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  • Get Up, Dress Up, Show Up

    Lessons in Love and Surmounting Grief

    This book is about surviving grief, and charts a journey of exceptional love. Now, aged 77, the burden of ambition has left the author and she has, with the help of close confidantes, reconfigured her life. Petal Ashmole Winstanley grew up in Perth, Western Australia with two great loves: her mother and classical ballet. Spurred on by her natural talent and ambition to dance, she made the voyage ... Read more

    S$ 8.16 SGD

  • The Everyday Dancer

    by Deborah Bull ...
    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 uncover the everyday realities of a career in dance. Starting out with the obligatory daily 'class', the book progresses through the repetition of ... Read more

    S$ 13.72 SGD

  • Different Drummer

    The Life of Kenneth MacMillan

    by Jann Parry ...
    Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling. However, MacMillan was tormented by an acute sense of being an outsider, and often at odds with the institutions in which he worked.A real-life Billy Elliot from a Scottish working class family, MacMillan demonstrated a prodigious talent for dancing from an early age. ... Read more

    S$ 23.32 SGD

  • Diaghilev's Empire

    How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

    Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such legendary names as Nijinsky, Fokine, Stravinsky, and Picasso, this intriguingly complex genius produced a series of radically original art works that had a revolutionary impact throughout the western world.Off stage and in its wake came scandal and sensation, as the great ... Read more

    S$ 17.65 SGD

  • (Re:) Claiming Ballet

    Edited by Adesola Akinleye ...
    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 mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet’s denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs ... Read more

    S$ 44.24 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 16.23 SGD

  • The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography

    Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction

    by Mark Franko ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
    The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau’s definition of dance in his 1589 dance treatise, Orchesographie. The notion of the intertext as elaborated by Michael Riffaterre is used to understand a series of relationships between dance and ... Read more

    S$ 53.18 SGD

  • Den danske ballets historie

    by Elith Reumert ...
    Skuespiller og forfatter Elith Reumerts oversigt over dansk ballethistorie fra den tog sin begyndelse på de danske scener i 1700 årene og frem til 1920’erne, stærkt hjulpet på vej af pioner og balletmester August Bournonville (1805-1879), der bragte den elegante kunstart op på det høje niveau, vi også kender i dag."Formaalet med dette Skrift har været at give en Fremstilling af den danske Ballets ... Read more

    S$ 12.43 SGD

  • Vera Volkova

    En dans af uskyld og erfaring

    Vera Volkova havde skabt sig et internationalt ry som balletlærer i London, da hun i 1951 blev inviteret til at undervise Den Kgl. Ballet i tre måneder. Hun blev i København i næsten 25 år, og var med til at udvikle - og placere Den Kgl. Ballet som et af verdens bedste balletkompagnier i midten af forrige århundrede.VERA VOLKOVA - EN DANS AF USKYLD OG ERFARING er også en personhistorie om en ... Read more

    S$ 22.77 SGD

  • Apollo's Angels

    A History Of Ballet

    Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain, Denmark, Russia and contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected political ... Read more

    S$ 32.58 SGD

  • Ana Botafogo

    Palco e Vida

    Este livro foi um presente.Um lindo presente de pai para filha.Desde o início de minha carreira, sempre contei com o importante apoio e prestígio de minha família.Normalmente, meus pais assistiam a todas as minhas apresentações no Rio de Janeiro, eu disse todas, quase que sem exceção. Todas.Para eles não bastava estarem presentes na plateia, faziam questão de se sentar na primeira fileira. ... Read more

    S$ 24.30 SGD

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

    The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world, from Giselle and Swan Lake to Cinderella and Steptext. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon alongside classics by Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev ... Read more

    S$ 13.72 SGD

  • Contos do balé

    by Inês Bogéa ...
    Este livro, de autoria de Inês Bogéa, faz uma viagem no tempo, passando por cinco contos de balé – A Menina Mal Olhada, Giselle, Coppélia, O Lago dos Cisnes e Petrouchka. Nesta obra, os balés são contados às vezes por uma mulher, às vezes por um homem; outras, ainda, por um narrador, que não é homem nem mulher; e traz informações sobre a origem das coreografias, curiosidades sobre as primeiras ... Read more

    S$ 9.50 SGD

  • Flame Flower

    A Ballet

    Russian born artist Michael Chepourkoff wrote a script for a ballet, Flame Flower, while he was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, California. He received his Master of Arts degree in art in May, 1933. He went on to become an active part of San Francisco's art scene in the 1930's and 1940's. Flame Flower was inspired by Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." Chepourkoff ... Read more

    S$ 3.99 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ultracorpi

    La ricerca utopica di una nuova perfezione

    Series series Indi
    Se lasciati a loro stessi, i corpi si accartocciano, si deformano, si imbruttiscono, ma grazie al lavoro costante, alla dedizione, alla disciplina, a sacrifici anche estremi è possibile modificare il corso «naturale» degli eventi, in una simulazione – ancorché illusoria – di permanenza, quando non di immortalità. Questa ricerca di una perfezione utopica e variamente declinata, esasperata per ... Read more

    S$ 17.38 SGD

  • The Dance Historic Illustrations of Dancing

    by An Antiquary ...
    CHAPTER I Egyptian, Assyrian, Hebrew and Phoenician Dancing. CHAPTER II Dancing with the Greeks. CHAPTER III Etruscan-South Italian, Roman Dancing, etc. CHAPTER IV The "Early English" and "Mediaeval" dance to the fourteenth century.CHAPTER V Society dancing from the fifteenth century. CHAPTER VI The Modern Theatre Dance.In this work it is not necessary to worry the reader with speculations as to ... Read more

    S$ 3.99 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elna Jørgen-Jensen

    by Carl Behrens ...
    Carl Behrens tegner et portræt af en af dansk ballets største stjerner nogensinde Elna Jørgen-Jensen. Han fortæller, hvordan hun begyndte på balletskolen som kun 7-årig og kæmpede sig op til de allerbedste og mest prestigiøse roller på Det Kongelige Teater. Samtidig er bogen en fortælling om den af de sceniske kunstarter, der har måttet kæmpe allerhårdest for sin eksistens på Det Kongelige Teater ... Read more

    S$ 8.83 SGD

  • Rudolf Nurejew

    Die Biographie

    "Rudolf Nurejew" erzählt die Geschichte des berühmtesten Balletttänzers der Welt. Geboren 1938 in Sibirien, er absolvierte noch mit 17 Jahren die renommierte Staatliche Choreografie-Schule Leningrad (heute: Waganowa-Ballettschule). Während einer Tournee 1961 in Paris beantragte er Asyl in Frankreich. Mit seinen Choreografien hat er viele klassische Ballettwerke wie "Nussknacker", "Don Quijote" und ... Read more

    S$ 15.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adagio

    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

    S$ 7.22 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Class: Studio

    by Karen MacIver ...
    Series Book 3 - The Art of Class
    First of its kind, The Art of Class is a practical guide for musicians who want to expand their understanding of the dynamic forces we use when playing for Ballet Class. Full of audio and video examples, think of this as a handbook to consult on days when you need a shot of inspiration.The Art of Class - The Studio is an in-depth practical journey looking at the construction of Class from a ... Read more

    S$ 22.69 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    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 the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    S$ 79.44 SGD

  • The Royal Ballet: 75 Years

    by Zoë Anderson ...
    This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, The Royal Ballet - as it became - was established as one of the world's great companies. It has ... Read more

    S$ 15.36 SGD

  • Léon Bakst. L'art du théatre et de la danse

    Le début du XX° siècle connaît une explosion sans précédent de créativité artistique: arts plastiques, littérature, musique. Venus conquérir l'Europe et les Amériques, les Ballets russes révolutionnèrent la scénographie par des décors et des costumes, lumineux et raffinés, imprégnés d'orientalisme et influencés des miniatures persanes. Accompagnant Diaghilev, Léon Bakst s'imposa comme le plus ... Read more

    S$ 17.32 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballettausbildung nach der Waganowa-Methode

    Das Lehrbuch für den klassischen Tanz. (Band I) Ausbildungsjahre 1 bis 3

    by Judith Frege ...
    ERFOLGREICH UND UMSICHTIG BALLETT UNTERRICHTEN Ballett ist ein klassischer Tanz, der dem menschlichen Körper äußerste Präzision und jahrelanges Training abverlangt. Der Tanz setzt sich aus vielen einzeln zu erarbeitenden und dabei komplexen Bewegungsabläufen zusammen, die einzig durch ausdauerndes Training zur Perfektion gebracht werden. Dieses Training muss sehr gut aufbereitet sein. Das Ballett ... Read more

    S$ 52.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus