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  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Kinetic Atmospheres

    Performance and Immersion

    This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dance Anatomie

    Der vollständig illustrierte Ratgeber für Beweglichkeit, Kraft und Muskelspannung im Tanz

    Wenn man als Tänzer erfolgreich sein möchte, muss man verstehen, wie man seinen Körper optimal trainiert, vorbereitet und schützt. Genau dies vermittelt "Dance Anatomie". Anhand der 82 wichtigsten Tanzbewegungen mit über 200 farbigen Illustrationen auf leicht verständliche Art und Weise. Zielgerichtet und per Blick unter die Haut kann der Leser die passenden Übungen für sein Leistungsniveau und ... Read more

    $25.99 USD $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy ... Read more

    $3.99 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

  • Clarence Brown

    Hollywood's Forgotten Master

    by Gwenda Young ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy–Award–nominated director Clarence Brown (1890–1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars, such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy. Known ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Dance Education around the World

    Perspectives on dance, young people and change

    Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

  • Ballet Class

    An American History

    Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. One hundred years later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies large and small across the United States; ballet is ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Práctica de la danza

    by Liane Simmel ...
    Series series Danza
    Bailar es algo más que aprender unos pasos. La danza no se reduce únicamente a aspectos físicos y, sin embargo, el cuerpo es el instrumento del bailarín. Conservarlo sano, reconocer a tiempo las sobrecargas y prevenir las lesiones son condiciones imprescindibles para bailar durante mucho tiempo y sin molestias. Ya sea en el ballet clásico, el hip hop o el jazz, la salsa, el claqué o el baile ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Starting Your Career as a Dancer

    Series series Starting Your Career
    In Starting Your Career as a Dancer, author Mande Dagenais explains what it really takes to get into the business, be in the business, and survive in the business. Based on more than twenty-five years of experience in the performing arts as a dancer, teacher, choreographer/director, and producer, Dagenais offers insider advice and shares her vast knowledge while answering questions asked by ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Maurice Béjart

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    Partez à la découverte de Maurice Béjart avec ce Grand Article Universalis !En rendant la danse accessible à un large public par des représentations dans des lieux non conventionnels (palais des sports, stades...), le Français Maurice Béjart a été l'un des danseurs et, surtout, chorégraphes les plus populaires dans le monde. Paradoxalement, il est resté un homme secret ...Un ouvrage spécialement ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Pas Jeté

    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

  • Чудаки

    Творчество Крашевского очень разнообразно. Он известен широкому кругу читателей как автор нескольких сотен книг — бытовых и исторических романов и повестей, публицистических произведений, исследований в области филологии, истории. Его произведения способствовали оживлению польской литературной жизни, развитию реалистической польской повести и романа. Крашевский явился предшественником знаменитых ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Der Ballettmeister: Erotische Novelle

    Translated by Rebecca Jakobi ...
    Series series LUST
    Heiß, verführerisch, aufwühlend:Für Balletttänzerin Anya bedeutet Tanz alles. Ihr Körper ist ein Instrument, das sie bis zur Perfektion meistert, und sie verliert nie die Kontrolle über sich selbst und ihren Körper. Bis sie eines heißen Sommers Bekanntschaft mit einem Ballettmeister aus New York macht, der sie vollkommen aus dem Gleichgewicht bringt...- ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nutcracker Nation

    How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World

    The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season. In this entertainingly informative book, Jennifer Fisher offers new insights into the Nutcracker phenomenon, examining it as a dance scholar and critic, a former participant, an observer of popular culture, and an interviewer of those ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Creation of iGiselle

    Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games

    The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and computer science collaborated to revise the tragic narrative of the nineteenth-century ballet Giselle, allowing players to empower the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Холодная осень

    Действие рассказа "Холодная осень" разворачивается в начале Первой мировой войны. У обрученных рушится семья. Он уходит на войну. И от их любви им оставлен лишь осенний вечер. Это вечер прощания. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Early Days, Early Dancers

    Early Years of the National Ballet of Canada

    Early Days, Early Dancers documents the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler, and Celia Franca, herself a dancer and later the Company’s Artistic Director. With an enthusiastic foreword by Karen Kain, and a moving afterword by Veronica Tennant, the book includes pieces by twenty ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Passion to Dance

    The National Ballet of Canada

    by James Neufeld ...
    This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics.Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Class: Improvisation

    by Karen MacIver ...
    Series Book 2 - The Art of Class
    First of its kind, The Art of Class is a practical guide for musicians who want to expand their understanding of the dynamic forces we use when playing for Ballet Class. Full of audio and video examples, think of this as a handbook to consult on days when you need a shot of inspiration.The Art of Class - Improvisation explains why it is important to play without the need to look at music ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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