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 AQA GCSE Dance.
Author: Clunie, Maggie & Liz Dale, Lyn Paine Published: 2009 Category: Educational - Secondary GCSE Dance enables students to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of performance, safe dance practice,... [full description] | Paperback [5660-PB] £ 13.99 Add to order |
 Caravaggio. Vladimir Malakhov, Staatsballett Berlin.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet A ballet in two acts choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti, with music by Bruno Moretti after Monteverdi. The ballet has as... [full description] | DVD [5640-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Competitive Irish dance: art, sport, duty.
Author: Hall, Frank Published: 2008 Category: Ethnic dance - Irish What happens when you put an expressive form in a competitive frame? This question motivates Frank Hall's study of... [full description] | Paperback [5656-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray.
Author: Davies, Terry Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Modern dance Excerpts from the score of Matthew Bourne's New Adventures production, performed by David Shrubsole (MD/Keyboard),... [full description] | CD [5655-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Spartacus, complete ballet. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Algis Zhuraitis. [3 CD set.]
Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich Published: 1974, 2008 Category: CDs - Ballets The original, and best, complete recording, made in 1974 but still in very good sound. | CD [5658-CD] £ 36.00 Add to order |
 Giselle, complete ballet. The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra/Victor Fedotov. [2 CD set.]
Author: Adam, Adolphe Published: Category: CDs - Ballets | CD [5653-CD] £ 21.99 Add to order |
 Daphis et Chloe, complete ballet. MDR Rundfunkchor, Orchestre National de Lyon.
Author: Ravel, Maurice Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets | CD [5654-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order |
 Pirouette: ballet stories.
Author: Castor, Harriet Published: 2008 Category: Young readers - Teenagers 15 short ballet stories for young teenagers. The authors include Jamila Gavin, Rumer Godden, Michelle Magorian, Jean... [full description] | Paperback [5650-PB] £ 6.99 Add to order |
 The dancer's survival manual.
Author: Horosko, Marian & Judith F Kupersmith Published: 2009 Category: Careers The process of beginning a career in dance can be intimidating and overwhelming. In choosing a school and a teacher,... [full description] | Paperback [5648-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
 Behind the scenes at Boston Ballet.
Author: Temin, Christine Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General For centuries, ballet companies have been transporting audiences beyond their workaday worlds, one performance at a... [full description] | Hardback [5649-HB] £ 24.95 Add to order |
 The wicked waltz and other scandalous dances.
Author: Knowles, Mark Published: 2009 Category: Social - General Popular social dances can reveal a lot about the lifestyle, culture, and social class of the people who perform them.... [full description] | Paperback [5646-PB] £ 49.50 Add to order |
 Kathakali Mudras: the ancient sign language of India [DVD and DVD-ROM].
Author: Vijayakumar, Kalamandalm Barbara Published: 2009 Category: Ethnic dance - Indian Kathakali is an extraordinary combination of drama, dance, music, poetry, costume, make up and ritual, deriving from... [full description] | DVD [5622-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
 Kathakali Mudras: the ancient sign language of India.
Author: Vijayakumar, Kalamandalm Barbara Published: 2009 Category: Ethnic dance - Indian Kathakali is an extraordinary combination of drama, dance, music, poetry, costume, make up and ritual, deriving from... [full description] | Paperback [5621-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order |
 Merce my way.
Author: Baryshnikov, Mikhail Published: 2008 Category: Modern - General A collection of more than 80 full colour photographs of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in action, the photographs... [full description] | Hardback [5620-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order |
 The Bright Red Lanterns Hung High. Central Ballet Troupe of China.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Set in the 1920s, a young woman is pushed into the bridal sedan chair by force to marry an old man as his third... [full description] | DVD [5641-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Relief.
Author: Butler, L E Published: 2008 Category: Fiction Set in 1912, Relief follows young widow Katie Larkin as she escapes a troubled past in Boston and pursues a... [full description] | Paperback [5642-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order |
 Sacred Monsters: Sylvie Guillem & Akram Khan.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance This major work brings together two of today's pre-eminent dance talents, Akram Khan, world renowned for developing his... [full description] | DVD [5617-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 La Dame aux camelias. The Paris Opera Ballet.
Author: Neumeier, John Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet Based on the Alexandre Dumas novel that also inspired the stories of Verdi's La Traviata and Hollywood's... [full description] | DVD [5616-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
 La Bayadere, complete piano score.
Author: Minkus, Ludwig Published: 2009 Category: Scores - performance A complete hand-written piano score of the ballet, deriving from a manuscript from the days of the Soviet Union,... [full description] | Paperback [5632-PB] £ 60.00 Add to order |
 A Baroque Odyssey. Cirque du Soleil.
Published: Category: DVDs - popular A unique and inspiring look into the heart of the Cirque du Soleil universe. This 10-year anniversary retrospective... [full description] | DVD [5633-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Fire Within. Cirque du Soleil. [4 DVD set.]
Published: Category: DVDs - popular This addictive, Emmy Award-winning series has all the human turmoil of reality television, but the subjects have actual... [full description] | DVD [5634-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 La Magie Continue. Cirque du Soleil.
Published: Category: DVDs - popular Acclaimed by an audience of over 30 million worldwide, with numerous prizes and distinctions to its credit, Cirque du... [full description] | DVD [5635-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Cirque Reinvente. Cirque du Soleil.
Published: Category: DVDs - popular 'Ladies and gentlemen, dear children, once upon a time...' The allure of the circus has always been magical. But Cirque... [full description] | DVD [5636-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Dralion. Cirque du Soleil.
Published: Category: DVDs - popular A combination of ancient Chinese circus tradition and the avant-garde, this is a celebration of life and the four... [full description] | DVD [5630-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Nouvelle Experience. Cirque du Soleil.
Published: Category: DVDs - popular The brilliant artistry of Cirque du Soleil has transformed the circus into an exciting, novel performance experience.... [full description] | DVD [5629-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 A time to dance, the life of Heinz Poll.
Author: Poll, Heinz Published: 2008 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
 Urban Workout.
Published: 2005 Category: DVDs - fitness A fresh new way to get fit! Urban Workoutis a fitness routine created from a simple concept. If you love dancing... [full description] | DVD [5626-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Saltimbanco. Cirque du Soleil.
Published: Category: DVDs - popular A celebration of life where the international troupe of more than 50 dancers ranging in age from 8 to 45 years defy... [full description] | DVD [5628-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 Giselle ou Les Wilis: notation by Henri Justamant from the 1860s.
Author: Coralli, Jean & Jules Perrot Published: 2008 Category: Ballet - General A reproduction of a handwritten transcription of the ballet by the ballet master Henri Justamant, chief choreographer... [full description] | Paperback [5624-PB] £ 80.00 Add to order |
 To be like gods: dance in ancient Maya civilization.
Author: Looper, Matthew G Published: 2009 Category: Ethnic dance - Miscellaneous The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an... [full description] | Hardback [5619-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order |
 The Queen of Spades (symphonic suite)[ Music for Kim Brandstrup's 'Rushes'; On Guard for Peace. Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chrous/Neeme Järvi.
Author: Prokofiev, Sergei Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets An adaptation by Michael Berkeley of music from an unrealised film score by Prokofiev, used in Kim Brandstrup's ballet... [full description] | CD [5618-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Physical theatres: a critical introduction.
Author: Murray, Simon & John Keefe Published: 2007 Category: Modern - General Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction is the first account to provide a comprehensive overview of... [full description] | Paperback [5602-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Physical theatres: a critical reader.
Author: Murray, Simon & John Keefe Published: 2007 Category: Modern - General Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and... [full description] | Paperback [5603-PB] £ 22.99 Add to order |
 Jiri Kylian Nederlands Dans Theater: Svadebka (Les Noces); Symphony of Psalms, Torso.
Author: Kylian, Jiri Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet Three of Kylian's most famous and successful ballets, at last available on DVD. Svadebka (Kylian's version of... [full description] | DVD [5609-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Asami Maki Ballet Group.
Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Ballet The Japanese ballet company led by choreographer Asami Maki performs on stage at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.... [full description] | DVD [5610-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 A Crazy Day; Pages of the Russian Ballet. Boris Eifman Dance Company; the Kirov Ballet.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Three Soviet TV recordings from the early 1980s. A Crazy Day is renegade choreographer Boris Eifman's version of... [full description] | DVD [5611-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Magic Fairy Tales; The Prince and Cinderella; Ninel Kurgapkina Benefit Performance. The Kirov Ballet.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet A very mixed bag. Magic Fairy Tales (black-and-white) is actually excerpts from the last act of Sleeping... [full description] | DVD [5612-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Swan Lake: Chinese Top Acrobatic Show. Guangzhou Military Performance Group.
Published: Category: DVD-ROM A version of Swan Lake, re-choreographed by Liu Jun and Li Yaping for a mixture of dancers and acrobats, who... [full description] | DVD [5615-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Sutra. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Monks from the Shaolin Temple.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance Celebrated Flemish/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents a new dance work inspried by the skill,... [full description] | DVD [5576-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Studio Series, Intuition volume 4, Music for the dance studio. Jonathan Still.
Author: Still, Jonathan Published: 2007 Category: Class CDs - Ballet Piano music for ballet class, played by Jonathan Still. There are twenty-seven tracks for barre work, and twenty-six... [full description] | CD [5587-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Studio Series, Intuition volume 5, Music for the dance studio. Jonathan Still.
Author: Still, Jonathan Published: 2008 Category: Class CDs - Ballet Piano music for ballet class, played by Jonathan Still. There are thirty tracks for barre work, eight for centre work,... [full description] | CD [5588-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Baroque dance, a demonstration of some of the most celebrated dances of the period. Nicola Gaines and Christopher Tudor.
Published: Category: DVDs - Early Dance Baroque Dance performed in costume by early dance specialists Nicola Gaines and Chris Tudor to music by Lully, Croft... [full description] | DVD [5589-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 Tap Dance Made Easy.
Published: 2008 Category: CDs - Show work A great resource for tap dancers and instructors, this audio CD contains music from Eli Newsom's Tap Dance Made... [full description] | CD [5600-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order |
 Dance composition: an interrelated arts approach.
Author: Pomer, Janice Published: 2009 Category: Educational - Secondary Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach helps students investigate dance movement from a... [full description] | Paperback [5592-PB] £ 22.95 Add to order |
 Broadway musicals, the 101 greatest shows of all time.
Author: Bloom, Ken Published: 2004 Category: Musical theatre and film A massive (2.5 kg.) survey of the one hundred and one most influential and enduring Broadway musicals, from... [full description] | Paperback [1566-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Purim; Carmen. Gyori Ballet of Hungary.
Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet Carmen is choreographed by to a new score by Christopher Benstead (who also makes a brief audio appearance as a... [full description] | DVD [5590-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Recreating Rudolf Laban's Die Grunen Clowns, 1928.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance A recreation, on Trinity Laban students, of the Laban's Die Grünen Clowns, a response to the dehumanising... [full description] | DVD [5591-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 Ballet's magic kingdom.
Author: Volynsky, Akim Published: 2008 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
 Alice in Wonderland, complete ballet. City of Prague Symphony Orchestra/Carl Davis.
Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich & Carl Davis Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets Carl Davis's selections of Tchaikovsky, orchestrated by David Matthews, for Derek Deane's ballet for English National... [full description] | CD [5575-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order |
 New dance: writings on modern dance.
Author: Humphrey, Doris Published: 2008 Category: Modern - General This collection of essays, lectures and notes, selected by Humphrey's son, Charles Humphrey Woodford, reveals the... [full description] | Hardback [5568-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
 Reading dance: a gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, and some uncategorizable extras.
Author: Gottlieb, Robert Published: Categories: Ballet - General, Modern - General 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 |
 Being watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s.
Author: Lambert-Beatty, Carrie Published: 2008 Category: Modern - General In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body: stripped it of... [full description] | Hardback [5569-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
 My First Ballet Class. Nigel Gaynor.
Author: Gaynor, Nigel Published: 2002 Category: Class CDs - Ballet 29 piano pieces for ballet class for very young beginners. Composers include Minkus, Tchaikovsky, and favourite nursery... [full description] | CD [5581-CD] £ 15.65 Add to order |
 Hollywood musicals year by year.
Author: Green, Stanley Published: Category: Musical theatre and film Whose singing voice was substituted for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn? What movie was the first to combine... [full description] | Paperback [5583-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 A song in the dark: the birth of the musical film.
Author: Barrios, Richard Published: 1995 Category: Musical theatre and film Chronicling the early musical film years from 1926 to 1934, A Song in the Dark offers a fascinating look at a... [full description] | Paperback [5580-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order |
 Material for the Spine: A Movement Study. Steve Paxton.
Author: Paxton, Steve Published: 2008 Category: DVD-ROM In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet... [full description] | DVD-ROM [5573-DR] £ 32.99 Add to order |
 Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Leipzig Ballet.
Author: Scholz, Uwe Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance German choreographer Uwe Scholz here presents two versions of Stravinsky's score: the first, in the version for two... [full description] | DVD [5574-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Raymonda. Ludmilla Semenyaka, Irek Mukhamedov, Gedeminas Taranda, the Bolshoi Ballet.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Yuri Grigorovich's production of the Petipa classic, filmed live at the Bolshoi Theatre in the 1980s. The picture... [full description] | DVD [5562-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Mary Wigman.
Author: Newhall, Mary Anne Santos Published: 2008 Category: Modern - General A dancer, teacher and choreographer, Mary Wigman was a leading innovator in expressionist dance. Her radical... [full description] | Paperback [5570-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order |
 The Fiddle and the Drum. Joni Mitchell, the Alberta Ballet Company.
Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet An exploration of folk-rock singer Joni Mitchell's live-long concerns about environmental neglect and the warring... [full description] | DVD [5571-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
 Ailey ascending: a portrait in motion.
Author: Eccles, Andrew Published: 2007 Categories: Modern - General, Black dance A large format book with nearly 90 photographs (about one third in colour, the rest in monochrome) of the Alvin Ailey... [full description] | Hardback [5572-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
 Broadway musicals, show by show.
Author: Green, Stanley Published: Category: Musical theatre and film A new edition of a standard reference book listing major Broadway musicals from 1866 (The Black Crook) to 2007... [full description] | Paperback [3472-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order |
 Spartacus. Carlos Acosta, Alexander Volchikov, Nina Kaptsova, Maria Allash, the Bolshoi Ballet.
Author: Grigorovich, Yuri Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Ballet Filmed at the Paris Opera in January 2008. A bonus DVD is included containing a documentary about the making of the... [full description] | DVD [5563-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order |
 Mariinsky Theatre.
Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Ballet A documentary film celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Mariinsky Theatre, including excerpts from Swan Lake,... [full description] | DVD [5565-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Nutcracker Story.
Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Ballet A documentary about The Nutcracker ballet, with excerpts from productions by The Royal Ballet and the Mariinsky... [full description] | DVD [5566-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
 Constant Lambert Conducts Ballet Suites. Sadler's Wells Orchestra.
Author: Lambert, Constant Published: Category: CDs - Ballets (collections) Digitally remastered recordings from 1939 and 1940 of excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty,... [full description] | CD [5564-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order |
 Vocalise - Improving Dance Performance II.
Author: Smith-Autard, Jacqueline & Jim Schofield, Michael Schofield Published: 2008 Category: DVD-ROM THESE DISCS ARE INTENDED FOR COMPUTER USE: THEY WILL NOT PLAY ON DVD PLAYERS. Vocalise, produced by Bedford... [full description] | DVD-ROM [5551-DR] £ 172.25 Add to order |
 Pina Bausch Dance Theatre.
Author: Servos, Norbert Published: 2008 Category: Modern - General Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal have created a global art form, captivating audiences worldwide. In their... [full description] | Paperback [5548-PB] £ 28.99 Add to order |
 zero degrees. Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nitin Sawhney, Antony Gormley.
Published: 2008 Category: DVDs - Modern dance zero degrees explores borders between countries, cultures, and, most importantly, between life and death. It... [full description] | DVD [5559-DV] £ 19.49 Add to order |
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Tribal Dancing.
Writing dancing together.
Falling About AND Moving About. Green Candle Dance Company.
Why dance? A comprehensive resource for traditional country dancing.
Traditional barn dances, with calls and fiddling.
The rough guide to film musicals.
Living Architecture: Rudolf Laban and the Geometry of Dance.
Point of departure.
Pure Street Dance. Urban Strides.