Ballet

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 ...

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 ...

In Enlightenment Europe, a new form of pantomime ballet emerged, through the dual channels of theorization in print and experimentation onstage. Em...

A charmingly illustrated exploration of The Nutcracker ballet, from the story to the characters to the music, for kids aged 8 - 12 to enjoy. The Nu...

In this book the author takes the concept of the New as a starting point to open the way to a broader reflection on ar t production within neoliber...

The principal dancer of the Montreal-based company La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999, Louise Lecavalier was the single most iconic dancer of h...

This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the worlds most important ballet danc...

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close...

Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the ...

Alexei Ratmansky is the most sought-after man in ballet (The New Yorker). A former artistic director at the Bolshoi Ballet and the resident choreog...

Predominantly white casting in ballet has led many to wonder, Where are all the black swans? This book sheds light on female dancers of colour, inc...

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instru...

This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreograp...

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time. 2022 CHOI...

Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them by ...

Roots and Wings recounts Virginia Tanner's remarkable career as a dance artist, educator, and founder of the University of Utah's Tanner Dance Prog...

The sensational discovery of this work by Grazioso Cecchetti, son of the great Italian ballet master Enrico (1850-1928), represents the only direct...

The sensational discovery of this work by Grazioso Cecchetti, son of the great Italian ballet master Enrico (1850-1928), is now made extremely valu...