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The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (Cambridge Companions to Music)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: Jun-07

Seller ID: 446816

ISBN: 521539862

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Merce Cunningham: Beyond the Perfect Stage: Photographs by Stephanie Berger

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Damiani: Apr-16

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

By: Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Apr-11

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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The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit

By: Allison Kyle Leopold,Dena Simone Moss

Price: $6.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: Feb-99

Seller ID: 189368

ISBN: 312194706

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey

By: Alvin Ailey,A. Peter Bailey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr: Feb-95

Seller ID: 447035

ISBN: 155972255X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History

By: Anderson, Jack

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 359415

ISBN: 871271729

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

By: Anna Paskevska

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Routledge: Jun-02

Seller ID: 441825

ISBN: 415942918

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, Revised and Enlarged

By: Balanchine, George

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 412789

ISBN: 385113811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage

By: Banes, Sally

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 350799

ISBN: 415111625

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique

By: Barringer, Janice

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Jul-14

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: Sep-14

Seller ID: 282834

ISBN: 738540838

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

By: Copeland, Misty

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oct-16

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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Art of Belly Dancing

By: Dahlena/Meilach, Dona Z

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 384758

ISBN: 553120751

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

World of Diaghilev

By: Daighilev

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 402924

ISBN: 517539039

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back

By: David Hallberg

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Atria Books: Nov-17

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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Dance Writings and Poetry: Dance Writings and Poetry

By: Denby, Edwin

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 412227

ISBN: 300069855

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet: Books on Books No. 11

By: Denby, Edwin,Purcell, Kerry William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Errata Editions: January 2011

Seller ID: 461452

ISBN: 1935004220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Published in 1945, Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet is easily among the most legendary photobooks of the twentieth century: the first and only book he authored as photographer, it was printed in a small run of a few hundred copies, and quickly became a rarity. A Russian migr in 1920s Paris, Brodovitch began his career as a scene painter for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, and had firmly established himself as a leading art director and graphic designer in New York when he began photographing the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the mid-1930s. Shot on 35 mm film, Brodovitch's images radically dis...
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My Life

By: Duncan, Isadora

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 393915

ISBN: 871400812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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