Classical & Ballet

What does it mean to give life to movement? Tamara Williams answers this question through an ethnographic study and historical mapping of the Silvestre Dance Technique created by Brazilian master teacher, dancer, and choreographer, Rosangela Silvestre...

The story of this groundbreaking summer dance program is told through the voices of staff, faculty, and students. Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly's previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903102995Author Gennaro MagriFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Dance BooksPublisher Dance Books LtdWeight(grams) 552gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554812Author Meredith MartinFormat HardbackImprint Harvey MillerPublisher Harvey Miller

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,...

The Body of the People is the first comprehensive study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jens Richard Giersdorf investigates a national dance history in the German Democratic Republic,...

Presents a comprehensive history of groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. The author analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and...

To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades.It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her...

Mastering the pas de deux-or "step of two"-requires more than just physical proficiency; it demands genuine commitment between dancers. Respect, patience, and etiquette matter just as much as technique. The best partners communicate effectively through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988665231Author Vanessa SalgadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint CrafterinaPublisher CrafterinaWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984058600Author Sandy WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Sandra WatersPublisher Sandra WatersWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615293141Author Victoria A Lowell-DansbyFormat PaperbackImprint Impel Books, Inc.Publisher Impel Books, Inc.Weight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621483151Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 771g

'Eurythmy is that very thing which dancers with a true idealism have been unconsciously seeking - that inner harmony and balance that was a natural condition of the Greeks, visible in their statues and carved figures, so that, even in a standing pose,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736102138Author Georgia FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Afton Historical Society PressPublisher Afton Historical Society PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646996353Author Elisabeth InglesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

This book introduces to the reader the young, 11-year-old Lena Gabrielle, who wants to attend the debut performance of The Sleeping Beauty at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1890. Informed by her father that this is impossible-the performance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780756572594Author Christy MitchinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 203g

Complete with syllibi for each of the three years of beginning ballet instruction, this book helps beginning ballet teachers enter the studio with knowledge and confidence. It begins with the basics of how to prepare for teaching and follows with what to...

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,...

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...

A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Barbara Newman has expertly edited each of her interviews...

Eleonora Abbagnato is the prima ballerina at the Opera de Paris. This original volume reveals her artistic versatility through the photographs of four celebrated ballets. The book opens with an original interview by Valeria Crippa, journalist and ballet...

A history of ballet in Ireland, this work is illustrated with pictures. It is useful for those with an interest in Irish Ballet.Book InformationISBN 9781845885489Author Stephanie BattFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The...

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes...

Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was...

Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them by the likes of Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev’s flashy company, and an embarrassment of Salomés. After languishing...

This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching...

For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standing. It was not until Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...

In this engaging book, journalist Wendy Wicks tells the story of revered dance teacher Timothy Draper, the Rochester City Ballet that he founded, and its predecessor, the Eastman Theatre Ballet, established in 1923 as the first professional ballet...

Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. The rich interchange of somatics and dance has altered both fields, but scholarship that substantiates these ideas through the findings of...

A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Barbara Newman has expertly edited each of her interviews...

Having a set of standards that pertain to a well-rounded curriculum is critical. But standards alone do not ensure a good curriculum. That's where Implementing the National Dance Education Standards comes in. The tools in this book will help you...

In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a...

This volume traces the activity of dance from its earliest beginnings to its current form on the stages of the modern western world. The book places dance within its cultural context, and shows how complex formal techniques and creative theories have...

In Critical Moves Randy Martin sets in motion an inquiry into the relationship between dance, politics, and cultural theory. Drawing on his own experiences as a dancer as well as his observations as a cultural critic and social theorist, Martin...

From his experience of 40 years in ballet as a student, performer, ballet master and dedicated teacher, John White offers this work of inspiration and step-by-step instruction on the art and craft of teaching classical dance. Stressing excellence in both...

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...

Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.RenEe Nicholson's professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of...

Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the keeper of the flame of the classical tradition upon which the glory of French ballet was founded. Having...