Ballet

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an...

Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of Clure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in t...

Starting from the unmistakable contrast of two socially developed movement systems, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-á-vis the ...

For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have i...

NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train in Stalin's Russia,...

Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance t...

With his technique, Casper refers to the theme Vanitas that was often used in 17th-century painting: symbols that represent the transience of earth...

'A wonderful, eye-opening debut.' The Times Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection? Sadler's Wells, 1933. ...

In her first health and fitness book, celebrated ballerina Misty Copeland shows you how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and h...

Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette...

A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from over twenty productions from the year 2017-18 at The Royal Ballet - a richly illustrated companion ...

A beautiful gift book packed with pictures from over twenty productions from the year 2018-19 at The Royal Ballet - a richly illustrated companion ...

The Outwardness of Art is a single-volume compendium of some of the best words ever written by this most subtle and wide-ranging of aesthetic theor...

'I came to Birmingham with the view to being creative, and today I believe we have not only successfully secured the future of the Company, but the...

The rebranded Royal Ballet Yearbook series is back, with extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content in addition to the usual...

___ An innocent woman sent to the Gulag. A passion that gave her the will to survive. Shattering, cinematic and brave Simon Morrison, author of Bol...

'A wonderful, eye-opening debut.' The Times Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection? Sadler's Wells, 1933. ...

NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FEATURE FILM STARRING CARLOS ACOSTA The dazzling Carlos Acosta is the Cuban Billy Elliot, a poor kid wh...

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Li...

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Li...

The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from...

This gorgeously designed retelling of The Nutcracker will make the perfect Christmas present for ballet fans everywhere! In snow white covered St. ...

An award-winning author''s journey to break out of the expectations of midlife and reclaim the daring of her girlhood by dancing in the world''s mo...

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of...

History is fiction and personal identity nothing more than historical illusion: Eleanora Antinova is the renowned US contemporary artist Eleanor An...