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White Man Sleeps - Creative Insights
Companion book to the Video and is unique in providing such wealth of information on a single dance, and as such will also appeal to a wide readership, including teachers and students of dance as well…
Researching Dance
This paperback text introduces students to research methods in dance. The editors introduce dance as evolutional, raising issues of definition and naming, defining dance in view of its intrinsic participatory…
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…
Vision of Modern Dance
Selected writing by 33 important American modern dancers, from Isadora Duncan through Martha Graham to Trischa Brown. The moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists…
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…
Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing
First published in Naples in 1779, Magri’s treatise on dance technique and execution is the single most important work bridging the gap between pre-romantic ballet technique and the beginnings of…
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
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
Origin of Mime and Dance
An extensive investigation into the origins of mime and dance, covering the subject matter in considerable detail Encouraged as early as 1975 by his mentor and teacher Professor A V Shatin at the Moscow…
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…
A Century of Russian Ballet
This brings its readers as close as written records can to the realities of being a student, dancer, choreographer, or critic, in Russia from the period 1810 to 1910 It is built on a framework of famous…
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
World Ballet and Dance 1993-1994
International yearbook giving world-wide coverage of classical and contemporary dance - statistical information on companies, including addresses Dancers’ health and environment is this volume’s…
The Life and Works of John Weaver
Weaver’s complete published works reproduced in facsimile, preceded by a new biographical study
The Legat Saga - An Anecdotal Study of the Life and Times of Nicolas Legat
A profusely illustrated biography of the great Russian teacher, with descriptions of his remarkable teaching methods
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
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…
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
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…
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,…
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…
Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique
A highly detailed book on the master’s technique, written by a leading teacher at the School of American Ballet who is also one of Balanchine’s former principal dancers Illustrated with over…
Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terminology
Terminology used within the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), the world’s largest examining and teaching body whose syllabus is taught in over 700 countries It is geared to both teachers and students who wish…
