Ballet

This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeares works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eight...

An unputdownable tale of obsession, jealousy and heartache against the backdrop of WW2 May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling opti...

This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 18301870. The Romantic ballet had ...

Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession a way of making a living perhaps. For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it is...

Corps de ballet literally means the body of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group o...

Corps de ballet literally means the body of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group o...

Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant and part holy incantation New York Times Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shak...

ENGLike A Bomb Going Off explores the rich and complex history of twentieth-century ballet and the even more complex history of the expressive arts...

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional hist...

This book is about surviving grief, and charts a journey of exceptional love. Now, aged 77, the burden of ambition has left the author and she has,...

This book celebrates one of the worlds finest private gathering of music manuscripts, held on deposit at the Morgan Library. Robert Owen Lehmans su...

The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is known all over the world for the famous Christmas anthem 'Minuit chrétiens' ('O Holy Night'). Howe...

The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is particularly famous for the Christmas anthem 'Minuit chrétiens' ('O Holy Night'). He was renowned ...

For fans of Hidden Figures and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'The kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!' MISTY C...

For fans of Hidden Figures and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'The kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!' MISTY C...

Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at ...

The Movements are a moving meditation which brings the body, emotions, mind and spirit into total Harmony. It works instantly. The effects are simi...

An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is ...