Ballet

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's operas cover a significant period of French historyfrom the Restoration, through the July Monarchy and the Second Re...

Anne Green Gilberts Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Second Edition, strikes the perfect balance between hard science and practicality, making it...

The Petersburg Noverre accounts for Marius Petipas ballets produced on the Russian stage between 1847 and 1910. It is organized by year starting fr...

'A beautifully crafted must read' Jason Mott, author of Hell of a Book A once-famous ballet dancer faces a devastating choice to return to the cu...

In his intimate memoir, legendary ballet dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep looks back on the extraordinary times he's lived through. Wayne Sleep h...

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire ...

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses...

YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse ...

The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes t...

In Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, c...

In Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, c...

As an introduction to ballets history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a danc...

As an introduction to ballets history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a danc...

While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous Littlefield School of...

Alexei Ratmansky is transforming ballet for the twenty-first century. An artist of daring imagination, the choreographer has created breathtakingly...

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...