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  • Ballet Beautiful

    by Mary Helen Bowers ...
    Get the strong, toned and graceful figure of a dancer – without the rigorous training!Mary Helen Bowers has helped tone and sculpt the bodies of a whole host of celebrities, including Natalie Portman for her role in Black Swan, plus Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel and Helena Christensen. Now, in this fantastic fitness guide, she reveals her exercise, diet and lifestyle plan for transforming your whole ... Read more

    S$ 21.03 SGD

  • Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    by Jennifer Homans ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • Mao's Last Dancer

    by Li Cunxin ...
    Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in search of young peasants to study ballet at the academy in Beijing and he was thrust into a completely unfamiliar world.When a trip to Texas as part of a rare ... Read more

    S$ 15.03 SGD

  • The Ballet Codex

    by Tim Taylor ...
    The Ballet CodexNeural Architecture, Precision, and the Hidden Discipline of Classical BalletClassical ballet is often described in terms of beauty, grace, and artistry. Yet behind every effortless movement lies an invisible structure of discipline, timing, and neurological precision.The Ballet Codex explores the unseen architecture that allows elite dancers to perform with stability, control, and ... Read more

    S$ 13.80 SGD

  • Don't Laugh: Keeping the Joneses Up, Vol. 1

    by Sacha Jones ...
    As a white haired, green-eyed, 'black sheep' growing up in a fire zone, Sacha (then Sally) feels from a young age she doesn't fit in with her family or general environment and struggles, literally, to breathe. But when a doctor recommends ballet as a cure for her ills, though her Russian teacher tells her she is 'not built for ballet', she finds a way to bend her build to ballet and to breathe ... Read more

    S$ 6.32 SGD

  • The Ballet Codex

    by Tim Taylor ...
    Ballet is one of the most demanding performance arts ever created.Every movement is exposed.Every transition is visible.Every moment unfolds under scrutiny.Technique alone does not explain why some dancers remain stable under pressure while others fragment when consequence appears.Timing shifts.Rhythm breaks.Access narrows.The Ballet Codex examines the hidden architecture beneath ballet ... Read more

    S$ 16.46 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raising the Barre: A Dad's Guide to Raising a Professional Ballet Dancer

    by Rick Gardinier ...
    Parents, and especially fathers, of aspiring professional ballet dancers often have nowhere to turn for practical advice. Likewise, most are ill prepared for the demands that will present themselves. The road to a professional ballet career is intense and we are often asked questions by other parents who are entering this phase. What started out as a long blog post to try to help other parents ... Read more

    S$ 3.79 SGD

  • Danza Classica No Under 40 La Metodologia

    Come Intraprendere Un Percorso Emozionale Di Danza Classica Per Donne Sopra I 40 Anni

    by ALINA QUINTANA ...
    Hai mai pensato che la Danza Classica possa essere in grado di migliorare la tua sicurezza interiore, il tuo portamento femminile e la tua autostima? Se hai più di 40 anni e non hai ancora realizzato il tuo sogno della danza, ecco la bella notizia: non hai bisogno di essere una ragazzina, né tantomeno avere un corpo perfetto per danzare. Il problema è che noi donne siamo molto brave, a volte, ad ... Read more

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  • Dance Pedagogy

    by Amanda Clark ...
    Dance Pedagogy is a comprehensive resource designed for dance students and teaching artists to develop skills and strategies in the multifaceted practice of teaching dance.This invaluable resource features essential components and considerations necessary for the dance teacher in any setting, including the private and community sector, university setting, and professional venues. Five distinct ... Read more

    S$ 75.95 SGD

  • Pirouettes

    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

  • Christensen Brothers

    An American Dance Epic

    by Debra Hickenlooper Sowell ...
    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties. Their story sheds light on the history of ballet in twentieth-century America, both through their accomplishments as dancers, teachers, and company directors, and through their association with some of ... Read more

    S$ 114.62 SGD

  • Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance

    by Laura E. Kennedy ...
    The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of openness and experimentation in the arts and especially in dance. During this period in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich composed three ballets--The Golden Age, The Bolt, and The Limpid Stream--at a time when he was consolidating his position as Soviet Russia's preeminent young ... Read more

    S$ 36.72 SGD

  • The Saint of Petersburg (Dancing Dream #3)

    by Leslie DuBois ...
    Series Book 3 - Dancing Dream
    After being raised in poverty, Sonya Garrison has a dream career and the love of not one, but two gorgeous men. But when she notices how fame and fortune are turning her into the type of person she doesn't want to be, will she be strong enough to change? Can she give up everything she ever wanted, in order to go after what she really needs? ... Read more

    S$ 5.51 SGD

  • Plié with Fire (Dancing Dream #3.5)

    by Leslie DuBois ...
    Series Book 3.5 - Dancing Dream
    When Tiki Velasquez has to decide between jail and ballet school, the decision seems obvious. But after living on the streets in order avoid the dance world, sashaying right back into it may be too painful for her to bear. With a quick wit and a hard exterior, most people believe that messing with Tiki is just playing with fire. No one can really see that she’s only trying not to get burned. ... Read more

    S$ 1.37 SGD

  • A Dance

    by Alexander Barabanov ...
    Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery.This work has been collected and edited to form an astonishing sequence. Rather than being assembled as an anthology, the sequence has in fact been ... Read more

    S$ 56.12 SGD

  • Howling Near Heaven, Second Edition

    Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance

    by Marcia B. Siegel ...
    For more than five decades, Twyla Tharp has been a phenomenon in American dance, a choreographer who not only broke the rules but refused to repeat her own successes. Tharp has made movies, television specials, and nearly one hundred riveting dance works. Her dance show Movin’ Out ran on Broadway for three years and won Tharp a Tony award for Best Choreography.Howling Near Heaven is the only in ... Read more

    S$ 30.07 SGD

  • Ballet

    From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

    by Anna Paskevska ...
    Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique. Clear photographs show exactly how to execute each movement. Then an eight-year course is presented, taking the student from age 5 or ... Read more

    S$ 75.95 SGD

  • William Forsythe

    by Senta Driver ...
    First Published in 2000. Choreography and Dance: An International Journal is concerned with the composition of ballet and related forms of dance performed on stage. The journal covers the techniques and training of choreographers, and the development of choreography together with historical, social, folk and other influences on dance. This is Volume 5, Part 3, focusing on the life of William ... Read more

    S$ 81.47 SGD

  • Ruth Page

    The Woman in the Work

    by Joellen A. Meglin ...
    In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: ... Read more

    S$ 44.79 SGD

  • Ballettens digter. 3 Bournonville-essays

    by Erik Aschengreen ...
    August Bournonville har en enestående plads i dansk ballethistorie, ikke blot i kraft af sine mange år som balletmester ved Det kongelige Teater og sine egne balletter, men også fordi han om nogen var med til at gøre dansk ballet kendt i udlandet. Lektor og balletkritiker Erik Aschengreen har skrevet tre essays om August Bournonville i anledning af hundredeåret for hans afgang som balletmester hos ... Read more

    S$ 12.43 SGD

  • Our Love Affair with Dance

    by Karen M Kurnaedy ...
    The creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the passion and motivation for the dance arts.This book's focus centers on the power and spirituality of the dance told through the life stories of two dance artists, Magda and Gertrud Hahn. This work additionally invites the reader to celebrate the sublime and nuanced inner and outer ... Read more

    S$ 8.59 SGD

  • Bernstein and Robbins

    The Early Ballets

    by Sophie Redfern ...
    Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins stand as giants of the musical-theatre world, but it was ballet that launched their stage careers and established their relationship. With Fancy Free (1944), their triumphant debut collaboration produced by Ballet Theatre, Bernstein, Robbins, and set designer Oliver Smith-all in their mid-twenties- captured the spirit of wartime New York, created ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • When Ballet Became French

    Modern Ballet and the Cultural Politics of France, 1909-1939

    by Ilyana Karthas ...
    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 found success in Paris during the first decade of the new century that France embraced the opportunity to restore ballet to its former glory and ... Read more

    S$ 39.23 SGD

  • Bolshoi Confidential

    Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

    by Simon Morrison ...
    In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded ... Read more

    S$ 21.24 SGD