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  • (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

  • A Body of Work

    Dancing to the Edge and Back

    David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood—an all-American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Child's Introduction to Ballet (Revised and Updated)

    The Stories, Music, and Magic of Classical Dance

    Series series A Child's Introduction Series
    This enchanting introduction to the wonderful world of ballet has been updated to include a removable poster and access to 25 downloadable music tracks.Young dancers have fallen in love with this charming, illustrated exploration of the world's great ballets. Featuring twenty-five famous and beloved pieces such as *Swan Lake,*The Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf and Fancy Free, these stories bring ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Child's Introduction to the Nutcracker

    The Story, Music, Costumes, and Choreography of the Fairy Tale Ballet

    Series series A Child's Introduction Series
    Ballet enthusiasts of all ages will delight in the magical story of The Nutcracker and the magnificent ballet it inspired in this enchanted book packed with colorful illustrations, fun facts, history, music, and the love of dance.Whether The Nutcracker is your first ballet experience or you’re already a master dancer, everything you love and want to know about this special, sugar-spun, snow-dusted ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • A Dance

    Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery.This work has been collected and edited to form an astonishing sequence. Rather than being assembled as an anthology, the sequence has in fact been ... Read more

    $43.99 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

  • 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

  • A Life Well Danced: Maria Zybina’s Russian Heritage Her Legacy of Classical Ballet and Character Dance Across Europe

    Relatively little has been written about how ballet teachers become teachers themselves and how each generation passes on its experience to the next. The teacher-dancer relationship within the context of the Russian classical tradition is a theme of “A Life Well Danced”. It is presented through the lens of a young girl who lived through emigration and displacement at the time of the Russian ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Matter of Appearance

    A Memoir

    by Emily Wells ...
    A dazzling memoir of chronic illness that explores the fraught intersection between pain, language, and gender, by a debut author.Emily Wells spent her childhood dancing through intense pain she assumed was normal for a ballerina pushing her body to its limits. For years, no doctor could tell Wells what was wrong with her, or they told her it was all in her head.In A Matter of Appearance, Wells ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A sapatilha que mudou meu mundo

    by Ingrid Silva ...
    Conheça a história inspiradora de Ingrid Silva: a bailarina brasileira que se tornou conhecida mundialmente ao pintar as sapatilhas com a cor da sua pele Nascida no subúrbio carioca, Ingrid Silva está hoje em um dos maiores postos do balé mundial. Aos 8 anos, ainda menina, conseguiu uma vaga em um projeto social que leva aulas de balé para as comunidades carentes do Rio de Janeiro e nunca mais ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Adagio

    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

  • After the Applause Stops

    Who Are You When You No Longer Do What You’Ve Been Doing for Years?

    Who are you when you no longer do what youve been doing for years? It is the big question facing anyone who retires. It is something any retiree can relate to, and any retiree could have a story here. However, Im going to limit my stories to those of ballet dancerstop ballet dancersbecause their situation is the most extreme, I think. They start younger, grow up in a rarified atmosphere, mostly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Albion's Dance

    British Ballet during the Second World War

    by Karen Eliot ...
    When the Second World War broke out, ballet in Britain was only a few decades old. Few had imagined that it would establish roots in a nation long thought to be unresponsive to dance. Nevertheless, the war proved to be a boon for ballet dancers, choreographers and audiences, for the nation's dancers were forced to look inward to their own identity and sources of creativity. As author Karen Eliot ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Alicia Alonso

    Gloria y escuela

    Biografía de Alicia Alonso. Fundadora del Ballet de Cuba, Prima Bellerina Assoluta fue bailarina profesional y coreógrafa cubana. Famosa por sus representaciones de Giselle y Carmen, además de otras grandes obras del repertorio clásico y romántico. Fue la gran figura del ballet en Iberoamérica y uno de los grandes mitos de la danza contemporáneos. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Alla Osipenko

    Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet

    Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky (then-Kirov) Ballet, where her lines, shapes, and movements both exemplified the venerable traditions ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

    The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere

    American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet officials resolved to utilize the Bolshoi Ballet’s planned 1959 American tour to awe audiences with Soviet choreographers’ great accomplishments and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Auditions

    by Gemma Pearce ...
    For most dancers, at one stage in your career you will have to attend an audition; whether it is to get into a school or to get that job you've always wanted.Unlike a performance where you've had the opportunity to practice your steps many times before displaying them to an audience, the audition process can be a completely unfamiliar and nerve wracking experience, requiring you to face new ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Feet & Pointe Shoes

    by Gemma Pearce ...
    Ever wish that your pointe shoes came with a user manual? Well wish no more, the Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to Feet & Pointe Shoes was designed to make your life that little bit easier.- Do you want to know how to make your feet feel and look good in any shoes? This guide covers the basics on how to prepare your pointe shoes, as well as special techniques to customize your shoes and make them look ... Read more

    $3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Stories From The Ballet

    by Gemma Pearce ...
    Step in to a world of medieval knights, mischievous fairies and beautiful bayaderes within this book of tales from eleven of the worlds most favored ballets. The timeless themes of these classic ballets resonate so strongly with audiences that they are still performed to this day.These enduring ballet favorites, expressively told, will ignite your imagination! Ballet lovers of all ages will enjoy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An English Ballet

    A Tribute to Ninette de Valois

    by David Gayle ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Ninette de Valois was an extraordinary woman. Not only did she create The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and the company that has become Birmingham Royal Ballet – in themselves great achievements – but she was a gifted choreographer, dancer, teacher, administrator, speaker and writer. She also identified and developed so many of the talented dancers, choreographers and teachers who went ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • And Then Came Dance

    The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

    Edited by Stanley J. Rabinowitz ...
    Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Antiracism in Ballet Teaching

    This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings.Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD