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Books: Ballet - General
 'Dance is the air we breathe' - dance quotations.
Author: Exley, Helen (ed.) Published: 1993 A pocketbook of dance quotations, from authors and dancers ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche to Wayne Sleep. With 30... [full description] | Hardback [2239-HB] £ 4.99 Add to order |
American Indian ballerinas. Author: Livingston, Lili Cockerille Published: 1997 Biographies of Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, Rosella Hightower, and Yvonne Chouteau. | Hardback [0044-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 Antoinette Sibley
Author: Spatt, Leslie E. Published: 1981 More than 200 black-and-white photographs, mostly in live performances, of one of England's greatest ballerinas. | Hardback [2918-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
 L'Apres-midi d'un faune, Vaslav Nijinsky 1912.
Author: de Meyer, Adolf Published: 1983 The complete set of de Meyer's thirty-three photographs of Nijinsky's masterpiece, L'Après-midi d'un... [full description] | Hardback [2905-HB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 Ashley Page, choreography and music.
Author: Nicholas, Larraine Published: 2000 A 32-page A4 size booklet, in which the choreographer discusses his work with Stephanie Jordan and others. Also... [full description] | Paperback [0751-PB] £ 5.00 Add to order |
 Bakhchisarai Fountain - Kirov Ballet.
Author: Pushkin, Alexander Published: 1982 Excerpts from Pushkin's poem, hand calligraphed in English, Russian, and French by Jose Mendoza y Almeida, and... [full description] | Paperback [3639-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Balanchine then and now.
Author: Hogan (editor), Anne Published: 2008 George Balanchine was among the foremost choreographers of the 20th century. In a career spanning more than six decades... [full description] | Paperback [5369-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Balanchine variations.
Author: Goldner, Nancy Published: 2008 Veteran New York critic Nancy Goldner, who has been watching performances by New York City Ballet almost from its... [full description] | Paperback [5356-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Ballet 101: a complete guide to learning and loving the ballet.
Author: Greskovic, Robert Published: 1998 Includes a history of ballet, dancers and their training, recommended reading and video viewing, as well as a detailed... [full description] | Paperback [0714-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 The ballet called Giselle.
Author: Beaumont, Cyril W. Published: 1996 First published in 1944, and thus now somewhat dated, this classic book remains the definitive work on one of the great... [full description] | Paperback [2730-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 The ballet collaborations of Richard Strauss.
Author: Heisler, Wayne Published: 2009 Richard Strauss contributed music to several ballets during his career, collaborating with prominent dance artists of... [full description] | Hardback [5719-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
 The ballet companion, a dancer's guide to the technique, traditions, and joys of ballet.
Author: Minden, Eliza Gaynor Published: 2005 A fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up to date reference book for the dancer. With 150 photographs of ballet stars... [full description] | Hardback [4603-HB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Ballet dance.
Author: Bingham, Jane Published: 2008 A short, well illustrated introduction for advanced primary level children, providing a detailed look at the... [full description] | Hardback [5508-HB] £ 13.50 Add to order |
 Ballet dancers in career transition.
Author: Upper, Nancy Published: 2004 The average length of a professional dancer's career is ten to fifteen years. As with professional athletes, once the... [full description] | Paperback [4394-PB] £ 35.50 Add to order |
 Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 2001 A fully revised and updated edition of the standard history of the Paris Opera Ballet. The text is in French only, but... [full description] | Paperback [3161-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Ballet in Leicester Square, the Alhambra and the Empire, 1860 - 1915.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1992 More than half a century separated the golden age of the romantic ballet and the revelation of Diaghilev's Ballets... [full description] | Hardback [2995-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 Ballet in the Blitz: International Ballet.
Author: Inglesby, Mona Published: 2008 Mona Inglesby founded the International Ballet company in 1940 when she was a young dancer of 22, and from its first... [full description] | Paperback [5403-PB] £ 11.95 Add to order |
 The Ballet of the Enlightenment, the ballet d'action in France from 1790-1793.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1996 A lengthy and scholarly, yet eminently readable history, concentrating on the careers of Vestris pere, Noverre,... [full description] | Hardback [2592-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Ballet under Napoleon.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 2002 Publication of this title completes Dr. Guest's massive survey of ballet in France from 1770 to 1870. This new volume... [full description] | Hardback [1488-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
 Ballet's magic kingdom.
Author: Volynsky, Akim Published: 2008 Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and... [full description] | Hardback [5577-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The ballets of Ludwig Minkus.
Author: Letellier, Robert Ignatius Published: 2008 Ludwig Minkus was a major figure in the theatres of the Imperial Russian ballet of the late nineteenth century, but... [full description] | Hardback [5489-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 The ballets of Maurice Ravel.
Author: Mawer, Deborah Published: 2006 Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors,... [full description] | Hardback [4723-HB] £ 55.00 Add to order |
 The Ballets Russes and the art of design.
Author: Purvis, Alston & Peter Rand, Anna Winestein Published: 2009 The Ballets Russes was a phenomenon of the early twentieth century, permeating daily life wherever the company... [full description] | Hardback [5784-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 Ballets Suedois.
Author: Hager, Bengt Published: 1990 Richly illustrated and beautifully produced history of the Paris based Swedish run avant-garde ballet company of the... [full description] | Hardback [0217-HB] £ 55.00 Add to order |
 Baryshnikov in black and white.
Author: Acocella, Joan Published: 2002 A beautifully printed 320 page book of 175 black and white photographs of Baryshnikov in his roles from 1974... [full description] | Hardback [1435-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Bloomsbury ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial dancer, and Mrs John Maynard Keynes.
Author: Mackrell, Judith Published: 2008 Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Just five feet tall and a natural... [full description] | Hardback [5350-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The Bournonville Ballets, a photographic record 1844-1933.
Author: Jurgensen, Knud Arne Published: Nearly 500 studio photographs and set designs of the Bournonville ballets, from 1844 to 1933. An essential book for all... [full description] | Hardback [2605-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The Bournonville tradition: the first fifty years, 1829-1879. Two volume set.
Author: Jurgensen, Knud Arne Published: 1997 A documentary biography of August Bournonville, his life, ideas and beliefs, followed by a comprehensive, annotated... [full description] | Hardback [2692-HB] £ 48.00 Add to order |
By with to & from. Author: Kirstein, Lincoln Published: 1991 A selection of writings on dance, painting, theatre, photography, etc. | Hardback [2181-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 The Cambridge companion to ballet.
Author: Kant, Marion Published: 2007 The evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century, discussed in a... [full description] | Paperback [5078-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 A century of Russian ballet.
Author: Wiley, Roland John Published: 1990, 2007 A Century of Russian Ballet brings its readers as close as written records can to the realities of being a... [full description] | Paperback [5230-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 The Chevalier Noverre, father of modern ballet.
Author: Lynham, Deryck Published: 2009, 1950 The name of Jean Georges Noverre stands forth in bold relief against the background of the history of the art of... [full description] | Paperback [5665-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
Choreography and narrative. Author: Foster, Susan Leigh Published: 1996 The development of the story ballet from the early 18th century fair theatres through the revolutionary fetes, to the... [full description] | Paperback [2273-PB] £ 21.50 Add to order |
 The choreography of Antony Tudor, focus on four ballets.
Author: Duerden, R Chamberlain Published: 2003 An analytical overview of the ballets created for the stage by Antony Tudor and an in-depth critical analysis of four... [full description] | Hardback [3871-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order |
 Choura.
Author: Danilova, Alexandra Published: The autobiography of one of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's most famous and best loved ballerinas. | Hardback [2791-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
The Christensen Brothers, an American dance epic. Author: Sowell, Debra Hickenlooper Published: 1998 Triple biography of three of the founders of twentieth century ballet in America, and their work with Balanchine and... [full description] | Paperback [0935-PB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 Cyril W. Beaumont, dance writer and publisher.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley Published: 2006 From a small specialist bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road, Cyril W. Beaumont established an international... [full description] | Hardback [4876-HB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Dance anecdotes: stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance.
Author: Aloff, Mindy Published: 2006 Mindy Aloff, an American dance critic, has here brought together a wonderful collection of stories by and about... [full description] | Paperback [4730-PB] £ 10.99 Add to order |
 Dance in poetry.
Author: Raftis, Alkis Published: 1991 An anthology of poems about or inspired by dance. The poets include Apollinaris, Emily Dickinson, James Elroy Flecker,... [full description] | Paperback [1016-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Dance masters, interviews with legends of dance.
Author: Roseman, Janet Lynn Published: 2001 Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these... [full description] | Paperback [0865-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Dance Now, Autumn 2002, MacMillan - a celebration.
Published: 2002 This issue of the journal Dance Now contains a 24 page section celebrating the work of the choreographer Sir... [full description] | Paperback [3953-PB] £ 3.00 Add to order |
 Dance Now, Autumn 2004 - Ashton celebrated.
Published: 2004 The autumn 2004 issue of Dance Now contains a series of articles celebrating the centenary of the birth of... [full description] | Paperback [4579-PB] £ 3.75 Add to order |
 Dance of my life.
Author: Alexander, Susan Published: 2007 When Susan Alexander was introduced to ballet classes (in 1944) at her Edinburgh school, she was only nine years old... [full description] | Paperback [5303-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
 Dance writings and poetry.
Author: Denby, Edwin Published: 1998 Reviews, essays and poems from one of the most important and influential American dance critics of the twentieth... [full description] | Paperback [1156-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Dance writings.
Author: Denby, Edwin Published: 1986 The collected dance criticms, 1936 - 1965, of one of America's greatest dance critics. 'With other critics you can... [full description] | Hardback [2906-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
The dancer who flew: a memoir of Rudolf Nureyev. Author: Maybarduk, Linda Published: 1999 Aimed at young readers, this is an account of the life and work of Nureyev written by ballerina Linda Maybarduk, who... [full description] | Hardback [2159-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
 The dancer within: intimate conversations with great dancers.
Author: Eichenbaum, Rose Published: A collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and... [full description] | Hardback [5447-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 A dancer's scrapbook, from the Capitol Theatre New York City to Carnegie Hall with Doris Niles.
Author: Leslie, Serge Published: 1987 The story of a beautiful Californian girl who became one of the great Broadway stars of the 1920s, and later a famous... [full description] | Hardback [3001-HB] £ 10.95 Add to order |
 Dancing in Petersburg, the memoirs of Mathilde Kschessinska.
Author: Kschessinska, Mathilde Published: 2005 Mathilde Kschessinska was one of the last great ballerinas of pre-Soviet Russia, one of the only two to be officially... [full description] | Paperback [3441-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Dancing in the vortex, the story of Ida Rubinstein.
Author: Woolf, Vicki Published: 2000 Virtually untrained as a dancer, Ida Rubinstein's qualities as a performer warranted her a place in the first... [full description] | Hardback [2491-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
 Dancing into the unknown.
Author: Finch, Tamara Tchinarova Published: 2007 Tamara Tchinarova was born in Romania of Russian parents and began her dance training in Paris with emigré... [full description] | Hardback [4963-HB] £ 18.00 Add to order |
 Dancing lives: five female dancers from the ballet d'action to Merce Cunningham.
Author: Eliot, Karen Published: 2007 Working from the premise that dance history can be studied as it has been created in and through the bodies of dancers,... [full description] | Hardback [5288-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Danse a L'Opera.
Author: Ruet, Stephane Published: 2004 160 pages of photographs, in colour and black and white, of the étoiles and other dancers of the Paris Opera... [full description] | Hardback [1210-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 De Basil's Ballets Russes.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley Published: 1982, 2010 Drawn partly from the scattered remnants of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and partly from extraordinary new talent,... [full description] | Paperback [5808-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Degas and the dance.
Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman Published: A short study, for younger readers, of Degas' work behind the scenes at the Paris Opéra, with more than thirty... [full description] | Hardback [1258-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
Degas backstage. Author: Kendall, Richard Published: 1996 For more than forty years Edgar Degas remained fascinated with ballet. But his attention gradually shifted from the... [full description] | Hardback [2094-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
 The Diaghilev Ballet, 1909 - 1929.
Author: Grigoriev, Serge Leonovich Published: 1954, 2009 The Diaghilev Ballet existed from 1909 to 1929; and from its beginning to its end Serge Grigoriev acted as... [full description] | Paperback [5623-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Author: Garafola, Lynn Published: In the history of twentieth-century ballet no company has had so profound an influence as Serge Diaghilev's Ballets... [full description] | Paperback [2372-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. Author: Nijinsky, Vaslav Published: 1999 Nijinsky's diary was written during a six week period before his 30th birthday and gives us an insight into the end of... [full description] | Paperback [1234-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
 Different drummer, the life of Kenneth Macmillan.
Author: Parry, Jann Published: 2009 Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies. However, MacMillan was tormented by an... [full description] | Hardback [5711-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The divine Virginia, a biography of Virginia Zucchi.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1977 Virginia Zucchi was one of the most influential and inspirational dancers of the late 19th century. The first and... [full description] | Hardback [2933-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Dying swans and madmen: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema.
Author: McLean, Adrienne L Published: 2008 From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits... [full description] | Paperback [5429-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
Early memoirs. Author: Nijinska, Bronislava Published: 1992 The memoirs of Nijinsky's younger sister, the choreographer of Les Biches and Les Noces. It includes much valuable... [full description] | Paperback [0719-PB] £ 21.50 Add to order |
 The Faber pocket guide to ballet.
Author: Bull, Deborah & Luke Jennings Published: 2004 An easy to use guide to classical ballet, spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance, with descriptive entries... [full description] | Paperback [4373-PB] £ 7.99 Add to order |
 A feast of wonders: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.
Author: Bowlt, John E & Zelfira Tregulova, Nathalie Rosticher Giordano Published: 2009 A most beautiful book published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sergei Diaghilev's first ballet presentations in... [full description] | Hardback [5706-HB] £ 39.95 Add to order |
 Fernando Bujones, an autobiography.
Author: Bujones, Fernando & Zeida Cecilia-Mendez Published: 2009 This story takes the reader through Bujones' escape from Cuba at age 9, to his start as a gifted scholarship student at... [full description] | Hardback [5771-HB] £ 25.99 Add to order |
 Fleeting instants.
Author: Marion-Valentine Published: 2004 Born in France, Marion-Valentine began studying photography when she was sixteen, and her first photographs appeared in... [full description] | Hardback [3343-HB] £ 29.95 Add to order |
 Following Sir Fred's steps, Ashton's legacy.
Author: Jordan, Stephanie & Andree Grau Published: 1996 An insightful and wide-ranging look at the rich legacy of Sir Frederick Ashton, based on papers, talks, and practical... [full description] | Paperback [2596-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Frederic Franklin, a biography of the ballet star.
Author: Norton, Leslie Published: 2007 With a career spanning more than eight decades, legendary dancer Frederic Franklin remains one of the twentieth... [full description] | Paperback [5167-PB] £ 28.95 Add to order |
 Frederick Ashton and his ballets
Author: Vaughan, David Published: 1999 A new edition of David Vaughan's definitive work on Frederick Ashton. This updated edition includes a new final chapter... [full description] | Hardback [2909-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Frederick Ashton, founder choreographer of the Royal Ballet.
Author: Franchi, Cristina Published: 2004 The editor of this book, Cristina Franchi, is Exhibitions Curator at the Royal Opera House. Each season she draws on... [full description] | Paperback [4432-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 From Petipa to Balanchine.
Author: Scholl, Tim Published: 1994 Classical revival and the modernization of Russian ballet in the first decades of the twentieth century. | Hardback [1235-HB] £ 70.00 Add to order |
 Getting closer, a dancer's perspective.
Author: O'Connor, Rosalie Published: 2004 A former dancer with American Ballet Theatre, Rosalie O'Connor takes us behind the scenes of this much loved American... [full description] | Hardback [2087-HB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 Hans Brenaa, Danish ballet master.
Author: Schonberg, Bent Published: 1990 A biography of the famous Danish dancer and ballet master: a great dancer, a superb partner, and supreme as a preserver... [full description] | Paperback [1237-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Harald Lander, his life and ballets.
Author: Aschengreen, Erik Published: 2009 Harald Lander (1905-71) was the most important figure in the history of the Royal Danish Ballet in the 20th century.... [full description] | Hardback [5639-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Henning Kronstam, portrait of a Danish dancer.
Author: Tomalonis, Alexandra Published: 2002 The story of Henning Kronstam, one of the greatest of twentieth century dancers, who dominated the Royal Danish Ballet... [full description] | Hardback [0318-HB] £ 28.00 Add to order |
 A history of theatre.
Author: Wickham, Glynne Published: 1992 In this masterly survey Glynne Wickham outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3,000... [full description] | Paperback [2416-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order |
 I, Maya Plisetskaya.
Author: Plisetskaya, Maya Published: 2001 Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet... [full description] | Hardback [1091-HB] £ 28.00 Add to order |
 Imperial dancer: Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs.
Author: Hall, Coryne Published: 2005 Mathilde Kschessinska, famed as the lover of the future Tsar Nicholas II, was the first Russian Prima Ballerina... [full description] | Hardback [3707-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 In Balanchine's company, a dancer's memoir.
Author: Fisher, Barbara Milberg Published: 2006 During her twelve years with Ballet Society and the New York City Ballet, from 1946 to 1958, Barbara Milberg worked... [full description] | Hardback [4844-HB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 In good company: sixty years with The Royal Ballet.
Author: Edwards, Leslie Published: 2003 No other dancer has ever matched Leslie Edwards' amazing career with the Royal Ballet: more than sixty years of... [full description] | Hardback [0959-HB] £ 18.00 Add to order |
 Invitation Sylvie Guillem.
Author: Tapie, Gilles Published: 2005 An enormous book, nearly 40 x 30 cm and weighing in at nearly 5 kilos, of photographs of Sylvie Guillem, mostly in... [full description] | Hardback [3664-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 Irina Kolesnikova.
Author: Alovert, Nina Published: 2004 A large format hardback book of colour photographs of Irina Kolesnikova, star ballerina of Konstantin Tatchkin's St... [full description] | Hardback [1198-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order |
 Irina: Ballet, life and love.
Second hand or out of print title Author: Baronova, Irina Published: 2006 The autobiography of Irina Baronova, one of the most popular of Colonel de Basil's 'baby ballerinas. Born in Russia to... [full description] | Hardback [4705-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 Irish moves: an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland.
Author: Mulrooney, Deirdre Published: 2006 Irish Moves explores and celebrates the history of dance in Ireland, showcasing, and in some cases salvaging,... [full description] | Paperback [4880-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Jerome Robbins: his life, his theater, his dance.
Author: Jowitt, Deborah Published: 2004 In this authoritative biography, Deborah Jowitt explores the life, works, and creative processes of the complex genius... [full description] | Paperback [4355-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
Joan Denise Moriarty. Author: Fleischmann, Ruth Published: 1998 Biographical collection of writings about the founder of the Irish National Ballet. Moriarty directed the company until... [full description] | Paperback [2381-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
The Joffrey Ballet. Author: Anawalt, Sasha Published: 1996 A comprehensive account of the life and work of Robert Joffrey and the Joffrey Ballet. | Hardback [1476-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 Jules Perrot.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1984 Perrot was, by any measure, the most brilliant and influential choreographer of his age, that of the romantic ballet.... [full description] | Hardback [2996-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 The Legat saga.
Author: Gregory, John Published: 1993 A large format account of the life and work of the Russian dancer and teacher Nicolai Legat, containing much useful... [full description] | Hardback [2729-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Letters from a ballet master.
Author: Saint-Leon, Arthur Published: 1981 Arthur Saint-Leon, the choreographer of Coppelia, was an indefatigable and articulate letter writer. This collection,... [full description] | Hardback [3015-HB] £ 6.95 Add to order |
 Letters on dance and choreography.
Author: Bournonville, August Published: 2000 A translation into English, by Knud Arne JUrgensen, of a newly discovered series of eight public letters, first... [full description] | Hardback [0422-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Letters on dancing and ballets.
Author: Noverre, Jean-Georges Published: 2004 The dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre's Letters on dancing and ballets were first published in 1760,... [full description] | Paperback [0078-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
The life and ballets of Lev Ivanov. Author: Wiley, Roland John Published: 1997 The first full-length study of the Russian dancer and choreographer, Petipa's colleague and Tchaikovsky's collaborator,... [full description] | Hardback [1985-HB] £ 99.00 Add to order |
 Lilian Baylis, a biography.
Author: Schafer, Elizabeth Published: 2006 Lilian Baylis, manager of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells Theatres, somehow was able to run, virtually single handed,... [full description] | Paperback [4923-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order |
Lola Montez, a life. Author: Seymour, Bruce Published: 1995 A biography of the notorious 19th century dancer, actress, and courtesan. | Hardback [1299-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Lola Montez, her life and conquests.
Author: Morton, James Published: 2007 Not many women can claim to have brought down a monarchy, but the behaviour of Lola Montez, dancer, actress, courtesan... [full description] | Hardback [4928-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 Lord Berners: composer, writer, painter.
Author: Dickinson, Peter Published: 2008 This is not a straight biography of Lord Berners, but rather a fascinating collection of 15 interviews with people who... [full description] | Hardback [5502-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
The making of a choreographer, Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergeres Author: Genne, Beth Published: 1996 A detailed study of the only ballet that de Valois choreographed (in 1934)for Ballet Rambert. It includes facsimile... [full description] | Paperback [2992-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Malakhov's Sleeping Beauty - escapades with the Berlin State Ballet.
Author: Sistenich, Frank & Christiane Theobald, Monika Rittershaus Published: 2006 A record, in words and many photographs (many in colour) of Vladimir Malakhov's production of Sleeping Beauty... [full description] | Hardback [4881-HB] £ 24.50 Add to order |
 Malcolm Williamson: a mischievous muse.
Author: Meredith, Anthony Published: 2007 A biography of the former Master of the Queen's Music, the Australian born composer Malcolm Williamson, who worked with... [full description] | Hardback [5232-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Mao's last dancer.
Author: Cunxin, Li Published: 2003 Li Cunxin grew up in a remote commune village in China, his young life full of hardship. Then in 1971, at the age of... [full description] | Paperback [0150-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet.
Author: Franchi, Cristina Published: 2004 The editor of this book, Cristina Franchi, is Exhibitions Curator at the Royal Opera House. Each season she draws on... [full description] | Paperback [4443-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 Margot Fonteyn.
Author: Daneman, Meredith Published: 2004 List price £20.00, sale price £5.00 The legend of Margot Fonteyn has touched all those who have... [full description] | Hardback [4332-HB] £ 5.00 Add to order |
Maria Tallchief, America's prima ballerina. Author: Tallchief, Maria & Larry Kaplan Published: 1997 Maria Tallchief, the daughter of a full-blooded Indian father and a mother of Scottish-Irish descent, was the queen of... [full description] | Hardback [0732-HB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures.
Author: Macaulay, Alastair Published: 2000 In 1987 a small, aspirant dance group with a striking name made its debut on the London fringe. In 1997 the same... [full description] | Paperback [1386-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Men who dance: aesthetics, athletics, and the art of masculinity.
Author: Gard, Michael Published: 2006 Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? In this highly original piece of research, Michael... [full description] | Paperback [4888-PB] £ 29.99 Add to order |
 Michel Fokine and his ballets.
Author: Beaumont, Cyril W. Published: 1996 A reprint of a 1935 book giving a detailed analysis of Fokine's early ballets. Dated, but still full of invaluable... [full description] | Paperback [1152-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
 Mim - a personal memoir of Marie Rambert.
Author: Kelly, Brigitte Published: 2009 Although the name Rambert is now associated with modern dance, it is perhaps forgotten that the founder of the Rambert... [full description] | Paperback [5682-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Minor ballet composers: biographical sketches.
Author: Schueneman, Bruce & William E Studwell Published: 1997 Brief biographies of sixty-six 'underappreciated yet significant contributors to the body of western ballet music',... [full description] | Hardback [5075-HB] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Mosaic, an autobiography. Author: Kirstein, Lincoln Published: 1994 A compelling autobiography of the founder of New York City Ballet's youth, ending with his discovery of Balanchine. | Hardback [2193-HB] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 My dearly beloved wife!
Author: Bournonville, August Published: 2005 In 1841 the great Danish choreographer and ballet-master August Bournonville made a six-months European journey that... [full description] | Hardback [3722-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 The natural history of the ballet girl.
Author: Smith, Albert Published: A gently satirical look at the life of a Victorian ballet girl, incidentally providing much valuable information about... [full description] | Hardback [2624-HB] £ 4.99 Add to order |
 Ninette de Valois, idealist without illusions.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley Published: 1998 The life and work of Ninette de Valois, founder of The Royal Ballet, with contributions from Dame Ninette herself. | Paperback [1909-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order |
 No fixed points - dance in the twentieth century.
Author: Reynolds, Nancy & Malcolm McCormick Published: 2003 Both an essential work of reference, and a fascinating reading experience, this is a massive survey (over 900 pages) of... [full description] | Hardback [0345-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 No way home: a Cuban dancer's story.
Author: Acosta, Carlos Published: 2007 In 1980 Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of humble origins, spending his days on the streets and dreaming of a... [full description] | Hardback [5210-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Nureyev Gala Tribute programme. Second hand or out of print title Published: The souvenir programme of the gala tribute to Rudolf Nureyev, held at the London Coliseum, on Sunday March 13 1994. 124... [full description] | Paperback [4026-PB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
The Nureyev image. Author: Bland, Alexander Published: 1976 A large format pictorial record of Nureyev's career from childhood to the mid-1970s, illustrated with over 300... [full description] | Hardback [4136-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Nureyev.
Author: Brown, Howard Published: 1993 A large format volume, celebrating Nureyev's career in pictures, with 177 black and white photographs of the dancer,... [full description] | Hardback [0909-HB] £ 29.95 Add to order |
 Nureyev.
Author: Crippa, Valeria & Ralph Fassey Published: 2003 Published to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the great dancer's tragic and untimely death, this book contains a... [full description] | Hardback [1540-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 Nutcracker Nation, how an old world ballet became a Christmas tradition in the New World.
Author: Fisher, Jennifer Published: 2003 The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across... [full description] | Hardback [1181-HB] £ 15.95 Add to order |
 On technique.
Author: Speer, Dean Published: 2009 On Technique provides a fascinating look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's... [full description] | Hardback [5811-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Ondine, diary of a ballet.
Author: Henze, Hans Werner Published: 2003 In 1957 the English choreographer Frederick Ashton and the German composer Hans Werner Henze began to collaborate on a... [full description] | Hardback [3907-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 One hundred and one stories of the great ballets.
Author: Balanchine, George & Francis Mason Published: 1975 Scene-by-scene stories of 101 popular ballets, from La Fille mal Gardee (1789) to Manon (1974). | Paperback [1611-PB] £ 11.95 Add to order |
Paris modern, the Swedish Ballet 1920-1925. Author: Baer, Nancy van Norman Published: 1996 Very well illustrated catalogue (some colour) to accompany the 1996 San Francisco exhibition. Includes articles by Lynn... [full description] | Paperback [1602-PB] £ 24.95 Add to order |
 The Paris Opera Ballet.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 2006 The Paris Opéra Ballet is the cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its... [full description] | Hardback [4688-HB] £ 18.00 Add to order |
 Pas de deux: the Royal Ballet in Pictures.
Published: 2007 Over 200 colour and black and white photographs from 53 ballets in the Royal Ballet's current repertoire, photographed... [full description] | Hardback [5242-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Petrushka, sources and contexts.
Author: Wachtel, Andrew Baruch Published: 1998 Four distinguished scholars offer a detailed exploration of the ballet, focusing on each of its elements: scenario,... [full description] | Hardback [1808-HB] £ 29.50 Add to order |
 Pirouttes and passions: growing up behind the curtain.
Author: Nadasi, Mia Published: 2007 Mia Nadasi grew up and trained as a ballet dancer in Hungary in the days when the country was still under Soviet rule.... [full description] | Paperback [5061-PB] £ 14.00 Add to order |
 Playing the Empire, a dancer's life.
Author: Chapman, John Published: 2008 A short biography of the dancer, weaver, shoemaker, horsewoman, and dress-designer Peggie Sheridan, brought up in the... [full description] | Paperback [5354-PB] £ 7.99 Add to order |
 Prokofiev's ballets for Diaghilev.
Author: Press, Stephen D Published: 2005 Ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and composer Sergei Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century dance... [full description] | Hardback [4608-HB] £ 55.00 Add to order |
 A queer history of the ballet.
Author: Stoneley, Peter Published: 2006 There has long been a popular perception of a connection between ballet and homosexuality, a connection that, for... [full description] | Paperback [4812-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
 Reading critics reading: opera and ballet criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848.
Author: Parker, Roger & Mary Ann Smart Published: 2001 This book is amongst the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth... [full description] | Hardback [1668-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 Reading dance: a gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, and some uncategorizable extras.
Author: Gottlieb, Robert Published: Collections of dance writing excerpts tend to be mixed bags, often put together to give students the opportunity of not... [full description] | Hardback [5567-HB] £ 28.99 Add to order |
 The real Nureyev, an intimate memoir of ballet's greatest hero.
Author: Soutar, Carolyn Published: 2004 Written by Nureyev's stage manager at the London Coliseum during the 1980s, The real Nureyev is an intensely... [full description] | Hardback [4383-HB] £ 15.99 Add to order |
 Remembering Nureyev, the trail of a comet.
Author: van Dantzig, Rudi Published: 2008 Famously volatile, fickle in his passions for people, but with astonishing charisma onstage and off, Rudolf Nureyev is... [full description] | Hardback [5348-HB] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 Reminiscences of the Opera.
Author: Lumley, Benjamin Published: From 1842 to 1853 and again from 1856 to 1858, Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was manager of Her Majesty's Theatre in... [full description] | Paperback [5766-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Rethinking the Sylph.
Author: Garafola, Lynn Published: 1997 Essays by a premier group of international scholars on the importance of the romantic ballet within the broad context... [full description] | Paperback [2785-PB] £ 21.95 Add to order |
 Robert Helpmann, a rare sense of theatre.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley Published: 2009 Sir Robert Helpmann was a consummate man of the theatre, equally proficient as dancer or actor, in comedy or tragedy,... [full description] | Paperback [5708-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Rolf de Mare: art collector, ballet director, museum creator.
Author: Naslund, Erik Published: 2009 With a fortune inherited from one of Sweden's wealthiest families, Rolf de Maré (1888-1964) was able to live a... [full description] | Hardback [5511-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
 The romantic ballet in Paris.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 2008 The age of Romanticism in the first half of the nineteenth century was one of the greatest periods in the history of... [full description] | Hardback [5183-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 Round about the ballet.
Author: Round, Roy & William Cubberley, Joseph Carman Published: 2004 A collection of interviews with some of the finest dancers working with American Ballet Theatre and New York City... [full description] | Hardback [0081-HB] £ 22.95 Add to order |
 The Royal Ballet in House.
Author: Cooper, Bill Published: 2002 A large format hardback book, containing 200 pages of beautiful full colour photographs of The Royal Ballet, all taken... [full description] | Hardback [0261-HB] £ 27.50 Add to order |
 The Royal Ballet yearbook, 2005/6.
Author: Snelson, John Published: 2005 A 78 page paperback, illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, many in colour. This issue celebrates the... [full description] | Paperback [4555-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 The Royal Ballet yearbook, 2009/10.
Author: The Royal Opera House Published: 2009 The 2009/10 Yearbook is a richly illustrated companion to The Royal Ballet, its history, repertory, dancers and staff.... [full description] | Paperback [5753-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
 The Royal Ballet, 161 images.
Author: Persson, Johan Published: 2003 A collection of black and white photographs of the Royal Ballet caught informally - in class, rehearsing, back stage,... [full description] | Paperback [1786-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 The Royal Ballet, 75 years.
Author: Anderson, Zoe Published: 2006 A perceptive and critical account of the Royal Ballet's first 75 years, tracing its growth and cultural importance.... [full description] | Hardback [4675-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 The Royal Swedish Ballet, 1773 - 1998.
Author: Dorris, George (ed.) Published: 1999 The story of the Royal Swedish Ballet, in a series of articles based on a 1998 Stockholm conference. | Paperback [1069-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Royal Swedish Ballet, history from 1592 to 1962.
Author: Grut, Marina Published: 2007 Sweden's ballet has a fascinating history, with those involved in it ranging from international figures such as Marie... [full description] | Hardback [5281-HB] £ 88.00 Add to order |
Rudolf Nooreev. [Many illustrations, text in French] Author: Bois, Mario Published: 1993 | Hardback [1272-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
 Rudolf Nureyev and The Royal Ballet.
Author: Franchi, Cristina Published: 2005 Rudolf Nureyev first appeared with the Royal Ballet in February 1962, dancing Albrecht to Margot Fonteyn's Giselle.... [full description] | Paperback [3382-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 Rudolf Nureyev: the life.
Author: Kavanagh, Julie Published: 2007 This definitive biography, ten years in the making, draws for the first time on private papers, diaries, and home-movie... [full description] | Paperback [5209-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order |
 Russian Ballet Master: the memoirs of Marius Petipa.
Author: Petipa, Marius Published: 1958, 2009 These highly entertaining memoirs of Marius Petipa, the great Franco-Russian choreogapher had never before been... [full description] | Paperback [5674-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Sadler's Well Royal Ballet Swan Lake.
Author: Newman, Barbara & Leslie E. Spatt Published: 1983 In the autumn of 1981, the Sadler's Wells (now Birmingham) Royal Ballet, unveiled a new production of Swan Lake. This... [full description] | Hardback [3014-HB] £ 7.95 Add to order |
 San Francisco Ballet at seventy-five.
Author: Ross, Janice Published: 2006 A large-format (310 x 290mm), heavily illustrated history of one of America's oldest regional ballet companies.... [full description] | Hardback [5305-HB] £ 28.50 Add to order |
 Scottish Ballet, Forty years.
Author: Brennan, Mary Published: 2009 In 1969 a group of dancers from Western Theatre Ballet, led by the late Peter Darrell packed their hopes and memories... [full description] | Hardback [5724-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Sleeping Beauty, a legend in progress.
Author: Scholl, Tim Published: 2004 In 1999 the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg re-created its 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty. The revival... [full description] | Hardback [4294-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Somewhere: the life of Jerome Robbins.
Author: Vaill, Amanda Published: 2006 To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others he was a... [full description] | Hardback [4902-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Souvenirs de Taglioni, volume 1.
Author: Oberzaucher-Schuller, Gunhild Published: 2007 A collection of illustrated and other material from the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives in the University of Salzburg,... [full description] | Paperback [5076-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 Souvenirs de Taglioni, volume 2.
Author: Oberzaucher-Schuller, Gunhild Published: 2007 2004 saw the 200th anniversary of Marie Taglioni's birth. On that occasion, the University of Salzburg organized a... [full description] | Paperback [5330-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Soviet choreographers in the 1920s.
Author: Souritz, Elizabeth Published: 1990 A definitive study of the previously almost undocumented period of ballet in Russia following the revolution until the... [full description] | Hardback [1502-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Stanley Roseman and the dance, drawings from the Paris Opera.
Author: Roseman, Stanley Published: 1996 125 line drawings inspired by celebrated dancers and productions at the Paris Opera. Included are Roseman's drawings... [full description] | Hardback [2425-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
 The story of Dai Ailian.
Author: Glasstone, Richard Published: 2007 An enormously respected and influential figure in China, both for her wide research into Chinese folk dance and her... [full description] | Paperback [5182-PB] £ 7.99 Add to order |
 Stravinsky dances: Re-visions across a century.
Author: Jordan, Stephanie Published: 2007 More than any other twentieth-century composer, Igor Stravinsky is associated in the popular imagination with dance:... [full description] | Hardback [5293-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
 Stravinsky, a creative spring: Russia and France 1882 - 1934.
Author: Walsh, Stephen Published: 1999 A detailed biography of Stravinsky's earlier years, with much material on Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. | Paperback [0394-PB] £ 16.00 Add to order |
 Stravinsky: the second exile, France and America 1934 - 1971.
Author: Walsh, Stephen Published: 2006 In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and regarded by many as the most important... [full description] | Hardback [4772-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Tainted by experience, a life in the arts. Author: Drummond, John Published: 2000 Sir John Drummond is widely known for his commitment to the arts and for his outspoken views. Here he reveals for the... [full description] | Hardback [2046-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 Tatjana. Lebn und Werk der Choreographin und Padagogin Tatjana Gsovsky.
Author: Heuermann, Michael Published: 2007 A biography of the Russian-German dancer, choreographer, and teacher Tatjana Gsovsky, with 32 pages of photographs. The... [full description] | Paperback [5277-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Tchaikovsky's ballets. Author: Wiley, Roland John Published: 1985 A detailed analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker, combined with descriptions of the... [full description] | Paperback [1983-PB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
 Tchaikovsky.
Author: Wiley, Roland John Published: 2009 Renowned Tchaikovsky scholar Roland John Wiley provides a fresh biography aimed at both the student and music lover.... [full description] | Hardback [5756-HB] £ 27.50 Add to order |
 A time to dance, the life of Heinz Poll.
Author: Poll, Heinz Published: 2008 The late Heinz Poll is best known as the founder, choreographer, and artistic director of Ohio Ballet, a dance company... [full description] | Paperback [5625-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Tocororo, a Cuban tale.
Author: Acosta, Carlos & Angela Taylor Published: 2004 A photographic record of the making and performance of Carlos Acosta's first piece of dance theatre, based on his own... [full description] | Paperback [4380-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Under my wings, my life as an impresario. Author: Szilard, Paul Published: 2002 Paul Szilard was one of the most important American impresarios of the second half of the twentieth century, having... [full description] | Hardback [2255-HB] £ 18.99 Add to order |
 Undimmed lustre, the life of Antony Tudor.
Author: Topaz, Muriel Published: 2002 A chronological biography of one of the most creative forces in twentieth-century dance. Born in 1908 in London, Tudor... [full description] | Hardback [2515-HB] £ 30.50 Add to order |
 Vaganova, a dance journey from Petersburg to Leningrad.
Author: Krasovskaya, Vera Published: 2005 Originally published in Russian in 1989, Vaganova is the only authorised biography of the legendary Agrippina... [full description] | Hardback [3237-HB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
 Vera Volkova, a biography.
Author: Meinertz, Alexander Published: 2007 Vera Volkova was a unique figure in 20th century ballet. Brought up in Imperial St. Petersburg as one of the last... [full description] | Hardback [4982-HB] £ 18.00 Add to order |
 Verdi in performance.
Author: Latham, Alison & Roger Parker Published: 2001 The proceedings of an international conference held at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1995. The focus is... [full description] | Hardback [1638-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Vision in the desert, a dancer's life.
Author: Sulich, Vassili Published: 2001 Born in Dalmatia, Vassili Sulich's dancing career began in a children's refugee camp, continuing in England, France,... [full description] | Paperback [3934-PB] £ 10.95 Add to order |
 Vladimir Malakhov, Jahrhunderttanzer.
Author: Kilian, Gundel Published: 2006 A large and lavishly illustrated collection of photographs, in both black and white and colour, of the expatriate... [full description] | Paperback [4686-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Winter season, a dancer's journal.
Author: Bentley, Toni Published: 1982, 2003 Toni Bentley's association with New York City Ballet began when she was accepted into the company's school at the age... [full description] | Paperback [0429-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order |
 The worlds of Lincoln Kirstein.
Author: Duberman, Martin Published: 2007 Lincoln Kirstein's contributions to American life as both an intellectual force and an advocate of the arts were... [full description] | Hardback [5059-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
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