Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the authors theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique. By taking a similar approach to teaching ballet, modern, jazz, tap, or...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Sutherland House Inc., ISBN-13: 9781998365463)
“Dancing makes you feel heaps better” – DianaIn 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess...Loe edasi...
A terrible accident forces Natalia to make a devastating choice about her future as a dancer, in this sweeping novel of love and redemption...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197653050)
Writing in 1829, a Russian critic referred to the art of ballet as an impossible project--impossible because it strives to give an expressive language to body movements, while completely avoiding spoken dialogue. This impossibility generated an a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197801437)
Balanchine Finds His America traces the ways in which this Russo-European immigrant encountered and re-purposed the dynamic culture of the United States. Author Elizabeth Kendall highlights Balanchines tragic yet triumphant life and legacy, context...Loe edasi...
The Ballet Russes was one of the most influential performing arts companies of the twentieth century. In the years before the outbreak of World War I, the company produced works such as Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Sprin...Loe edasi...
Both a group biography and a story of a particular time, this is a book about ballet, the enduring allure of ballet for young girls, and about how these pioneers broke into a world that was closed to them and changed ideas of what a classical dancer...Loe edasi...
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets. The Petersburg Noverre accounts for Mar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198951674)
Modernism after the Ballets Russes examines the philosophical conditions of early twentieth-century Britains theatrical landscape, marked by growing interest in Nietzschean interpretations of classical drama and Wagnerian notions of the Gesamtkunst...Loe edasi...
The first critical study of punk ballet icon Louise Lecavalier, principal dancer with Montreal-based company La La La Human Steps from 1981-1999, and single most iconic dancer of her generation....Loe edasi...
A Companion not only to the historic, path-breaking ballet production by Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Roerich and Stravinsky that premiered in Paris in 1913, but also to its legacy across the centuries. The newly commissioned essays will guide students and b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108476539)
A Companion not only to Stravinskys path-breaking score, but to the ballets legacy across the centuries. It illuminates the controversial Ballets Russes premiere in 1913 and the complex artistic developments and scholarly debates it set in motion,...Loe edasi...
Eva Ibbotsons classic historical romance about love, freedom and ballet sweeps us from grey scholarly Cambridge to the glittering brightness and freedom of Brazil....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197698044)
Author Laura E. Kennedy examines the three ballets composed by Dmitri Shostakovich during the early Stalinist period, showing how he aimed to create Soviet ballet until his third ballet was condemned in 1936, when he subsequently abandoned the genre....Loe edasi...
Author Laura E. Kennedy examines the three ballets composed by Dmitri Shostakovich during the early Stalinist period, showing how he aimed to create Soviet ballet until his third ballet was condemned in 1936, when he subsequently abandoned the genre....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2025, Calendar, Kirjastus: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781835623831)
An exquisite calendar featuring photography from the V&A collections, capturing some of the biggest names in ballet from the early twentieth century. A fine new art calendar from Flame Tree.Enchanting, elegant, and always spectacular,...Loe edasi...
