World Ballet and Dance 1989-1990
World Ballet
DanceBooks
A survey of ballet and modern dance round the world
$22.99
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The Dancers Complete Guide to Healthcare and a Long Career
Allen J Ryan and Robert E Stephens
DanceBooks
Here is the place where both the beginner and the more experienced dancer will find helpful advice on everything from diet to care of injuries to ballet as a business
$22.99
Dancing Longer - Dancing Stronger
Andrea Watkins & Priscilla Clarkson
DanceBooks
Provides sensible exercises for ballet, jazz, modern, and aerobics dancers that can be performed outside of dance class to improve technique and lessen the danger of injury Includes specific strengthening ...
$45
Knowing Dance - A Guide for Creative Teaching
Marion Gough
DanceBooks
Knowing Dance is designed for use with students of all ages and abilities and in a wide variety of teaching contexts. Concise, clearly laid out, and filled with both thought-provoking questions and practic...
$19.99
Ballet in Leicester Square - the Alhambra and the Empire - 1860 - 1915
Ivor Guest
DanceBooks
More than half a century separated the golden age of the romantic ballet and the revelation of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes The intervening period has often been cursorily passed over by historians, and he...
$49.99
The English Dancing Master
John Playford
DanceBooks
Playford's The Dancing Master was one of the most popular dancing manuals of its day, first published in 1651 and remaining in print for some 80 years This version is a facsimile of the 're-impression' of...
$16.99
Dance Umbrella - The First Twenty-One Years
Bonnie Rowell
DanceBooks
A fascinating history of London's Dance Umbrella festival. Since its inception by Val Bourne in 1978, Dance Umbrella has played a crucial role in the development of the contemporary dance scene in London ...
$13.99
Ninette de Valois - Idealist Without Illusions
Kathrine Sorley Walker
DanceBooks
Dame Ninette de Valois has devoted her whole life to the theatre. This collaboration with the distinguished ballet historian and critic, Katherine Sorley Walker, shows how de Valois has always recognised t...
$22.99
Thinking Body
Mabel Elsworth Todd
DanceBooks
First published in Naples in 1779, Magri's treatise on dance technique and execution is the single most important work bridging the gap between pre-romantic ballet technique and the beginnings of classical t...
$22.99
Frederick Ashton and his Ballets
David Vaughan
DanceBooks
This revised edition of Vaughan's seminal work includes a new final chapter and an updated chronology of work, and is an essential book both for historian of 20th Century ballet and for lovers of Ashton's...
$59.99
Researching Dance
Sondra Fraleigh & Penelope Hanstein - eds
DanceBooks
This paperback text introduces students to research methods in dance. The editors introduce dance as evolutional, raising issues of definition and naming, defining dance in view of its intrinsic participat...
$38.99
Dancing Texts - Intertexuality in Interpretation
Janet Adshead
DanceBooks
A collection of papers exploring the fruitful possibilities of intertextual readings of dance, with an introductory essay followed by worked examples on a wide range of subjects
$22.99
How to Dress Dancers
Mary Kent Harrison
DanceBooks
This well illustrated book shows how to start making costumes for dancers. The author looks at different styles, cuts and materials that can be used, and shows how costume sketches can be used, and shows ...
$22.99
Spanish Dancing - A Practical Handbook
Lalagia
DanceBooks
A detailed practical introduction for beginners wishing to master both technique and execution. The student is taken from the use of the castanets and basic arm positions to such steps as the Taconeo and Zap...
$22.99
Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique
Suki Schorer
DanceBooks
A highly detailed book on the master's technique, written by a leading teacher at the School of American Ballet who is also one of Balanchine's former principal dancers Illustrated with over 700 photogra...
$59.99
Schrifttanz
Valerie Preston-Dunlop & Susanne Lahusen
DanceBooks
An annotated collection of translations from the seminal German modern dance journal of the 1920s and 1930s
$22.99
Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terminology
Rhonda Ryman
DanceBooks
Terminology used within the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), the world's largest examining and teaching body whose syllabus is taught in over 700 countries It is geared to both teachers and students who wis...
$19.99
The Moment of Movement - Dance Improvisation
Lynne Anne Blom & L. Tarin Chaplin
DanceBooks
Reprint of definitive work on dance improvisation ... "Lucid presentation of 200 examples for students of movement improvisation, beginning and advanced. Speaks clearly to young teachers. Tested in class, w...
$22.99
Hans Brenaa - Danish Ballet Master
Bent Schonberg
DanceBooks
$22.99
Rudolf Laban - An Introduction to His Work and Influence
John Hodgson & Valerie Preston-Dunlop
DanceBooks
This book sets Laban's work in perspective and gives a sound basis for genuine understanding of his influence It gives a wonderful explanation of Laban and how the Labanotation came into existence It's for...
$22.99