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  • 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

  • Balanchine

    A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance

    Edited by Eleni Hofmeister ...
    This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Balanchine & the Lost Muse

    Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

    Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • Balanchine's Apprentice

    From Hollywood to New York and Back

    by John Clifford ...
    A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacherIn this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the guiding inspiration for his life’s work in dance ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ballerina

    Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

    by Deirdre Kelly ...
    Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection- the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century, who often led double lives as concubines, through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800’s and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballet

    The Essential Guide to Technique and Creative Practice

    Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, into the dance studio for practice in class and beyond. With additional insights from highly ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ballet

    From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

    Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique. Clear photographs show exactly how to execute each movement. Then an eight-year course is presented, taking the student from age 5 or ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ballet dinámico

    El aporte de la ciencia dinámica al ballet

    El ballet dinámico, creado por el maestro Sergio Pablo Vicencio, nació ante la necesidad de rescatar a jóvenes aspirantes al ballet, que por su edad, ya no tenían cabida en la metodología tradicional. Tras años de investigacionesy estudios, Vicencio, logró diseñar un nuevo enfoque metodológico sustentado en la ciencia del ballet clásico académico y el aporte de la ciencia dinámica. A partir de la ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballet For Dummies

    Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique.Ballet For Dummies is for anyone who wants to enjoy all that the dance forms offers – as an onlooker who wants to get a leg up on the forms ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Ballet in the Cold War

    A Soviet-American Exchange

    by Anne Searcy ...
    In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This book explores the first tours of the exchange, by the Bolshoi in 1959 and 1962, by American Ballet Theatre in 1960, and by New York City Ballet in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Ballet Matters

    A Cultural Memoir of Dance Dreams and Empowering Realities

    Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, and spiritual experience.The author knows that dance relates to life in powerful individual and communal ways, reflecting culture and embodying new ideas. Although ballet can appear (and sometimes is) elite and exclusionary, it also has ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ballet Music

    A Handbook

    Series series Music Finders
    Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s variation, pas d’action, apothéose—simply don’t fit their standard musical vocabulary. Even a familiar term ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Balletbogen. Bind 1

    "Hvorfor skal man læse om dans? Kan man ikke nøjes med at se og opleve? Det ene udelukker ikke nødvendigvis det andet, og oplevelser, man får ved at se dans, kan – som alle andre kunstoplevelser – forstærkes og perspektiveres, når man for eksempel læser om værket, om kunstneren, om musikken, koreografen eller den tid, en ballet skriver sig ind i.""Balletbogen" er en grundbog for alle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Balletbogen. Bind 2

    "I årene mellem cirka 1920 og 1950 var kampen mellem modern dance og ballet ofte hård og meget bitter. Den ny bevægelse skulle finde egne ben at stå på, hvilket i realiteten ofte ville sige, at danserne lå på gulvet og brugte det som partner mere end som et sted til at sætte af fra, hvilket er tilfældet i klassisk ballet, hvor det vægtløse og lette er idealet.""Balletbogen" er en grundbog for alle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ballettausbildung nach der Waganowa-Methode

    Das Lehrbuch für den klassischen Tanz. (Band I) Ausbildungsjahre 1 bis 3

    by Judith Frege ...
    ERFOLGREICH UND UMSICHTIG BALLETT UNTERRICHTENBallett ist ein klassischer Tanz, der dem menschlichen Körper äußerste Präzision und jahrelanges Training abverlangt. Der Tanz setzt sich aus vielen einzeln zu erarbeitenden und dabei komplexen Bewegungsabläufen zusammen, die einzig durch ausdauerndes Training zur Perfektion gebracht werden. Dieses Training muss sehr gut aufbereitet sein. Das Ballett ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballettausbildung nach der Waganowa-Methode

    Das Lehrbuch für den klassischen Tanz. (Band II) Ausbildungsjahre 4 bis 8

    by Judith Frege ...
    MIT WAGANOWA ZEITGEMÄSS BALLETT LERNEN Vor knapp 100 Jahren hat die visionäre Ballettpädagogin Agrippina Waganowa ihre Ausbildungsmethode in dem Buch "Grundlagen des Klassischen Tanzes" niedergelegt. Diese Methode ist zum Klassiker geworden und bis heute die Grundlage für eine achtjährige Ballettausbildung an Ballettschulen und Akademien weltweit. Die Autorin und Tanzlehrerin Judith Frege hat die ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballettens digter. 3 Bournonville-essays

    August Bournonville har en enestående plads i dansk ballethistorie, ikke blot i kraft af sine mange år som balletmester ved Det kongelige Teater og sine egne balletter, men også fordi han om nogen var med til at gøre dansk ballet kendt i udlandet. Lektor og balletkritiker Erik Aschengreen har skrevet tre essays om August Bournonville i anledning af hundredeåret for hans afgang som balletmester hos ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Barbe-Bleue (chorégraphie Pina Bausch - 1977)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Barbe-Bleue, un spectacle chorégraphié par Pina Bausch.Créé le 26 mai 1977 à l'Opéra de Wuppertal (Allemagne) par sa propre compagnie, Barbe-Bleue de Pina Bausch est l'une des œuvres les plus fortes et les plus profondes de cette chorégraphe allemande. Née en 1940, élève à Essen de l'école fondée par Kurt Jooss, elle y apprend les rudiments...Un ouvrage conçu par des ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • 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

    Free

  • 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

  • Battement Frappé

    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