Learning and Appreciating the Secrets of Dance: American Ballet Theatre
Author: Nancy Ellison & Hannah Rubin
The definitive book for learning and appreciating ballet, The Ballet Book goes behind the scenes to the classes, rehearsals, and performances that have shaped this prestigious ballet company. Readers will learn from the ... |
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The Memoirs of Mathilde Kschessinka
Author: Mathilde Kschessinka
There have been wonderful books about dancing, and superbly evocative ones about old Russia: but here the two themes are fascinatingly wedded. For these are the memoirs of the prima ballerina assoluta of the imperial Rus ... |
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A Biography
Author: Alexander Meinertz
Vera Volkova was central to the European ballet world for almost four decades as advisor, friend and, above all, teacher to iconic figures from dancers Margot Fonteyn, Erik Bruhn and Rudolf Nureyev to choreographers Sir ... |
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Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
Author: Akim Volynsky
Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English ... |
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Author: Judith Chazin-Bennahum
The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballett, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by bal ... |
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Author: Peter Stoneley
Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many o ... |
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Author: Li Cunxin
The extraordinary biography of a young Chinese peasant boy who emerged from abject poverty, defected to the USA, and became principal dancer for the Houston ballet, a star in the US, friend to George and Barbara Bush, an ... |
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A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions and Joys of Ballet
Author: Eliza Gaynor Minden
The Ballet Companion is the first complete, illustrated reference book for the dancer. With more than 150 stunning photographs of ballet greats Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of pos ... |
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Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values
Author: Kimerer L. Lamothe
When the American modern dancers Isadora Duncan (1877-1928) and Martha Graham (1894-1991) read Nietzsche, they were inspired by the way in which he uses images of dance to figure an alternative to Christian values. They ... |
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Author: Edward Scott
Originally published in 1899, this is a comprehensive study of the art of Dancing throughout history. It goes into great detail about dancing through the ages, including musical notation, right up to the start of the 190 ... |
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Representations of Modernity, Race and Nation in Early Modern Dance
Author: Ramsay Burt
This work looks at dance in Germany, France and the USA during the 1920s and 1930s. Including ballet, modern dance, and dance in the cinema and Revue, it explores the work of European, African American and white American ... |
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Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960
Author: Gay Morris
A Game for Dancers examines the difficulties American modern dancers faced as the Cold War took hold and the genre became institutionalized after its pioneering phase. It draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to expl ... |
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In the Words of Its Creators
Author: Jean Morrison Brown & Charles Woodford
This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other mode ... |
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The Art of Production
Author: Joan Schlaich & Betty Dupont
All aspects of organising a dance performance and managing a company are covered in this book written by dancers for dancers. Photos, drawings, and diagrams show beginners how to hang lights, make costumes, design poster ... |
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An Idealist without Illusions
Author: Kathrine Sorley Walker
Dame Ninette de Valois has devoted her life to the theatre. This collaboration with Kathrine Sorley Walker shows how de Valois has always recognised the interlocking nature of the performing arts, and how her work comes ... |
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Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico
Author: Deidre Sklar
The author went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honours the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions about community, performance, and the embodiment of belief. How do we k ... |
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Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present
Author: Selma Jeanne Cohen
A 'living history' of dance through the writings of its greatest innovators. |
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Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance
Author: Ann Cooper Albright
The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. Thes ... |
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New Perspective on the Romantic Ballet
Author: Lynn Garafola
Rethinking the Sylph gathers essays by a premier group of international scholars to illustrate the importance of the romantic ballet within the broad context of western theatrical dancing. The wide variety of perspective ... |
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