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The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique
by Janice Barringer  Publisher Comments This thorough guide covers the pointe technique, pointe injury and remedies, pointe shoes--including fit, care and custom design--interviews with ballet stars, and more....
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Classical Ballet Technique
by Gretchen Ward Warren Publisher Comments -- A comprehensive teaching guide presenting every movement in the classical repertoire, demonstrated by professional dancers in 2,600 photographs....
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100 Lessons in Classical Ballet
by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya Publisher Comments 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,...
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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
by Gail Grant Publisher Comments From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also...
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101 Stories of the Great Ballets
by George Balanchine Publisher Comments Authored by one of the ballet's most respected experts, this volume includes scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets, as performed by the world's leading dance companies. Certain to delight long-time fans as well as...
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The Ballet Book: Learning and Appreciating the Secrets of Dance
by Nancy Ellison Publisher Comments The definitive book for learning and appreciating ballet, The Ballet Book goes behind the scenes to the classes, rehearsals, and performances that have shaped this prestigious ballet company. Readers will learn from the best as American Ballet Theatre...
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Nureyev (UK Edition)
by Diane Solway Publisher Comments New biography, based on previously unavailable KGB sources and over 200 interviews with family, friends, lovers and colleagues....
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Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes: Ballet History as It Ought to Be Taught
by David W. Barber Publisher Comments Popular music historian and humorist David W. Barber casts a wicked, witty and insightful eye at the history of ballet from its earliest beginnings to its recent scandals....
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Ballet Princesses Paper Doll
by Tom Tierney Publisher Comments This adorable little girl likes to pretend she's a ballet dancer and a princess. You can dress perky Patricia in gorgeous costumes worn by dancers who played princesses in 8 world-famous ballets, including The Nutcracker, The Firebird, Sleeping Beauty...
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Dance and Music : a Guide To Dance Accompaniment for Musicians and Dance Teachers (01 Edition)
by Harriet Cavalli Publisher Comments Harriet Cavalli, internationally recognized as one of the most talented and experienced specialists in the art of music for dancers and dance teachers, presents the definitive book on accompaniment, as well as her personal -- often humorous -- look...
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Step-by-step Ballet Class
by Royal Academy Of Dancing Publisher Comments Seven lessons follow a young dancer's development, from basic positions and postures to more advanced levels.</p>...
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Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s (Performance Studies, Expressive Behavior in Culture)
by Carol Martin Publisher Comments This penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon in which working-class people engaged in emblematic...
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Round about the Ballet
by William Cubberley Publisher Comments Anyone who has ever seen a live performance of ballet knows the thrill of seeing larger-than-life figures on stage dancing in ways that seem superhuman. What are these dancers like beyond the footlights? How have they acquired such artistry and technique?...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ballet the Cambridge Companion to Ballet (Cambridge Companions to Music)
by Marion Kant Publisher Comments A collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet....
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Ballet Beyond Tradition (04 Edition)
by Anna Paskevska Publisher Comments For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and...
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Yes? No! Maybe...: Seductive Ambiguity in Dance
by Emilyn Claid Publisher Comments Yes? No! Maybe... is a book about performing and watching dance. Using a unique combination of historical, academic and autobiographical voices, it covers fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn in the 1950s to innovative contemporary...
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A Queer History of Ballet
by Peter Stoneley Synopsis "A Queer History of the Ballet "is the first book-length study of ballet's queerness. It theorizes the queer potential of the ballet look, and provides historical analyses of queer artists and spectatorships. It demonstrates that ballet was a crucial...
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Reworking the Ballet
by Vida L. Midgelow Publisher Comments Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets. In this book, Vida...
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In Classic Style: The Splendor of American Ballet Theatre
by Nancy Ellison Synopsis This oversized, deluxe volume celebrating the exquisite spectacle that embodies the excellence of American Ballet Theatre, recognized by Congress as "America's national ballet company," presents the unfolding beauty, grace, agility, and sheer force of...
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Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet D'Action to Merce Cunningham
by Karen Eliot Publisher Comments The private and performance lives of five female dancers in Western dance...
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