Ballet

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...