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  • Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet

    by Martha West ...
    Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed.Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914–2006) and Reed (1916–2000) were part of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Being a Ballerina

    The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life

    by Gavin Larsen ...
    Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield PrizeA look inside a dancer’s worldInspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Why Would a Unicorn Learn Ballet and French

    Unicorn Learning Series

    Series series Unicorn Learning Series
    Shona wants to learn ballet and what all the cool French words mean. She asks for help, and Dreamy the Unicorn comes to her rescue, taking them on a magical and fabulous journey of learning!There is plenty of magic in Dreamy the Unicorn's horn. They meet Tammy, a French ballet teacher, and journey together to a ballet school, a ballet production, and go behind the scenes, while learning key French ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Der Schneesturm

    Programmbuch

    Hauschoreograph Andrey Kaydanovskiy setzt im April 2021 Alexander Puschkins Erzählung Der Schneesturm in eine zeitgenössische Ballettsprache um. Während die Erzählung im russischen Kulturkreis zur Schullektüre gehört, ist sie hierzulande eher unbekannt: Die junge Marja, aus gutem Hause kommend, verliebt sich zum Unmut ihrer Eltern in den armen Fähnrich Vladimir. Der Beschluss des Paars, heimlich ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Der Schneesturm [The Blizzard]

    Programme Book

    Resident choreographer Andrey Kaydanovskiy transforms Alexander Pushkin's eponymous novella The Blizzard into contemporary ballet language. The piece will premiere and open the Ballet Festival Week in April 2021. Though the novella is standard school reading material in Russian culture, it is rather little known in other countries. Of aristocratic stock, the young Marya falls in love with the poor ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Prendimi fra le tue braccia

    Julian Anderson è un prodigio della musica classica.Mia Collins è una ballerina con grandi aspettative.Cosa succede quando due grandi talenti s’incontrano?Cosa potrà mai riservare loro il futuro?Julian è un enfant prodige che ha esordito con la Filarmonica di New York a soli sette anni. Il fuoco della musica classica gli brucia dentro, e per lui suonare è tutto. Laureato al Conservato... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballet

    The Essential Guide to Technique and Creative Practice

    Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, into the dance studio for practice in class and beyond. With additional insights from highly ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Outros contos do balé

    by Inês Bogéa ...
    De autoria de Inês Bogéa, Outros Contos do Balé traz histórias de cinco peças indispensáveis para qualquer companhia clássica – A Sílfide, O Corsário, La Bayadère, O Quebra-Nozes e Pássaro de Fogo. A obra apresenta, ainda, mais de 70 ilustrações, alguns passos e posições, quem são os profissionais da dança e um perfil das principais companhias de balé clássico do mundo. Outros Contos do Balé ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Contos do balé

    by Inês Bogéa ...
    Este livro, de autoria de Inês Bogéa, faz uma viagem no tempo, passando por cinco contos de balé – A Menina Mal Olhada, Giselle, Coppélia, O Lago dos Cisnes e Petrouchka. Nesta obra, os balés são contados às vezes por uma mulher, às vezes por um homem; outras, ainda, por um narrador, que não é homem nem mulher; e traz informações sobre a origem das coreografias, curiosidades sobre as primeiras ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • (Re:) Claiming Ballet

    Edited by Adesola Akinleye ...
    The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet’s denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Bournonville på scenen set gennem Edv. Lehmanns streg

    August Bournonville er det betydeligste navn i dansk ballethistorie, og selvom det ikke var ham, der grundlagde den kongelige danske ballet, genskabte han balletkorpset og gjorde det til et af de bedste i Europa.Men scenekunsten er en flygtig kunst, hvilket Bournonville selv var ganske klar over. I anledning af 100-året for Bournonvilles død udgav teaterhistoriker Klaus Neiiendam denne bog, der – ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ce que la Danse m'a dit ...

    Le parcours d'un spectateur "fou" de Danse, devenu agent d'artistes, Directeur artistique et maintenant dramaturge pour des théâtres tels que L'Opéra de Vienne, La Scale de Milan ou encore le Bolchoï de Moscou. Une sorte de dictionnaire amoureux. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bernstein and Robbins

    The Early Ballets

    Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins stand as giants of the musical-theatre world, but it was ballet that launched their stage careers and established their relationship. With Fancy Free (1944), their triumphant debut collaboration produced by Ballet Theatre, Bernstein, Robbins, and set designer Oliver Smith-all in their mid-twenties- captured the spirit of wartime New York, created ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Performers and Their Arts

    Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

    Introduction Part I: Caste, Community and performanceA ritual performance of Kerala, *Vayala Vasudevan Pillai* The Patuas of Bengal, *Makbul Islam* Bards and goddesses: *The Pombalas in Tirupati, Anand Akundy* Explorations in the art forms of the Cindu madigas in Andhra, *Y A Sudhakar Reddy* and *R R Harischandra* Caste identity and perfo... ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Twin Sisters

    by Randy Lyles ...
    Twin Sisters is the story of Parents who pray that they have twins. The Parents also love the Ballet. Because of their love for the Ballet, the Parents pray that they have twins Daughters who will become Ballerinas. The Father is so sure that their Prayers will be answered, he writes several Ballet scripts in anticipation of their birth. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Balanchine

    A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance

    Edited by Eleni Hofmeister ...
    This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Praying Mantra

    by Randy Lyles ...
    The Praying Mantra is about an Angel who wants to become a Ballerina. She goes to the Library in Heaven and discovers that a Mantra is a recitation or dedicated prayer for a cause. She prays to God to allow her to learn to become a Ballerina so she may dance for every Soul in Heaven. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Igone

    De biografie

    Het openhartige en eerlijke verhaal van de enige Nederlandse soliste ter wereld.Op vierjarige leeftijd wordt Igone de Jongh betoverd door de balletvoorstelling The Sleeping Beauty op videoband. Vanaf dat moment weet ze: ik wil naar de balletschool. Naar de top. Dansen wordt haar leven en allesomvattende passie. Maar om de top te bereiken, is passie niet genoeg. Het gaat om keihard werken en heel ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Mary's Last Dance

    The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer

    by Mary Li ...
    The highly anticipated memoir of Australian ballerina Mary Li – and the long-awaited sequel to her husband Li Cunxin's bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer.Mary’s Last Dance is a powerful and uplifting memoir about chasing an impossible dream, and sacrificing one’s own ambition for the love of a child. It is a moving and unforgettable story of passion, dedication and devotion – and the highly ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Dancer's Dream

    Illustrated by Lizzy Stewart ...
    This gorgeously designed retelling of The Nutcracker will make the perfect Christmas present for ballet fans everywhere!In snow white covered St. Petersburg, young dancer Stana’s dreams have finally come true – she has been chosen to play the lead role in Tchaikovsky’s new ballet,The Nutcracker. But with all eyes looking at her, can Stana overcome her nerves and dance like she’s never danced befor ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lighting Dance

    A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows

    Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Early Days, Early Dancers

    Early Years of the National Ballet of Canada

    Early Days, Early Dancers documents the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler, and Celia Franca, herself a dancer and later the Company’s Artistic Director. With an enthusiastic foreword by Karen Kain, and a moving afterword by Veronica Tennant, the book includes pieces by twenty ... Read more

    $11.99 USD