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  • Carmen revisitée / revisiter Carmen

    Nouveaux visages d’un mythe transversal

    Series Book 41 - Comparatisme et Société / Comparatism and Society
    Ce volume collectif examine la récente multiplication sur la scène internationale de créations artistiques multiformes revisitant la figure de Carmen. En moins de deux siècles, Carmen a non seulement dépassé les frontières géoculturelles de l’Espagne fantasmée qui l’a inspirée et de la France postromantique qui l’a créée, mais elle a aussi débordé le cadre littéraire et opératique de ses débuts. À ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Swans of the Kremlin

    Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia

    Series series Russian and East European Studies
    Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared that the imperial ballet troupes would be disbanded. Instead, the Soviets attempted to mold the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Shoko Nakamura & Wieslaw Dudek

    Das Tänzerpaar Shoko Nakamura und Wieslaw Dudek gehört zur Spitze der internationalen Ballettszene. Es bedient sich einer traditionellen Bewegungssprache, die, präzise und hoch stilisiert, absolute Hingabe fordert. Die gebürtige Japanerin Shoko Nakamura kam nach Stationen am Stuttgarter Ballett und am Wiener Staatsopernballett an das Staatsballett Berlin unter Vladimir Malakhov, der sie 2007 zur ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dame Maggie Scott

    A Life in Dance

    Foreword by Graeme Murphy.It is impossible to tell the story of dance in Australia without focusing on Dame Margaret Scott. The fiftieth anniversary of The Australian Ballet School is a fitting time to launch her biography - she was the first Director of the School and a dancer and teacher of immense vision and intellect.Maggie Scott was born into a free-spirited family whose pioneering attitudes ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Marchés

    Livre super top ... Read more

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  • Sissonne

    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

  • Grosso Mogul: Mutmaßungen zu den letzten Jahren Vivaldis: Erzählung

    Seine letzten Lebensjahre führten Antonio Vivaldi nach Böhmen, nach Venedig, schließlich nach Wien. Trotz hohem Ansehen und europaweitem Ruhm war eine Künstlerexistenz schon damals ein steter Kampf ums Überleben. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

    Theory and Technique

    This dance classic presents a complete beginning course in classical ballet. The founder of this method, Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928), performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. By elaborating on a logical progression of exercises, Cecchetti provided dance with an unprecedented unity — balancing the adagio and allegro, re-establishing the notion of "legato," strengthening the ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Forført af balletten. Ballettens klassikere set over 60 år

    "Forført af balletten" er blanding af en stor balletkritiker og -kenders personlige erindringer og beskrivelser af dansk ballethistorie, som han selv har oplevet den i de mange år, han har fulgt den store kunstarts blomstring i Danmark. Erik Aschengreen fortæller desuden om nogle af de klassiske og mest vidunderlige balletter, heriblandt Kameliadamen, Sylfiden og Giselle. Erik Aschengreen (f. 1935 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spinning

    Choreography for Coming Home

    by Janine Kovac ...
    When Janine Kovac gives birth to micro preemie twins nearly four months before they are due, she channels the grace and strength that carried her through a successful ballet career. The human body has amazing healing powers if you just know how to listen to it. But old habits bring up old haunts and bitter memories—the futile quest for perfection and a career-ending injury. In the sterile, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gestural Imaginaries

    Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century

    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Howling Near Heaven

    Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance

    For more than five decades, Twyla Tharp has been a phenomenon in American dance, a choreographer who not only broke the rules but refused to repeat her own successes. Tharp has made movies, television specials, and nearly one hundred riveting dance works. Her dance show Movin’ Out ran on Broadway for three years and won Tharp a Tony award for Best Choreography.Howling Near Heaven is the only in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • War and Peace

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    War and Peace is an epic novel by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy that describes the Russian society during the era of wars against Napoleon in 1805–1812. The main topic of the novel is historic destiny of Russian people in the Patriotic War in 1812. There are more than 550 characters in the novel, both fictional and historical. Tolstoy depicts the best his heroes with their whole heart-warming complexity ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Belly Dance

    The Dance of Mother Earth

    by Tina Hobin ...
    Tina Hobin - acknowledged expert and practitioner of belly dance, with many years experience of teaching and dancing throughout the world - introduces us to the history of this ancient and mystical dance in an accessible style, both enjoyable and easy to read. Tracing the evolution of belly dance from prehistoric fertility rites, the cult of the shaman and temple dances of Ancient Egypt, she ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Royal Opera House Guidebook

    The Royal Opera House receives over 1 million visitors a year. Published jointly by the ROH and Oberon Books, this is the first ever guide to the magnificently rebuilt theatre. The guide covers the fascinating and turbulent history of the theatre at Covent Garden since the early 18th century, its recent redevelopment, the majestic auditorium and Linbury Studio, rehearsal studios, and world-class ... Read more

    $9.99 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

    $23.99 USD

  • Creative Ballet Teaching

    Technique and Artistry for the 21st Century Ballet Dancer

    How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet? How do teachers impart the stylistic qualities of ballet while also supporting each dancer’s artistic instincts and development of a personal style? How does ballet technique education develop the versatility and creativity needed in the contemporary dance environment ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Laina & The Vamp

    by B. K. Smith ...
    For every woman who ever loved a Vampire."What is your passion?" Vladimir asked Laina."White," she replied without hesitation. "I eat cottage cheese and pot cheese, farmer's cheese, ricotta, mozzarella, meringue, Reddi-whip, Cool Whip, mashed potatoes, white rice, spring turnips, and I drink non-fat milk and occasionally one glass of Chardonnay–maybe two."The Vampire watched her. Was she kidding? ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farlige sylfider. Studier i den romantiske ballet i Frankrig og Danmark

    "Hvor tæt er forbindelsen mellem balletten og de øvrige kunstarter? Hvad er på overfladen? Hvad stikker dybere? Léandre Vaillat skriver i sin bog om Marie Taglioni, at man ikke må bedømme periodens balletter ud fra en litterær målestok. "Det væsentlige er at give ballerinaerne et net påskud til at danse.""I "Farlige sylfider" beskriver den store danske balletkritiker Erik Aschengreen den ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Creativity in Indian Dance

    Uday Shankar's Autumn Years, 1960 – 1977

    Heralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and India’s cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (1900–1977) was a dancer and choreographer who created a vibrant new Indian dance form without any ethno-regional centricity. Over time, Shankar’s art evolved from being a representation of the exotic East, to a narrative of modern India. This book provides a detailed study of Shankar’s works in his ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Reverence

    by Janet Sassoon ...
    The book tells the tale of a seven-year-old girl who starts to study ballet and dreams of reaching her goal as prima ballerina. She studied at the San Francisco Ballet and is encouraged to dance. She started in the opera when they needed a small elf to go on stage where Salvatore Baccaloni was sleeping under a tree, with this small elf poking him in the opera Falstaff. The blue lights were ... Read more

    $3.99 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

  • So, You Want To Be a Ballet Dancer?

    Making It In the Rough & Tumble World of Professional Ballet

    “A revealing book about the grueling—and glamorous—world of ballet” (Daily News, New York).Is everything really so beautiful at the ballet? For Miami City Ballet principal dancer Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg it is; but it wasn’t always so. Learn how she made it through all of her high jinx mishaps, missteps, and tribulations, and continued on to a glorious career as a prima ballerina with an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus