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This second volume contains University of Arizona professor Suzanne Knosp's music composed especially for ballet classes, which includes traditional dance forms such as waltz, mazurka, polonaise, polka, schottische, tango, tarantella, march, gallop (coda), and ragtime. Accompanists will be aided by two helpful tables of contents, the first of which lists the music by form and the second of which lists the barre and center exercises described in both volumes.

Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion examines the world of improvisational dance and the varied approaches to this art form. By introducing the improvisational strategies of twenty-six top contemporary artists of movement improvisation, Melinda Buckwalter offers a practical primer to the dance form. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of improvisation including spatial relations, the eyes, and the dancing image. Included are sample practices from the artists profiled, exerc...

Get the strong, toned and graceful figure of a dancer – without the rigorous training! Mary Helen Bowers has helped tone and sculpt the bodies of a whole host of celebrities, including Natalie Portman for her role in Black Swan, plus Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel and Helena Christensen. Now, in this fantastic fitness guide, she reveals her exercise, diet and lifestyle plan for transforming your whole body. - Achieve the long, toned and powerful body shape of a dancer - Target trouble areas, such as...

Photographs and text follow the dancers and the behind-the-scenes people of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as they rehearse a new ballet.

"The Art of Self-Promotion" is part of a series of books commissioned by the Australia Council to enable artists in Australia to gain the expertise in self-promotion which is necessary for success. These books give practical and useful advice, providing artists in five different fields with the skills and confidence to promote their work and increase their earnings. This book focuses on dancers and choreographers. Other titles cover musicians, writers and composers.

Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era.   "Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in love with ballet…. [A] delicate balance of personal memoir, rarefied elegance, history of the arts and pure human interest.”—Misty Copeland, New York...

The first book from Darcey Bussell in over six years, retired darling of the British Ballet and beloved judge of Strictly Come Dancing, this publishing extravaganza coincides with the superstar ballerina's 50th birthday. Exquisitely produced, the book is filled with remarkable images of Dame Darcey in various notable locations, such as a pod of the London Eye, on top of the Victoria and Albert memorial, and performing at worldwide events, like the Olympics opening ceremony. The collection inclu...

Making a Ballet is a survey of the processes which bring a ballet to the stage; it successfully dispels much of the mystique that surrounds what is a hard-learned and very arduous craft. A historical introduction describes something of the collaborations and creativity that made the nineteenth century ballet. Then Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp, through the direct testimony of a distinguished gallery of choreographers, dancers, musicians and painters, examine the varying elements that are combine...

Dancer Robert Barnett trained under legendary choreographer Bronislava Nijinska. His professional ballet career was launched when he joined the Colonel de Basil Original Ballet Russe company. In the late 1940s, when George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed the New York City Ballet, Barnett was among of the first generation of dancers. Under Balanchine's direction, he rose from corps de ballet to soloist. In 1958 he became principal dancer and associate artistic director of the Atlanta Bal...

Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery. This work has been collected and edited to form an astonishing sequence. Rather than being assembled as an anthology, the sequence has in fact been 'choreographed' so the book is constructed to form a dance in ten movements. It begins with creation...

An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is the first book about butoh authored by a scholar-practitioner who combines personal experience with ethnographic and historical accounts alongside over twenty photos. Author Michael Sakamoto traverses butoh dance history from its roots in post-World War II Japan to its diaspora in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. An Em...

"Learning About Dance" is a lucid, exciting, and concise textbook that takes the student through all of the diverse elements that make up the world of dance. Beginning with a broad, historic overview of the art form, this text moves into an engaging discussion of the respective roles of the dancer, choreographer and audience, and then into the more detailed origins and evolution of the major genres. It shows the respective roles of dancers, choreographers and audiences relating to the art of dan...

Vladimir Malakhov - this widely acclaimed winner of numerous prizes and "dancer of the century" delights his public through the rare combination of technical brilliance and lyrical eloquence. His supple, androgynous body combines "power and purity, flash and elegance, melodrama and eye-bobbling academic precision" (New York Times) - when he leaps, gravity seems suspended. Yet he remains driven to achieve great purity in his dance. Dieter Blum has succeeded in capturing the movement of this extra...

This book is a celebration of forty years of Scotland's national ballet company, with stunning photographs and a lively appreciation and commentary by Mary Brennan, Scotland's foremost dance critic.

Born in Czechoslovakia under iron Soviet rule, Daria Klimentova seemed just another to be destined to a life of bitter hopelessness. But after being talent spotted as a gymnast at the tender age of 5, all that would change. Now in her forties, an age at which most ballerinas have retired, Daria continues to captivate audiences with her impeccable technique and free flowing form. Her sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the ballerina's...

Both the identity of dance and that of theory are at risk as soon as the two intertwine. This anthology collects observations by choreographers and scholars, dancers, dramaturges and dance theorists in an effort to trace the multiple ways in which dance and theory correlate and redefine each other: What is the nature of their relationship? How can we outline a theory of dance from our particular historical perspective which will cover dance both as a practice and as an academic concept? The cont...

Carlos Acosta grew up in a shantytown in Fidel Castro's politically isolated Cuba. Like many boys, he'd skip school to play football or breakdance with his friends. His father's solution to his unruly behaviour was to send him to ballet school where he would be disciplined, trained and fed - for free. It was many years before Carlos came to accept a pursuit he saw as 'sissy'. Today he is one of the world's most stunning classical ballet dancers, admired internationally for his magnetic presence...

Budding ballerinas, would you care to dance? This beautiful book and DVD is the perfect partner, containing everything you need to learn and improve your steps. ??Ballerina showcases stunning step-by-step photography taken at the English National Ballet School, alongside clear, concise text written by Jane Hackett, Director of the School. Whatever your age, you can begin with the basics including what to wear, how to warm up, and how to build strength. Then you can move in the right direction wi...

The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School which trained Nureyev Baryshnikov and Makarova including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher scholar or student of the dance can afford to miss. A serious indeed indispensable textbook. äClive Barnes