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Glastonbury 50: The Official Story of Glastonbury Festival by Emily Eavis
RRP: £30.00£21.00THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised,... -
The 24-Hour Cafe: The new uplifting story of friendship, hope and following your dreams from the Sunday Times bestseller by Libby Page
RRP: £9.99£6.80From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lido comes a story about following your dreams, set over one single day.'A moving and beautifully crafted novel about love, friendship and life' Mike Gayle***Welcome to the cafe that never sleeps.Day and... -
Welcome to the Arts: Dance by Sir Alistair Spalding 9781800783362
RRP: £25.00£16.84Brilliantly curated and beautifully illustrated, the Welcome to the Arts series offers all-hours admission to some of the world's most wondrous performances.From Swan Lake to Riverdance, flamenco to tap, Dance features some of the most iconic... -
Ballroom Dancing by Alex Moore
£43.34A guide to ballroom dancing. It includes all the main ballroom dances, along with versions of most dances approved for championships. There are diagrams showing every step from both the male and female perspective. This tenth edition is revised and... -
Billy Connolly by Pamela Stephenson
RRP: £10.99£7.25The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years - Pamela Stephenson. Once in a lifetime, there strides... -
The Space to Move: Essentials of Movement Training by Christian Darley
RRP: £12.99£9.02The vital building blocks of movement training - a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers. In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with her own drama-school students. She deals with the vital... -
Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall W. Stearns
RRP: £16.99£11.94The Story of American Vernacular DanceAbout the AuthorThe late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £12.99£10.95Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their... -
Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb 9780861547333
RRP: £10.99£7.77Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient... -
Behind the Sequins: My Life by Shirley Ballas
RRP: £14.99£10.95Leave it all on the floor...Queen of Latin Ballroom, Shirley Ballas has a spectacular dance career spanning over 40 years - she has Cha-Cha'd her way across the world's dance floors to become a multi-award-winning ballroom champion and one of the most... -
100 Favourite Ceilidh Dances by Andy Greig 9781910745380
RRP: £7.99£5.75A new book of dances is always a delight, and this book is set to inspire the dancer, the caller and the teacher of social dances. There are new dances, well-known dances, and dances that Greig does differently in this book and thus it is an adventure of... -
Born to Dance by Jordan Matter 9780761189343
RRP: £13.99£9.60A New York Times bestseller! "In Jordan Matter's photos, dancers make all the world their stage." -New York Times From Jordan Matter, YouTube star and New York Times-bestselling author of Dancers Among Us, a celebration of what it means to be young and... -
Pigs Can Fly by Barry Cryer
£13.33Barry Cryer is a National Treasure - this is his brilliant collection of true, tall, stories from his fifty years in comedy.Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, from Max Miller to Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook and... -
Laban For All by Jean Newlove 9781854597250
RRP: £14.99£10.86A comprehensive 'how to' book on the Laban system of movement - from the author of Laban for Actors and Dancers. Laban for All offers a simplified version of Rudolf Laban's system for analysing - and annotating - the way the human being moves. It... -
In the Blink of An Eye: New Edition by Walter Murch 9781879505629
RRP: £14.99£9.47In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful... -
The Impact of Touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: A Body-Mind Centering Approach by Katy Dymoke
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book explores the therapeutic use of touch, focusing on an in-depth case study of work in an NHS setting with a client with learning disabilities, and situating this within a wide theoretical context. This is a unique and influential study... -
Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance: Conversations with Alastair Macaulay by Matthew Bourne
RRP: £20.00£13.86Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance is an intimate and in-depth conversation between the prize-winning pioneer of ballet and contemporary dance Matthew Bourne and the New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay. In 1987, a small, aspirant dance... -
Making an Entrance: Dancing Out the Message Behind Inclusive Dance by Adam Benjamin
RRP: £35.99£31.69This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and... -
Dance in Musical Theatre: A History of the Body in Movement by Phoebe Rumsey 9781350235526
RRP: £24.99£20.44From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre. Through the integration of song and dance in the 'dream ballets' of choreographers like Agnes De Mille;... -
The Sleeping Beauties by Lucy Ashe 9780861548248
RRP: £16.99£11.67An unputdownable tale of obsession, jealousy and heartache against the backdrop of WW2 May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling optimistic. As she returns the last few evacuees to London from her Devonshire manor, she vows to protect... -
A Choreographer's Handbook by Jonathan Burrows
RRP: £26.99£23.46On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis"A Choreographer's Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance... -
Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics by Jose Esteban Munoz
RRP: £19.99£17.17There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture-not by aligning themselves with or against... -
Being a Dancer: Advice from Dancers and Choreographers by Lyndsey Winship
RRP: £12.99£9.02How do I get a job as a dancer? Where and when should I train? How can I protect my body from injury? How do I become a choreographer? These and many more such questions asked by young or aspiring dancers are answered in this book - the most... -
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff
RRP: £24.99£21.63Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this... -
My Turn: An Autobiography by Norman Wisdom
RRP: £15.99£12.11Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Left by their frightened mother, ill-treated by a brutal father, Norman and his brother were forced to fend for themselves, sleeping rough in London and... -
Pilates and Conditioning for Dancers by Jane Paris 9781785008368
RRP: £18.99£15.31Professional dance is an exciting but demanding career to choose, and the dancer of today needs to be physically prepared for the stress on the body that a performing life entails. Pilates and Conditioning for Dancers is a practical guide to exercises... -
100 Lessons in Classical Ballet: The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya
RRP: £18.99£14.40The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School which trained Nureyev Baryshnikov and Makarova including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher scholar or student of the dance can afford to miss. A... -
Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice by Frans Bosch 9780443074417
RRP: £41.99£39.33This richly illustrated work presents innovative training concepts based on recent scientific research and extensive knowledge of the everyday practice of training. It provides running trainers, physiotherapists and physical exercise teachers with the... -
Fosse: The Biography by Sam Wasson
RRP: £12.99£9.49Don't dance for the audience. Dance for yourself.The basis for a lavish new drama series from Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Fosse is the definitive book on one of Broadway's and Hollywood's most complex and dynamic icons.The only person ever to... -
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
RRP: £23.99£20.81Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction... -
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence
RRP: £26.99£23.25Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s-from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown... -
Dance, Love and Ecstasy by John Kruse
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739973360Author John KruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic Publishing -
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence 9780345466273
RRP: £7.99£5.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466273Author Jerome LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Filmmaking For Dummies by Bryan Michael Stoller
RRP: £18.99£13.15Everything you ever wanted to know about making a movie but were afraid to ask... Lights, camera, action! We all have at least one movie in us, and the amazing and affordable advances in digital technology makes it increasingly easy to make your dream... -
Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing: A Strictly Fantastic Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering All Your Favourite Dance Moves by Craig Revel Horwood
RRP: £18.99£12.75Whether you're an absolute beginner or a Strictly Come Dancing wannabe, it's time to get up and dance Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing gives you the confidence you need to take your first steps on the dancefloor. It even includes style tips from... -
The Essential Guide to Tap Dance by Derek Hartley
RRP: £20.00£16.09From the propulsive rhythm of the African dancer, to the swinging ragtime of the American jazz age, tap dancing has evolved into a unique blend of cultural expression, improvisation and creativity, open to all ages and abilities. With clear step-by-step... -
Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen (2nd ed) by Katrina McPherson
RRP: £34.99£32.12Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing for the screen, filming and editing, and distribution... -
Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance by Mark Mann
RRP: £45.00£31.81A celebration of the strength and emotive ability of dancers, this book is a collection of images that captures the dynamism and energy of the mediums of both dance and photography. In homage to Mann s hero Irving Penn, he installed a backdrop of old... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance by Debra Craine
RRP: £13.99£9.75With over 2,600 entries, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Dance is a unique single volume reference on all aspects of dance performance written by two leading dance writers, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell. The work covers all aspects of... -
Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces by Melanie Kloetzel 9780813036939
RRP: £27.95£22.58In recent years, site-specific dance has grown in popularity. In the wake of groundbreaking work by choreographers who left traditional performance spaces for other venues, more and more performances are cropping up on skyscrapers, in alleyways, on...