Author: Coryne Hall
The vivacious Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. As a young girl, she had enjoyed romantic troika rides, and passionate nights, w ... |
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The Life
Author: Julie Kavanagh
Ballet's first pop icon, Rudolf Nureyev revolutionised an old art form, bringing a new young audience to opera houses, and sparking Rudimania across the globe. From his birth on a train in Siberia at the height of Stalin ... |
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The Paris Opera Ballet
Author: Gerard Mannoni
Gerard Uferas spent a year with the Paris Opera Ballet family, and his photographs lead readers into the private world of the Opera Garnier, Paris's landmark opera house. He took his camera backstage, into the wings, the ... |
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Three Lives in Dance
Author: Paul Magriel
Long out of print, the three beautiful volumes contained here offer the modern reader a rare opportunity to see Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Isadora Duncan through the eyes of their contemporaries and admirers, and ... |
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The Life of Agnes de Mille
Author: Carol Easton
Now in paperback: The first comprehensive biography of the American cultural giant who changed popular theater and dance forever with her choreography for Oklahoma! , Carousel , and Brigadoon .. Pioneering a distinctly A ... |
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Author: Peter Stoneley
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 o ... |
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Author: Robert Garis
A long-time observer of George Balanchine describes his experience with and reactions to the great choreographer's work. Handsomely illustrated with dramatic photographs of past and present members of the New York City B ... |
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Career and Culture in the World of Dancers
Author: Helena Wulff
This absorbing book is ballet's 'biography' -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimacies, pressures and, not least of all, its magic. Ballet companies have en ... |
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Author: Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her pe ... |
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Author: John White
From his experience of 40 years in ballet as a student, performer, ballet master and dedicated teacher, John White offers this work of inspiration and step-by-step instruction on the art and craft of teaching classical d ... |
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The Story and the Magic
Author: Angela Whitehill & William Noble
This captivating inside look at The Nutcracker ballet, which will delight readers with its retelling of the story and behind-the-scenes portrayal is lavishly illustrated with thrilling performance and backstage photograp ... |
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Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet
Author: Eric Foner & Lynn Garafola
Since its inception fifty years ago the New York City Ballet has been a vital force in American dance and an essential component of American cultural life. As the vehicle for the development and expression of George Bala ... |
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The Memoirs of Mathilde Kschessinka
Author: Mathilde Kschessinka
There have been wonderful books about dancing, and superbly evocative ones about old Russia: but here the two themes are fascinatingly wedded. For these are the memoirs of the prima ballerina assoluta of the imperial Rus ... |
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A Biography
Author: Alexander Meinertz
Vera Volkova was central to the European ballet world for almost four decades as advisor, friend and, above all, teacher to iconic figures from dancers Margot Fonteyn, Erik Bruhn and Rudolf Nureyev to choreographers Sir ... |
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Use of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham
Author: Dee Reynolds
Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is not simply the 'body', but energy as it is used and experienced in movement. Energy is central to discourses of modernity and modernism, in which choreo ... |
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My Life in the Ballets Russes and Beyond
Author: Tamara Tchinarova Finch
Tamara Tchinarova was born in Romania in 1919 and began her dance training in Paris with emigre ballerinas from the Imperial Russian Ballet. She danced professionally in Europe with the touring Ballet Russes companies th ... |
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Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
Author: Akim Volynsky
Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English ... |
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Author: Peter Stoneley
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 o ... |
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Author: Li Cunxin
The extraordinary biography of a young Chinese peasant boy who emerged from abject poverty, defected to the USA, and became principal dancer for the Houston ballet, a star in the US, friend to George and Barbara Bush, an ... |
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Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs
Author: Coryne Hall
Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. She is in almost every book about the Romanovs, but so many myths surround her that she has be ... |
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