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Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing

By: Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: April 2011

Seller ID: 135839

ISBN: 1566563267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Al-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends p personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance known in the West as belly dancing. She conveys in this book not only the history and technique of grieving and mourning dances, pregnancy and birth dances, but the spirit of these age-old rituals, and their possibilities for healing and empowering women today.
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Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History

By: Anderson, Jack

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 359415

ISBN: 0871271729

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now expanded and updated, this second edition of the original bestseller is an engaging interpretation of dance history--from the Ancient Greeks and European royal courts to the rise of the "American" ballet and the explosion of modern dance. Short profiles, an extensive bibliography, a helpful index, and selections from primary sources are also included.
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Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, Revised and Enlarged

By: Balanchine, George

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 412789

ISBN: 0385113811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage

By: Banes, Sally

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 350799

ISBN: 0415111625

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity.
Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women:
* provides a series of re-readings of the can...
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Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique

By: Barringer, Janice

Price: $7.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 213408

ISBN: 087127261X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This guide provides a thorough examination of the pointe technique and pointe shoes. Dancers tired of their pointe shoes wearing out too quickly benefit from research that illuminates the shoemaking process and tips that show how to best fit, care for, and custom order their shoes. Interviews with ballet stars Martine van Hamel and Darci Kistler reveal their highly evolved but proven methods of caring for pointe shoes. The basics of the pointe technique, different pointe methods, and the history of pointe are discussed. A handy reference on pointe-related injuries and their remedies is include...
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Burlesque: A Living History

By: Briggeman, Jane

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 350237

ISBN: 1593934696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Join the journey-discover burlesque when it was part of a large theatrical world filled with dance, comedy, and live music. BURLESQUE: A Living History captures the spirit of this unique art form through hundreds of photographs and stories from many who were a part of America's most colorful past. This book highlights the careers and contributions of selected artists, many of whom were the nuts and bolts of burlesque. It also acknowledges just some of the young performers of today who are diligently working to remember the days of old. When burlesque theatres and clubs went dark, a whole world...
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The Canepa School of Dance

By: Canepa, Jane E

Price: $7.00

Publisher: September 2014

Seller ID: 282834

ISBN: 0738540838

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This popular dance school was formed in 1955 in Baraboo after local appliance and tire store owner Tony Canepa tap-danced at the Sauk County Fairgrounds as the "Mystery Merchant." Upon learning his identity, friends and neighbors begged him to give their children dance lessons. The handsome Canepa was a dancer at the University of Wisconsin. His svelte wife, Alberta, had taken dancing lessons from the third grade through high school. Eventually the dancing duo had 11 children of their own, and as the dancing school grew, so did the "dancing Canepa family." Over 3,500 students have learned to d...
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Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You

By: Copeland, Misty

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 355565

ISBN: 1455596302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The celebrated ballerina and role model, Misty Copeland, shares the secrets of how to reshape your body and achieve a lean, strong physique and glowing health.
Misty Copeland believes "There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway model. Standards have changed: what women do want is a long, toned, powerful body with excellent posture." In other words, the body of a ballerina. In her first health and fitness book, Misty will show women how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and how to reshape their bodies t...
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I was a Dancer

By: d'Amboise, Jacques

Price: $6.50

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 198058

ISBN: 1400042348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer."
In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d'Amboise, one of America's most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary story of his life in dance, and of America's most renowned and admired dance companies.
He writes of his classical studies beginning at the age of eight at The School of American Ballet. At tw...
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Art of Belly Dancing

By: Dahlena/Meilach, Dona Z

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 384758

ISBN: 0553120751

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

World of Diaghilev

By: Daighilev

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 402924

ISBN: 0517539039

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dance Writings and Poetry: Dance Writings and Poetry

By: Denby, Edwin

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 412227

ISBN: 0300069855

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edwin Denby, who died in 1983, was the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. His reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. He was also a poet of distinction--a friend to Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery. This book presents a sampling of his reviews, essays, and poems, an exemplary collection that exhibits the elegance, lucidity, and timelessness of Denby's writings.

The volume includes Denby's reactions to choreography ranging from Marth...
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My Life

By: Duncan, Isadora

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 393915

ISBN: 0871400812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ballet Book: Learning and Appreciating the Secrets of Dance

By: Ellison, Nancy

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 360556

ISBN: 0789308657

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.
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Martha Graham: a Dancer's Life

By: Graham/Freedman, Russell

Price: $8.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 270888

ISBN: 0395746558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)

By: Grant, Gail

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: January 1982

Seller ID: 133086

ISBN: 0486218430

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." -- Dance Magazine
Teacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third edition is virtually a new work and should be owned by every student, dance teacher, choreographer, and ballet enthusiast -- even those who purchased the second edition. Extensi...
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Technical Manuel and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

By: Grant, Gail

Price: $5.00

Publisher: February 2017

Seller ID: 335351

ISBN: 0224BALL

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Breaking Bounds

By: Greenfield, Lois

Price: $5.00

Publisher: September 2016

Seller ID: 325641

ISBN: 0811802329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this collection of 87 duotone images that virtually leap off the page, Lois Greenfield's revolutionary photographs capture the explosive energy and beauty of dancers' bodies in motion. Made between 1982 and 1991, they are the result of a collaboration between Greenfield and a group of extraordinary dancers asked to "leave their choreography at the door." They take risks, pushing to the absolute limits the boundaries of both dance and photography with an energy so forceful it seems barely contained by the black lines of the camera frame. Edited, sequenced, and with an introductory essay by W...
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A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back

By: Hallberg, David

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Atria Books: November 2017

Seller ID: 441771

ISBN: 1476771154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in the western world," presents a look at his artistic life--up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.

Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood--an all-American story marred by intense bullying--and culminating in his hard-won comeback, Hallberg's "moving and intelligent" (Daniel Mendelsohn) memoir dives deep into life as an artist as he...
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Apollo's Angels

By: Homans, Jennifer

Price: $9.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 277916

ISBN: 0812968743

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo's Angels--the first cultural history of ballet ever written--is a groundbreaking work. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, m...
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