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  • Dos passos da bailarina

    by Cássia Pires ...
    As histórias de uma bailarina adulta, estudos sobre a dança clássica, repertórios e discussões sobre o ballet clássico são os temas que norteiam o livro, que reúne textos publicados no blog "Dos passos da bailarina" entre 2009 e 2013. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet

    This beautifully produced new book by Royal Ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski is a collection of exclusive photographs which shines the spotlight on ballet, the most beautiful of art forms. These exquisite photographs feature some of the finest dancers on stage today, bringing the reader into the magical world of ballet. As a Royal Ballet dancer himself, Andrej Uspenski has a unique perspective on ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • El lago de los cisnes: un beso entre dos culturas

    Se analiza El lago de los cisnes partiendo desde su creación, su adaptación moderna en la danza, su adaptación cinematográfica; todo desde el discurso de la modernidad y la posmodernidad, para entender a la sociedad, la política y la cultura. ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • 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

  • Dance or Die

    From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star A MEMOIR

    by Ahmad Joudeh ...
    A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir.DANCE OR DIE is an autobiographical coming-of-age account of Ahmad Joudeh, a young refugee who grows up in Damascus with dreams of becoming a dancer. When he is recruited by one of Syria’s top dance companies, neither bombs nor family opposition can keep him ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Still Got It, Never Lost It!

    by Louie Spence ...
    Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing on Ice.‘I did everything my sisters did, that’s how my dancing days started – they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.’ - Louie SpenceFrom a very early age Louie was a little boy who loved to dance and had high ambitions. He attended every disco dance ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 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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  • 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

  • Fierce and Delicate

    Essays on Dance and Illness

    Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.Renée Nicholson’s professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of elaborate platter tutus to strange language barriers and unrealistic expectations of the body. In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rite of Spring at 100

    When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Our Love Affair with Dance

    The creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the passion and motivation for the dance arts.This book's focus centers on the power and spirituality of the dance told through the life stories of two dance artists, Magda and Gertrud Hahn. This work additionally invites the reader to celebrate the sublime and nuanced inner and outer ... Read more

    $5.99 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

  • LUCY NEGRO, REDUX

    The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet

    Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Bodies of Others

    Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
    The Bodies of Others explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, the book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages. Drag dances take us beyond glittery one-liners and into the spaces between gender norms. In these backstage histories, dancers give their bodies over to other selves, ... Read more

    $25.99 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

  • Martha Graham in Love and War

    The Life in the Work

    by Mark Franko ...
    Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the World War II era, by restoring their rich historical and personal context. Graham matured as an artist ... Read more

    $33.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Nutcracker

    The Original Holiday Classic

    Illustrated by Arkady Roytman ...
    For everyone who loves Tchaikovsky, Ballanchine, music, ballet, or Christmas, this edition of The Nutcracker is sure to enchant readers young and old.On Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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