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  • Life in Motion

    An Unlikely Ballerina

    A bestselling and prizewinning memoir by African American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre—and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old prodigy.Determination meets dance in this New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

  • Nijinsky

    The intoxicating story of one of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet?and the paradox of his profound genius and descent into madness.Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Mao's Last Dancer (Movie Tie-In)

    by Li Cunxin ...
    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation.**From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tales of a Tiller Girl Part 1 of 3

    by Irene Holland ...
    A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Swan Dive

    The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

    "Don't expect just tulle and toe shoes. In this fascinating insider's tale, NYCB dancer Pazcoguin reveals her world. . . . A striking debut." —PeopleAward-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet—the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle.In this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

  • Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century

    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOVWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Baillie ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • I Was a Dancer

    A Memoir

    “Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • El cuerpo en la danza

    Postura, movimiento y patología

    Series series Danza
    La danza es una forma de expresión con una larga historia y que ha ido adoptando formas diversas junto con la evolución del ser humano. En el camino que recorre el bailarín durante su aprendizaje, encuentra retos a superar de distinta índole (físicos, psicológicos, culturales...). El abordaje de estos retos puede mejorar a través de un mejor conocimiento del propio cuerpo y del propio trabajo.En ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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