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by Lise Friedman  Publisher Comments Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is among the premier modern dance companies in the world. One of the hallmarks of an Ailey-trained dancer is a supremely versatile, strong, beautifully toned body-the result of deep immersion in an array of dance and... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Selma Jeanne Cohen Synopsis Seven Statements of Belief: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Fragos Publisher Comments A celebration in verse of the silent poetry of dance and the dancer, this anthology features a dizzying range of subjects: Chinese dagger dances and Hindu festival dances, belly dancers and whirling dervishes, high school proms and wedding waltzes, tango,... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugh Rippon Publisher Comments In the last decade there has been renewed interest in English folk dance. Few countries have integrated the traditional dances, songs and music of the past into modern culture as successfully as in England. This book carefully distinguishes between the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Acocella Publisher Comments Mark Morris, written with the choreographer's full cooperation, is part biography, part critical study. It describes how he has lived and how he turns his life - and music, narrative, and tradition - into dance, and it discusses how to look at his dances.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Far Thompson Publisher Comments In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, ""the" fabulous dance of the past hundred years-and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham." Thompson... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fedor Lopukhov Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-218) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Taper Publisher Comments Written with wit, insight, and candor, this updated edition of Balachine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Escoffier Publisher Comments Mark Morris' 1988 dance, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, set to music by Handel and poems by John Milton, and inspired by watercolors by William Blake, has been called a work of "utopian grandeur, " "a masterpiece of craft, invention, and feeling,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Iris J Stewart Publisher Comments Shows how dance, the highest expression of spirituality in cultures and traditions all over the world, is being integrated into the lives of women today. x The first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance x... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Janice Barringer Synopsis Studies the development of pointe shoes and the technique of pointe dancing, an artistic innovation that allowed female dancers to carry ballet to new heights of virtuosity.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Jenkins Publisher Comments Lincoln Kirstein's writing is a notable example of a wide historical awareness that was fired by passion and guided by taste. Best known for his pioneering efforts to cultivate ballet in the United States, he actively pursued a professional partnership... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Toni Bentley Publisher Comments As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, a short-lived but extraordinary cultural phenomenon spread throughout Europe and the United States -- Salomania. The term was coined when biblical bad girl Salome was resurrected from the Old Testament... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Sherman Publisher Comments An intimate portrait of American modern dance and gay life in the 1930s.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Defrantz Publisher Comments In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peggy Spencer Publisher Comments You’ve learned the basics from The Joy of Dancing—now graduate to The Joy of Dancing: The Next Steps. Readers ready to learn more about Ballroom, Latin, and Jive will increase their skill and enjoyment by following Peggy Spencer’s easy... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Guy Phillips Publisher Comments Part fitness guide and part scrapbook, this official guide to the hit television show features an easy-to-follow exercise plan that will help readers samba, salsa, and rumba their way to the best shape of their lives.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Abbott Miller Publisher Comments Dance 2wice präsentiert die Highlights der Modern-Dance-Fotografie aus dem gleichnamigen New Yorker Kultmagazin. Die brillanten Fotoessays von Topfotografen wie Martin Schoeller, Andrew Eccles und Christian Witkin erscheinen hier zum ersten Mal in... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda H Hamilton Publisher Comments Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. They live only to dance. Or do they? The reality is dancers of all ages, types, and skill levels often... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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