Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces.
NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon.
A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today.
The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season.
Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, and spiritual experience.
In den 1920er-Jahren gerät nicht nur die Welt, sondern auch die Musik und das Musikleben ins Taumeln: zwischen Krise und Aufbruch, Abschottung und Austausch, dem sehnsüchtigen Blick zurück und neuer Dynamik.
This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the dancer's first lesson to their final performance.
This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the dancer's first lesson to their final performance.
YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography.
Dance Pedagogy is a comprehensive resource designed for dance students and teaching artists to develop skills and strategies in the multifaceted practice of teaching dance.
This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.
Roni Mahler spent her formative years in a ballet studio under the tutelage of Madame Maria Yurieva Swoboda and at Yankee Stadium, where she cheered for her idol, Mickey Mantle.
La danza es una actividad física muy exigente que abarca muchos estilos de movimiento y que requiere un gran grado de versatilidad, fuerza y amplitud de movimiento, equilibrio, coordinación neuromuscular y percepción cenestésica.
La Guía Legal y Práctica para Coreógrafos y sus Compañías de Danza se dirige a aquellos que quieren ser coreógrafos y crear su propia compañía de danza o que, ya siéndolo, necesitan una orientación clara sobre los aspectos profesionales esenciales para el desarrollo exitoso de su profesión.
El ballet dinámico, creado por el maestro Sergio Pablo Vicencio, nació ante la necesidad de rescatar a jóvenes aspirantes al ballet, que por su edad, ya no tenían cabida en la metodología tradicional.
"… ein unglücklicher Bursche, der herumspringt, ohne zu wissen warum, eine Kreatur, die dafür gemacht ist, eine Muskete, ein Schwert, eine Uniform zu tragen.
In Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, considering their implications for students and teachers, and proposing processes by which readers can enact humanizing, equitable approaches.
This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality.
In Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, considering their implications for students and teachers, and proposing processes by which readers can enact humanizing, equitable approaches.
Ein fesselnder Tanz um Liebe, Leidenschaft und LebenslügenJoan steht der Abschied vom Ballett bevor: Sie ist schwanger und ihre Karriere als Tänzerin wahrscheinlich beendet.
Das 1954 erstmals erschienene ›Ballettbuch‹ von Otto Friedrich Regner gibt Auskunft über die Geschichte der Tanzkunst, verschiedene Stilrichtungen innerhalb und außerhalb Deutschlands, über große Tänzerinnen und Tänzer, Komponisten, Librettisten, Choreographen und bildende Künstler, die für das Ballett gearbeitet haben, sowie über Ballett-Regeln und Fachtermini.
The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.
'I came to Birmingham with the view to being creative, and today I believe we have not only successfully secured the future of the Company, but the whole dance culture in the city of Birmingham.
This beautifully produced new book by Royal Ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski is a collection of exclusive photographs which shines the spotlight on ballet, the most beautiful of art forms.
Natalia Osipova: Becoming a Swan is an intimate portrait of the work of a ballet superstar, and the story told in pictures of how she prepares for the most iconic role in all of ballet.
