| • Dance with Julianne: Just Dance! DVD
BONUS One-On-One Personal Dance Lesson With Julianne! This is your chance to learn from the best! In this bonus feature, Julianne will break down key steps at a slower pace and give you little tips that really help improve technique. Take this personal dance lesson before your first workout to make your dance flow smoother. Or, do it any time you want to fine-tune your steps and refine your personal dance style. Named one of the five best workout DVDs of 2010 on Self.com. Get a lean, toned dancer’s physique! No partner needed. Two-time Dancing with the Stars champion Julianne Hough is ready to share her secret for staying fit: Just Dance! Known for her stylish choreography, sparkling energy and ability to teach anyone to dance, Julianne will lead you through three upbeat routines—no partner needed. You’ll kick and you’ll shake all the while toning your abs, legs, butt, arms—everything! Each fat-burning move is specially designed to keep your heart rate up and help you dance your way into fabulous shape. “In these dances, you’re working your whole body and you don’t even know it,” Julianne says. “It really does work!”
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| • Just Dance Kids Game Nintendo Wii Game
Nintendo Wii Game. Just Dance, the #1 Selling Music Rhythm Game on the Nintendo Wii, is now FOR KIDS! With a HUGE selection of their favorite songs, crazy dances, and all-new kid-friendly gameplay, children of all ages can Just Dance along with the rest of the family! Delivers all of the fast-paced, music-packed fun of Just Dance with songs, moves and themes designed just for kids. Dance along to 40 fun sequences created by choreographers and led by other kids. Jump, shake and jive your way into favorite pop and hip-hop songs like "One Time," "Naturally," "Holiday," "Surfin' USA" and more, re-recorded by kids. Keep the party popping in a Dance Party mode that plays songs nonstop without sending you back to the start menu. Shake, shake, shake your Wii Remote or freeze in position to rack up the bonus points in Freeze and Shake mode. Fill the dance floor (or your living room floor) with all your friends in Team Play mode. Brings favorite TV personalities like The Wiggles and Yo Gabba Gabba into your living room for dancing fun for younger kids, and includes tot classics like "Wheels on the Bus" and "The Alphabet Song". Progression tracking helps parents keep tabs on kids' exercise progress, including calories burned and time played, and offers a peek into kids' favorite songs. Provides a healthy workout that doesn't feel like work.
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| • Just Dance 3 PS3 Playstation3 Game
Just Dance 3 PS3 Playstation3 Game. Top Of The Charts - Over 45 all-new tracks, ranging from chart-topping hits to classic dance party tracks! Dance Crew Mode - With now up to 4 concurrent dance routines, it's your time to shine! Just Sweat It Out - The popular Just Sweat mode gets an upgrade with more workout plans and playlists. Dance 'Til Dawn - Use the Party Mode and lose yourself in the music! Too Shy to Dance But Love to Sing? All tracks provide song lyrics on-screen, so even if you don't score points with your voice, you're sure to score some with the crowd! Just Can't Get Enough? - An expanding list of downloadable tracks will be available at launch to fuel every player's dance frenzy. Move Required Just Sweat More - A more advanced training program with calculated Cardio Training and on-going assessment that will help players stay fit while having fun. New Modes to Extend Gameplay - Dance Crew Mode, Smart Shuffle and Dance Mashup. Shake Your World - Interact with the in-game environment, be a part of the action, and watch the game respond to YOU as you dance. Top of the Chart Hits - Over 40 all-new tracks, from Billboard top-charted hits to all time classics, featuring a variety of musical genres that will appeal to everyone.
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| • Dance Anatomy Paperback Book
Dance Anatomy paperback book. Powerful, expressive, and compelling! Now you can see what it takes to be a stronger, more elegant dancer. Featuring over 200 full-color illustrations, Dance Anatomy visually depicts the unique relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movement as never before. Dance Anatomy features 82 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote perfect alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries. In stunning detail, the accompanying illustration captures the dancer in motion and highlights the active muscles associated with each movement. You’ll learn how to modify exercises to target specific areas to enhance flexibility and reduce muscle tension. You’ll also learn to put it all together to personalize a program based on your style of dance, level of expertise, and individual needs and goals. Whether you seek to optimize performance, add a new movement to your repertoire, or minimize muscle fatigue, stress, and injury, Dance Anatomy is your perfect partner.
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| • So You Think You Can Dance Get Fit: Cardio Funk DVD
Getting down to business, the menu screen has a 'Play All' option which takes you through the warm-up, all 3 routines (with instructions), and the cool down. In the 'Workouts' section, you can choose between the 3 routines (with or without instructions) and the bonus workout that combines the three styles with some extra steps (also with our without instructions). The Warm-Up and Cool Down sections are taught by the whole group of dancers, switching off. They're the same combination of dance-infused stretches on both dvds and they've got a funky flavor going on the Warm-Up and more of a bluesy tone on the Cool Down. Fully effective in preparing for the workouts and cooling down afterwards, as well as enjoyable ways to begin and end the session. For extra entertainment value, the dvd also includes interviews with the three dancers featured on the front cover, as well as with Nigel Lithgoe. The dancer interviews include behind the scenes clips from workout rehearsals, taping, and photo shoot, as well as them just goofing off with each other and having fun. All fans of the show will really enjoy these parts. A tremendous value for the money!
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| • Everybody Dance PS3 Playstation 3 Game
PS3 Playstation 3. Play with up to 20 friends in Party mode. Dance to the official music videos from 40 of your favorite pop, hip-hop and club hits. Share performance videos and photos on Facebook and Twitter. Choreograph custom dance routines and challenge your friends to compete again your moves. Learn Beginner, Intermediate, Professional and Partner routines for every song. Capture and Share Performances. Players can learn how to master any routine by practicing choreography in small, easy to learn sections.. Three Challenge Levels. Up to 20 players can create profiles and go head-to-head in an epic dance-off. Features 40 top-selling party tracks.
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| • Dance Central Xbox 360 Game
Xbox 360. Dance Central, exclusively for Kinect for Xbox 360, is the first real dance video-game experience that is fun, social and for everyone! Brought to you by Harmonix, the developers who created the world-wide blockbuster Rock Band. Take it step-by-step with Break It Down or jump right in and start performing for your family and friends. Either way, you won't just learn dance moves, you'll own the dance floor! Dance Central will get you warmed up and dancing in no time with “Break it Down” and “Perform It!”. You'll be introduced to some of the over 600 moves in the game, polish your performance, and put it all together to master the routine! Featuring tracks from hot artists including Lady Gaga, No Doubt, M.I.A., Bell Biv Devoe, and more, you'll master more than 90 dance routines all created by professional choreographers. You may even recognize some of the moves from the song's music videos! Burn Up the Dance Floor – and Calories. Whether you've had your dancing shoes on your entire life or this is your first time hitting the floor, Dance Central will have you dancing like a pro in no time. As you cruise through songs and master moves, you will earn Achievements, unlock new character outfits and venues, and progress through the dance ranks. Dance Central even tracks the calories you burn so you can turn all that fun into your daily workout routine.
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| • Dance with Julianne: Cardio Ballroom DVD
Two-time “Dancing with the Stars” champion Julianne Hough is ready to share her best-kept secrets and techniques for getting a lean, toned dancer’s physique! Known for her standout choreography, contagious enthusiasm, and ability to teach anyone to dance, Julianne will motivate you to dance the Cha Cha, Jive and Paso Doble with her in this fun and effective workout—no partner needed! These fat burning moves are carefully choreographed to keep your heart rate up and help you dance your way into fabulous shape. “Dance is the best way to exercise.” Julianne says. “You’ll have so much fun, you won’t even realize you’re getting a great full-body workout.” One-On-One Personal Dance Lesson With Julianne! This is your chance to learn from the best! In this bonus feature Julianne will break down key steps at a slower pace and refine those little details that will make your dance “ballroom beautiful!” Take this personal dance lesson before your first workout to make your dance flow smoother. Or do it any time you want some extra fine-tuning for your steps.
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| • Conditioning for Dance Paperback Book
Even the best sense of rhythm, the most careful technical training, and the most astute dance intuition aren't enough to make a dancer truly excel; you also need focused strength, balance, and flexibility to execute the movements with power and grace. Conditioning for Dance improves your technique and performance in all dance forms by strengthening the body's core (abdominal and back muscles) while improving coordination, balance, and alignment and optimizing flexibility. The result is more lift without tension, deeper pliés, higher jumps with less effort, tighter turns, and improved extension and turnout. Conditioning for Dance is the result of years of practical experience combined with scientific and anatomical analysis. Author Eric Franklin is an internationally known dancer, teacher, choreographer, and writer. His innovative, proven techniques will help you execute key dance skills better as you -strengthen the muscles you use in dance by performing exercises with elastic resistance bands -start and move in proper alignment using imagery -improve your balance and release tension through playful exercises with small balls -develop leg and torso power that translates to higher jumps and tighter turns -optimize your flexibility through touch, movement awareness, and imagery. The book features 102 imagery illustrations paired with dance-specific exercises to help you maximize body–mind conditioning and develop more fluid mobility, balance, and tension release. The book culminates with a 20-minute, full-body workout routine designed to help dancers warm up, condition, and refine their dance technique. You'll learn how to execute lifelong dance skills that give power without the risk of injuries. By working the muscles through movements and ranges of motion that approximate the demands of your chosen dance form, you directly enrich your performance capabilities. And as you strengthen the body's core, stretch to gain just the right amount of flexibility, and incorporate the power of the mind, you unleash your full artistic and physical potential.
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| • Dance Lessons 101: The Basics and Beyond DVD
Dance Lessons 101 is the best starting point for Ballroom, Country, Swing, and Latin Dancing. This DVD is proof you can learn to dance without live lessons! You will be dancing the Slow Dance, Waltz, Swing, Salsa, Two-Step, Cha-Cha, Hustle, and West Coast Swing in a matter of minutes. Also referred to as the Ultimate Couples Dancing Instruction Video for Beginners, Dance Lessons 101 was designed and developed with the end-user in mind. Customer feedback received from Shawn Trautmans acclaimed DVD, the Couples Ultimate Dance Sampler, was the key to developing such a user-friendly and easy-to-follow curriculum. Now, with just one DVD, you can quickly learn eight of the most popular social dances. Dance Lessons 101 includes nearly two hours of instruction, picture-in-picture technology, HD filming for optimum clarity, and multiple camera angles to ensure that you, the student, get the best view. Each step and move is taught for both the leader and the follower as well as together, allowing you the option of learning with or without a dance partner. Also, menu selections in the DVD provide you with options of going from one dance to another without hassle. Your instructors, Shawn and Joanna Trautman, will have you dancing in a matter of minutes! Owning this DVD is the equivalent of having your own private instruction at home for a fraction of the cost. Whether learning for an event like a wedding or a cruise or if you simply want to try something new to get out and stay fit, Dance Lessons 101 is the best choice to start and feel good about your new hobby. After completing this video dance lesson, you will have your choice of more than two dozen other titles in Shawn Trautmans Dance Collection to further your learning.
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| • Country Dance Nintendo Wii Game
Nintendo Wii Game. For the First Time Ever, Country Music comes to the Wii! Scoot your boots to the beat of your favorite dances with GameMill's Country Dance, a music and rhythm video game that allows you to "honky tonk" with your friends and family in your own living room. Invite them over for a down home dance session, or practice your favorite dances on your own. The song list is hot and the entire family will be dancin' the night away!! Features Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Sugarland, Zac Brown Band, Gretchen Wilson, Johnny Cash and many, many more! Don't Miss a Beat: On-screen icons are available to help players perform the moves so the entire family will be "dancin' their boots off" as they progress through levels that become more challenging . 27 Of the Top Country Songs Ever Recorded. 27 Unique Locations To Strut Your Stuff. 80 Plus Character Variations. Dances Choreographed by Professional Dancers * Great Aerobic Workout is an Added Benefit
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| • Gold's Gym Dance Workout Nintendo Wii Game
Nintendo Wii Game. Gold's Gym Dance Workout is a unique dance workout game for Wii that challenges and engages players like no game before it. The first dance game specifically dedicated to fitness and weight loss, it utilizes a blend of workout and in-game instructor customization, comically engaging mini-games, Wii Balance Board integration, a sizable song list to workout to and in-game progress tracking that together allows players to dance their way to fitness without them even knowing it. Additional features include 2-player game support, a complementary 7-day Gold's Gym membership and more. Developed in collaboration with fitness and dance experts, Gold’s Gym Dance Workout is the first dance game specifically dedicated to fitness and weight loss. Players will have so much fun dancing you won’t even notice how much you’re sweating. You'll dance to popular songs, learn new choreography, and play mini-games that will whip you into shape in no time. It's the most fun way to workout, both by yourself and with a friend.
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| • Nightclub Dance Series: Sexy Moves for the Club DVD
SEXY MOVES FOR THE CLUB. Would you like to learn the fun, sexy dance moves you've seen at the club and develop amazing confidence on the dance floor, even if you have never danced before? From the backup dancer to Beyonce, P Diddy, Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas, Jay Z, and Shakira, comes a revolutionary new dance system that cuts out all the boring choreography, and teaches you the simple, attention grabbing moves you need to be sexy, natural, and spontaneous on the dance floor.Sexy Moves for the Club has already taken thousands of women from dance novice to dance diva and has been featured on CNBC, Marie Claire, Star Magazine, Channel 11 Morning News, and on E News. Filmed in a popular NYC Nightclub, first your instructors show you how each move looks full speed, then they slow down, break every move into its most basic parts, and show you exactly how to "program" the move into your body so you can do it on demand, the moment you get out on the dance floor. You'll start with easier moves that you can start using in the club right away, and you'll build on them to get your hips, arms, and booty moving in one smooth and fluid motion. And as a Bonus, you'll also get a special section with Transitions. Once you master these simple "connectors" you'll be able to go out, have fun and "just dance" to any song . . . Even if you've never heard it before . . . And without having to memorize even one single routine. . . All while drawing the envy and attention of everyone in the room. And the best part is, Sexy Moves for the Club is as much an instructional dance video as it is a workout. Watch as you tone your legs, arms, and abs as you dance the night away. It's the fun way to work out, and you'll love your new arsenal of dance moves for your next vacation, wedding, or that special night out painting the town red.
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| • Dance On Broadway Nintendo Wii Game
Nintendo Wii. Perform 20 authentic Broadway-style choreographies from the most beloved showtunes, including ‘Cabaret’, ‘My Favorite Things’, ‘Dreamgirls’, ‘Roxie’, and many more! Perform exciting duets and challenge up to four friends for the high score spotlight. Includes musicals that appeal to all ages, whether you ‘Let the Sunshine In’ or croon ‘Lullaby of Broadway’. Challenge yourself to dance your very best AND sing along to the on-screen lyrics for a full performance. A workout in disguise, ‘Dance on Broadway’ will get you moving to the beat as you burn calories while having fun! Dance on Broadway is a multiplayer dance game for Wii that brings a unique broadway musical right into your living room. In-game, players dance, act and sing through 20 authentic Broadway-style choreographies, with the goal of building up the most points and attaining the lead role. The game features easy to follow on-screen direction and musical tracks from a wide variety of long-running iconic Broadway productions. Play requires only a single Wii Remote and includes four-player support. Especially designed for musical fans of all ages, Dance On Broadway's track list includes titles from some of the longest-running Broadway shows of all time. These tracks are chosen for their appeal to a wide audience, meaning that players can expect to play along to new, more familiar songs as well as classics from the past.
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| • Dance off the Inches: Hip Hop Party DVD
Getting Fit Doesn't Have To Feel Like Work. Anyone can dance off the inches we've made it easy. Just 10 moves are all you need to dance this hip hop routine and we ll show you how. No matter what your age or fitness level, you can have a great time while dancing your way into great shape. You ll want to do this workout because it s FUN and that s the secret. The more you do it, the more inches you ll lose. It s that simple. Losing inches has never been so easy! Welcome to Dance Off the Inches Hip Hop Party. This fun and funky dance workout will help you melt calories plus tone and tighten your abs. We all know that dance is an effective way to slim down, but here you get an extra bonus: the motion used in hip hop dance is known for developing unparalleled flat, sleek abs without crunches! Who doesn't love that? For this program, dancer Jennifer Galardi has created a routine using three different styles of hip hop that will have you losing inches, gaining confidence, feeling good and looking great.
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| • Dance - Hardcover Book
DK Eyewitness Books: Dance. Filled with information, the Eyewitness writers and editors fill all spaces on each page, designing each with photos, illustrations, general text, item text, and enough white space to prevent the viewer from getting lost. Topics in "Dance" are logically ordered from the question What is Dance, learning to dance, ballet class, accompaniments, keeping time, themes and messages. Dance: the story. Other topics included set design, behind-the-scenes workers, all integral to the story. How to carry the story through dance is explained in more pages: beauty of the body, makeup, costumes, footwear, and masks. Each of these is detailed in two-page spreads. The history of dance takes eight pages. Dance as a part of community--public dances of various kinds, dance crazes. Famous dancers and choreographers. Interest level might begin at age nine or ten.
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| • Dance and Be Fit: Brazilian Body DVD
This workout is super fun. It’s a captivating, fun, fat-burning good time! This fabulously fun and enchanting program reveals the secret to obtaining that lean, sexy Brazilian body. By using elements of Brazil’s heart-pounding, steamy dances such as the Maculele, Samba Reggae, and Capoeira, this workout targets all your trouble spots while burning fat and calories to deliver amazing results. You’ll learn simple, flowing steps and incorporate hip circles and torso pops. The authentic, pulsating Brazilian music sets the rhythm; add your personal style and flair and you’ve got your own Carnival. So take a vacation south of the border and have a hip-swinging, calorie-burning, body-slimming good time—Brazilian style! Warm-Up 6 min. Maculele 12 min. Samba Reggae 12 min. Capoeira 12 min. Cool Down 6 min. Bonus dance: Samba de Roda
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| • Appreciating Dance: A Guide to the World's Liveliest Art Paperback Book
Written for the dance novice, this reference is a concise history of all forms of dance. Detailing the development of dance from its earliest beginnings, this guide covers the intersection of dance and religion, social dance, ballet, modern dance, tap, jazz, film and theatrical dance, and contemporary dance. This fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a chapter on dance in the new millennium, along with lists of the social dances of Europe and America, basic ballet terminology, Hollywood movie-musicals, dance organizations, suggested readings, and filmographies. Brief biographies of notable dancers and choreographers who have contributed to each form of dance are also included.
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| • Zumba Fitness Nintendo Wii Game
Nintendo Wii Game. Zumba Fitness uses the motion sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus controller to bring steamy, calorie-burning moves to the TV screen. The game's primary play mechanic is the replication by the player(s) in real-time of body moves that are demonstrated by an on-screen virtual instructor. The core-centric nature of these moves means that gameplay for each player requires only one controller, which is enclosed in the exclusive Wii Remote belt included with the game. (The belt is also compatible with the Wii Remote Plus controller) On-screen color changes to a representation of the player in-game alerts you to the accuracy of your moves, while a countdown clock keeps you constantly updated on the time remaining in the routine. Zumba Fitness also includes fan favorite Zumba instructors Tanya, Gina and Zumba's creator Beto, who together guide you through more than 30 routines that will make you forget you are even exercising. Together with four-player support allowing a friends join in the workout and an ever-present, infectious Latin groove, players have all that they need to dance the weight off and have a blast doing it. Bring the Zumba Fitness experience home with you in the first interactive game based on the successful brand. Learn and perfect nine different dance styles: Reggaeton, Merengue, Salsa, Cumbia, Hip-Hop, Mambo, Rumba, Flamenco and Calypso. Includes more than 30 Zumba routines - some exclusive to the game. Follow your on-screen Zumba instructor’s routine in a high voltage party atmosphere. As you fine tune the steps, the stage and party transforms in dynamic new ways. Strap the Zumba belt to your waist to turn the Wii Remote into a hip motion sensor. Supports up to 4 players as you team up and try to earn the highest workout score as a group or play against each other in Zumba Attack! Mode for the ultimate fitness dance off. Dance in a range of venues: learn the basics in the Zumba gym and then take the party to a fantasy night club, an industrial factory, a skyscraper rooftop and a futuristic Zumbathon stadium. Includes "Learn the Steps" training, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced routines for all skill levels. Dance steps learned can be taken with you if you attend a real Zumba class or on the dance floor at your next party.
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| • Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet Paperback Book
From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also invaluable aids. More information available in one book than we have ever had before.
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| • Ballet Basics Paperback Book
Used - Good Condition. Sandra Noll Hammond trained in ballet in New York at the Juilliard School, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and the School of Ballet Repertory. Among her teachers were Antony Tudor, Margaret Craske, Thalia Mara, and Arthur Mahoney. She has performed with the Ballet Repertory Dancers, Connecticut Opera, Arizona Dance Theatre, and Pacific Ballet. She also has worked as a free-lance artist, performing and staging Baroque ballet repertory reconstructed from her own research. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hammond's teaching career has focussed on ballet in higher education. She was instrumental in developing a dance major at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where she served as Coordinator of Dance. Later, she served as Director of Dance in the Theatre and Dance Department of the University of Hawaii. Hammond is recognized internationally for her research, lectures, and publications on the history of ballet technique. In addition to Ballet Basics, her publications include Ballet: Beyond the Basics (also published by McGraw-Hill) and numerous articles in dance journals and in ballet encyclopedias and dictionaries. She is a frequent guest artist on university campuses, where she enjoys introducing students to earlier forms of ballet technique and repertory from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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| • Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet hardcover Book
In a scuffed-up studio, a veteran dancer transmits the magic of an eighty-year-old ballet to a performer barely past drinking age. In a converted barn, an indomitable teacher creates ballerinas as she has for more than half a century. In a monastic mirrored room, dancers from as near as New Jersey and as far as Mongolia learn works as old as the nineteenth century and as new as this morning. Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear zooms in on an intimate view of one full season in the life of one of America's top ballet companies and schools: Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet. But it also tracks the Land of Ballet to venues as celebrated as New York and Monte Carlo and as seemingly ordinary as Bellingham, Washington and small-town Pennsylvania. Never before has a book taken readers backstage for such a wide-ranging view of the ballet world from the wildly diverse perspectives of dancers, choreographers, stagers, teachers, conductors, musicians, rehearsal pianists, lighting directors, costumers, stage managers, scenic artists, marketers, fundraisers, students, and even pointe shoe fitters--often in their own remarkably candid words. The book follows characters as colorful as they are talented. Versatile dancers from around the globe team up with novice choreographers and those as renowned as Susan Stroman, Christopher Wheeldon, and Twyla Tharp to create art on deadline. At the book's center is Peter Boal, a former New York City Ballet star in his third year as PNB's artistic director, as he manages conflicting constituencies with charm, tact, rationality and diplomacy. Readers look over Boal's shoulder as he makes tough decisions about programming, casting, scheduling and budgeting that eventually lead the calm, low-key leader to declare that in his job, "You have to be willing to be hated." Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear shows how ballet is made, funded, and sold. It escorts you front and center to the kick zone of studio rehearsals. It takes you to the costume shop where elegant tutus and gowns are created from scratch. It brings you backstage to see sets and lighting come alive while stagehands get lovingly snarky and obscene on their headsets. It sits you down in meetings where budgets get slashed and dreams get funded-and axed. It shows you the inner workings of Nutcracker, from kids' charming auditions to no-nonsense marketing meetings, from snow bags in the flies to dancing snowflakes who curse salty flurries that land on their tongues. It follows the tempestuous assembly of a version of Romeo and Juliet that runs afoul of so much pressure, disease, injury, and blood that the dancers begin to call it cursed. Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear uncovers the astounding way ballets, with no common form of written preservation, are handed down from generation to generation through the prodigious memories of brilliant athletes who also happen to be artists. It goes on tour with the company to Vail, Colorado, where dancers contend with altitude that makes their muscles cramp and their lungs ache. It visits cattle-call auditions and rigorous classes, tells the stories of dancers whose parents sacrificed for them and dancers whose parents refused to. It meets the resolute woman who created a dance school more than fifty years ago in a Carlisle, Pennsylvania barn and grew it into one of America's most reliable ballerina factories. It shows ballet's appeal to kids from low-income neighborhoods and board members who live in mansions. Shattering longstanding die-for-your-art clichés, this book uncovers the real drama in the daily lives of fiercely dedicated union members in slippers and pointe shoes-and the musicians, stagehands, costumers, donors and administrators who support them. Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet brings readers the exciting truth of how ballet actually happens.
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| • 100 Lessons in Classical Ballet: The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School Paperback Book
The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook. 100 Lessons will give any ballet teacher, new or seasoned, incredible insight into building technically secure dancers. The book details eight years of lesson plans each building on one another and could either be used to develop one's own syllabus or as a wealth of ideas from which to create lesson plans. An invaluable source to all teachers and studio owners.
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| • Classical Ballet Technique Paperback Book
With this brilliantly imagined and beautifully achieved work, Gretchen Warren has created the fisrt comprehensive, photgraphicaly illustrated reference and teaching guie on classical ballet technique. In more than 2,600 photographs, Johan Renvall, Cynthia Harvey, Susan Jaffe, and an array o other dancers from such companies as the American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet demonstrate in sequence every movement in the classical repertoire, from the most basic to the most advanced. The book's design matches each photograph with captions that details appropriate teaching techniques and describe the proper teaching techniques and describe the proper execution of each step. A glossary defines common dance terms, and a pronunciation guide provides phonetic transcriptions of French ballet terms. An important addition to the reference libraries of teachers and students of ballet. Warren, soloist with the Pennsylvania Ballet for 11 years and now associate professor of dance at the University of South Florida, explains the correct execution of every step in the ballet vocabulary. Dancers from the American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet appear in over 2600 photographs and illustrate the movement. Part 1 of the book covers basic concepts of training, physical characteristics of the ideal dancer, and suggestions for conducting a successful class. Part 2 is devoted to sequential photographs of more involved steps and definitions of terminology. Warren includes stylistic variations--Soviet, Italian, French, etc. This book is unprecedented in its detail and clarity. For anyone with a serious interest in ballet. Highly recommended.
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| • The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique Paperback Book
The Pointe Book is the only book to include an extensive explanation of pointe shoe fitting, preparing, and maintenance. Interviews with dancers Larissa Ponomarenko, Paloma Herrera, and Marisa Soltis reveal different personal and highly evolved methods of breaking in and taking care of pointe shoes. One will find, as well, a complete discussion of the foot's anatomy, of the pointe shoe itself, pointe-related injuries and their remedies, and an historical review of the pointe shoe. The Pointe Book, Revised Edition lays out the basics of teaching pointe, comparing proven teaching methods. All levels of pointe technique classes are sampled from schools around the US to create an authoritative syllabus for teachers and students alike. Addresses nearly every question that you could think to ask about pointe shoes. Janice Barringer teaches, choreographs and lectures in the United States, Canada and China and writes for Pointe and American Dancer magazines. She has been spotlighted in the PBS Dance in America series, and she has been on the faculty of the American Dance Centre, Ballet Hispanico, Harkness House and Steps on Broadway. Sarah Schlesinger, former owner of Capezio Dance Theatre Shops in Maryland and Delaware, has extensive experience fitting pointe shoes and solving pointe shoerelated problems. She is chair at the graduate musical theatre writing program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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| • Basic Principles of Classical Ballet Paperback Book
Agrippina Vaganova. Discusses all basic principles of ballet, grouping movement by fundamental types. Diagrams show clearly the exact foot, leg, arm, and body positions for the proper execution of many steps and movements. Offers dancers, teachers, and ballet lovers information often difficult to locate in other books. 118 illustrations. Madame Vaganova (1879-1951) is justly considered the best teacher of classical ballet this century. Her book, first published in the West in 1946 and translated by Anatole Chujoy, deals with the intricate steps of ballet in a matter-of-fact way. The drawings, though, are plain awful, dull, uninspiring, but informative. The chapter "Construction of a lesson" ought to be compulsory reading for every teacher of dance. The order of the exercises, what faults to look out for and how to remedy them. There is great emphasis on the use of the arms, the secret that gives ballet its eloquence. If I should recommend only one single book on ballet technique, this would be the one. Every step - from the barre exercises to the most spectacular jumps and turns are described in detail, great emphasis is put upon the correct placing of the head and arm movements as aids to perfect execution. The Vaganova system is used by the Maryinski - formerly the Kirov - dancers. She was also honored by having the former Leningrad Choreographic School renamed the Vaganova Institute.
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| • In the Wings: Behind the Scenes at the New York City Ballet Hardcover Book
An 11-year veteran dancer for the New York City Ballet, Froman here documents life in the corps de ballet in a photo-album an diarylike format. Presenting a day in the life of dancers, he takes readers through the stages of warming up, class, physical therapy, rehearsals, preparation, and, or course, the show. Froman confides, “I can hear the sound of cracking hips and knees. It’s just the beginning of another day of rehearsals with the show looming at eight o’clock.” He communicates the intimate perspective of an experienced dancer (“I just wasn’t expecting to feel so old this quickly”) while offering a private backstage view. His vivid descriptions and photos submerge readers into the atmosphere. An engaging point of view and an attractive layout make this an entertaining read. YA’s may also find it a good introduction to the dance world as a possible career. Recommended for all libraries."There are the world's finest dancers, and this is a chronicle of their struggles for perfection, and sometimes their struggles just to make it through the season able to walk." - From the Introduction. What is it like to dance at the highest level with the largest dance company in America? New York City Ballet dancer Kyle Froman knows. He has danced with the company for more than a decade, and he understands intimately the daily quest for excellence that propels professional dancers to astonishing achievements. Like his colleagues, he has overcome the multiple challenges, injuries and fatigue. In this beautifully designed volume, Froman explores the exhilarating, awe-inspiring, and physically demanding life of the New York City Ballet dancers. With the unprecedented behind-the-scenes access only a dancer has, his stunning color and black-and-white photographs offer an extraordinary glimpse into a special world that outsiders rarely see. From the rigors of daily training to the transcendent moments onstage at the end of the day, these images vividly capture both motion and emotions up close, through the eyes and sensibility of a fellow dancer. Whether it's Peter Martins passing on the intentions of parts he originated, Rebecca Krohn and Sebastian Marcovici working out the intricacies of a pas de deux, or simply young students peering into a company class, the pictures display the energy and anguish, the exhilaration and frustration of the company's daily pursuit of perfection. Beautifully complementing the photographs is Froman's personal diary of a typical dancer's day. From morning company class to rehearsal to performance, the text offers intriguing insights into the mental discipline and emotions that come into play in preparing for a show. Open In the Wings and you will see dance from a new perspective, behind the curtain. As Peter Martins says,"No house seat can compare to what you see from there.
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| • Basic Ballet: The Steps Defined Paperback Book
For ballet students, instructors, and performers: Basic Ballet by Joyce Mackie is a must for the studio. The ballet steps are carfully defined and easy to follow through the step by step illistrations. Many of the defined steps are basic, but a good number of them are intermediate to advanced in ballet training. If you're serious about ballet, you want this book. This very complete volume is a lovely gift book as well as a useful reference book.
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| • 101 Stories of the Great Ballets Paperback Book
101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The scene-by-scene stories of the most popular ballets, old and new. Authored by one of the ballet's most respected experts, this volume includes scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets, as performed by the world's leading dance companies. Certain to delight long-time fans as well as those just discovering the beauty and drama of ballet. Balanchine had a unique ability to understand the ballet and to be able to explain it to others, even if they did not know anything about it. This book which he wrote with Francis Mason, is very handy for balletomane's to have on their shelves. It explains about different ballet's, both classical and contemporary, and describes their story line or plot and gives detailed comments about how the ballet is presented. Good for reference or for curious readers.
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| • Inside Ballet Technique Paperback Book
Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Anatomical Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Class. This guide offers a general explanation of anatomy, kinesiology, and technique for ballet dancers, students, and teachers. A great resource to understanding anatomy as it relates to dance. Gives many new insights into allignment, the foot and the hip flexor and opens up new possibilities as an instructor and as a dancer as well.
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| • Nutcracker Paperback Book
In Nutcracker, the premier children's book illustrator of our time adds his own magic to a story that has long enchanted children and grown-ups alike. Maurice Sendak created this illustrated version of Hoffmann's wonderful tale, basing his illustrations on the sets and costumes he designed for a dance production staged by the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Lush, detailed, and beautiful.
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| • Fifty Ballet Masterworks Paperback Book
Used Paperback. Fifty Ballet Masterworks: From the 16th Century to the 20th Century. Profusely illustrated vision of ballet as movement, art, theatrical spectacle, and history. Penetrating discussions of 50 seminal works, from the 16th to the 20th century. 474 illustrations. Lincoln Kirstein's genius as a writer of dance history is his ability to concisely and accurately relate dance to politics, industry, and economics--among other things. This book is organized chronologically by dance masterpieces, beginning with the sixteenth century and ending in the twentieth century. It's a great quick reference book to the great ballets. For each ballet, Kirstein describes the plot, creation of the ballet, and artistic collaborations that made the ballet possible. More importantly, he puts each ballet into historical context by discussing the art movements and politics of the time that affected the performers, choreographers, composers, costume designers, set designers, librettists, and other creative contributors to the ballets. There is also a section of photographs, lithographs, etchings, and drawings at the end, in addition to the art that appears with each ballet. You won't find a lot of biographical information in the book, nor is it filled with anecdotes about the artists. The bibliography will point you in the right direction if you want to learn more. This is a straightforward, factual book that never ceases to educate and fascinate.
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| • In Classic Style: The Splendor of American Ballet Theatre Hardcover Book
This oversized, deluxe volume celebrating the exquisite spectacle that embodies the excellence of American Ballet Theatre, recognized by Congress as "America’s national ballet company," presents the unfolding beauty, grace, agility, and sheer force of its most recent productions. Distinguished photographer Nancy Ellison depicts such enduring ballet classics as La Bayadère, Othello, The Sleeping Beauty, Manon, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and Giselle, and captures the virtuosity of such unforgettable dancers as Angel Corella, Nina Ananiashvili, Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocca, and Ethan Stiefel. ABT’s artistic director, Kevin McKenzie, has written an illuminating essay about this preeminent company. The combination of dynamic bravura dancing in dreamlike settings will be a sheer delight to ballet lovers everywhere. Award-winning photographer Nancy Ellison is the author of numerous books, including several on the subject of ballet, among them American Ballet Theatre’s The Ballet Book as well as In Grand Style: The Glory of the Metropolitan Opera. For more than thirty years, she has photographed distinguished personalities. Her photographs have been exhibited at such venues as the Mary Boone Gallery. Kevin McKenzie has been American Ballet Theatre’s Artistic Director since 1992. His ABT choreographic credits include the full-length classic The Nutcracker.
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| • Teaching Classical Ballet Paperback Book
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 dance. Stressing excellence in both the creative and the practical aspects of teaching, White discusses what it means to be a "master teacher"--someone with both a deep love for dance and an appreciation for the grandeur of the human spirit. John White is codirector of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, located in a Philadelphia suburb, which he opened with his wife in 1974. He has been a soloist and the ballet master of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and the head instructor and interim ballet master of the Pennsylvania Ballet Company. Since 1980 he has conducted seminars for dance teacers, training more than 400 teachers during this time. In addition, he was a contributing editor and writer for Ballet Dancer Magazine.
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| • Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique Paperback Book
Teaching a beginning ballet class can be a challenge. Even dancers who have studied ballet for many years may be intimidated by the idea of teaching ballet technique. Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique puts new teachers at ease by explaining exactly what to teach and when and how to teach it.The authors couple ballet pedagogy with motor learning, teaching styles assessment, and instructional strategies to offer valuable insight and advice for teaching beginning ballet. With its inviting layout and easy-to-read format, Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique facilitates the learning process for both the instructor and the student.Part I gives instructors the tools they'll need to teach the content in Part II. It provides specific information about the teaching learning process, understanding the theoretical foundations of ballet, constructing and managing the class, and assessing student progress.Part II presents a logical, sequential plan that guides instructors through the actual teaching of exercises, steps, principles, and progressions. The authors outline four instructional units, each representing three to four weeks of a high school or college term. Each unit includes objectives, teaching strategies, assessment tools, teacher responsibilities, and performance test content. In addition, each exercise and step is accompanied by a detailed description consisting of - a definition with pronunciation cues - a verbal depiction - arm positions - standard introductory movements or preparation - proper breathing or breath phrasing - teaching cues and images - an assessment checklist - much more. The book also contains 215 photos that illustrate proper beginning ballet technique.
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| • How to Dress Dancers Paperback Book
How to Dress Dancers: Costuming Techniques for Dance. Geared for costuming dancers, this book includes more than 400 line drawings that demonstrate how to make a costume from a sketch rather than a pattern. Detailed instructions for making classical and romantic tutus, bodices, blouses, costumes for men, tights, leotards and skirts are presented, along with designs for character, national, and period costumes. Directions for headdresses, props, decorations, and ornaments are also included.
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| • Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet Paperback Book
Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovic's comprehensive handbook on how to watch and appreciate the ballet is now available in this new edition. It includes a complete analysis of sixteen important and popular ballets, from Swan Lake to Twyla Tharp's Push Comes To Shove. As Mikhail Baryshnikov states in the book's foreword: "All the things that ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand there wondering what they mean: those things are here...(Robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet --- watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it --- day after day for more than thirty years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge." Robert Greskovic's enthusiasm for ballet is infectious. The combination of ideal bodies moving into wondrous shapes, beautiful music, and often fantastic sets and costumes makes it, in his opinion, a near perfect art form. Still, many art lovers who regularly visit museums and galleries and think nothing of an evening at the opera or theater practically panic at the thought of sitting through a ballet. Ballet 101 should ease those people's fears. Greskovic starts off with a lively but solid history of ballet, then covers the training of a dancer. These two elements alone offer an excellent foundation for understanding what's going on on-stage. The book also includes clear information about the logistics of a performance--from the conductor's arrival in the orchestra pit to the final curtain call, no pique, glissade, or arabesque is left unexplained. After covering these basics, Greskovic examines 14 ballets in great detail--most are classics like Les Sylphides, but a number of modern treasures like Balanchine's Apollo are also covered. For readers yearning to take in more dance than their local ballet company offers in a season, the book includes an extensive videography as well as excellent suggestions for further reading. The tone of Ballet 101 is serious without being dry and informative without being condescending--a great find for anyone anxious to learn more about this often under-appreciated art form.
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| • Ballet Secrets for Skaters Paperback Book
Ballet Secrets for Skaters: How to Hone Your Artistic Competitive Edge. Do you command an audience's attention using graceful arm and head positions? Learn how...in the first ballet book designed for skaters! Ballet Secrets for Skaters unlocks the secrets of ballet technique in a fun and friendly style. Discover many tools and tips for proper placement of the upper body--the first place an audience looks. Photos of real figure skaters show common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Ballet Secrets and Quick Checks help you remember these points on the ice. Emphasis on making a winning impression--even when you stand still. Olympic Gold Medalist Viktor Petrenko and Ladies World Champion Yuka Sato--famous for their artistic expression--offer advice and inspiration for today's competitive skaters. A valuable guide for figure skaters, coaches, dance teachers and skating enthusiasts of all ages...Highly recommended.
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| • The Ballet Called Giselle Paperback Book
This book wonderfully tells the story of the ballet Giselle. It correctly depicts the story of the maiden girl who falls in love with a price and therefore must die. The sad story tells about the ballet and makes it understandable for many ages and reading levels.
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| • Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs Paperback Book
Now in paperback, Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs—originally published in 1981—has been hailed by critics, scholars, and dancers alike as the definitive source of firsthand information on the early life of the great Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950). This memoir, recounted here with verve and stunning detail by the late Bronislava Nijinska (1891–1972)—Nijinsky's sister and herself a major twentieth-century dancer and leading choreographer of the Diaghilev era—offers a season-by-season chronicle of their childhood and early artistic development. Written with feeling and charm, these insightful memoirs provide an engrossingly readable narrative that has the panoramic sweep and colorful vitality of a Russian novel. A book that not only paints a detailed canvas of ballet in turn-of-the-century Russia, but does so with an attention to fact and an appreciation of artistic issues that reflect the same analytical intelligence that Nijinska revealed in her own choreography.
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| • The Classic Ballet Paperback Book
Used Paperback. For soundness, for clarity, for succinctness, this manual of basic ballet is the best there is anywhere. With a precision unparalleled in any other book of its kind, The Classic Ballet presents a lucid text, and nearly six hundred drawings describe and illustrate in minute detail the proper body position, balance point, movement, and attitude of each position and step in the basic classical repertory. As George Balanchine wrote in his preface: “There are no shortcuts to great dancing, but what is necessary to remember and unalterable in its instruction may be found in this book . . . An admirable source of reference for the highest standard of practice.” It is an invaluable tool for the student or teacher of ballet–as well as a must-have treasure for the balletomane. Kirstein was one of the founders of the School of American Ballet along with George Balanchine. After debuting in 1952, this volume quickly became a standard in the field. The text and roughly 800 illustrations offer a beginner's guide to basic dance movement and terminology. This also contains a preface by Balanchine. Essential for all libraries.
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| • Nureyev Harcover Book
A photographic tribute to one of the greatest ballet dancers of our time, Rudolf Nureyev. This book also provides details of every performance that he gave during his career. It includes the work of photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Bailey and Reg Wilson. Howard Brown, editor and designer, has worked for both photographic and ballet clients as a graphic designer. He has worked with several photographers and is a consultant to the Zelda Cheatle Photographers Gallery, London. He has also created programmes and booklets for both the Royal Ballet School and the English National Ballet School. From a small town in the then Soviet Union came one of the greatest male dancers the world has ever known, Rudolf Nureyev. "Nureyev" is a massive coffee-table sized biography of this great ballet artist, filled with nearly two hundred black and white but beautifully captured images of his countless performances over the decades, to play out as a unique telling of this brilliant artist's life. Highly recommended as a great gift to any ballet enthusiast.
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| • Stravinsky's Ballets Hardcover Book
Igor Stravinsky, a towering composer of the twentieth century, was closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes —The Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring —put him on the international map and propelled both ballet and music into the modern age. Even so, these brilliant pieces were but a prelude to Stravinsky's lifelong exploration of dance and dance idioms, as Charles M. Joseph convincingly demonstrates in this penetrating survey of all of the composer's ballet music. Joseph provides superb analyses of each of Stravinsky's ballet pieces, examining the composer's own drafts, notes, and sketches to discover how he conceived of and developed each work. The book also explores how Stravinsky's unorthodox new music energized colleagues, among them George Balanchine, and attracted a glittering array of artists including Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinski, Picasso, and Jean Cocteau. Joseph creates an intense, intimate portrait of Stravinsky and offers a fresh perspective on the musical revolutionary who changed the definition of music made for dance. Charles M. Joseph is professor emeritus of music and the former dean and vice president of academic affairs, Skidmore College. He is the author of two previous books published by Yale University Press, Stravinsky and Balanchine, the winner of an ASCAP Award in Biography, and Stravinsky Inside Out.
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| • The Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents: Nutcracker Hardcover Book
For more than 20 years, the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s performance of Nutcracker has been the Christmas family event to attend in the Northwest. Highlighted by Maurice Sendak’s stunning production design and Kent Stowell’s inventive choreography (which emphasizes the darker psychological aspects of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s original story), the ballet has been a critical and popular success. Fans of the performance can now relive each scene through the pages of this exquisite keepsake edition. From the Christmas party where young Clara is given a simple nutcracker, to her adventures and romance in the enchanted kingdom of the Nutcracker Prince, Angela Sterling’s photographs capture all the magic of this beloved work. Designed for children, the book’s handsome images and seasonal charm make this a thoughtful gift for adult balletomanes as well.
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| • Maria Fay's Floor Barre Paperback Book
A collection of exercises for dancers, to be performed lying on the floor, to improve and enhance technqiue and prevent injuries. This is a great book describing a wonderful and unique system of exercises for dancers. It is suitable not only for those who have suffered an injury and need remedial work, but also for fit dancers and students of dance who want to avoid injuries in the future.
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| • Both Sides of the Mirror: The Science and Art of Ballet Paperback Book
Used Paperback. Scholarly and masterly written work on ballet technique. Ms. Paskevska, a one time pupil of Cleo Nordi who was a dancer with Pavlova, who in her turn was a pupil of Legat. This is ballet tradition at its very highest level. A truly wonderful volume, full of wisdom and knowledge. It is a must for every teacher of ballet, every serious ballet student and also for parents. The historical details explain how the art has evolved during the centuries. The book will be a standard work like "Basic Principles" by Vaganova.
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| • The Random House Book of Stories from the Ballet Hardcover Book
Used Hardcover Book. In this attractive book, ten of the world's best-known ballets, including The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella, are introduced to young readers. The essence of a ballet production is successfully captured by the full-color illustrations, which exuberantly portray each story's setting, and the writing style, which maintains the original flavor of both the tales and ballets. Children who love to attend ballets, take ballet lessons, or like to read fairy tales will delight in this treasury. There is no more elegant or comprehensive introduction to the ballet than this enchanting book. From Swan Lake to The Sleeping Beauty, the plots of 10 beloved ballets (The Nutcracker, The Firebird, Giselle, etc.) are set forth in Geraldine McCaughrean's dramatic prose in The Random House Book of Stories from the Ballet; Angela Barrett's finely detailed artwork-elaborate borders, evocative spot pictures and full-page paintings-ranges from haunting to comic. The most recent ballets covered are Romeo and Juliet, Petrouchka, and The Firebird. The reteller presents them as short stories complete with dialogue and thoughts. She does a credible job of briefly and accurately presenting the plots in a way that should hold the interest of readers who have no background on the subject. Barrett's handsome illustrations have a 19th-century, old-fashioned look. They include lots of period detail, and are done predominately in pastels, gold, orange, and dark blue. They look just like ballets in their detailed design and pretty colors.
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| • No Intermissions: The Life Of Agnes De Mille Paperback Book
"Agnes is a very demanding person, she eats up the air," said a friend of choreographer, writer and cultural whirlwind Agnes de Mille. This biography is equally daunting. Easton, biographer of Sam Goldwyn, Jacqueline du Pre and Stan Keaton, has evaluated almost every dance movement, artistic exchange and tantrum of de Mille's 88 years. But far from being irksome, the detailed chronology gathers strength as its subject careens from wild success (Oklahoma and Rodeo) to chaotic failure (Sebastian lasted one night, and Come Summer closed after seven performances). Along the way, Easton doesn't neglect de Mille's equally unpredictable emotional life. Daughter of playwright William de Mille, niece of Hollywood's larger-than-life Cecil B. De Mille, she had a torturous relationship with her mother, Anna, that dominated her early career. Later, her 45-year marriage to Walter Prude, an executive of the Sol Hurok Agency, held together despite internal competition and marked divergence of personalities. The account of their last years together is deeply moving. Nor does Easton forget de Mille's almost accidental writing career. Her Dance to the Piper was a 1952 bestseller, and throughout her career, she always had a literary project under way. Her major life of Martha Graham was published in 1991, only two years before her death. This skillful portrait assumes a deep interest in the world of dance and musical theater.
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| • Balanchine: A Biography Paperback Book
Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balanchine's legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the present day. The author explores the intriguing legal, financial, and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of the greatest choreographer of the century, but the central plot of his epilogue is the aesthetic issue: In the absence of their creator, can the ballets retain their wondrous vitality? Taper illuminates the fascinating transmission of Balanchine's masterworks from one generation to another, an unprecented legacy in the history of ballet, that most evanescent of the arts.
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