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  • Alicia Alonso

    Gloria y escuela

    Biografía de Alicia Alonso. Fundadora del Ballet de Cuba, Prima Bellerina Assoluta fue bailarina profesional y coreógrafa cubana. Famosa por sus representaciones de Giselle y Carmen, además de otras grandes obras del repertorio clásico y romántico. Fue la gran figura del ballet en Iberoamérica y uno de los grandes mitos de la danza contemporáneos. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alien Bodies

    Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American, and white American artists.Among the artists who feature are:* Josephine Baker* Jean Borlin* George Balanchine* Jean Cocteau* Valeska Gert* ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • All His Jazz

    The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse

    Bob Fosse (19271987), the director and choreographer of Chicago and Sweet Charity, has never been more popular than he is right now. Here is the less-publicized side of his story-his surprising ascent from the world of sleazy Chicago strip joints to the glitter of Broadway. A legend's memory is preserved in this eloquent biography. ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • 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

  • Alla scoperta della Pole Dance

    "Immaginate che un bel giorno vostra figlia, dieci anni, vi dica: - Papà, mi sono stancata della danza classica, voglio fare la Pole Dance! - . Panico. Ma cosa ne sa lei della Pole Dance?? Ma cosa ne so io?"... Prende spunto da qui il viaggio di un papà alla scoperta della Pole Dance. Leggendo questo libro imparerete cos'è la Pole Dance; cos'ha di diverso da altre discipline come ginnastica ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alvin Ailey

    An American Visionary

    Edited by Muriel Topaz ...
    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    During its three and half decades, the Alvin Ailey Company has left lasting markers on the playing field of American Modern Dance. It has established a reputation for precise but spectacular dancing, for depicting an African American ethos with sensitivity and elegance, and set standards for performance excellence. Ailey's choreography caused shock waves in the dance world of 1958 and continues to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Always More Than One

    Individuation's Dance

    by Erin Manning ...
    In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whitehead's process philosophy and Simondon's theory of individuation, she extends the concepts of movement and relation developed in her earlier work toward the notion of "choreographic thinking." Here, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Alì, il principe della danza crudele

    Il saggio analizza le componenti singolari dell’arte pugilistica dell’atleta, strettamente connesse alle pratiche di ogni performance, a partire soprattutto da quelle della danza. L’analisi persegue il percorso artaudiano del “teatro della crudeltà” fino al riconoscimento in Alì di un “atleta del cuore”, alla ricerca della conquista di una mitica simulacralità nella sua costante tensione tra Eros ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America Dancing

    From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

    by Megan Pugh ...
    The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another.  Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American.   Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

    The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere

    American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet officials resolved to utilize the Bolshoi Ballet’s planned 1959 American tour to awe audiences with Soviet choreographers’ great accomplishments and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Amor ao teatro

    Sábato Magaldi

    Series series Coleção Críticas
    Teórico, crítico teatral e professor, Sábato Magaldi (MG, 1927) iniciou sua carreira aos 23 anos. Ao longo de décadas de intensa produção intelectual, escreveu mais de 650 artigos e 2000 críticas para jornais e revistas. A escritora e esposa de Sábato, Edla van Steen, enfrentou o desafio de compilar em um único volume tamanha produção. Redigidas entre as décadas de 1950 e 2000, as críticas aqui ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Auditions

    by Gemma Pearce ...
    For most dancers, at one stage in your career you will have to attend an audition; whether it is to get into a school or to get that job you've always wanted.Unlike a performance where you've had the opportunity to practice your steps many times before displaying them to an audience, the audition process can be a completely unfamiliar and nerve wracking experience, requiring you to face new ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Feet & Pointe Shoes

    by Gemma Pearce ...
    Ever wish that your pointe shoes came with a user manual? Well wish no more, the Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to Feet & Pointe Shoes was designed to make your life that little bit easier.- Do you want to know how to make your feet feel and look good in any shoes? This guide covers the basics on how to prepare your pointe shoes, as well as special techniques to customize your shoes and make them look ... Read more

    $3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • An Empty Room

    Imagining Butoh and the Social Body in Crisis

    An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is the first book about butoh authored by a scholar-practitioner who combines personal experience with ethnographic and historical accounts alongside over twenty photos. Author Michael Sakamoto traverses butoh dance history ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An English Ballet

    A Tribute to Ninette de Valois

    by David Gayle ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Ninette de Valois was an extraordinary woman. Not only did she create The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and the company that has become Birmingham Royal Ballet – in themselves great achievements – but she was a gifted choreographer, dancer, teacher, administrator, speaker and writer. She also identified and developed so many of the talented dancers, choreographers and teachers who went ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Entertainment Job Guide: TV-Movies-Theatre, Comedy, etc.

    by Tony Kelbrat ...
    This is a book for people who want to entertain others and do other jobs within the entertainment industry. It doesn’t include sports which I cover in another book.The volumes are as follows:Volume 1. It Takes Guts and Talent to be an EntertainerVolume 2. Entertainment Job Guide 1Volume 3. Entertainment Job Guide 2Volume 4. Movie Job GuideVolume 5. Performing Arts School GuideVolume 6. Actor ... Read more

    $7.93 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Illini Place

    Building the University of Illinois Campus

    Series series Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
    Why does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the university's evolution through its buildings. Oral histories, official reports, dedication programs, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Community Dance Practice

    by Diane Amans ...
    This popular core textbook offers a clear introduction to community dance practice today, preparing students for the realities of employment in this dynamic and widely studied field. The text is edited by a highly-regarded professional with an international reputation for best practice in community dance, and includes chapters written by an expert panel of contributors, comprising dance artists, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Analyser les oeuvres en danse

    Partitions pour le regard

    Il n'existe ni regard idéal ni méthode pour analyser les œuvres en danse. Telle est la conviction portée par ce livre qui place l'inventivité du spectateur au cœur de l'analyse. Chacun est invité à sortir du jugement, du goût personnel ou du sentiment d'ineffable pour explorer différentes modalités de regard, entre le temps de la contemplation d'une œuvre et la formulation d'une pensée construite ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anarchic Dance

    Edited by Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ...
    Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and downloadable resources, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. The downloadable ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Ancient Egyptian Dances

    by Irena Lexová ...
    Series series Egypt
    Dancing was important to the ancient Egyptians. One of the few books available in English on this topic, this carefully researched, profusely illustrated work investigates the origins, nature and role of dance in Egyptian culture. Features 80 figure drawings and illustrations adapted from tomb paintings, reliefs, other authentic sources. New introduction. Bibliography. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient English Morris Dance

    The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became ... Read more

    $35.99 USD