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  • Propostas pedagógicas para o balé no Brasil no século XXI

    O livro apresenta um mosaico de propostas pedagógicas para o balé clássico que saem do que comumente professores e professoras dessa técnica têm utilizado: a Pedagogia Tradicional. Nesse sentido, tenta apresentar um panorama de concepções pedagógicas em prática em escolas de dança, ONGs, escolas técnicas e graduações em Dança, de Norte a Sul do país. A ideia é que a obra sirva de inspiração para ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Business of Ballet

    Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde

    by Ira Nadel ...
    The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde explores how a remarkable, internationally recognized ballet company, the Ballets Russes, was able to survive for twenty years without stable funding. Focusing on Ballets Russes’s founder, Serge Diaghilev, and his talent for discovering monies through an uncanny ability to secure funds from aristocrats, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dance Partnering Basics

    Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy

    Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented in a skill progression, from beginner to advanced, can be applied to a variety of dance forms. The book offers a plethora of tools to help dance ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Hiplet: Bridging the Rhythms of Ballet and Hip-Hop

    by Thalassa Veil ...
    Join us on a captivating journey into the rhythmic realm where classical grace meets urban flair; a world where tradition and innovation harmonize to create the groundbreaking dance phenomenon known as Hiplet. "Hiplet: Bridging the Rhythms of Ballet and Hip-Hop" takes you into the rich history, vibrant evolution and cultural significance of this enchanting dance form.Most important features ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rudolf Nureyev

    As I remember him

    Following an unorthodox first meeting in London in 1964, Patricia Boccadoro got to know Rudolf Nureyev on a personal basis after she moved to live in Paris in the 1970s. In this amusing, informative book, she recounts how exciting it was to see him dance in those heady London years, during his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, before giving a lucid account of his directorship of the Paris ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Palais Garnier en de l'Opéra national de Paris

    Een A World of Culture e-special

    by Don Muschter ...
    Special over het Palais Garnier en de l'Opéra national de Paris. Het is haast niet voor te stellen hoeveel bezoekers in de 350 jaar dat het instituut bestaat naar huis zijn gegaan met een gevoel van geluk. L’Opéra national de Paris is een grootheid zelfs naar Parijse standaards. In het Palais Garnier lijkt het soms alsof de ambities van jonge en gevestigde artiesten mogen wedijveren met de ... Read more

    $14.37 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballet Confidential

    A personal behind-the-scenes guide

    Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal dancer mid-show? Here is your tell-all guide, an all-access pass for ballet lovers and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Nijinsky's Feeling Mind

    The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances

    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Cómo aprender a bailar

    Aprenda y domine los diferentes bailes europeos (vals, mazurca, polca, pasodoble, etc.), latinoamericanos (tango, samba, merengue, etc.) y norteamericanos (fox trot, twist, rock’n’roll, etc), mediante un fácil y cómodo método que le permitirá aprender sin maestro. El objetivo esencial de este libro es enseñarle los pasos fundamentales de los estilos de baile más conocidos y practicados, para que ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tate Liverpool - L’Opéra national de Paris - Belfast Troubles street art - Sorolla 2023 Valencia - A World of Culture

    by Don Muschter ...
    Series series A World of Culture
    Tate Liverpool - L’Opéra national de Paris - Belfast Troubles street art - Sorolla 2023 Valencia - Notre-Dame de Lorette .A World of Culture magazine geeft in woord en beeld een indruk van het culturele veld in Europa. ... Read more

    $10.71 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Functional Awareness

    Anatomy in Action for Dancers

    Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance training can unwittingly compromise the diligent efforts during classwork and rehearsals. The book goes beyond descriptions of the musculoskeletal system to improve performance. The reflective practice of Functional Awareness? teaches strategies to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • To Dance, to Live

    A Biography of Thalia Mara

    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    Thalia Mara’s story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During a tour in Europe and South America, she met her partner in dance and life, Arthur Mahoney, and they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Review of Don't Think Dear

    On Loving and Leaving Ballet

    by Lucas Merritt ...
    Disclaimer!This is not a book written or published by Alice Robb. The independent publication by Lucas Merritt serves as a review and provides insight into the original work. This book is provided solely for educational purposes and is not intended to be a substitute for the original book.Text analysis can be difficult — we make it simple! This comprehensive review guide analyzes Don't Think Dear ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Art of Ballet Accompaniment

    A Comprehensive Guide

    The Art of Ballet Accompaniment: A Comprehensive Guide addresses every imaginable topic and challenge that a ballet accompanist—whether a novice or a more experienced practitioner—might encounter.More than just a facile anthology of accessible music, this inclusive guide details all aspects of playing for ballet, including a complete manual for editing piano literature to accompany ballet ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Summary of Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century

    This isn't a book by Jennifer Homans nor is it subsidiary with her. It is an independent publication by Stephen Oswald to summarise Jennifer Homans's book.The items in this book are never to displace the first book yer rather to assist perusers with sorting out a brilliant read.This layout is solely to help you get a feel or perception of the real bookHave a Pleasant Read!Click on "a... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • Dentro del show Tango argentino

    Durante los oscuros años de la dictadura militar, el tango había caído en el olvido en todo el mundo, incluso en Argentina.El espectáculo "Tango Argentino" reavivó el interés por el tango en todo el mundo.Debutó en París, luego conquistó Broadway y, más tarde, el mundo entero.En el libro, para el que Antón investigó durante 17 años en Buenos Aires y en todo el mundo, se describen las aportaciones ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carmen (Spanish language edition)

    Illustrated by Concha Pasamar ...
    The Mérimée classic that Bizet brought to the opera is presented here in a new version, inspired by the choreography by Johan Inger for the Spanish National Dance Company. Discover the story of Carmen through the pure and crystal-clear eyes of a child.I am nine years old. I love playing with my ball and my friend who is a corporal in the Alcalá Dragoon Regiment. My neighbor Carmen is the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Carmen

    Illustrated by Concha Pasamar ...
    The Mérimée classic that Bizet brought to the opera is presented here in a new version, inspired by the choreography by Johan Inger for the Spanish National Dance Company. Discover the story of Carmen through the pure and crystal-clear eyes of a child.I am nine years old. I love playing with my ball and my friend who is a corporal in the Alcalá Dragoon Regiment. My neighbor Carmen is the most ... Read more

    $8.99 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

  • Offbeat Ballet

    The Interesting Stuff

    by John Bennett ...
    Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession a way of making a living perhaps. For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it is what their hard-earned money is spent on for children to attend ballet classes. This book attempts to draw together the interesting facts facts which are not widely known and answers questions which might not have even been thought of. There is a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vanishing of Willa Sloan

    by Andrea Dias ...
    When fifteen-year-old Isabelle’s mother, Willa, vanishes in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, she is devastated. The investigation, overrun by unprecedented challenges, goes cold, forcing Isabelle to move on with her life without any answers or closure. Ten years later, Isabelle discovers that her mother secretly endured several years of sexual exploitation while studying at the Ballet National ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Embodied Gospel

    The Power, Purpose, and Prayer of Ballet Technique

    The book, Embodied Gospel: The Power, Purpose, and Prayer of Ballet Technique, explores ballet technique as a physical practice revealing Jesus Christ through its core steps, positions, and patterns. The history of ballet points us to a foundation of unique codes and symbols previously forgotten in the technique. As this revelation unfolds, the cross of Jesus Christ, the forgiveness of sins, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD