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Cover imageBaryshnikov Live at Wolf Trap. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Marianna Tcherkassky.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Classic recordings of one of the twentieth century's greatest male dancers at the top of his form. Filmed live in 1976,... [full description]

DVD [5425-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageBaryshnikov Dances Sinata and more...

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

The great Mikhail Baryshnikov, recorded in 1984 in three ballets by Twyla Tharp. The Little Ballet, to music by... [full description]

DVD [5427-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Sleeping Beauty. Alina Cojocaru, Federico Bonelli, The Royal Ballet.

Author: Petipa, Marius

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Monica Mason and Christopher Newton's production, recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2007. Marianela Nuñez is... [full description]

DVD [5430-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageDying swans and madmen: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema.

Author: McLean, Adrienne L

Published: 2008

Categories: Ballet - General, Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

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


Cover imageDido & Aeneas, Choreographic Opera. Sasha Waltz & Guests.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern dance

In Dido & Aeneas Sasha Waltz opens up new horizons in music theatre, creating a fusion of dance, singing, and... [full description]

DVD [5432-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageNoureev, l'insoumis.

Author: Dollfus, Ariane

Published: 2007

Category: Ballet - General

A biography of Rudolf Nureyev (the title translates as Nureyev the absentee. The text is in French only, and... [full description]

Paperback [5435-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe contributions of Martha Hill to American dance and dance education, 1900 - 1995.

Author: McPherson, Elizabeth

Published: 2008

Category: Modern - General

The life and work of Martha Hill, the prominent educator and founding director of three pivotal degree-granting college... [full description]

Hardback [5434-HB] £ 69.95 Add to order


Cover imageCorroboree, complete ballet. New Zeland Symphony Orchestra/James Judd.

Author: Antill, John

Published: 2008

Category: CDs - Ballets

The first complete recording of a classic Australian ballet, based on events the composer had witnessed at a genuine... [full description]

CD [5419-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageCinderella. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern ballet

A contemporary version of Prokofiev's classic ballet, with choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot. The ensemble is led... [full description]

DVD [5433-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake. Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell, the Royal Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Recorded in 1982, but never previously issued in the UK on DVD. A sterling supporting cast includes such near-mythical... [full description]

DVD [5420-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imagePiano Sonata in b minor, piano and orchestral versions. Olga Kozlova; Orchestra of the Franz Liszt Music School Weimar/Nicolas Pasquet.

Author: Liszt, Franz

Published: 2008

Category: CDs - Ballets

Sir Frederick Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand set to an orchestrated version of Franz Liszt's only piano... [full description]

CD [5424-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageA Child's Eye View of Festivals: Chinese New Year, Divali, Eid-ul-Fitr, and Hanukkah.

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Category: DVDs - ethnic

An introduction, for young children (3 years upwards), to a variety of religious and sectarian festivals. Each short... [full description]

DVD [5421-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageA Child's Eye View of Festivals 2: Easter, Vaisakhi, Wesak, and Christmas.

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Category: DVDs - ethnic

An introduction, for young children (3 years upwards), to a variety of religious and sectarian festivals. Each short... [full description]

DVD [5422-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance in a world of change.

Author: Shapiro, Sherry B.

Published: 2008

Category: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

Dance in a World of Change: Reflections on Globalization and Cultural Difference presents a range of... [full description]

Hardback [5423-HB] £ 19.50 Add to order


Cover imageBallet in the Blitz: International Ballet.

Author: Inglesby, Mona

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

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


Cover imageLa fille mal gardee. Marianela Nunez, Carlos Acosta, William Tuckett, the Royal Ballet.

Author: Ashton, Sir Frederick

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A sparkling new recording of Ashton's comedy classic, recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2005. Jonathan Howells is... [full description]

DVD [5411-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover image15th Century Dance Music in Italy. les haulz et les bas.

Author: Piacenza, Domenico da & Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro

Published: 1998, 2008

Category: CDs - Early dance

A well filled disc (nearly 80 minutes) of 26 pieces from Italian manuscripts, played by an ensemble of mostly wind... [full description]

CD [5413-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageZizi Jeanmaire Dances Roland Petit: Carmen, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, La Croqueuse de Diamants.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Three dance films. Carmenin Le Jeune Homme... [full description]

DVD [5405-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallroom: culture and costume in competitive dance.

Author: Marion, Jonathan S

Published: 2008

Category: Social - General

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global... [full description]

Paperback [5417-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Gang's All Here. Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman.

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Category: DVDs - Musicals

One of Hollywood's great excursions into surrealism: The Gang's All Here, the legendarily wartime musical, with... [full description]

DVD [5416-DV] £ 6.99 Add to order


Cover imageMacbeth [Vladimir Vasiliev]. Alexei Fadeyechev, Nina Timofeyeva, Valeri Anisimov, the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Vasiliev's 1980 ballet, with music by Kirill Molchanov. Alexei Fadeyechev takes the title role, aided by the formidable... [full description]

DVD [5409-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageMedea. Marina Goderdzishvili, Vladimir Julukhadze, Vika Laperashvili, the Tbilsi State Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

An hour long ballet freely interpreting Euripides' classic drama of a powerful woman's revenge on her faithless... [full description]

DVD [5410-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageRudolf Noureev, les images d'une vie.

Author: Verlhac (editor), Pierre-Henri

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

A large format book containing a collection of more than 150 black-and-white photographs of Nureyev, from 1957 to 1992,... [full description]

Hardback [5402-HB] £ 36.00 Add to order


Cover imageA Balkan custom half as old as time: a study in ancient myth and living ritual.

Author: Jaffe, Nigel Allenby

Published: 2007

Category: Ethnic dance - European

Nigel Allenby Jaffééhas taken thirteen years to research this book. Besides his frequent visits to Greece and... [full description]

Paperback [5395-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake. Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Bogatirev, the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Yuri Grigorovich's production, filmed live at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow in 1976. Picture quality is good... [full description]

DVD [5397-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake. Nina Ananiashvili, Alexei Fadeyechev, Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Nikolai Boyarchivov's staging, after Petipa, Ivanov, and Gorsky, filmed live in Tokyo in 1992.

[Uncoded, for... [full description]

DVD [5399-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDon Quixote. Nina Ananiashvili, Alexei Fadeyechev, Aleksandr Astafiev, Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

The Petipa/Gorsky version, revised by various hands, filmed live in Tokyo in 1992.

[Uncoded, for world-wide use on... [full description]

DVD [5400-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageBalanchine then and now.

Author: Hogan (editor), Anne

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

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


Cover imageJiri Kylian's Car Men. Nederlands Dans Theater.

Author: Kylian, Jiri

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern ballet

A collaboration between Dutch film-maker Boris Paval Conen and Czech dance choreographer Jiri Kylián. Car... [full description]

DVD [5355-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageBloomsbury ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial dancer, and Mrs John Maynard Keynes.

Author: Mackrell, Judith

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

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] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageBound; Absolute Zero; Still Move; Beyond Bound. Saburo Teshigawara.

Author: Teshigawara, Saburo

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern dance

Four films, all directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre, choreographed by or featuring the Japanese modern dance choreographer... [full description]

DVD [5379-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageBenzin; Archaeopteryx; Til Apollon. Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Owain Arwel Hughes.

Author: Riisager, Knudage

Published: 2008

Category: CDs - Ballets

Riisager's 1930 ballet, with choreography by Elna Jørgen-Jensen to a libretto by the Danish humorist Robert... [full description]

CD [5381-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageCapturing Intention: documentation, analysis and notation research based on the work of Emio Greco|PC.

Author: deLahunta (editor), Scott

Published: 2007

Category: Modern - General

The Notation Research Project, an ongoing initiative by dance company Emio Greco P|C here reaches a major... [full description]

DVD [5343-DV] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe Wooden Prince. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop.

Author: Bartok, Bela

Published: 2008

Category: CDs - Ballets

Bartok's 1917 'dance pantomime', first performed at the Budapest Opera, with choreography by Béla Balázs,... [full description]

CD [5352-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Bolshoi Ballet II - Ivan the Terrible, The Stone Flower, Spartacus, Raymonda.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

A bargain box re-packaging of four Bolshoi recordings from 1989 and 1990, all choreographed or staged by Yuri... [full description]

DVD [5353-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imagePlaying the Empire, a dancer's life.

Author: Chapman, John

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

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


Cover imageHoppla! Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

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Category: DVDs - Modern dance

Two pieces to live performances of music by Bartók, performed in the reading room of the University of Ghent.... [full description]

DVD [5333-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageJose Limon and La Malinche.

Author: Seed, Patricia

Published: 2008

Category: Modern - General

José Limón (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by... [full description]

Hardback [5342-HB] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Ballet Box. Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty (The Kirov Ballet), The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet). [3 DVD set.]

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A useful and bargain priced compilation containing the Kirov Ballet's 1982 recording of Sleeping Beauty with... [full description]

DVD [5349-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageSouvenirs de Taglioni, volume 2.

Author: Oberzaucher-Schuller, Gunhild

Published: 2007

Category: Ballet - General

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


Cover imageCiao, Amore! Music for ballet class.

Author: Magloire, Miro

Published: 2008

Category: Class CDs - Ballet

Piano music for the ballet class inspired by the artistry of Alessandra Ferri and Julio Bocca. There are 18 pieces for... [full description]

CD [5336-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageChoreographic Outcomes. [Microsoft Windows version.]

Author: Smith-Autard, Jacqueline & Jim Schofield, Michael Schofield

Published: 2005

Category: CD-ROMs

Choreographic Outcomes [Microsoft Windows version], produced by Bedford Interactive Productions, is a... [full description]

CD-ROM [5339-CR] £ 223.25 Add to order


Cover imageJazz Class for Kids. Bob Rizzo.

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Category: DVDs - Jazz

A jazz dance class for children aged 9 to 16, designed for the beginner as well as the intermediate and advanced... [full description]

DVD [5345-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageMusic Jam volume 1 - Great Dance Music from Bob Rizzo DVDs.

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Category: CDs - Show work

A collection of dance music from Bob Rizzo DVDs, including the three routines from the DVD Jazz-A-Matazz and... [full description]

CD [5346-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageMore clog dancing: a step-by-step guide to the art of traditional Durham and Northumberland clog dancing.

Author: Walker, Brenda

Published: 2008

Category: Ethnic dance - English

A collection of clog dancing steps for the more experienced dancer, including Twizzles, Toe to heel clips, Heel to toe... [full description]

Spiral bound [5341-SP] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageL'uomo fisico, intellettuale e morale.

Author: Blasis, Carlo

Published: 2007

Categories: Ballet - Technique, Early Dance

A facsimile reproduction of the 1868 Italian text edition of Blasis' work, preceded by detailed notes in both English... [full description]

Paperback [5337-PB] £ 35.00 Add to order


Cover imageLabanotation for beginners.

Author: Brown, Ann Kipling

Published: 2008

Category: Notation

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 naked man: a study of the male body.

Author: Morris, Desmond

Published: 2008

Category: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

No life form has had a greater impact upon this planet than the human male. What is it that has made his legacy so... [full description]

Hardback [5331-HB] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imageMayerling. Irek Mukhamedov, Viviana Durante, Lesley Collier, Darcey Bussell, The Royal Ballet.

Author: MacMillan, Kenneth

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Kenneth MacMillan's 1978 blockbuster, a penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding the double suicide of... [full description]

DVD [1469-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageKorperwissen als Kulturgeschichte: Die Archives Internationales de la Danse.

Author: Baxmann, Inge

Published: 2008

Category: Reference

In 1931, Rolf de Maré, the brilliant Swedish art collector and patron of the Ballets Suédois, founded the... [full description]

Paperback [5332-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe romantic ballet in Paris.

Author: Guest, Ivor

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

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 imageStravinsky dances: Re-visions across a century.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 2007

Categories: Music and dance, Ballet - General

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 imageThe story of Dai Ailian.

Author: Glasstone, Richard

Published: 2007

Category: Ballet - General

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 imagePointe shoes, tips and tricks.

Author: Reinhardt, Angela

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - Technique

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 imageRaymonda. Irina Kolpakova, Sergei Berezhnoi, Gennady Selutsky, the Kirov Ballet.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

A famous performance, recorded live at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1980. The picture quality is good for the period, but... [full description]

DVD [5274-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageIn the Italian manner: dances from the royal courts of Europe c. 1600.

Author: Dennison, Hazel & Jorgen Schou-Pedersen, Dorothee Wortelboer

Published: 2007

Category: Early Dance

A workbook prepared for use at the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society's 2007 Summer School, including performing... [full description]

Spiral bound [5314-SP] £ 8.50 Add to order


Cover imageIn the Italian manner: dances from the royal courts of Europe c. 1600.

Author: Dennison, Hazel & Jorgen Schou-Pedersen, Dorothee Wortelboer

Published: 2007

Category: Early Dance

A CD of music to accompany the eponymous book. The 22 dances are performed by Copenhagen Musicians directed by... [full description]

CD [5315-CD] £ 7.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Nutcracker. Irina Kolesnikova, Dmitry Akulinin, St Petersburg Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet

This version, based on the classic old Kirov Vainonen version, has choreography revised by Svetlana Efremova and... [full description]

DVD [5304-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallet Miniatures: Carnival, Egyptian Night, Romeo and Juliet. The Kirov Ballet, etc.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION IN FULL BEFORE ORDERING THIS DVD.

A DVD, alas, to be treated with extreme caution. It... [full description]

DVD [5300-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageA Fame Dance Workout.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - fitness

A workout inspired by the movie Fame designed to help the user improve muscle tone and flexibility, burn... [full description]

DVD [5311-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance Floor Workout volume 1.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - fitness

A DVD combining famous pop videos from top artists with a workout programme specially choreographed by expert fitness... [full description]

DVD [5312-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallet Shoes. Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths, Eileen Atkins, Emma Watson.

Author: Streatfield, Noel

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Based on Noel Streatfield's famous children's novel, this is the story of three orphaned children adopted by an... [full description]

DVD [5313-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe incomparable Hester Santlow, a dancer-actress on the Georgian stage.

Author: Goff, Moira

Published: 2007

Category: Early Dance

In this first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career... [full description]

Hardback [5306-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order


Cover imageSan Francisco Ballet at seventy-five.

Author: Ross, Janice

Published: 2006

Category: Ballet - General

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


Cover imageA Marvellous Ballet Class [RRCD5075].

Author: Korab, Anna

Published: 2007

Category: Class CDs - Ballet

15 piano pieces for barre work and 12 for centre work, with music composed and played by Anna Korab.

CD [5307-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageRoyal Swedish Ballet, history from 1592 to 1962.

Author: Grut, Marina

Published: 2007

Categories: Ballet - General, Early Dance

Sweden's ballet has a fascinating history, with those involved in it ranging from international figures such as Marie... [full description]

Hardback [5281-HB] £ 80.00 Add to order


Cover imageWomen's work: making dance in Europe before 1800.

Author: Brooks, Lynn Matluck

Published: 2007

Category: Early Dance

A collection of essays which shed new and surprising light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers,... [full description]

Paperback [5299-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order


Cover imageDancing lives: five female dancers from the ballet d'action to Merce Cunningham.

Author: Eliot, Karen

Published: 2007

Categories: Ballet - General, Modern - General

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] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageGotta tango: Argentine tango anywhere, anytime.

Author: Paz , Alberto & Valorie Hart

Published: 2007

Category: Social - Technique

A guide to the authentic Argentine Tango. Master teachers Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart take you on a journey through... [full description]

Paperback [5302-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Cover imageLieutenant Kije; Le baiser de la fee. Vladimir Vasiliev, Raisa Struchkova; Vladimir Malakhov, Tatiana Yatsenko.

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Category: DVDs - Ballet

Lieutenant Kijé, filmed in 1969 with Vladimir Vasiliev, Raisa Struchkova, Tatiana Popko and the... [full description]

DVD [5286-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Nutcracker. Irina Golub, Leonid Sarafanov, Anton Adasinsky, the Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Kirill Simonov's 2001 production of The Nutcracker, with spectacular designs by Mihail Chemiakin, emphasises the... [full description]

DVD [5287-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageVernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution.

Author: Golden, Eve

Published: 2007

Category: Social - General

Vernon and Irene Castle popularised ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable... [full description]

Hardback [5289-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageA century of Russian ballet.

Author: Wiley, Roland John

Published: 1990, 2007

Category: Ballet - General

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 imageLet's dance, the complete book and DVD of ballroom dance instruction.

Author: Pozo, Cal

Published: 2007

Category: Social - Technique

America's bestselling dance instructor Carl Pozo has created a fast and fun way to learn to dance, from the Foxtrot to... [full description]

Paperback [5298-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageBallet Miniatures: Carnival, Egyptian Night, Romeo and Juliet. The Kirov Ballet, etc.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION IN FULL BEFORE ORDERING THIS DVD.

A DVD, alas, to be treated with extreme caution. It... [full description]

DVD [5300-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imagePerformativity and performance.

Author: Parker, Andrew & Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Published: 1995

Category: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers, and activists have wrestled with the... [full description]

Paperback [5297-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order


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

Author: Adair, Christy

Published: 2007

Category: Black dance

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 imageStill Life at the Penguin Cafe (David Bintley). The Royal Ballet.

Author: Bintley, David

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet

David Bintley's popular conservationist ballet, filmed in 1989. Dancers under the masks include Deborah Bull, Bruce... [full description]

DVD [5258-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageStrictly Come Dancersize: the official fitness DVD from Strictly Come Dancing.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - fitness

Are you tired of the same boring workouts? Do you want to lose weight and learn to dance at the same time? If yes, this... [full description]

DVD [5283-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe gay and lesbian theatrical legacy, a biographical dictionary of major figures in American stage history in the pre-Stonewall era.

Author: Harbin, Billy J & Kim Marra, Robert A Schanke

Published: 2007

Category: Gay and Lesbian

Biographies of more than one hundred notable figures whose careers flourished in the years before the 1969 Stonewall... [full description]

Paperback [5290-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageSimply Ballroom, starring Anton du Beke and Erin Boad.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballroom

Anton du Beke and Erin Boag, stars of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing present a lavish Riverdance style spectacular... [full description]

DVD [5284-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageHairspray. John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Musicals

It's 1962 and a change is in the air in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a girl with big hair and big dreams, has only one... [full description]

DVD [5285-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageCommercial Jazz, Pineapple Studios.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - popular - technique

Superstar choreographer and DanceX judge Ashley Wallen teaches three routines in this explosive commercial dance... [full description]

DVD [5282-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover image'yippeee!!!' The Cholmondeleys, The Featherstonehaughs, Yum Yum Band.

Author: Anderson, Lea

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Modern dance

Recorded live at the Hackney Empire in June 2007, Lea Anderson's latest work, featuring the all-female Cholmondeleys... [full description]

DVD [5271-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Cecchetti Legacy.

Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Toby Bennett

Published: 2007

Categories: Notation, Ballet - Technique

The Cecchetti Legacy provides a more detailed account of the Cecchetti Method than has hitherto been available.... [full description]

Paperback [5238-PB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and its dancers.

Author: Nicholas, Larraine

Published: 2007

Category: Modern - General

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 imageGiselle. Irina Kolesnikova, Dmitry Akulinin, St Petersburg Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A live performance, filmed in Johannesburg in 2007. [Uncoded, for world-wide use on PAL compatible equipment.]

DVD [5278-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order


Cover imageBritish pantomime performance.

Author: Taylor, Millie

Published: 2007

Categories: Musical theatre and film, mime

This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique... [full description]

Paperback [5279-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake. Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev, The Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Konstantin Sergeyev's production of the Petipa/Ivanov choreography, filmed live at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2006. An... [full description]

DVD [5275-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageNew Year's Eve in Saint Petersburg. Ekaterina Osmolkina, Daria Pavlenko, Andrian Fadeyev, Anton Korsakov, the Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2007

Category: DVDs - Ballet technique

A gala performance filmed on December 31 2006, conducted by Valery Gergiev. An hour of ballet (excerpts from... [full description]

DVD [5273-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe arts at Dartington, 1940 - 1983.

Author: Cox , Peter

Published:

Categories: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory, Modern - General

The story of how the author, Peter Cox, found himself in 1940 invited to join the Dartington Hall Arts Department to... [full description]

Paperback [5267-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance Now - single copy.

Author: Leonard, David & Allen Robertson

Published:

Category: Journals

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

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Cover imageDance Now annual subscription (3 issues).

Published:

Category: Journals

DUE TO THE RETIREMENT OF BOTH EDITORS, DANCE NOW WILL CEASE PUBLICATION AT THE END OF 2008. THE SUBSCRIPTION... [full description]

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