Ballet

'Swan Dive is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy backstage.

Must a child's past define their future?

From the author of Miss You comes Kate Eberlen's impossibly romantic second novel, Only You.

"e;A lucid and interesting history"e; of ballet-from sixteenth-century French Royalty to contemporary masters-"e;that reads like a novel"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as ';the most exciting male dancer in the western world,' presents a look at his artistic lifeup to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.

For decades, eighteenth-century Paris had been declining into a baroque backwater.

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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.

This vintage book is a fascinating treatise on ballet.

From the bestselling author of The Italian Island and Watch Over Me, a romantic, moving and uplifting story of three different lives, connected by a thread.

JOS RAFAEL VILARVIAJE A TRAVS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZAEste pequeo libro surgi de la falta de un texto, accesible y en castellano, para que mis alumnos de historia de la danza pudieran ampliar sus conocimientos, por lo que ste podr servir a muchos lectores, artistas en formacin o profesionales o slo nefitos con inters en este hermoso arte, para conocer y disfrutarlo mejor, porque cuando se conoce de dnde surge una obra o cmo era su entorno, se la disfruta mejor.

The purpose of the research study was to examine the history and philosophy of certain very distinct dance degree programs.

This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada - the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics.

This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada - the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics.

London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.

Get the strong, toned and graceful figure of a dancer without the rigorous training!

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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.

Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands.

Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands.

A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage.

A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage.

How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet?

How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet?

A collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.

A collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.

A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.

A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.

Nye presents a detailed and fascinating study of the influential eighteenth-century European theatrical form, the ''ballet d''action''.

Nye presents a detailed and fascinating study of the influential eighteenth-century European theatrical form, the ''ballet d''action''.

First published in 2002.

First published in 2002.

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance.

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.

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.

For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths.

For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths.

THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers.

THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers.

Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.

Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.

Paris at the turn of the century - Art Nouveau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Folies Bergere.

Paris at the turn of the century - Art Nouveau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Folies Bergere.

Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches - with specific case studies - and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance.

Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches - with specific case studies - and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance.

In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century.

In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century.

First Published in 2000.

First Published in 2000.

With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties.