Dance category: 839 books
by Jacqueline M. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Do Not Make The Wrong Choice Of Using The Wrong Dance Shoes. Know More About Ballet Shoes, Russian Pointe Shoes, Dance Shoes, Being Fitted For Pointe Shoes and Pointe Shoe Lessons
She is Cuba
A Genealogy of the Mulata Body
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis. By focusing on her living...
by Sarah Kaufman, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Sarah Kaufman covers one of the high arts’ most illustrious forms—dance. What emerges from her criticism is always fresh and thought-provoking. From exploring Cary Grant as an overlooked artist to her bold assessment of The Nutcracker, Kaufman tackles the subject of dance and movement with daring honesty and dazzling creativity.
On Wings of Joy
The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“A lucid and interesting history” of ballet—from sixteenth-century French Royalty to contemporary masters—“that reads like a novel” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the...
by Pasha Kovalev
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Pasha Kovalev has led an extraordinary life. His talent and determination have led him from the stark landscape of his Siberian hometown to dance in Moscow, New York, LA and finally in London, where he now lives. Best known for Strictly Come Dancing, which he won in 2014 with Caroline Flack (having...
Northern Soul
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The story of Northern Soul is one of practically total immersion, dedication and devotion, where the plain concept of the ‘night out’ was elevated to sacramental dimensions. Where devotees pushed their bodies, their finances and sometimes their minds to brutal and unforgiving extremes. For those...
The Man Who Made the Jailhouse Rock
Alex Romero, Hollywood Choreographer
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Choreographer Alex Romero created Jailhouse Rock, the iconic Elvis Presley production number, but never received screen credit for his contribution. This book tells his story. The son of a Mexican general, Romero escaped the Mexican Revolution, joined his family’s vaudeville dance act and became...
by Gary Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
I am a native of Colorado My father Booker T. Sowell was the first Black family to own property in Jefferson County. Our family was the first Blacks to attend and graduate from a Jefferson County School. I wrote and published the history for the school district as well as for the city of Lakewood,...
Modern Dance in France (1920-1970)
An Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Raising the Barre
Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams-along with her youthful self-assurance-and...
The Ballet Companion
A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A New Classic for Today's Dancer
The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume...
Ballerina
Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012
"A fascinating, well-researched, and insightful book...this is an important story to tell." -- Sabina Allemann, former principal ballerina, San Francisco Ballet
"A literary dance of narrative and emotion that pirouettes between rage...
by Daniel Wheway
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Fronted by the androgynous Pete Burns, Dead Or Alive achieved their big break in 1984 with their UK Top 30 single That's The Way (I Like It) and its equally successful parent album Sophisticated Boom Boom. They would be the first two of eleven UK Top 30 records for the band, including following year's...
When Ballet Became French
Modern Ballet and the Cultural Politics of France, 1909-1958
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standing. It was not until Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes found success in Paris during the first decade of...