Vers Du Ballet Royal Danse Par Leurs Majestez Entre Les Actes de l'Hercule Amoureux (Arts)
by Isaac De Benserade
Swan Lake, Ballet in Four Acts, Op.20
by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Be A Classy Woman With A Little Bit Of Hood And A Lot Of God In You
by Lauren Simon Sn
Swan Lake is a beautiful concertina book detailing a night at the Ballet.Illustrated by Californian artist Ping Zhu, we see the pristine theatre, audience and performance on one side and the back-stage bustle and nerves on the other. Based on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, the images are not only inspired by the dramatic story but also the atmosphere of a working dance venue. Zhu illustrates the orchestra, the boxes and even the entrance hall and ticket office. Backstage is a world aw...
The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. On 29 May 1913, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When the curtain rose on a cast of frenz...
This book is a record of Maria Fay's Floor Barre system. It is also an account of how it evolved during the author's long and varied career as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and coach. She has worked with numerous renowned classical and contemporary companies and vocational schools in Europe and North America in the field of classical ballet and character dancing. In the process of doing so she became constantly aware of the existence of too many critically injured dancers. She observed that t...
Thank You For Being An Amazing Dance Teacher
by Simple Imagination Journals
The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (Studies in Dance History)
Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the virtuoso style that combined French ballet technique with a vigorous athleticism that made Italian dancers in demand all over Europe. Gennaro Magri's Trattato teorico-prattico di ballo, the only work from the eighteenth century that explains the practices of midcentury Italian theatrical dancing, is a starting point for this investigation of an influential type of ballet and its connections to the operatic and theat...
Undimmed Lustre: The Life of Antony Tudor is a chronological biography of one of the most creative forces in dance of the 20th century. Born in 1908 in London, Tudor was raised in a lower middle class family on the streets of London's meat market district. Although he had no formal exposure to dance, he spent the first decade of his professional life as one of the founding members of the Ballet Rambert. In America, he became an all-important force and a prime mover in American Ballet Theatre fo...
Nijinsky's Faune Restored (Language of Dance, #3)
by Ann Hutchinson Guest and Claudia Jeschke
Intended for dance students, teachers, scholars and researchers, this book presents Nijinsky's ballet, "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", as he himself recorded it in 1915. It provides the historical background, the chronology of its performances and Nijinsky's production notes and analysis of the choreographic style of the ballet. The book includes a comprehensive explanation of Nijinsky's notation system, with examples from his score. The text is supplemented by photographs of the 1912 production, and...
Be A Classy Woman With A Little Bit Of Hood And A Lot Of God In You
by Jonattan Burges Bb
