Dance category: 839 books
by Natasha Hassiotis
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In this book, the reader will find some of the most important choreographers, artists who helped to shape the dance scene as it is today, from icon Pina Bausch to still-thriving figures such as Xavier Le Roy, Sasha Waltz, and more. Through this compilation of interviews conducted over the course of...
Dancing for Fun
Group Dancing for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Dancing is a universal and primal form of expression, and it is something we can all enjoy. Whats more, its a healthy and fun way to bring more exercise into our lives. Anyone, at any age, can enjoy group dancing, from very young children to senior citizens.
This guide presents a series of...
by Phil Holland, Moses Pendleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Becoming Ginger Rogers
How Ballroom Dancing Made Me a Happier Woman, Better Partner, and Smarter CEO
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“An absorbing, inspirational memoir” about finding joy in the midst of challenge and hardship—step by step (Publishers Weekly).
If you’ve spent most of your life pursuing your career, raising your family, and/or caring for loved ones who may be ill or infirm, your own needs may have...
by Vincent de Vries, Theo Nabuurs
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Theo Nabuurs (1965), beter bekend als Mental Theo, is een icoon uit de Nederlandse dance- en mediascene. Begin jaren negentig brak hij samen met Charly Lownoise door als dj. Met nummers als ‘Wonderful Days’ en ‘Stars’ bestormden zij de hitlijsten. Ook presenteerde hij programma’s voor TMF...
by Chen Lizra
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Enough books have been written about Cuba to fill an entire library, but few take the approach Chen Lizra does with "My Seductive Cuba." Deeply personal and always engaging, Lizra - an Israeli-born dance instructor and entrepreneur now living in Canada - fuses history and politics with...
by James Steichen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually result in the creation of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet, the first decade...
Life in Motion
An Unlikely Ballerina
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.
In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she...
What the Eye Hears
A History of Tap Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles...
The Making of Markova
Diaghilev's Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
As improbable as it is inspiring, the story of one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century; her fortitude and reinvention; and her journey from the Ballets Russes, Balanchine, and Matisse to international stardom
In pre–World War I England, a frail Jewish girl—so shy she barely...
First We Take Manhattan
Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bravura!
Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades.
It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such...
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes
In Search of a Lost Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
René Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, but...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) invented the revolutionary performance art ‘Ankoku Butoh' - now celebrated worldwide as one of the most innovative and haunting contemporary art forms. Hijikata is the supreme figure in the last half-century of Japan's experimental culture, and remains a seminal and inspirational...