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Antoinette Sibley
More than 200 black-and-white photographs, mostly in live performances, of one of England’s greatest ballerinas
Continental Method of Scene Painting
The author was for many years chief scene painter for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes He combines his memories of these times with practical scene-painting instructions
Dance Writings
A complete collection of his critical writings, including all the material contained in the out-of-print Looking at the Dance and Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Street
Dancer’s Scrapbook from Capitol Theatre to Carnegie
The story of a beautiful Californian girl who became one of the great Broadway stars of the 1920s, and later a famous Spanish dancer in the Europe of the 1930s It is also the story of the now defunct art…
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
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…
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…
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…
Michel Fokine and his Ballets
A reprint of a 1935 book giving a detailed analysis of Fokine’s early ballets. Dated, but still full of invaluable information
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…
