena della seconda metà del secolo scorso da protagonista assoluto. Aveva origini umilissime, tanto umili da sembrare mitiche. Dopo la fuga fu sempre al ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rudolf Nurejew

    Die Biographie

    "Rudolf Nurejew" erzählt die Geschichte des berühmtesten Balletttänzers der Welt. Geboren 1938 in Sibirien, er absolvierte noch mit 17 Jahren die renommierte Staatliche Choreografie-Schule Leningrad (heute: Waganowa-Ballettschule). Während einer Tournee 1961 in Paris beantragte er Asyl in Frankreich. Mit seinen Choreografien hat er viele klassische Ballettwerke wie "Nussknacker", "Don Quijote" und ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rond de jambe par terre

    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

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Review of Don't Think Dear

    On Loving and Leaving Ballet

    by Lucas Merritt ...
    Disclaimer!This is not a book written or published by Alice Robb. The independent publication by Lucas Merritt serves as a review and provides insight into the original work. This book is provided solely for educational purposes and is not intended to be a substitute for the original book.Text analysis can be difficult — we make it simple! This comprehensive review guide analyzes Don't Think Dear ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reverence

    by Janet Sassoon ...
    The book tells the tale of a seven-year-old girl who starts to study ballet and dreams of reaching her goal as prima ballerina. She studied at the San Francisco Ballet and is encouraged to dance. She started in the opera when they needed a small elf to go on stage where Salvatore Baccaloni was sleeping under a tree, with this small elf poking him in the opera Falstaff. The blue lights were ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes

    In Search of a Lost Life

    Ren? Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, but also illustrates the central role Blum played in the development of dance in the United States. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Reflections on the Revolution in France

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Reflections on the Revolution in France by an English-Irish politician Edmund Burke is a philosophico-political treatise that widely criticizes the revolutionary method programms for rebuilding the society. It was written in the middle of the French Revolution in 1790. The treatise caused a wide social discussion, in particular because of the parallel oratorical activity of Burke in the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rebel on Pointe

    A Memoir of Ballet and Broadway

    by Lee Wilson ...
    Short, plump, pigeon-toed, and never good enough for mom, Lee Wilson dared to dream she could grow up to be a star. In this uplifting memoir, Wilson describes how she grand jetéd from the stifling suburbia of the 1950s, a world of rigid gender roles, to the only domain where women and men were equally paid and equally respected—in grand, historic dance theaters and under the bright lights of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Raising the Barre

    Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker

    Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams -- along with her youthful self-assurance -- and she stepped away from the barre.Fast forward four decades. Lauren -- suddenly, powerfully ... Read more

    $9.99 USD