Classical & Ballet

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), La Bayadere (1877), and Raymonda (1898), drawing on a treasure trove of manuscripts that offer...

Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, has had a long history of providing a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. Author Anne Gilbert demystifies expectations when teaching creative dance and provides the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852731526Author Cyril W. BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Dance Books LtdPublisher Dance Books LtdWeight(grams) 275gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the...

The only book of its kind, rewritten throughout, takes the mystery out of a confusing field. Dancers and students quickly benefit from the most current research - offering the latest information on hundreds of shoe designs, products and suppliers. The...

With a global membership of 14,000 and a presence in 84 countries, the Royal Academy of Dance has grown from its foundation in 1920 into one of the world's most influential dance education organisations. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates 100...

One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large...

Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection she is the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. Beginning with the earliest ballerinas, who often led double lives as concubines, Deirdre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375704727Author Julie KavanaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1026gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and...

Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The...

A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from over twenty productions from the year 2017-18 at The Royal Ballet - a richly illustrated companion to The Royal Ballet company.A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from the year 2017-18 at The Royal...

The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to...

The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to...

Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion examines the world of improvisational dance and the varied approaches to this art form. By introducing the improvisational strategies of twenty-six top contemporary artists of movement improvisation,...

A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from over twenty productions from the year 2018-19 at The Royal Ballet - a richly illustrated companion to The Royal Ballet company.A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from the year 2018-19 at The Royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756252876Author Hiroshi UnnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

Fifteenth-century Italy produced the earliest known treatises on the dance. Guglielmo Ebreo, an eminent Jewish dancing master, dedicated his `On the Practice or Art of Dancing' to the future Sforza duke of Milan in the determination to give dance the...

In this biographical novel, Gladys Malvern shares the incredible story of Anna Pavlova, one of the most revered and celebrated ballerinas of all time. Malvern presents Pavlova's life in enchanting prose, allowing the reader to experience Pavlova's...

Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch is a new translation of Raimund Hoghe's original rehearsal diary that documented the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal's work on Bandoneon (1980), illustrated with photos of the production by Ulli Weiss, and personal...

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Famously volatile, fickle in his passions for people, but with astonishing charisma onstage and off, Rudolf Nureyev is regarded as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the twentieth century. In 1968, Nureyev approached Rudi van Dantzig for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312342357Author Linda H HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989408639Author Sue TabashnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Passion Spirit Dreams PressPublisher Passion Spirit Dreams PressWeight(grams)...

This addition to the Royal Ballet Yearbook series includes extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content - in addition to the usual selection of beautiful ballet images. This lavish book opens with a Welcome note by Royal Ballet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423474722Author Charles De BeriotPage Count 15Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852731885Author August BournonvilleFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Dance Books LtdPublisher Dance Books LtdWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic...

Dame Beryl's life is defined by her love of dance. Both as a ballerina and an Artistic Director she helped make British ballet the powerhouse it is today. Knowing and working with virtually everyone in dance, she reveals fascinating insights into the...

A look inside a dancer's worldInspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a...

The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of...

In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches...

Ballet Practice and History is a complete, inclusive resource on ballet training and history for the beginning teen-adult reader. Unique in its balanced discussion of technique and history, this book guides readers through an accessible methodology of...

For the second catalogue of materials from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Professor John Milton Ward has selected over 2,100 items relating to Italian ballet from the seventeenth through the twentieth...

Portraits of dancers rendered through reflective storytelling and exquisite photography, illustrating the varieties of individual paths within the world of ballet Infinite Steps invites readers into the deeply personal journeys of thirty-three ballet...

Providing an understanding of the history, evolution, and universality of dance as an art form, this guidebook explores the significance of dance in culture, the relationship of dance to other art forms, the contributions of great pioneering...

In The Tail of the Dragon, Marcia B. Siegel and Nathaniel Tileston track the evolution of new dance in New York during the rich and crucial transitional period from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Siegel, one of America's most important dance critics,...

This lavish text presents the magnificent Roberto Bolle, as seen through the lens of major international photographers including Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, Fabrizio Ferri, Douglas Kirkland, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Giovanni Gastel, and Mario Testino,...

In 1933, George Balanchine arrived in the United States, brought by even younger sponsors who had dreamed of inventing an American ballet. He came with extraordinary skills: he had trained as a child in Russia's imperial dance academy, he had absorbed...

Writing in 1829, a Russian critic referred to the art of ballet as an "impossible project"--impossible because it strives "to give an expressive language to body movements," while completely avoiding spoken dialogue. This impossibility generated an...