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The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (Cambridge Companions to Music)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: June 2007

Seller ID: 446816

ISBN: 0521539862

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is not only one of its fascinations but one of the intriguing questions to be explored in this Companion. The essays reveal the conception, intent and underlying meaning of ballets and recreate the histo...
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Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey

By: Ailey, Alvin,Bailey, A. Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr: February 1995

Seller ID: 447035

ISBN: 155972255X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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

By: Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia

Price: $4.00

Publisher: April 2011

Seller ID: 469626

ISBN: 1566563267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove

By: Alford, Henry

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 2018

Seller ID: 450271

ISBN: 1501122258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Equal parts memoir and cultural history, from acclaimed comic stylist and professional hobbyist Henry Alford comes a hilarious journey through the world of dance that will inform, entertain and leave readers tapping their toes.

When Henry Alford wrote about his experience with a Zumba class for The New York Times, little did he realize that it was the start of something much bigger. Dance would grow and take on many roles for Henry: exercise, confidence builder, an excuse to travel, a source of ongoing wonder and--when he dances with Alzheimer's patients--even a kind of community se...
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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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Martha Graham

By: Armitage, Merle

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: August 1978

Seller ID: 477497

ISBN: 0306800845

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ballet and Modern Dance (World of art)

By: Au, Susan

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: March 1988

Seller ID: 467604

ISBN: 0500202192

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Traces the development of ballet, describes influential choreographers, dances, and dancers, and looks at modern trends in dance.
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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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The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire

By: Chazin-Bennahum, Judith

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 1994

Seller ID: 467603

ISBN: 0195071867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One of the leading choreographers in ballet over the last half century, Antony Tudor is considered the most lyrical and emotionally powerful of modern ballet masters, acclaimed for his imaginative use of music and his commitment to dramatic pplot. Comparable in achievement to George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, Tudor created over sixty ballets, including his masterpieces Jardin aux Lilas, Dark Elegies, Romeo and Juliet and the incomparable Pillar of Fire. He was instrumental in the establishment of the American Ballet Theater and its rise to prominence as one of the world's great ballet co...
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

By: Copeland, Misty

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2016

Seller ID: 446318

ISBN: 1476737991

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged, and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers . A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most dancers years to mas...
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Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You

By: Copeland, Misty

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 461276

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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Life In Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

By: Copeland, Misty

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2016

Seller ID: 469455

ISBN: 1476737983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged, and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers. A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most dancers years to mast...
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What Is Dance?: Readings in Theory and Criticism (Galaxy Books)

By: Copeland, Roger,Cohen, Marshall

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.: April 1983

Seller ID: 465861

ISBN: 0195031970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Beyond the Perfect Stage: Photographs by Stephanie Berger

By: Cunningham, Merce

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Damiani: April 2016

Seller ID: 452672

ISBN: 886208465X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Beyond the Perfect Stage, Stephanie Berger captures the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performing in a series of site-specific "Events" from 2008 to 2011 from a multiplicity of perspectives, creating a photographic choreography that combines the "Events" in a new way. The Cunningham dancers warm up and then perform in various situations--as Cunningham called the galleries and the especially constructed stages for each "Event"--including Richard Serra's steel sculptures, Dan Flavin's neon light installations, Sol LeWitt's Minimalist white boxes and the vast Drill Hall of the Park Aven...
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Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years

By: Cunningham:

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Aperture: June 2005

Seller ID: 468000

ISBN: 0893816248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The book on Mr. Cunningham aims at, and is, as complete and clear a portrait of the modern dance choreographer and his epochal work as has ever been published... The surprise of the Cunningham book is the grace with which it almost definitively sums up Mr. Cunningham's 63-year life in dance ... Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years is a compelling portrait of a simple yet complex man and an artist who has seldom faltered in his explorations of life and art on the simplest and most complex levels. --Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
"What emerges from this dispassionate, scrupulous...
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