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Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life by Cheryl Burke Publisher Comments Dancing Lessons Cheryl Burke has been dancing since the age of four and competing since she was thirteen years old. A two-time back-to-back champion on Dancing with the Stars, she has captivated audiences with her creative dance performances, Emmy... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin Publisher Comments From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kazuo Ohno's World by Kazuo Ohno Publisher Comments Photographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home by Maria Finn Publisher Comments Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance by Marcia Siegel Publisher Comments Advance Praise for Howling Near Heaven "It's damn good. I recommend it." ---Paul Taylor "Wordcraft meets dancecraft on equal terms in this unique biography. Siegel illuminates the life of a driven dancemaker by making the dances tell the tale. An... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Josephine Baker Story by Ean Wood Publisher Comments Ean Wood's biography of this remarkable female star is as entertianing and as absorbing as Josephine's personality deserves.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Dance on Sands: The Life and Art of Death Valley's Marta Becket by Marta Becket Synopsis The only time she felt free was when she was dancing. Performing her own creations on her own stage.it would be like dancing forever. Then one day, in the middle of Death Valley, it appeared to her like a dream. A beautiful theater that no one wanted.To... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen Publisher Comments Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kiss & Tango: Diary of a Dancehall Seductress by Marina Palmer Publisher Comments Approaching her dreaded thirtieth birthday, Marina Palmer suddenly found herself adrift in anxiety. A successful but bored advertising executive -- on the therapist's couch thrice weekly and with no lasting love in her life -- she longed for true passion... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maria Tallchief by Maria Tallchief Publisher Comments A fascinating self-portrait of the fairy-tale life of a woman who understood that a committed talent could transform the world around her. "Maria Tallchief and American ballet came of age in the same moment.... Her story will always be the story of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nureyev (08 Edition) by Kavanagh Publisher Comments Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. In this... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life by Donna Mckechnie Publisher Comments A poignant and revealing memoir from a legendary Tony Award-winning actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer who has been a mainstay on and off Broadway since 1961 chronicles her life, her triumphs, and her dazzling career.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Howling near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance by Marcia B. Siegel Publisher Comments Examines the work of choreographer Twyla Tharp, tracing her rise from Greenwich Village to the Broadway stage and offering insight into how her efforts to remove the barriers between performance forms served to reinvigorate dance.... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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No Way Home: A Dancer's Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the World by Carlos Acosta Publisher Comments Carlos Acosta, the Cuban dancer considered to be one of the world's greatest performers, fearlessly depicts his journey from adolescent troublemaker to international superstar in his captivating memoir, No Way Home. Carlos was just another kid from the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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George Balanchine (10 Edition) by Robert Gottlieb Publisher Comments The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance by Deborah Jowitt Publisher Comments In this authoritative biography, Deborah Jowitt explores the life, works, and creative processes of the complex genius Jerome Robbins (1918-1998), who redefined the role of dance in musical theater and is also considered America's greatest native-born... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Body of a Dancer by Renee E. D'aoust Publisher Comments "A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."—Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's Kisses The award-winning writer Renée E.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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I Was a Dancer by Jacques Damboise Publisher Comments “Who am I? Im a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.” In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques dAmboise, one of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Barbarina by May Lynham Publisher Comments A tender and sentimental debut novel of lost love and a woman determined to survive, whatever the odds.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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