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Quick, Before the Music Stops: How Ballroom Dancing Saved My Life
by Janet Carlson  Publisher Comments “I’ve been dancing steadily since that Valentine’s Day. I have taken countless lessons and classes, passed a professional certification exam, done several shows and a competition—yes, dressed in those outrageous gowns and false...
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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...
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Winter Season : a Dancer's Journal (03 Edition)
by Toni Bentley Publisher Comments An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most...
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Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake
by Carol Loeb Shloss Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-545) and index....
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Nureyev: The Life
by Julie Kavanagh Publisher Comments Drawing on unpublished letters, interviews, and her own dance background, Kavanagh gives readers an intimate, revealing, and dramatic picture of one of the greatest and most iconic ballet dancers of the 20th century. 32 pages of b&w photographs....
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I, Maya Plisetskaya
by Maya Plisetskaya Publisher Comments Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world’s foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and...
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Margot Fonteyn: A Life
by Meredith Daneman Publisher Comments The legend of Margot Fonteyn has touched every ballerina who has come after her, and her genius endures in the memory of anyone who saw her dance. Yet until now, the complete story of her life has remained untold. Meredith Daneman, a novelist and former...
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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...
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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...
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Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires
by Marina Palmer Publisher Comments Should you ever give up the fast track? Could you settle down with the spirit of adventure still in your blood? And just how do you say Mr. Wrong in Spanish anyway? Fueled by tango addiction, the hope of romancing a sultry porteñ o, and a one-way...
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Under My Wings: My Life as an Impresario
by Paul Szilard Synopsis This book offers terrific insights on countless personalities, including George Balanchine, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Lucia Chase, Nora Kaye, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Judith Jamison, and Patrick Dupond. As dancer, teacher, and...
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Nureyev
by Howard Brown Synopsis Nureyev is a legend. Throughout his extraordinary career photographers flocked to record his work and attempted to capture his physical beauty. This book presents the greatest of these images to create a celebration of the man and the artist -- a tribute...
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The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company
by Sasha Anawalt Publisher Comments The Joffrey Ballet is a comprehensive history of the quintessential American dance troupe and a textured portrait of Robert Joffrey, the creative maverick who led and inspired it. Broadly researched, richly anecdotal, and elegantly written, The Joffrey...
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Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution
by Eve Golden Publisher Comments Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an...
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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....
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Kazuo Ohno's World
by Kazuo Ohno Publisher Comments Photographs and words illuminate Butoh dance....
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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...
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Before the Parade Passes by: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical
by John Anthony Gilvey Publisher Comments During the Golden Age of the Broadway musical, few director-choreographers could infuse a new musical with dance and movement in quite the way Gower Champion could. From his earliest Broadway success with" Bye Bye Birdie" to his triumphant and...
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Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
by Maria Tallchief Publisher Comments The life of the legendary ballerina Maria Tallchief is told in her own words. Her fascinating memoir is the story of the rigors and pleasures of a dancer's life--an artist's rapid rise to fame that began on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Tallchief...
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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...
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