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A Dancer’s Guide to Getting Work
If you were born to dance, but are having difficulty with the first steps to stardom, this is the book for you From finding the right training to getting an agent, from performing in music videos to working…
Antoinette Sibley
More than 200 black-and-white photographs, mostly in live performances, of one of England’s greatest ballerinas
Ballet in Leicester Square - the Alhambra and the Empire - 1860 - 1915
More than half a century separated the golden age of the romantic ballet and the revelation of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes The intervening period has often been cursorily passed over by historians,…
Ballet of the Enlightenment
The Establishment of the Ballet d’Action in France, 1770 - 1793. This book provides a vivid overview of the formative period during which ballet grew from its subservience to the opera, into a fully independent…
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
Bournonville Ballet Technique - Video - PAL - Region 2 - UK/European format
A beautifully presented reconstruction of fifty original and authentic Bournonville enchainements, from the notation of Hans Beck, performed by Rose Gad and Johan Kobborg
Bournonville Ballets - A Photographic Record 1844-1933
A stunning collection of nearly 500 photographs of early productions of ballets by the Danish master, exclusively annotated
Bournonville Tradition and the First Fifty Years 1829-1879
This is a two-volume work based on Bournonville’s own writing ... Volume 1 is a documentary biography of the great ballet-master, while Volume 2 presents an annotated bibliography of the complete performance…
Classical Ballet Terms - An Illustrated Dictionary
Wherever ballet is taught in the world, and in whatever language, it retains one common denominator - the technical terms used are in French Yet there are many discrepancies in the perceived meaning, spelling…
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…
Gautier on Dance
A compilation of nearly 100 lengthy reviews of the French romantic ballet, covering the entire period of Gautier’s published output, from 1836 to 1871, translated and annotated by Ivor Guest
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…
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…
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…
Royal Swedish Ballet
The little-known story of the Royal Swedish Ballet from its grand beginnings through it's varies fortunes across the centuries, and continuing until the present day
Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet Swan Lake
In the autumn of 1981, the Sadler’s Wells (now Birmingham) Royal Ballet, unveiled a new production of Swan Lake. This book documents the evolution of that production, week by week and step by step,…
School of Classical Dance
One of the most important of all Russian ballet technique manuals The author was for many years Agrippina Vaganova’s assistant, and in this 500 page book she describes in detail the full eight-year…
The Ballet Called Giselle
First published in 1944, and thus now somewhat dated, this classic book remains the definitive work on one of the great ballets of the romantic period, with detailed discussions of the characters and their…
The Ballet Designs of Leslie Hurry
Settings and Costumes for Sadler's Wells Ballets - Hamlet (1942) & Le Lac des Cygnes & the Old Vic Hamlet (1944) - v. rare / Mostly plates - some colour
The Life and Works of John Weaver
Weaver’s complete published works reproduced in facsimile, preceded by a new biographical study
The Listening Eye - Dialogues with Music in 20C Ballet
An in-depth study of the relations between music and dance in the work of George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and Anthony Tudor Useful for its depth of focus and the light it throws on more general connections…
