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Cover imageManon. 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


Cover imageConditioning for dancers.

Author: Welsh, Tom

Published: 2009

Category: Anatomy and physiology

Conditioning for dancers is a resource for dancers and other active people who approach training their bodies as... [full description]

Paperback [5793-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Cover imageRomeo 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


Cover imageSpartacus. 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


Cover imageAcis 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


Cover imageMayerling. 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


Cover imageOn technique.

Author: Speer, Dean

Published: 2009

Categories: Ballet - General, Ballet - Technique

On Technique provides a fascinating look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's... [full description]

Hardback [5811-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Cover imageContemporary dance music, vol. 9.

Author: Price, Michael & Rael Jones

Published: 2010

Category: CDs - Modern dance

Inspirational music for class and choreography with 12 varied tracks.

CD [5799-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageDe 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


Cover imageSome 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


Cover imageMusic in the early twentieth century.

Author: Taruskin, Richard

Published: 2010

Category: Music and dance

This book offers an unmatched narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music and its institutions by one... [full description]

Paperback [5805-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imagedancesounds, Volume 12: Mood & Atmosphere.

Author: Jackson, Paul A

Published: 2010

Categories: Class CDs - modern dance, Class CDs - Educational dance

Includes 16 tracks by Paul A. Jackson featuring change in dynamics, mood or atmosphere allowing students to demonsrate... [full description]

CD [5804-CD] £ 13.49 Add to order


Cover imageNike Oshinowo, fit forty and fabulous with Hugo Camacho.

Author: Camacho, Hugo

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - fitness

When Nike Oshinowo turned forty, she decided to be proactive about her weight and health issues by exercising and... [full description]

DVD [5803-DV] £ 10.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageRecueil 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


Cover imageSupporting children's creativity through music, dance, drama and art.

Author: Griffiths, Fleur

Published: 2010

Categories: Educational - Primary, Creative dance

This book brings together contributions from a range of professionals and Early Years practitioners, to help readers... [full description]

Paperback [5797-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Ballets Trockadero, volumes 1 & 2.

Published: 2001, 2009

Category: DVDs - Ballet

The all male drag ballet company in a selection of riotous parodies now bolth volumes in one box set. Volume 1 includes... [full description]

DVD [5794-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Bolshoi Ballet - The Pharaoh's Daughter; Pique Dame; Bolt.

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Boxed set of the Bolshoi Ballet dancing The Pharaoh's Daughter, Pique Dame and Bolt. The dancers include... [full description]

DVD [5795-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageApologie 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


Cover imageReminiscences of the Opera.

Author: Lumley, Benjamin

Published:

Categories: Ballet - General, Early Dance

From 1842 to 1853 and again from 1856 to 1858, Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was manager of Her Majesty's Theatre in... [full description]

Paperback [5766-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageTrattato 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


Cover imageTraite 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


Cover imageThe Ballets Russes and the art of design.

Author: Purvis, Alston & Peter Rand, Anna Winestein

Published: 2009

Categories: Ballet - General, Design, costume, and production

The Ballets Russes was a phenomenon of the early twentieth century, permeating daily life wherever the company... [full description]

Hardback [5784-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order


Cover imageRecueil 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageHistorical 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


Cover imageOrpheus und Eurydike. Paris Opera Ballet.

Author: Bausch, Pina

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Modern ballet

Pina Bausch's choreographic version of the Gluck opera, filmed at the Paris Opera Ballet in 2008. The cast includes... [full description]

DVD [5762-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageNutrition 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


Cover imageFernando 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


Cover imageFour 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


Cover imageFrom Rout to Regency, CD1.

Published: 2008

Category: CDs - Early dance

Dances for the fashionable assembly in Britain and Europe, from Louis XIV to the Prince Regent. This music was produced... [full description]

CD [5777-CD] £ 9.19 Add to order


Cover imageFrom 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


Cover imageDance 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] £ 55.00 Add to order


Cover imageMargot.

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A fictional portrayal of the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain's first international ballet superstar.

Dame... [full description]

DVD [5767-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imagePilates 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


Cover imageSleeping Beauty. Alla Sizova, Yuri Solovyov, Natalia Makarova and the Kirov Ballet.

Published: 1965

Category: DVDs - Ballet

The Kirov Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty in this classic colour motion picture from 1965.

The... [full description]

DVD [5768-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageStrictly come dancing - live at the O2.

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Ballroom

Full of sparkle, drama, thrills and laughs, this magnificent stage show features some of your favourite dancers from... [full description]

DVD [5769-DV] £ 20.42 Add to order


Cover imagePyotr 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


Cover imageStopmotion, 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


Cover imageRomeo & Juliet. Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Kenneth MacMillan's famous version of Prokofiev's score, filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 16 November,... [full description]

DVD [5758-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageTchaikovsky.

Author: Wiley, Roland John

Published: 2009

Categories: Music and dance, Ballet - General

Renowned Tchaikovsky scholar Roland John Wiley provides a fresh biography aimed at both the student and music lover.... [full description]

Hardback [5756-HB] £ 27.50 Add to order


Cover imageTap and jazz dance.

Author: Gamble, Nikki

Published: 2008

Categories: Social - General, Young readers - Children

A short, well illustrated introduction for advanced primary level children, providing a detailed look at the... [full description]

Paperback [5755-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageBust 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


Cover imageReligious dances.

Author: Backman, E Louis

Published: 1952, 2009

Category: Religious and sacred dance

Religious Dances is an account of the origins and history of religious dances and their significance in the Christian... [full description]

Paperback [5740-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageDark. 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


Cover imageThe Royal Ballet yearbook, 2009/10.

Author: The Royal Opera House

Published: 2009

Category: Ballet - General

The 2009/10 Yearbook is a richly illustrated companion to The Royal Ballet, its history, repertory, dancers and staff.... [full description]

Paperback [5753-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageSatan in the dance hall.

Author: Giordano, Ralph G.

Published: 2008

Categories: Social - General, Dance history

Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City explores... [full description]

Paperback [5751-PB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageDark. 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


Cover imageSymphonie 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


Cover imageHarald 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


Cover imageRolf 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


Cover imageFrom 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


Cover imageStrictly 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageStepping 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


Cover imageBreaking Bounds 2010 Calendar.

Author: Greenfield, Lois

Published: 2009

Category: Calendars

A 300 x 300 mm duotone calendar (600 x 300 when opened), featuring Lois Greenfield's famous photographs of (mostly)... [full description]

Paperback [5734-PB] £ 10.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageFor 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


Cover imageDifferent 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]

Hardback [5711-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageMim - 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


Cover imageRobert 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


Cover imageDido 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


Cover imageScottish Ballet, Forty years.

Author: Brennan, Mary

Published: 2009

Category: Ballet - General

In 1969 a group of dancers from Western Theatre Ballet, led by the late Peter Darrell packed their hopes and memories... [full description]

Hardback [5724-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageElectra, 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


Cover imagePeer 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


Cover imageGiselle (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


Cover imageGreat 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


Cover imageNutcracker. 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


Cover imageDido and Aeneas. Sarah Connolly, Lucas Meachem, The Royal Ballet.

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


Cover imageThe ballet collaborations of Richard Strauss.

Author: Heisler, Wayne

Published: 2009

Categories: Ballet - General, Music and dance

Richard Strauss contributed music to several ballets during his career, collaborating with prominent dance artists of... [full description]

Hardback [5719-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageDynamic women dancers.

Author: Dublin, Anne

Published: 2009

Category: Young readers - Teenagers

The women profiled here have become masters of their art, dancing and choreographing their way around the world. All of... [full description]

Paperback [5722-PB] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageA 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


Cover imageGreat 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


Cover imageCyrano: 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


Cover imageThe wonder.

Author: Evans, Diana

Published: 2009

Categories: Fiction, Black dance

As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still... [full description]

Hardback [5705-HB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan 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


Cover imageDon Quixote. Olesya Novikova, Leonid Sarafanov, Vladimir Ponomarev, The Mariinsky Ballet.

Author: Petipa, Marius

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A brilliant performance, very well recorded, of Petipa's romantic-comic masterpiece, filmed live at the Mariinsky... [full description]

DVD [5681-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageHow 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


Cover imageViolette 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


Cover imageMartha 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


Cover imageNew Music for Ballet Class. Caleb Fawcett.

Author: Fawcett, Caleb

Published: 2009

Category: Class CDs - Ballet

27 piano pieces for barre work, and 18 for centre work, all composed and played by the pianist, Caleb Fawcett, a... [full description]

CD [5701-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageRussian 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageA 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


Cover imageCaravaggio. 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


Cover imageContemporary choreography, a critical reader.

Author: Butterworth, Jo & Liesbeth Wildschut

Published: 2009

Categories: Modern - General, Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative... [full description]

Paperback [5662-PB] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Paris Opera Ballet: Six Ballets. Patrick Dupond, Noella Pontois, Claude de Vulpian.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Six short ballets all choreographed by Norbert Schmucki, the Swiss dancer and choreographer.

Tchaikovsky... [full description]

DVD [5669-DV] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imageChristopher Hobson Plays Modern Ballet Studio Melodies.

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


Cover imageTribal Dancing.

Author: Hambly, W D

Published:

Category: Ethnic dance - Miscellaneous

'... a slave or an old man was seized and carried off to the bush ... what there befell him nobody could tell, but... [full description]

Paperback [5657-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageAQA 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


Cover imageCompetitive 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


Cover imageMatthew 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


Cover imageSpartacus, 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


Cover imageDaphis 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


Cover imageFlamenco: conflicting histories of the dance.

Author: Hayes, Michelle Heffner

Published: 2009

Category: Ethnic dance - Spanish

This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the... [full description]

Paperback [5651-PB] £ 31.50 Add to order


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imageKathakali 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


Cover imageMerce 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


Cover imageFalling About AND Moving About. Green Candle Dance Company.

Published:

Categories: DVDs - Educational, DVDs - fitness

Falling About and Moving About is a unique resource for dance artists, health care workers and people... [full description]

DVD [5638-DV] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageSacred 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


Cover imageLa 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


Cover imageLa 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


Cover imageA 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


Cover imageFire 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] £ 25.53 Add to order


Cover imageLa 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


Cover imageCirque 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


Cover imageDralion. 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


Cover imageNouvelle 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


Cover imageA 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


Cover imageStomp Live.

Published:

Category: DVDs - popular

Hugely successful dance troupe Stomp (who have become internationally famous for their utilisation of household and... [full description]

DVD [5627-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageSaltimbanco. 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


Cover imageThe 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


Cover imagePhysical 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


Cover imagePhysical 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


Cover imageJiri 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


Cover imageWinter Dreams. Darcey Bussell, Irek Mukhamedov, Viviana Durante, Anthony Dowell, The Royal Ballet.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A star studied cast does full justice to one of Kenneth MacMillan's last ballets, inspired by Chekhov's play Three... [full description]

DVD [5608-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSutra. 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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