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Anatomy & Kinesiology
This introductory textbook looks at anatomy and kinesiology from the dancer’s point of view. Easy to follow, and clearly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, Anatomy and Kinesiology for Ballet…
Bournonville Ballet Technique
Presenting 50 school exercises, selected and reconstructed from the notations of Hans Beck (Bournonville's successor) which he made in 1893, and are preserved in the Copenhagen Theatre Museum These exercises…
Bournonville Ballet Technique - Piano Score ONLY
Sheet music to accompany the eponymous book and video
Dancing Longer - Dancing Stronger
Provides sensible exercises for ballet, jazz, modern, and aerobics dancers that can be performed outside of dance class to improve technique and lessen the danger of injury Includes specific strengthening…
Dancing Text
Dancing Text - A collection of papers exploring how the concept of intertextuality can be applied to dance and how dance in turn can illuminate ideas about intertextuality
Dancing Texts - Intertexuality in Interpretation
A collection of papers exploring the fruitful possibilities of intertextual readings of dance, with an introductory essay followed by worked examples on a wide range of subjects
Diet for Dancers - A Complete Guide to Nutrition and Weight Control
To be thin and healthy is a necessity for dancers and for athletes such as gymnasts and skaters Others may want to achieve the lean and lithe look of a dancer - how to attain and maintain the ideal slender…
Fanny Elssler’s Cachucha
A study of Elssler’s famous solo, with notes by Ivor Guest, piano score and the complete dance in Zorn and Laban notations
Foundations of Classical Ballet Technique
Compiled for the RAD by a panel including Julia Farron, Pamela May and Lynn Wallis. The only manual to concentrate on the fundamental building blocks of ballet technique without promoting any particular…
Frederick Ashton and his Ballets
This revised edition of Vaughan’s seminal work includes a new final chapter and an updated chronology of work, and is an essential book both for historian of 20th Century ballet and for lovers of Ashton’s…
Getting Your Kicks! - A Beginner’s Guide to Choreography on DVD
This DVD and booklet is primarily aimed at building confidence in untrained dancers and actors, giving them the basics they need to participate in a choreographed dance number for musical shows The interactive…
Jules Perrot / Master of the Romantic Ballet
Perrot was, by any measure, the most brilliant and influential choreographer of his age, that of the romantic ballet Based on exhaustive research in theatrical archives and neswpaper files of the cities…
Knowing Dance - A Guide for Creative Teaching
Knowing Dance is designed for use with students of all ages and abilities and in a wide variety of teaching contexts. Concise, clearly laid out, and filled with both thought-provoking questions and…
Laban For All
A basic ‘how to’ book on the Laban system of movement offering a simplified version of Rudolf Laban’s system for analysing - and annotating - the way the human being moves It can be used by…
Lessons in Classical Dance
Lessons in classical dance is designed for teachers of Russian classical ballet at advanced level. The six lessons detailed in the book are methodically constructed in accordance with the best academic…
Letters on Dance and Choreography
A translation into English, by Knud Arne Jurgensen, of a newly discovered series of eight public letters, first published in France in 1860, in which Bournonville discusses the artistic and aesthetic aspects…
Maria Fay’s Floor Barre - the BOOK
In her long and varied career as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and coach, Maria Fay became constantly aware of the existence of too many injured dancers She became convinced that many of the traumatic…
Maria Fay’s Floor Barre - the DVD - Any Region
Produced to accompany the book of these exercises, this DVD takes the viewer through three sample classes at different technical levels With the help of her pupil Christina Beskou (herself a noted…
Ninette de Valois - Idealist Without Illusions
Dame Ninette de Valois has devoted her whole life to the theatre. This collaboration with the distinguished ballet historian and critic, Katherine Sorley Walker, shows how de Valois has always recognised…
Rosemary Butcher - Choreography Collisions and Collaborations
A beautiful, full-colour monograph on the work of Rosemary Butcher, who has influenced and inspired three generations of British choreographers Since the 1970s she has been developing her own movement…
Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s
A definitive study of the previously almost undocumented period of ballet in Russia following the revolution until the advent of Stalin
The Art of Making Dances
One of the first and most important books on choreographing modern dance, a lucid and practical source book
