Ballerina Dancer Watercolor Art Journal, Blank Sketch Paper
by Enchanted Willow
Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession – a way of making a living perhaps. For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it is what their hard-earned money is spent on for children to attend ballet classes. This book attempts to draw together the interesting facts – facts which are not widely known – and answers questions which might not have even been thought of. There is a medical perspective (the author is a surgeon) but with help from many experts the whole range of ba...
A Look At Ballet In 50 Years / Volume 2 (A Look at Ballet in 50 Years, #2)
by Leo Ahonen
Now expanded and updated, this second edition of the original bestseller is an engaging interpretation of dance history--from the Ancient Greeks and European royal courts to the rise of the "American" ballet and the explosion of modern dance. Short profiles, an extensive bibliography, a helpful index, and selections from primary sources are also included.
Ludwig Minkus and Leo Delibes
This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Leo Delibes.After the success of Nemea (1864), the Paris Opera ordered a new grand ballet from the famous choreographer Arthur Saint-Leon to a libretto based on a Persian legend by Charles Nuitter. Saint-Leon involved his musical collaborator in St Petersburg, Ludwig Minkus, in the project, securing for him a hand in the composition of the first and fourth scenes of the of this new work, La S...
Dance Stories (Barefoot Books)
by Jane Yolen and Heidi E y Stemple
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, or rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century, dance in Palestine has a rich and elusive story that remains to be told. 'Raising Dust' traces one dancer's journey into Palestine's past and present. Through historical archives, the memo...
YES YOU CAN Inspirational Quotes Journal Notebook, Dot Grid Composition Book Diary (110 pages, 5.5x8.5")
by Inspiration Life Quotes
Symbolism in Nineteenth-Century Ballet: "Giselle," "Coppelia," "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Swan Lake"
by Margaret Fleming-Markarian
Dance Writings
by Edwin Denby, Robert Cornfield, and William MacKay
Edwin Denby (1903-1983) was the most important and influential American dance critic of the 20th century. His reviews and essays were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. As dance critic, first for "Modern Music" and then for the "New York Herald Tribune", Denby permanently changed the way we think and talk about dance. This volume presents his reviews from "Modern Music" and the "Tribune" in chronological order, providing not only a picture of ho...
Ballet Dancer Training Log and Diary (Ballet, #1)
by Elegant Notebooks
