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10 Ballet Dancers
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Amanda Malek-Ahmadi; Illustrated by Kathrine Gutkovskiy
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The Perfect Pointe
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10 Ballet Dancers
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Dame Beryl's life is defined by her love of dance. Both as a
ballerina and an Artistic Director she helped make British ballet
the powerhouse it is today. Knowing and working with virtually
everyone in dance, she reveals fascinating insights into the
people, characters and institutions that made up world dance in the
20th century. Grey began her dancing career with the Sadler's Wells
Ballet in 1943 at the unprecedented early age of 14. Her natural
virtuosity saw her quickly promoted, dancing her first Giselle at
17, and Princess Aurora at 19. Dame Beryl was the first English
ballerina to dance at the Bolshoi and the Kirov, as well as the
Peking Ballet. Asked to become Artistic Director of what is now
English National Ballet, her love of dance allowed her to navigate
the tricky passage from ballerina to leader of a dance company.
This autobiography proves a fascinating and personal insight into
and extraordinary woman, her life and career.
Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer
and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70
years. _x000D_ In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often
surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned - and yet
to learn - from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial
theatre and television.
The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the
greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim
Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art
historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific
ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This
book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential
writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of
Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Stanley J.
Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky's
articles-vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about
the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna
Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine,
at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen
musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of
the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky's
magnum opus, The Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on
classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an
ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in
his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky's life and work
against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his
time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of
ballet.
Mastering the pas de deux-or "step of two"-requires more than just
physical proficiency; it demands genuine commitment between
dancers. Respect, patience, and etiquette matter just as much as
technique. The best partners communicate effectively through
breath, eye contact, and musical cues. In Experiencing the Art of
Pas de Deux, professional dance couple Jennifer Kronenberg and
Carlos Miguel Guerra demystify the physical, emotional, and
artistic intricacies behind the art of two dancing as one.
Experienced principal dancers and ballet instructors, Kronenberg
and Guerra disclose key components of partnering work often
overlooked in classes, such as how to build and maintain the
connections necessary for a trusting relationship and thus a
successful team. Their combined explanations illuminate
choreographic work from both a male and female perspective and
detail the responsibilities of each partner. With step-by-step
instructions for proper posture, lifts, jumps, turns, and even
dance conditioning, each chapter's lesson includes personal
anecdotes, offering a more intimate look at how partners can
support one another during practices and performances.
Additionally, QR code-accessible videos provide brief
demonstrations that more fully illustrate newer and complex
movements. Offering expert technical pointers and honing in on the
secrets to forming successful interpersonal bonds, Kronenberg and
Guerra's firsthand look at this "art form within an art form" will
allow dancers in every genre to discover the inner workings of the
finest and most memorable partnerships.
Title: The Sleeping Beauty Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Original Publisher: Muzgiz The Prologue and Act I of Tchaikovsky's
complete ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66. Performer's Reprints
are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score
Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions,
which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to
the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes,
damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and
editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be
repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small
performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to
encourage audience growth.
On Technique provides a fascinating look into the careers and
teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's most respected
ballet masters, principals, and artistic directors. Author Dean
Speer sat down with prominent ballet pedagogues and asked each a
standard set of questions, including 'What do we mean when we say
someone has beautiful technique?' and 'How did you become a
dancer?'. Featuring such artists as Peter Boal (artistic director
of the Pacific Northwest Ballet) and Bene Arnold (first ballet
mistress of the San Francisco Ballet), this volume offers
fascinating insights into the nature of both performance and
artistic instruction. Speer's approach reveals sometimes surprising
convergences among these world-class talents, despite their varying
pedagogical backgrounds and divisions.
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