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New Titles
Some recent releases available from Dance Books
The Nutcracker. Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Gary Avis, Iohna Loots, Ricardo Cervera. The Royal Ballet.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet Sir Peter Wright's production filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2009, conducted by Koen Kessels. [Coded... [full description] | DVD [5899-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order |
Dreams of babel. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance World-famous choreographer and dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui uses the body - movement - as the principal vehicle for his... [full description] | DVD [5898-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order |
Christopher Hobson plays Modern Ballet Studio Melodies, vol.2.
Author: Hobson, Christopher Published: 2010 Category: Class CDs - Ballet This second volume from Christopher Hobson is another collection of bright and breezy piano selections. There are 18... [full description] | CD [5897-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order |
International encyclopaedia of dance. [Six volume set].
Second hand or out of print title Author: Cohen, Selma Jeanne (ed). Published: 1998 Categories: Reference, oop A very good second-hand hardback copy (corners slightly bumped and generally showing very slight signs of use),... [full description] | Hardback [1654-HB] £ 250.00 Add to order |
La Danse. The Paris Opera Ballet.
Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world's great ballet companies. This film reveals how the company functions as an... [full description] | DVD [5889-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order |
Swan Lake. Polina Semionova, Stanislav Jermakov, Zurich Ballet.
Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet Heinz Spoerli's production filmed in the Zurich Opera House in 2009. [Coded, for world-wide use on NTSC compatible... [full description] | DVD [5892-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order |
Modern ballroom dancing: A comprehensive guide to present-day technique and to the fundamental principles of the art, and a textbook for all teachers and students preparing for examinations.
Author: Jacques, Henry Published: 1944, 2010 Category: Social - Technique Modern Ballroom Dancing, first published in 1944 and here reprinted for the first time, is the most detailed... [full description] | Hardback [5871-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
When men dance.
Author: Fisher, Jennifer & Anthony Shay Published: 2009 Category: Social - General When men dance offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double standards in gender construction... [full description] | Paperback [5864-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
A bibliography of dancing.
Author: Magriel, Paul Published: 1936, 2010 Category: Reference Paul Magriel's A Bibliography of Dancing, first published in 1936, was the twentieth-century's first major... [full description] | Hardback [5876-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Nijinsky's 'Faune' restored. [Labanotation score].
Author: Guest, Ann Hutchinson & Claudia Jeschke Published: 1991, 2010 Category: Notation Nijinsky's score of his L'Après-midi d'un faune lay unused for nearly forty years after his death,... [full description] | Paperback [0112-PB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Music Dances - Balanchine choreographs Stravinsky.
Author: Jordan, Stephanie Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Conceived, written and narrated by Stephanie Jordan, Research Professor in Dance at Roehampton University of Surrey,... [full description] | DVD [5859-DV] £ 39.95 Add to order |
Raising dust, a cultural history of dance in Palestine.
Author: Rowe, Nicholas Published: 2010 Category: Ethnic dance - Miscellaneous One dancer's journey into Palestine's past and present. Through historical archives, Nicholas Rowe shares a vision of... [full description] | Hardback [5858-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Collaborative choreography: an approach to making (Conversation with the New Art Club).
Author: Breslin, Jo & Jill Cowley Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Educational This DVD resource uses the example of New Art Club (Pete Shenton and Tom Roden) as a successful model for... [full description] | DVD [5843-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order |
Movable pillars, organizing dance 1956-1978.
Author: Kolcio, Katja Published: 2010 Category: Educational theory This book traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the twentieth century, and describes... [full description] | Paperback [5868-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order |
Mirrors & scrims, the life and afterlife of ballet.
Author: Siegel, Marcia B. Published: 2010 Category: Criticism In this new collection of reviews and essays, dance critic Marcia B. Siegel grapples with both the floating identity of... [full description] | Paperback [5866-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
The theatre practice of Tadashi Suzuki.
Author: Allain, Paul Published: 2009 Category: Acting (movement) For over forty years Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theatre, creating... [full description] | Hardback [5865-HB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
La Fille mal gardee.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 2010 Category: Ballet - General Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée is one of the most popular and successful ballets of the... [full description] | Paperback [5846-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Orpheus und Eurydike. Paris Opera Ballet. [Blu-Ray]
Author: Bausch, Pina Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. Pina Bausch's choreographic version of... [full description] | DVD [5829-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Rudolf Nureyev, celestial attraction.
Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet This DVD takes a retrospective look at the life and work of Rudolf Nureyev. Through interviews, archive footage,... [full description] | DVD [5832-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order |
The one and only, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Author: Anderson, Jack Published: 1981, 2010 Category: Ballet - General The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo tells the story of one of America's most important and now... [full description] | Paperback [2738-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
Sleeping Beauty (Complete). London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn. [2 CD set.]
Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets | CD [5837-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order |
Sylvia (Complete). Orchestre du Theatre National de l'Opera de Paris/Jean-Baptiste Mari. [2 CD set.]
Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets Also included in this 2 CD set is Act 2 of Delibes' La Source with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of... [full description] | CD [5840-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order |
Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet), Bolero, La Valse, Ma mere l'oye. Orchestre National de l'Ortf/Jean Martinon. [2 CD set.]
Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets Also included in this 2 CD set are Debussy's Jeux and L'Après-Midi d'un Faune, also conducted by... [full description] | CD [5841-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order |
Acis and Galatea. The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet.[BLU-RAY]
Author: Handel, Georg Frederic Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. Christopher Hogwood conducts the... [full description] | DVD [5844-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Mayerling. Edward Watson, Mara Galeazzi, Iohna Loots, William Tuckett, Cindy Jourdain, Sarah Lamb, Elizabeth McGorian, The Royal Ballet. [Blu-Ray]
Author: MacMillan, Kenneth Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. Edward Watson takes the role of Crown... [full description] | DVD [5845-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
La Coronela; Itinerarios; Colorines. English Chamber Orchestra, Santa Barbara Symphony/Gisele Ben-Dor.
Author: Revueltas, Silvestre Published: 2010 Category: CDs - Ballets Silvestre Revueltas's unfinished ballet La Coronela (The Lady Colonel) follows a scenario of skeleton figures... [full description] | CD [5826-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order |
Ondine. Miyako Yoshida, Edward Watson, The Royal Ballet.
Author: Ashton, Sir Frederick Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet Sir Frederick Ashton's Ondine filmed at The Royal Opera House in 2009 with designs by Lila de Nobili and... [full description] | DVD [5823-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order |
Ondine. Miyako Yoshida, Edward Watson, The Royal Ballet.[Blu-Ray]
Author: Ashton, Sir Frederick Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. Sir Frederick Ashton's Ondine... [full description] | DVD [5824-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Ondine, diary of a ballet.
Author: Henze, Hans Werner Published: 2003 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story.
Author: Simeone, Nigel Published: 2010 Category: Musical theatre and film One of the Broadway musicals that can genuinely claim to have transformed the genre, West Side Story has been... [full description] | Hardback [5821-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
Manon. Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, the Royal Ballet.
Author: MacMillan, Kenneth Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet Filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2008. The cast includes Tamara Rojo as Manon; Carlos Acosta as Des... [full description] | DVD [5817-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Site dance, choreographers and the lure of alternative spaces.
Author: Kloetzel, Melanie & Carolyn Pavlik Published: 2009 Category: Modern - General In the wake of groundbreaking experiments in the 1960s, more and more dance performances are cropping up on... [full description] | Hardback [5792-HB] £ 32.00 Add to order |
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story.
Author: Simeone, Nigel Published: 2010 Category: Musical theatre and film One of the Broadway musicals that can genuinely claim to have transformed the genre, West Side Story has been... [full description] | Hardback [5821-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order |
The Allemande, the Balletto, and the Tanz, volume 1 - the history.
Author: Hudson, Richard Published: 1986, 2009 Category: Early Dance First published in 1986, this is the first of two volumes devoted to the evolution of the Allmende, the Balletto and... [full description] | Paperback [5790-PB] £ 21.99 Add to order |
Romeo and Juliet. Compagnia Aterballetto.
Author: Bigonzetti, Mauro Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet Filmed in 2006 with choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and a musical montage based on the Prokofiev score. Mobile... [full description] | DVD [5818-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Spartacus. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Maris Liepa, Nina Timofeyeva, the Bolshoi Ballet.
Author: Grigorovich, Yuri Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet One of the Holy Grails of Russian ballet recordings has finally been discovered. At time of the making of the famous... [full description] | DVD [5816-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Acis and Galatea. The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet.
Author: Handel, Georg Frederic Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet Christoper Hogwood conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a distinguished cast including Danielle de... [full description] | DVD [5815-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order |
Mayerling. Edward Watson, Mara Galeazzi, Iohna Loots, William Tuckett, Cindy Jourdain, Sarah Lamb, Elizabeth McGorian, The Royal Ballet.
Author: MacMillan, Kenneth Published: 2010 Category: DVDs - Ballet Edward Watson takes the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's compelling ballet which lives out the final... [full description] | DVD [5814-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order |
The Allemande, the Balletto, and the Tanz, volume II - the music.
Author: Hudson, Richard Published: 1986, 2009 Category: Early Dance First published in 1986, this is the second of two volumes devoted to the evolution of the Allemand, the Balletto and... [full description] | Paperback [5791-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
De Basil's Ballets Russes.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley Published: 1982, 2010 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
Some traditional Scottish dances.
Author: Taylor, G Douglas Published: 1929, 2010 Category: Ethnic dance - Scottish G. Douglas Taylor's Some Traditional Scottish Dances was first published in 1929 and is thus a valuable link to... [full description] | Hardback [5807-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
The first Hollywood musicals: a critical filmography of 171 features
Author: Bradley, Edwin M Published: 1996 Category: Musical theatre and film As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the... [full description] | Paperback [5802-PB] £ 41.50 Add to order |
Recueil de dances.
Author: Feuillet, Rauol-Auger Published: 2010 Category: Early Dance A facsimile of Feuillet's 1704 dance manual, Recueil de Dances contenant un tres grand nombres des meillieures... [full description] | Hardback [5800-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
Apologie de la danse.
Author: de Lauze, Francois Published: 2010 Category: Early Dance A transcription of the original French text of the 1623 manual on dance technique and etiquette, with full English... [full description] | Hardback [5796-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Trattato del Ballo Nobile.
Author: Dufort, Giambatista Published: 2010 Category: Early Dance A facsimile reproduction of Giambatista Dufort's manual, published in Naples in 1728, with text entirely in... [full description] | Hardback [5782-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Traite sur l'art de la danse.
Author: Malpied, M Published: 2010 Category: Early Dance A facsimile reprint of the second edition published in Paris in 1780. Malpied's instructional manual describes Baroque... [full description] | Hardback [5775-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Gypsy Mixture and Nigredo - Richard Alston Dance Company.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance These two works by Richard Alston perfectly demonstrate the range of his choreography and musical taste - from the... [full description] | DVD [5786-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order |
Recueil de Nouvelles Contredances.
Author: Dezais, Monsieur Published: 2010 Category: Early Dance Dezais' II Recueil de Nouvelles Contredances was published in Paris in 1712. Apart from a brief introduction (in... [full description] | Hardback [5781-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
The art of dancing and six dances.
Author: Tomlinson, Kellom Published: 2010 Category: Early Dance Kellom Tomlinson was one of the most important figures in the history of dance in England in the early 18th century.... [full description] | Hardback [5780-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
Historical dances for the theatre: the pavan and minuet.
Author: Guthrie, John Published: 1982 Category: Early Dance Detailed practical instructions on how to perform the 18th century Minuet, with brief notes on the 16th century Pavan.... [full description] | Paperback [5772-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Nutrition for the dancer.
Author: Mastin, Zerlina Published: 2009 Category: Anatomy and physiology The tremendous physical mastery of a 21st century dancer undoubtedly rivals that of an athlete, but the importance and... [full description] | Paperback [5746-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order |
Fernando Bujones, an autobiography.
Author: Bujones, Fernando & Zeida Cecilia-Mendez Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
Four elements - Four seasons. Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern dance A modern dance realisation of two classic 18th century music scores: Jean Féry Rebel's Les... [full description] | DVD [5779-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Dancing fingers, volume 8. Michael Roberts.
Author: Roberts, Michael Published: 2009 Category: Class CDs - Ballet 34 original pieces of music - 17 tracks for barre and 17 tracks for centre practice - composed and played by Michael... [full description] | CD [5774-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order |
From Rout to Regency, CD2.
Published: 2008 Category: CDs - Early dance Dances for the fashionable assembly in Britain and Europe, from Louis XIV to the Prince Regent to music arranged and... [full description] | CD [5778-CD] £ 9.19 Add to order |
Dance matters: performing in India.
Author: Chakravorty, Pallabi & Nilanjana Gupta Published: 2009 Category: Ethnic dance - Indian Amultidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance... [full description] | Hardback [5773-HB] £ 65.00 Add to order |
Pilates for Young Dancers: Improve Technique, Move Better, Dance Better. Monique Richards.
Author: Richards, Monique Published: 2009 Categories: DVDs - Ballet technique, DVDs - fitness A Pilates programme developed by professional dancer and certified Pilates instructor Monique Richards, with exercises... [full description] | DVD [5765-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - two films.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet Part one - Tchaikovsky's women; Part two - Fate: with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Cynthia Harvey as Katerina, Juliet,... [full description] | DVD [5764-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Stopmotion, the dance photography of Chris Nash.
Author: Nash, Chris Published: 2001 Categories: Photography, Modern - General 37 colour and black & white images of British modern dancers including Michael Clark, Javier de Frutos, The... [full description] | Paperback [5763-PB] £ 7.50 Add to order |
Bust a move, dance crazes through the ages.
Published: 2009 Category: Social - Technique From the jiving 1950s to the hip hopping 90s, the disco funky 70s to the booty shaking noughties, Bust a Moveis... [full description] | Paperback [5754-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
The Royal Ballet Calendar, 2010.
Published: 2009 Category: Calendars A 300 x 300mm full colour calendar (600 x 300mm when opened), with 13 pictures of Royal Ballet dancers. The dancers... [full description] | Paperback [5742-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
Dark. Carolyn Carlson and Company.
Author: Carlson, Carolyn Published: Category: DVDs - Modern dance Carolyn Carlson is a magician of ambiguity who transports her audience into a netherworld where life meets death. Her... [full description] | DVD [5752-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
The Seagull. Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Plisetskaya dances her own choreography, to a score by her former husband Rodion Shchedrin. The ballet was recorded... [full description] | DVD [5750-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Dark. Carolyn Carlson and Company.
Author: Carlson, Carolyn Published: Category: DVDs - Modern dance Carolyn Carlson is a magician of ambiguity who transports her audience into a netherworld where life meets death. Her... [full description] | DVD [5752-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Symphonie Fantastique. Niels Bjorn Larsen, Mona Vangsaae, The Royal Danish Ballet.
Author: Massine, Leonide Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet In 1948 Massine mounted for the Royal Danish Ballet a version of his celebrated Symphonie Fantastique, based on... [full description] | DVD [5732-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order |
Harald Lander, his life and ballets.
Author: Aschengreen, Erik Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
Rolf de Mare: art collector, ballet director, museum creator.
Author: Naslund, Erik Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
From jazz funk & fusion to acid jazz.
Author: Cotgrove, Mark 'Snowboy' Published: 2009 Category: Jazz - General The history of the UK jazz dance scene and the first time it has been documented in such depth. It follows the scene's... [full description] | Paperback [5743-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order |
Strictly Come Dancing: the official 2010 annual.
Author: Maloney, Alison Published: 2009 Category: Social - General A companion to the popular BBC TV show (Series Seven). The book includes interviews with celebrities taking part in the... [full description] | Hardback [5744-HB] £ 12.99 Add to order |
The world of ballet.
Author: Masini, Beatrice & Sara Not Published: 2009 Category: Young readers - Children This book is filled with everything you love about ballet - all the steps and jumps, stunning costumes, best-loved... [full description] | Hardback [5745-HB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
Stepping stones to creativity.
Author: Harries, Judith & Mel Astill, Elizabeth Palfrey Published: 2009 Category: Educational - Primary This book is the ultimate guide to exploring children in the early years' creativity through dance, drama, storytelling... [full description] | Paperback [5747-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order |
The art and science of dance/movement therapy.
Author: Chaiklin, Sharon & Hilda Wengrower Published: 2009 Category: Therapy The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers both a broad understanding and an in-depth view of how and where... [full description] | Paperback [5737-PB] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Diaghilev, a life.
Author: Scheijen, Sjeng Published: 2010 Category: Ballet - General Diaghilev (1872-1929) is a character on the scale of myth. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, as a very... [full description] | Paperback [5741-PB] £ 14.99 Add to order |
The art of dance Martha Graham Dance Company calendar 2010.
Published: 2009 Category: Calendars A 300 x 300 mm colour calendar (600 x 300 when opened), with photographs by John Deane of dancers from the Martha... [full description] | Paperback [5738-PB] £ 10.99 Add to order |
For the further improvement of dancing, translated by John Essex.
Author: Feuillet, Rauol-Auger Published: 2009 Category: Early Dance A facsimile of John Essex's 1710 translation. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. | Hardback [5733-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
Different drummer, the life of Kenneth Macmillan.
Author: Parry, Jann Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies. However, MacMillan was tormented by an... [full description] | Paperback [5711-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order |
Mim - a personal memoir of Marie Rambert.
Author: Kelly, Brigitte Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
Robert Helpmann, a rare sense of theatre.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley Published: 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
Dido and Aeneas. Sarah Connolly, Lucas Meachem, The Royal Ballet.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet The Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera join forces for Wayne McGregor's acclaimed fusion of music and movement, with... [full description] | DVD [5723-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Marco Spada. Rudolf Nureyev, Ghislaine Thesmar, Rome Opera Ballet.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet A choreographic reconstruction, by Pierre Lacotte, of Mazilier's 1857 ballet, with music by Auber, filmed for Italian... [full description] | DVD [5720-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Electra, Rinaldo and Armida, Suites from Homage to the Queen and Sweeney Todd. BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba.
Author: Arnold, Sir Malcolm Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets The first recording of the notorious Robert Helpmann ballet Electra, coupled with Ashton's Rinaldo and... [full description] | CD [5730-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order |
Peer Gynt (Heinz Spoerli). Marlijn Rademaker, Philipp Schepmann, Yen Han, the Zurich Ballet.
Author: Spoerli, Heinz Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet Heinz Spoerli's take on the Ibsen classic includes both a dancing and speaking Peer, and a great deal of sand for the... [full description] | DVD [5715-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Giselle (Mats Ek). Ana Laguna, Luc Bouy, Cullberg Ballet.
Author: Ek, Mats Published: Category: DVDs - Modern ballet In Mats Ek's highly stylised version of the romantic ballet the traditional Rhineland village is replaced by a... [full description] | DVD [5725-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order |
Great Ballets of the Opera National de Paris.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Three previously issued DVDs of performances by the Paris Opera Ballet gathered together in on box at bargain... [full description] | DVD [5729-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Les choses espagnoles: research into the Hispanomania of 19th century dance.
Author: Jeschke, Claudia & Gabi Vettermann, Nicole Haitzinger Published: 2009 Categories: Ballet - General, Ethnic dance - Spanish A series of articles examining the passion for things Spanish which swept over 19th century ballet and dance. The... [full description] | Paperback [5726-PB] £ 22.50 Add to order |
Nutcracker. San Francisco Ballet.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. New Nutcrackers need a gimmick,... [full description] | DVD [5727-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Dido and Aeneas. Sarah Connolly, Lucas Meachem, The Royal Ballet. [Blu-Ray]
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. The Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera... [full description] | DVD [5728-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
The pocket guide to musicals.
Author: Hughes, Maureen Published: 2008 Category: Musical theatre and film Everything you need to know about musical theatre in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes, who has created... [full description] | Paperback [5721-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order |
Choreographic. Scottish Youth Dance.
Published: 2009 Category: DVD-ROM A resource for dance students and teachers, it is a fully interactive programme which contains the following segments:... [full description] | DVD-ROM [5718-DR] £ 146.88 Add to order |
A feast of wonders: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.
Author: Bowlt, John E & Zelfira Tregulova, Nathalie Rosticher Giordano Published: 2009 Categories: Ballet - General, Design, costume, and production 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 |
Great Ballets of the Teatro Scala - Giselle, A Midsummer Night's Dream, La Bayadere.
Published: Category: DVDs - Ballet Three previously issued DVDs boxed together at bargain price. The casts include Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle... [full description] | DVD [5716-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Cyrano: David Bintley's production for Birmingham Royal Ballet. Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Paul Murphy. [2 CD set.]
Author: Davis, Carl Published: 2009 Category: CDs - Ballets The complete score of David Bintley's revised version of Cyrano, first performed in 2007. | CD [5709-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order |
AQA GCSE Dance: Teacher Guide.
Author: Howard, Pam Published: 2009 Category: Educational - Secondary The AQA GCSE Dance Teacher's Guide has been written to support the best-selling textbook by Pam Howard. The... [full description] | Hardback [5702-HB] £ 79.99 Add to order |
Swan Lake. Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, The Royal Ballet.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in March 2009. Bonus material includes an interview with Sir Anthony... [full description] | DVD [5699-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order |
How to Charleston correctly.
Author: Walker, Bemis Published: 2009, 1926 Category: Social - Technique Discovered in Charleston, South Carolina, being danced by black dock workers, the Charleston first hit the general... [full description] | Paperback [5675-PB] £ 5.00 Add to order |
Violette Verdy, the Artist Teacher at Chautauqua Institiution.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet The legendary Violette Verdy, who excelled as a Balanchine ballerina, has distinguished herself as a coach to leading... [full description] | DVD [5676-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order |
Martha Hill & the making of American dance.
Author: Soares, Janet Mansfield Published: 2009 Category: Modern - General Martha Hill (1900 - 1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance. Her vision and... [full description] | Hardback [5677-HB] £ 21.95 Add to order |
The Tale of a Manor: Dance Drama by Par Isberg and Bengt Wennehorst. Johanna Bjornson, Martin Leander, the Royal Swedish Ballet.
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Modern ballet The darkly romantic tale of a young violin playing student, whose attempts to save the family estate lead to madness... [full description] | DVD [5700-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order |
Raymonda, complete score arranged for solo piano.
Author: Glazunov, Alexander Published: Category: Piano scores - performance A very clear, full size facsimile, of the original Belaieff edition. | Paperback [5692-PB] £ 21.95 Add to order |
Russian Ballet Master: the memoirs of Marius Petipa.
Author: Petipa, Marius Published: 1958, 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
The Chevalier Noverre, father of modern ballet.
Author: Lynham, Deryck Published: 2009, 1950 Categories: Early Dance, Ballet - General 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 |
A time to dance, a time to die.
Author: Waller, John Published: 2008 Category: Social - General The true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the terrifying... [full description] | Hardback [5678-HB] £ 12.99 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 |
Caravaggio. Vladimir Malakhov, Staatsballett Berlin. [Blu-Ray version.]
Published: 2009 Category: DVDs - Ballet IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD - IT WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. A ballet in two acts choreographed by... [full description] | DVD [5671-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order |
Christopher Hobson plays Modern Ballet Studio Melodies, vol.1.
Author: Hobson, Christopher Published: 2009 Category: Class CDs - Ballet A bright and breezy collection of piano pieces guaranteed to brighten up any ballet class. There are 16 tracks each for... [full description] | CD [5659-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order |
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 |
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] £ 35.99 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 |
The Diaghilev Ballet, 1909 - 1929.
Author: Grigoriev, Serge Leonovich Published: 1954, 2009 Category: Ballet - General 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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