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Cover imageAmerican Ballet Theatre Now.

Published: 1999

A 90-minute special featuring leading American Ballet Theatre dancers in highlights of the ABT repertoire, including... [full description]

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Cover imageBournonville Ballet Technique - Fifty Enchainements. Rose Gad and Johan Kobborg.

Published:

This DVD offers a new approach to the study of the technique of the great nineteenth century Danish choreographer... [full description]

DVD [4585-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageBournonville ballet technique - video.

Published:

This video offers a new approach to the study of the technique of the great nineteenth century Danish choreographer... [full description]

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Cover imageFront Line. Henri Oguike Dance Company.

Published: 2003

Please note that due to copyright complications there is no DVD of this video available: it is issued only as a VHS... [full description]

PAL Video [2173-VI] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageMaria Fay's floor barre - the video.

Published: 2003

During the many years of her teaching career, Maria Fay became increasingly concerned by the number of dancers who... [full description]

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Cover imageMusic Dances - Balanchine choreographs Stravinsky.

Published:

Conceived, written and narrated by Stephanie Jordan, Research Professor in Dance at Roehampton University of Surrey,... [full description]

PAL Video [2720-VI] £ 35.00 Add to order


Cover imageWarm up: anatomy as a master image. Ruth Solomon.

Published:

In this carefully crafted one-hour video, Ruth Solomon illustrates the warm up that is the cornerstone of her approach... [full description]

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Cover imageDancing the black question: the Phoenix Dance Company phenomenon.

Author: Adair, Christy

Published: 2007

In this dynamic cultural history of the internationally acclaimed Phoenix Dance Company, Christy Adair considers the... [full description]

Paperback [5165-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageDance analysis: theory and practice.

Author: Adshead, Janet

Published:

A collection of essays attempting to draw together work in aesthetics on the value of analysing dance works with... [full description]

Paperback [1392-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageDancing texts: intertextuality in interpretation.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet

Published: 1999

An innovative approach to dance analysis, looking at issues in the interpretation and reading of dances and... [full description]

Paperback [3134-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe struggle with the angel: a poetics of Lloyd Newson's 'Strange Fish'.

Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet

Published: 2007

In The Struggle with the Angel Janet Adshead-Lansdale makes two major contributions to research in... [full description]

Paperback [5166-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageArt without boundaries, the world of modern dance.

Author: Anderson, Jack

Published: 1997

An important history of modern dance, starting with an analysis of early influences from the end of the 19th century... [full description]

Hardback [2854-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order

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Cover imageMovement awareness and creativity.

Author: Bartal, Leah & Nira Ne'eman

Published: 2002

An exploration of the entire gamut of the body's potential for creative movement. Fully illustrated with over seventy... [full description]

Paperback [1603-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageAlphabet of classical dance.

Author: Bazarova, Nadezhda & Varvara Mey

Published: 1987

Alphabet of Classical Dance sets out in detail the classes taught in their first three years of study to... [full description]

Paperback [2946-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageMichel 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


Cover imageThe moment of movement.

Author: Blom, Lynne Anne & L. Tarin Chaplin

Published: 1989, 2000

A comprehensive guide to movement improvisation, including lucid presentation of 200 examples for students, beginning... [full description]

Paperback [1266-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageLetters 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


Cover imageMy 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


Cover imageShakespeare and the dance.

Author: Brissenden, Alan

Published: 1981, 2001

Dancing was an essential part of life in Shakespeare's England, and it occurs in almost all of Shakespeare's plays from... [full description]

Paperback [0493-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageLabanotation for beginners.

Author: Brown, Ann Kipling

Published: 2008

Labanotation is one of the most widely used systems of dance notation in the world today, and this elementary textbook... [full description]

Paperback [5325-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe vision of modern dance.

Author: Brown, Jean Morrison

Published: 1998

The story of the development of modern dance, told in the words of 35 of its creators, from Isadora Duncan through... [full description]

Paperback [1354-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageBournonville and ballet technique.

Author: Bruhn, Erik & Lillian Moore

Published: 2005

A facsimile reprint of a now very rare 1961 publication, in which the great Danish dancer Erik Bruhn and the American... [full description]

Paperback [3684-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageBuckle at the ballet.

Author: Buckle, Richard

Published: 1980

A witty and enormously entertaining collection of ballet and dance criticism, covering ther period 1950 - 1975.

Hardback [2904-HB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageThe student dancer.

Author: Buckroyd, Julia

Published: 2000

In The Student Dancer, Julia Buckroyd brings together the fields of education, welfare, counselling and... [full description]

Paperback [2421-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageHistory and the morris dance.

Author: Cutting, John

Published: 2005

'Where did morris come from, and what was it for?'

After thirty years of dancing, teaching, and research, John... [full description]

Paperback [4577-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageChoura.

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


Cover imageL'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]

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Cover imageDance writings.

Author: Denby, Edwin

Published: 1986

The collected dance criticms, 1936 - 1965, of America's greatest dance critics. 'With other critics you can agree or... [full description]

Hardback [2906-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageDancing off the page: integrating performance, choreography, analysis and notation/documentation.

Author: Duerden, Rachel & Neil Fisher

Published: 2007

'What is choreographic style?' 'What is the nature of the relationship between performance, choreography, analysis and... [full description]

Paperback [4901-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageIn 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


Cover imageNicolas Legat - heritage of a ballet master.

Author: Eglevsky, Andre & John Gregory

Published: 1978

The life and work of one of the twentieth century's great ballet masters, with reminiscences and tributes by leading... [full description]

Hardback [3017-HB] £ 8.95 Add to order


Cover imageDancing 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


Cover imageResearching dance, evolving modes of inquiry.

Author: Fraleigh, Sondra Horton & Penelope Hanstein

Published: 1999

An introduction to dance research methods addressed primarily at graduate students. Contains essays by nine dance... [full description]

Paperback [2497-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageClassical ballet terms, an illustrated dictionary.

Author: Glasstone, Richard

Published: 2001

Wherever ballet is taught in the world, and in whatever language, it retains one common denominator: the technical... [full description]

Paperback [1059-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageLessons in classical dance.

Author: Golovkina, Sophia

Published: 1991

Lessons in classical dance is designed for teachers of Russian classical ballet at advanced level. The six... [full description]

Hardback [2771-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageKnowing dance, a guide for creative teaching.

Author: Gough, Marion

Published: 1999

A general framework for understanding the many different aims, demands and constraints of teaching dance, with... [full description]

Paperback [1061-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe Bolero school.

Author: Grut, Marina

Published: 2002

The Bolero school is a book for both ballet and Spanish dancers, and a journey through the history of the fascinating... [full description]

Hardback [1112-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageAdvanced Labanotation, issue 7: center of weight.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson

Published: 2003

The possibilities of exploring in Labanotation movements in which placement of body weight is of particular importance:... [full description]

Paperback [1123-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageFanny Elssler's Cachucha, Labanotation score.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson

Published: 1981

Fanny Elssler's famous solo, reproduced from Zorn's 'Grammar of the art of dancing' in Zorn's own notation and word... [full description]

Paperback [3055-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageAdvanced Labanotation, issue 4: sequential movements.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Joukje Kolff

Published: 2003

How to write a successive movement in Labanotation, a movement that flows from one part of the body to another in... [full description]

Paperback [3900-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageAdvanced Labanotation, issue 5: hands, fingers.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Joukje Kolff

Published: 2002

The notation of hand movements ranging from broad general statements for the whole hand to detailed descriptions that... [full description]

Paperback [2249-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageAdvanced Labanotation, issue 6: floorwork, basic acrobatics.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Joukje Kolff

Published: 2003

This issue completes the theory relating to movements on the floor, supporting on various body parts and transitions... [full description]

Paperback [3892-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageAdvanced Labanotation, issue 8: handling of objects, props.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Joukje Kolff

Published: 2002

The description and notation of various different types of objects, such as sticks, fans, swords, ribbons, and candles,... [full description]

Paperback [2099-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageAdvanced Labanotation, issue 9: spatial variations.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Joukje Kolff

Published: 2002

Specific details on a range of aspects of movement. These include finer intermediate directions, greater variations in... [full description]

Paperback [3886-PB] £ 24.00 Add to order


Cover imageBallet 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageBallet 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


Cover imageJules 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageOndine, 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


Cover imageThe art of making dances.

Author: Humphrey, Doris

Published: 1991

One of the first and most important books on choreographing modern dance, a lucid and practical source book.

Paperback [0571-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe dancer's body, a medical perspective on dance and dance training.

Author: Huwyler, Josef S

Published: 2002

'The Dancer's Body', providing a wealth of practical and useful information about the dancer's instrument, is written... [full description]

Paperback [3865-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe art of dancing, a poem in three cantos.

Author: Jenyns, Soame

Published: 1978

A 1729 poem hymning the joys of the dance.

Hardback [3034-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageBig City, complete Labanotation score.

Author: Jooss, Kurt & Clare Lidbury

Published: 2000

The complete notated score of Kurt Jooss's 1932 ballet, including Alexandre Tansman's score arranged for piano solo.

Spiral bound [3765-SP] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageMoving music.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 2000

An in depth discussion of the relationships between music and ballet. Part 1 contains a broad overview of different... [full description]

Paperback [2228-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imagePreservation politics, dance revived, reconstructed, remade.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 2001

The proceedings of a conference held at the University of Surrey Roehampton in 1997, the first major European... [full description]

Paperback [0884-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageStravinsky 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


Cover imageStriding out, aspects of contemporary and new dance in Britain.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 1992

A detailed examination of the work of the English modern dance company Strider (1972 - 1975) and of four major... [full description]

Paperback [2712-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageAshton to Stravinsky: A Study of Four Ballets with choreography by Frederick Ashton.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie & Geraldine Morris

Published: 2005

Frederick Ashton, one of the foremost British choreographers of the twentieth century, set four Stravinsky scores. The... [full description]

DVD [4458-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageAshton to Stravinsky: A Study of Four Ballets with choreography by Frederick Ashton.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie & Geraldine Morris

Published: 2005

Frederick Ashton, one of the foremost British choreographers of the twentieth century, set four Stravinsky scores. The... [full description]

PAL Video [3536-VI] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageBournonville ballet technique - piano score.

Author: Jurgensen, Knud Arne

Published:

Sheet music to accompany the eponymous book and video.

Sheet Music [2601-MU] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageThe Bournonville heritage, piano scores.

Author: Jurgensen, Knud Arne

Published:

Piano scores of the dances reconstructed in the same author's The Bournonville heritage, a choreographic record.

Sheet Music [2600-MU] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageThe Bournonville heritage. 24 unknown Bournonville dances reconstructed and transcribed into Labanotation.

Author: Jurgensen, Knud Arne & Ann Hutchinson Guest

Published: 1990

Hardback [0772-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageBournonville ballet technique - fifty enchainements.

Author: Jurgensen, Knud Arne & Vivi Flindt

Published: 1992

Fifty school exercises, selected and reconstructed from the notations of Hans Beck (Bournonville's successor) which he... [full description]

Hardback [2959-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageSchool of classical dance.

Author: Kostrovitskaya, Vera

Published: 1978, 1995

One of the most important of all Russian ballet technique manuals. The author was for many years Agrippina Vaganova's... [full description]

Paperback [2606-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing 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


Cover imageSpanish dancing, a practical handbook.

Author: Lalagia

Published: 1985

A detailed practical introduction for beginners wishing to master both technique and execution. The student is taken... [full description]

Paperback [2772-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageDance Now - single copy.

Author: Leonard, David & Allen Robertson

Published:

A quarterly magazine, edited by David Leonard and Allen Robertson and published by Dance Books.

Paperback [2589-PB] £ 3.75 Add to order


Cover imageA bibliography of the dance collection of Doris Niles and Serge Leslie, part IV A - Z. Mainly 20th-century publications.

Author: Leslie, Serge

Published: 1981

The only volume remaining in print of a four-volume set. This volume is particularly useful in that it includes a... [full description]

Hardback [3000-HB] £ 9.95 Add to order


Cover imageA 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


Cover imageCharacter dance.

Author: Lopoukov, Andrei

Published: 2006

The art of character dancing in classical ballet is now almost lost, but when this book was first published in Russia... [full description]

Paperback [4709-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageOut of line, the story of British new dance.

Author: Mackrell, Judith

Published: 1992

A welcome reprint of Judith Mackrell's seminal history of British new dance from its origins in the 1960s to the early... [full description]

Paperback [0137-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageTheoretical and practical treatise on dancing.

Author: Magri, Gennaro

Published: 1988

First published in Naples in 1779, Magri's treatise on dance technique and execution is the single most important work... [full description]

Hardback [2670-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe essential inheritance of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Author: McKim, Ross

Published: 2004

The London Contemporary Dance Theatre was celebrated internationally for the choreographic invention that flowed out of... [full description]

Paperback [2086-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageVera 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


Cover imageSadler'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


Cover imageDead Dreams of Monochrome Men. DV8 Physical Theatre.

Author: Newson, Lloyd

Published:

Based on the grisly world of the notorious serial killer Dennis Nilsen, this work is founded upon the conviction that... [full description]

PAL Video [2680-VI] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageEnter Achilles. DV8 Physical Theatre.

Author: Newson, Lloyd

Published: 1996

A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub: pop songs blare... [full description]

PAL Video [2708-VI] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageDancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and its dancers.

Author: Nicholas, Larraine

Published: 2007

Purchased in 1925 by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, the Devon estate of Dartington Hall earned itself a place in the... [full description]

Paperback [5229-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageLetters 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


Cover imageRecueil de danses, & La nouvelle galliarde.

Author: Pecour, Louis

Published: 1998

Facsimile reprints of the Paris 1700 scores, in Feuillet notation.

Hardback [2152-HB] £ 12.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe English Dancing Master.

Author: Playford, John

Published: 1984

Playford's The Dancing Master was one of the most popular dancing manuals of its day, first published in 1651... [full description]

Paperback [2669-PB] £ 8.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe continental method of scene painting.

Author: Polunin, Vladimir

Published: 1980

Polunin was for many years chief London scene painter for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The first part of his book,... [full description]

Hardback [2609-HB] £ 8.95 Add to order


Cover imageSchrifttanz, a view of German dance in the Weimar republic.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie & Susanne Lahusen

Published: 1990

Schrifttanz was one of the most interesting and important of the Expressionist dance movement in Germany in the 1920s... [full description]

Paperback [2658-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageMay I have the pleasure? The story of popular dancing.

Author: Quirey, Belinda

Published: 1976, 2002

The long awaited reprint of Belinda Quirey's famous history of the development of social dancing, from its origins in... [full description]

Paperback [2595-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe life and works of John Weaver.

Author: Ralph, Richard

Published: 1985

A short scholarly biography of the 18th century dancing master, followed by discussions of his theatrical productions... [full description]

Hardback [2657-HB] £ 75.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe dancing master.

Author: Rameau, Pierre

Published: 2003

Pierre Rameau's Le Maître à Danser is the standard work on the technique of eighteenth century... [full description]

Paperback [1712-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imagePointe shoes, tips and tricks.

Author: Reinhardt, Angela

Published: 2008

Graceful technique and perfect execution for a dancer are possible only with perfectly fitting pointe shoes. For the... [full description]

Paperback [5249-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageRhythmic subjects: uses of energy in the dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham.

Author: Reynolds, Dee

Published: 2007

Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is not simply 'the body', but energy as it is used and... [full description]

Paperback [4905-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageDance Umbrella, the first twenty-one years.

Author: Rowell, Bonnie

Published: 2000

Directed since its inception in 1978 by Val Bourne, the Dance Umbrella festival has long been an integral part in the... [full description]

Paperback [2568-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageWhite Man Sleeps, creative insights.

Author: Roy , Sanjoy

Published: 1999

A series of essays on Siobhan Davies and White Man Sleeps.

Paperback [2984-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe anthropology of dance.

Author: Royce, Anya Peterson

Published: 2002

This pioneering book, first published in 1977 and here reprinted with a new introduction, is the first general... [full description]

Paperback [1335-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe dancer's complete guide to healthcare.

Author: Ryan, Allan J. & Robert E. Stephens

Published: 1998

A practical guide for starting, maintaining and extending a career in dance, with helpful advice on everything from... [full description]

Paperback [1167-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageLetters 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


Cover imageAkram Khan's Rush, creative insights.

Author: Sanders, Lorna

Published: 2004

Rush was the first group piece made by Akram Khan, already a celebrated young solo performer whose unique... [full description]

Paperback [4303-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageHenri Oguike's Front Line, creative insights.

Author: Sanders, Lorna

Published: 2004

Front Line has become something of a signature piece of the Henri Oguike Dance Company, having been hailed as a... [full description]

Paperback [4299-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageHans 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


Cover imageWorld ballet & dance, 1989 - 1990

Author: Schonberg, Bent

Published: 1989

A survey of ballet and modern dance round the world.

Paperback [1243-PB] £ 10.95 Add to order


Cover imageWorld ballet & dance, 1991 - 1992

Author: Schonberg, Bent

Published:

An international yearbook providing detailed coverage of classical and contemporary dance companies around the world.

Paperback [2965-PB] £ 10.95 Add to order


Cover imageWorld ballet & dance, 1992 - 1993.

Author: Schonberg, Bent

Published:

An international yearbook providing detailed coverage of classical and contemporary dance companies around the world.

Paperback [2964-PB] £ 10.95 Add to order


Cover imageWorld ballet & dance, 1990 - 1991

Author: Schonberg, Bent & Jann Parry

Published: 1990

A survey of ballet and modern dance round the world.

Paperback [1245-PB] £ 10.95 Add to order


Cover imageSuki Schorer on Balanchine technique.

Author: Schorer, Suki

Published: 1999

A highly detailed book on Balanchine technique, written by one of his former principal dancers, now a leading teacher... [full description]

Hardback [2523-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageLet's Lindy.

Author: Selmon, Simon

Published: 1993

Can I learn to Lindy Hop? Yes, just read this book to find out how. Nearly 120 illustrations help you to master the... [full description]

Paperback [2853-PB] £ 5.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe dance teacher's survival guide.

Author: Sexton, Kathryn

Published: 2004

Dance lessons have the potential to be exciting, creative, and fun. They can be a time for children to explore ideas... [full description]

Paperback [4433-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order


16 Dances in 16 Rhythms. [Labanotation scores].

Author: Shawn, Ted

Published: 1956, 1985

Social dances, including the gavotte, waltz, minuet, tango, and tarantella, chosen by Ted Shawn to demonstrate... [full description]

Paperback [2679-PB] £ 6.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageSoviet 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


Cover imageAntoinette 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


Cover imageTechnique for the ballet artiste.

Author: Spessivtzeva, Olga

Published:

The author was one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, and a considerable part of her greatness was due to... [full description]

Paperback [2682-PB] £ 4.95 Add to order


Cover imageAnatomy and kinesiology for ballet teachers.

Author: Thomasen, Eivind & Rachel-Ann Rist

Published: 1996

A very good introductory textbook for teachers and their students, looking at anatomy and kinesiology from the dancer's... [full description]

Paperback [2659-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageBody space image, notes towards improvisation and performance.

Author: Tufnell, Miranda & Chris Crickmay

Published: 1990

A remarkable book about improvisation a narrative of discovery that sets the mind loose from the rut of everyday... [full description]

Paperback [1851-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageA widening field, journeys in body and imagination.

Author: Tufnell, Miranda & Chris Crickmay

Published: 2004

A handbook for working in creative arts, with an emphasis upon imagination and receptivity: to our bodies, our... [full description]

Paperback [3908-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Cover imageFrederick 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


Cover imageCyril 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


Cover imageNinette 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


Cover imageA 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


Cover imageAspects of Folk Dance in Europe

Author: Wingrave, Helen & Robert Harrold

Published: 1984

An introduction to European folk dance, providing a survey of traditional dance styles, with background information on... [full description]

Paperback [2641-PB] £ 8.00 Add to order


Cover imageHistorical dances.

Author: Wood, Melusine

Published: 1952, 2006

Performing instructions, with music scores and historical notes, for 24 dances (some with variants) from the almain and... [full description]

Paperback [4752-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageShort Pinch - a collection of 2 minute pieces of instrumental music suitable for use in school.

Author: Woodgate, D M

Published: 2005

This collection of instrumental music has been produced to be used in accompaniment with Kathryn Sexton's book The... [full description]

CD [0449-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


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