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Journey a thousand miles begin with a small step (Paperback): Mind Publisher Journey a thousand miles begin with a small step (Paperback)
Mind Publisher
R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Royal Ballet: A Season in Pictures - 2018 / 2019 (Paperback, Illustrated edition): The Royal Ballet Royal Ballet: A Season in Pictures - 2018 / 2019 (Paperback, Illustrated edition)
The Royal Ballet
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from over twenty productions from the year 2018-19 at The Royal Ballet - a richly illustrated companion to The Royal Ballet company.

The Common Wife - Getting Lost, Dancing Naked & Collecting Seashells (Paperback): Lindy Hughes The Common Wife - Getting Lost, Dancing Naked & Collecting Seashells (Paperback)
Lindy Hughes
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For the Love of Dance - My Autobiography (Paperback): Beryl Grey For the Love of Dance - My Autobiography (Paperback)
Beryl Grey
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Everyday Dancer (Paperback, Main): Deborah Bull The Everyday Dancer (Paperback, Main)
Deborah Bull 1
R387 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R38 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to uncover the everyday realities of a career in dance. Starting out with the obligatory daily 'class', the book progresses through the repetition of rehearsals, the excitement of creating new work, the nervous tension of the half hour call, the pressures of performance and the anti-climax of curtain down. Through this vivid portrait of a dancer's every day, Deborah Bull reveals the arc of a dancer's life: from the seven-year-old's very first ballet class, through training, to company life, up through the ranks from corps de ballet to principal and then, not thirty years after it all began, to retirement and the inevitable sense of loss that comes with saying goodbye to your childhood dreams.

Daethon & Arundel (Paperback): David Hotchkiss Daethon & Arundel (Paperback)
David Hotchkiss
R906 R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Save R52 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beginning Ballet (Paperback): Gayle Kassing Beginning Ballet (Paperback)
Gayle Kassing
R1,063 Discovery Miles 10 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beginning Ballet and the accompanying web resource introduce students to the study of ballet as a performing art and provide instructional support in learning foundational ballet technique. Part of Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance Series, Beginning Ballet is for students enrolled in a beginning ballet class at the college, university, or high school level. The book features more than 80 photos and concise descriptions covering basic foot and arm positions, barre exercises, and centre combinations. Beginning Ballet introduces students to the structure of a ballet class, including expectations, etiquette, and attire. Students also learn how to prepare for class, maintain proper nutrition and hydration, and avoid injury. This text outlines the unique history of ballet from its beginnings in the Renaissance to the 21st century and discusses the styles, aesthetics, artists, and significant works that have shaped ballet as a performing art. In addition, the accompanying web resource presents more than 70 instructional video clips and 50 photos to help students learn and practice beginning ballet. The web resource also includes an interactive quiz, audio clips of ballet terms with pronunciation in French, and assignments. The quiz covers vocabulary of beginning ballet, definitions, and translation to and from the French language. (The web resource is included with all new print books and some ebooks. For ebook formats that don't provide access, the web resource is available separately.) Ballet class provides the foundation for learning the dance form, and Beginning Ballet supports that learning through visual, verbal, and interactive instructional tools. Beginning Ballet text and web resource help bring the grace, artistry, and mental and physical benefits of ballet to students. Beginning Ballet is a part of Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance Series. The series includes resources for modern dance, ballet, and tap dance that support introductory dance technique courses taught through dance, physical education, and fine arts departments. Each student-friendly text includes a web resource offering video clips of dance instruction, assignments, and activities. The Interactive Dance Series offers students a guide to learning, performing, and viewing dance.

Wrights & Wrongs - My Life in Dance (Paperback): Peter Wright Wrights & Wrongs - My Life in Dance (Paperback)
Peter Wright
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Graceful Ballerinas - Ballerina Coloring Books (Paperback): Jupiter Kids Graceful Ballerinas - Ballerina Coloring Books (Paperback)
Jupiter Kids
R423 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ballet For You And Me Coloring Book (Paperback): Jupiter Kids Ballet For You And Me Coloring Book (Paperback)
Jupiter Kids
R423 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Style of Movement - Fashion and Dance (Hardcover): Ken Browar, Deborah Ory Style of Movement - Fashion and Dance (Hardcover)
Ken Browar, Deborah Ory
R2,049 R1,647 Discovery Miles 16 470 Save R402 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

From renowned photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, the husband-and-wife team behind The Art of Movement, comes this book for fans of dance and fashion alike; it features today s greatest dancers wearing couture creations from today s most celebrated designers, and takes the relationship between fashion and dance as its subject. Leaping, spinning, lifting, and gliding, the astonishing dancers featured in these pages use the movement of their bodies to reflect and magnify the craft and artistry inherent in the clothes they re wearing. Whether a hot-off-the-runway couture gown from Oscar de la Renta or a Halston-designed costume pulled from the archives of the Martha Graham Dance Company, the dancers in these pages including Tiler Peck, Misty Copeland, Angelo Greco, Devon Teuscher, Charlotte Landreau, Daniil Simkin, and Calvin Royal III elevate the clothes they are wearing. Taking the viewer on a transcendent journey from the quotidian world of pointe shoes and barre class to a world of impossible beauty and glamour.

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (Paperback): Annegret Fauser Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (Paperback)
Annegret Fauser
R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has become one of Copland's most widely performed scores, and the Martha Graham Dance Company still treats it as a signature work. Over the decades, the dance and the music have taken on a range of meanings that have transformed a wartime production into a seemingly timeless expression of American identity, both musically and visually. In this Oxford Keynotes volume, distinguished musicologist Annegret Fauser follows the work from its inception in the midst of World War II to its intersections with contemporary American culture, whether in the form of choreographic reinterpretations or musical ones, as by John Williams, in 2009, for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A concise and lively introduction to the history of the work, its realization on stage, and its transformations over time, this volume combines deep archival research and cultural interpretations to recount the creation of Appalachian Spring as a collaboration between three creative giants of twentieth-century American art: Graham, Copland, and Isamu Noguchi. Building on past and current scholarship, Fauser critiques the myths that remain associated with the work and its history, including Copland's famous disclaimer that Appalachian Spring had nothing to do with the eponymous Southern mountain region. This simultaneous endeavor in both dance and music studies presents an incisive exploration this work, situating it in various contexts of collaborative and individual creation.

A Look At Ballet In 50 Years / Volume 1 (Paperback): Leo Ahonen A Look At Ballet In 50 Years / Volume 1 (Paperback)
Leo Ahonen
R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Color My Ballerina (Paperback): Jupiter Kids Color My Ballerina (Paperback)
Jupiter Kids
R306 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Experiencing the Art of Pas de Deux (Paperback): Jennifer C. Kronenberg, Carlos M. Guerra Experiencing the Art of Pas de Deux (Paperback)
Jennifer C. Kronenberg, Carlos M. Guerra
R591 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Journey a thousand miles begin with a small step (Paperback): Mind Publisher Journey a thousand miles begin with a small step (Paperback)
Mind Publisher
R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sleeping Beauty (Paperback): Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty (Paperback)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Struggle of the Magicians (Paperback): Georg Gurdieff The Struggle of the Magicians (Paperback)
Georg Gurdieff; Edited by Gilbert Moore
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Struggle of the Magicians. Choreographed and staged by Georg Gurdjieff for the first time more than a century ago, this ballet became a magnet attracting thousands of spiritually disillusioned men and women to performances in Europe and the U.S. after WW I, then it simply vanished from sight after WW II. Its reappearance in print commemorates the birthday of Mr. Gurdjieff 131 years ago (Jan 13, 1872)

ABCs of Classical Ballet (Paperback): Vanessa Salgado ABCs of Classical Ballet (Paperback)
Vanessa Salgado
R328 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Technique (Paperback): Dean Speer On Technique (Paperback)
Dean Speer
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Sleeping Beauty (Paperback): Anatoly Dmitriyev The Sleeping Beauty (Paperback)
Anatoly Dmitriyev; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Title: The Sleeping Beauty Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Original Publisher: Muzgiz Act II & Act III 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.

Dance Analysis - Technique within contemporary dance - Has Hofesh Shechter created a new technique within contemporary dance... Dance Analysis - Technique within contemporary dance - Has Hofesh Shechter created a new technique within contemporary dance today (Paperback)
Kathryn Hughes
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: 1st, University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff, course: BA (Hons) Dance, language: English, abstract: This study investigates, through a detailed movement analysis of several choreographic works, whether Hofesh Shechter has created a new technique within contemporary dance today. The analysis utilises elements from both Adshead's (1988) model for movement analysis and Stinson's (2006) model for choreography: however adapting elements to consider the form and provide an evaluation through an external observation. In conclusion this study has revealed that irrespective of era; 'Art cannot be divorced from life - it is of life's essence. The central subject matter of all art is emotional value not fact. The art which expresses emotional values in movement is dance. So to dance one must study and explore and know movement' H'Doubler (1998, pxxix)

Nutcracker Coloring & Craft Book (Paperback): Vanessa Salgado Nutcracker Coloring & Craft Book (Paperback)
Vanessa Salgado
R180 R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Save R10 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Code of Terpsichore (Paperback): Carlo Blasis The Code of Terpsichore (Paperback)
Carlo Blasis
R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Two Years with Anna Pavlova (Paperback): Serge Oukrainsky My Two Years with Anna Pavlova (Paperback)
Serge Oukrainsky
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Serge Oukrainsky was born in 1885, in Odessa, Russia. He trained in Paris with Ivan Clustine and first appeared as a mime at the Theatre du Chatelet in 1911. He danced with Pavlova's company from 1913 to 1915 as both soloist and one of Pavlova's partners, and occasional costume designer. After leaving the company he moved to Chicago, where he formed the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet with his partner Andreas Pavley, and from 1917 was also principal dancer, choreographer and director of the Chicago Opera Ballet until 1927, at the same time establishing with Andreas Pavley the Pavley-Oukrainsky School of Ballet. Oukrainsky moved to California in 1927, where he served as ballet master to the San Francisco and Los Angeles operas until 1931. After Pavley's mysterious death in 1931 he formed the Serge Oukrainsky Ballet, and began to teach in Hollywood in 1934. He died in 1972. His book tells the story of his early life and initial training and of his dancing career and sometimes difficult relationship with Pavlova.

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