Ballet books

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Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black...

Author: Brenda Dixon Gottschild ,  Robert Farris Thompson
ISBN: 9780230114098
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's...  Read More >>

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black...

Author: Brenda Dixon Gottschild ,  Robert Farris Thompson
ISBN: 9780230114081
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's...  Read More >>

Romance & Revolution: A Leap of Faith at the Iranian National Ballet

Romance & Revolution: A Leap of Faith at the Iranian...

Author: Clair Symonds
ISBN: 9780986941429
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Set against the glamorous backdrop of the Iranian National Ballet Company in 1970s Tehran, awash with money thanks...  Read More >>

Viaje a Traves de La Historia de La Danza

Viaje a Traves de La Historia de La Danza

Author: Jos Rafael Vilar ,  Jose Rafael Vilar
ISBN: 9781463306083
Format: Paperback
$36.83

JOSÉ RAFAEL VILAR VIAJE A TRAVÉS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZA Este pequeño libro surgió de la falta de un texto, accesible...  Read More >>

Viaje a Traves de La Historia de La Danza

Viaje a Traves de La Historia de La Danza

Author: Jos Rafael Vilar ,  Jose Rafael Vilar
ISBN: 9781463306090
Format: Hardback
$52.47

"JOSÉ RAFAEL VILAR VIAJE A TRAVÉS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZA Este pequeño libro surgió de la falta de un texto,...  Read More >>

Language of Classical Ballet: Guide to the Interpretation of Iconographic Soures

Language of Classical Ballet: Guide to the Interpretation...

Author: Flavia Pappacena
ISBN: 9788873017561
Format: Paperback
$64.56

An aesthetic and technical analysis of Classical Ballet's most valuable images, realised with unpublished sources...  Read More >>

Stravinsky's Ballets

Stravinsky's Ballets

Author: Charles M. Joseph
ISBN: 9780300118728
Format: Hardback
$56.95

Igor Stravinsky was a towering composer of the twentieth century and closely linked to dance. His early commissions...  Read More >>

Passion to Dance: The National Ballet of Canada

Passion to Dance: The National Ballet of Canada

Author: James Neufeld
ISBN: 9781459701212
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Tells the story of the National Ballet of Canada - the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination...  Read More >>

Cesare Pugni: Doch Faraona La Fille Du Pharaon/Pharaoh S Daughter

Cesare Pugni: Doch Faraona La Fille Du Pharaon/Pharaoh...

Author: Introduced By Letellier
ISBN: 9781299645097
Format: Electronic book text
$238.15

Cesare Pugni (1802 1870) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida, later...  Read More >>

Cesare Pugni: Music from Five Ballets Ondine Esmeralda Pas de Quatre Catarina, Ou La Fille Du Bandit Theolinda, Ou Le Lutin de La Vallee

Cesare Pugni: Music from Five Ballets Ondine Esmeralda...

Author: Introduced By Letellier
ISBN: 9781299644915
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

Cesare Pugni (1802 70) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida. In the 1840s...  Read More >>

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet...

Author: Gail Grant
ISBN: 9781306346740
Format: Undefined
$15.71

From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and...  Read More >>

Every Step You Take: A Memoir

Every Step You Take: A Memoir

Author: Jock Soto
ISBN: 9780061732386
Format: Hardback
$65.97

In June of 2005, forty-year-old Jock Soto gave his farewell performance as a principal dancer with the New York...  Read More >>

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

Author: Jennifer Homans
ISBN: 9780812968743
Format: Paperback
$60.72

For more than 400 years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve...  Read More >>

More Balanchine Variations

More Balanchine Variations

Author: Nancy Goldner
ISBN: 9780813037530
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Provides in-depth discussions of twenty of George Balanchine's ballets. As in the critically acclaimed Balanchine...  Read More >>

Passion to Dance: The National Ballet of Canada

Passion to Dance: The National Ballet of Canada

Author: James Neufeld (Trent University)
ISBN: 9781459701236
Format: Undefined
$132.00

The National Ballet of Canada has emerged as one of North America's foremost dance troupes. This is its story -...  Read More >>

Passion to Dance: The National Ballet of Canada

Passion to Dance: The National Ballet of Canada

Author: James Neufeld (Trent University)
ISBN: 9781459701229
Format: Undefined
$31.65

The National Ballet of Canada has emerged as one of North America's foremost dance troupes. This is its story -...  Read More >>

Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet

Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of...

Author: Stephen Manes
ISBN: 9780983562801
Format: Hardback
$118.67

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Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet

Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet

Author: Jennifer Homans
ISBN: 9781847082565
Format: Paperback
$45.00

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The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

Author: Marion Kant (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781139001625
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This Companion traces the evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth...  Read More >>

René Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life

René Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost...

Author: Judith Chazin-Bennahum (Distinguished Professor Emerita of Dance, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Dance, University of New Mexico)
ISBN: 9780195399332
Format: Hardback
$77.95

The biography of a fascinating cultural hero, René Blum and the Ballets Russes uncovers the events in the life of...  Read More >>

The Ballets Russes in Australia and Beyond

The Ballets Russes in Australia and Beyond

Author: Mark Carroll ,  Jane Albert
ISBN: 9781862548848
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Tours to Australia and New Zealand during the 1930s by de Basil's Ballets Russes mark a watershed in the cultural...  Read More >>

Royal Ballet Yearbook 2010/11

Royal Ballet Yearbook 2010/11

Author: The Royal Ballet
ISBN: 9781849430029
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Fully illustrated and packed with stunning photographs. Classically put together, a beautiful gift book.  Read More >>

Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: The Ballet d'Action

Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage:...

Author: Edward Nye (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780511794223
Format: Undefined
$435.60

The eighteenth-century 'ballet d'action' was innovative, moving, difficult, sometimes bizarre and often controversial....  Read More >>

In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music

In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical...

Author: Janet Schmalfeldt (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Tufts University)
ISBN: 9780195093667
Format: Hardback
$133.95

"With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus...  Read More >>

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