Dance category: 839 books
by Nilo Big
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Ballet is the art of dance requiring strength, resilience, elegance and grace all at once. It may be difficult to master and takes lots of patience and practice to learn. If ballet is fast becoming your passion and you are prepared to put in the hours of practice, then it may just be that you are...
Nearly Naked Nymphs & Somewhat Sexy Studs
of Dancing With the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
If selected, TT will write write a book with the title here about his DWTS experiences. The focus will be on the pros, the actual stars of the show. Additionally he will investigate the business plan of DWTS, why some pros disappear then sometimes reappear in subsequent seasons. Why did ratings for DWTS...
A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys
A Guide to Life for All the Exceptional, Excellent Misfits Out There
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An empowerment manifesto for creatives, misfits, innovators, and disruptors from the star of So You Think You Can Dance and creator of Broadway's Finding Neverland
A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys offers a playbook for living a creative and authentic life. Using her own story as a launching...
by Kristina Rhianoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Kristina was born in 1977 in Vladivostok, East Russia, a bleak naval town closed to foreigners under Soviet rule. Despite the limitations this imposed, Kristina’s early years were spent in a creative home, in which her father’s love of music saw her dancing from an early age. It was Latin music,...
by Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre’s most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines:
• an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh’s...
by Tanvi Bajaj, Swasti Shrimali Vohra
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Presenting an alternative perspective, this book proposes that performing arts forge an emotional bond between the performer and the audience, making the act of performance a therapeutic and restorative experience, and not merely recreational.
Studying the life-experiences of six artists, and...
Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet
Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
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.These exquisite photographs feature some of the finest dancers on stage today, bringing the reader into the magical...
Bill Miller's Riviera
America's Showplace in Fort Lee, New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Where did Frank Sinatra, Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joan Crawford and hundreds of other A-listers along with mobsters like Meyer Lansky eat, drink and dance? It wasn't in Hollywood or at the Copacabana but at Bill Miller's Riviera in Fort Lee. The Riviera's breathtaking views of New York, its...
Baakisimba
Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Toni Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most demanding of all the arts.
Ballet
From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique. Clear photographs show exactly how...
Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing
A guide to mastering the basic steps for absolute beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Is this the right book for me?
Whether you are an absolute beginner, a Strictly Come Dancing wannabe or simply want a fun way to get fit, Craig Revel Horwood's guide to ballroom dancing offers something for everyone. Learn how to become a ballroom babe or a Latin lover as Craig shows you all...
Up in Lights
The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl
‘Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal Boy in her place. At last! MARJORIE GRAHAM was all alone in electric lights outside...
Creating Our Own
Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the “folkloric arts”—particularly music, dance, and drama—in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza...