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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 imageCaravaggio. 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


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] £ 36.00 Add to order


Cover imageWriting dancing together.

Author: Briginshaw, Valerie & Ramsay Burt

Published: 2009

Category: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

This is a provocative collection of essays that focuses on the ways in which dance experiences engage with issues of... [full description]

Hardback [5643-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order


Cover imageGiselle, complete ballet. The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra/Victor Fedotov. [2 CD set.]

Author: Adam, Adolphe

Published:

Category: CDs - Ballets

CD [5653-CD] £ 21.99 Add to order


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 imagePirouette: ballet stories.

Author: Castor, Harriet

Published: 2008

Category: Young readers - Teenagers

15 short ballet stories for young teenagers. The authors include Jamila Gavin, Rumer Godden, Michelle Magorian, Jean... [full description]

Paperback [5650-PB] £ 6.99 Add to order


Cover imageWriting dancing together.

Author: Briginshaw, Valerie & Ramsay Burt

Published: 2009

Category: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory

This is a provocative collection of essays that focuses on the ways in which dance experiences engage with issues of... [full description]

Hardback [5643-HB] £ 50.00 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 imageBehind the scenes at Boston Ballet.

Author: Temin, Christine

Published: 2009

Category: Ballet - General

For centuries, ballet companies have been transporting audiences beyond their workaday worlds, one performance at a... [full description]

Hardback [5649-HB] £ 24.95 Add to order


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 imageKathakali Mudras: the ancient sign language of India [DVD and DVD-ROM].

Author: Vijayakumar, Kalamandalm Barbara

Published: 2009

Category: Ethnic dance - Indian

Kathakali is an extraordinary combination of drama, dance, music, poetry, costume, make up and ritual, deriving from... [full description]

DVD [5622-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order


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 imageThe Bright Red Lanterns Hung High. Central Ballet Troupe of China.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Set in the 1920s, a young woman is pushed into the bridal sedan chair by force to marry an old man as his third... [full description]

DVD [5641-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageRelief.

Author: Butler, L E

Published: 2008

Category: Fiction

Set in 1912, Relief follows young widow Katie Larkin as she escapes a troubled past in Boston and pursues a... [full description]

Paperback [5642-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order


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 imageWhy dance? A comprehensive resource for traditional country dancing.

Author: Downes, Jane & Pat King

Published: 2009

Categories: Ethnic dance - English, Social - Technique

Why Dance? is a comprehensive instruction book for traditional British country dancing. Facts about the origins... [full description]

Spiral bound [5637-SP] £ 28.00 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] £ 24.99 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 imageTraditional barn dances, with calls and fiddling.

Author: Laufman, Dudley & Jacqueline Laufman

Published: 2009

Categories: Ethnic dance - North American, Social - Technique

Preserving cultural influences, this unique collection of American community folk dances and their historical origins... [full description]

Paperback [5631-PB] £ 39.50 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 imageUrban 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


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 imageGiselle ou Les Wilis: notation by Henri Justamant from the 1860s.

Author: Coralli, Jean & Jules Perrot

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

A reproduction of a handwritten transcription of the ballet by the ballet master Henri Justamant, chief choreographer... [full description]

Paperback [5624-PB] £ 80.00 Add to order


Cover imageTo be like gods: dance in ancient Maya civilization.

Author: Looper, Matthew G

Published: 2009

Category: Ethnic dance - Miscellaneous

The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an... [full description]

Hardback [5619-HB] £ 45.00 Add to order


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 imageAsami 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


Cover imageA Crazy Day; Pages of the Russian Ballet. Boris Eifman Dance Company; the Kirov Ballet.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Three Soviet TV recordings from the early 1980s. A Crazy Day is renegade choreographer Boris Eifman's version of... [full description]

DVD [5611-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageMagic Fairy Tales; The Prince and Cinderella; Ninel Kurgapkina Benefit Performance. The Kirov Ballet.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A very mixed bag. Magic Fairy Tales (black-and-white) is actually excerpts from the last act of Sleeping... [full description]

DVD [5612-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake: Chinese Top Acrobatic Show. Guangzhou Military Performance Group.

Published:

Category: DVD-ROM

A version of Swan Lake, re-choreographed by Liu Jun and Li Yaping for a mixture of dancers and acrobats, who... [full description]

DVD [5615-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


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


Cover imageStudio Series, Intuition volume 4, Music for the dance studio. Jonathan Still.

Author: Still, Jonathan

Published: 2007

Category: Class CDs - Ballet

Piano music for ballet class, played by Jonathan Still. There are twenty-seven tracks for barre work, and twenty-six... [full description]

CD [5587-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageStudio Series, Intuition volume 5, Music for the dance studio. Jonathan Still.

Author: Still, Jonathan

Published: 2008

Category: Class CDs - Ballet

Piano music for ballet class, played by Jonathan Still. There are thirty tracks for barre work, eight for centre work,... [full description]

CD [5588-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageBaroque dance, a demonstration of some of the most celebrated dances of the period. Nicola Gaines and Christopher Tudor.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Early Dance

Baroque Dance performed in costume by early dance specialists Nicola Gaines and Chris Tudor to music by Lully, Croft... [full description]

DVD [5589-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageTap Dance Made Easy.

Published: 2008

Category: CDs - Show work

A great resource for tap dancers and instructors, this audio CD contains music from Eli Newsom's Tap Dance Made... [full description]

CD [5600-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance composition: an interrelated arts approach.

Author: Pomer, Janice

Published: 2009

Category: Educational - Secondary

Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach helps students investigate dance movement from a... [full description]

Paperback [5592-PB] £ 22.95 Add to order


Cover imageBroadway musicals, the 101 greatest shows of all time.

Author: Bloom, Ken

Published: 2004

Category: Musical theatre and film

A massive (2.5 kg.) survey of the one hundred and one most influential and enduring Broadway musicals, from... [full description]

Paperback [1566-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imagePurim; Carmen. Gyori Ballet of Hungary.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern ballet

Carmen is choreographed by to a new score by Christopher Benstead (who also makes a brief audio appearance as a... [full description]

DVD [5590-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageRecreating Rudolf Laban's Die Grunen Clowns, 1928.

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Modern dance

A recreation, on Trinity Laban students, of the Laban's Die Grünen Clowns, a response to the dehumanising... [full description]

DVD [5591-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallet's magic kingdom.

Author: Volynsky, Akim

Published: 2008

Category: Ballet - General

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and... [full description]

Hardback [5577-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageAlice in Wonderland, complete ballet. City of Prague Symphony Orchestra/Carl Davis.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich & Carl Davis

Published: 2009

Category: CDs - Ballets

Carl Davis's selections of Tchaikovsky, orchestrated by David Matthews, for Derek Deane's ballet for English National... [full description]

CD [5575-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageNew dance: writings on modern dance.

Author: Humphrey, Doris

Published: 2008

Category: Modern - General

This collection of essays, lectures and notes, selected by Humphrey's son, Charles Humphrey Woodford, reveals the... [full description]

Hardback [5568-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Cover imageReading dance: a gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, and some uncategorizable extras.

Author: Gottlieb, Robert

Published:

Categories: Ballet - General, Modern - General

Collections of dance writing excerpts tend to be mixed bags, often put together to give students the opportunity of not... [full description]

Hardback [5567-HB] £ 28.99 Add to order


Cover imageBeing watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s.

Author: Lambert-Beatty, Carrie

Published: 2008

Category: Modern - General

In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body: stripped it of... [full description]

Hardback [5569-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageMy First Ballet Class. Nigel Gaynor.

Author: Gaynor, Nigel

Published: 2002

Category: Class CDs - Ballet

29 piano pieces for ballet class for very young beginners. Composers include Minkus, Tchaikovsky, and favourite nursery... [full description]

CD [5581-CD] £ 15.65 Add to order


Cover imageThe rough guide to film musicals.

Author: Parkinson, David

Published:

Category: Musical theatre and film

The perfect companion to cinema's most spectacular genre, The Rough Guide to Film Musicals reveals how an... [full description]

Paperback [5582-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageHollywood musicals year by year.

Author: Green, Stanley

Published:

Category: Musical theatre and film

Whose singing voice was substituted for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn? What movie was the first to combine... [full description]

Paperback [5583-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageA song in the dark: the birth of the musical film.

Author: Barrios, Richard

Published: 1995

Category: Musical theatre and film

Chronicling the early musical film years from 1926 to 1934, A Song in the Dark offers a fascinating look at a... [full description]

Paperback [5580-PB] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageMaterial for the Spine: A Movement Study. Steve Paxton.

Author: Paxton, Steve

Published: 2008

Category: DVD-ROM

In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet... [full description]

DVD-ROM [5573-DR] £ 32.99 Add to order


Cover imageLe Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Leipzig Ballet.

Author: Scholz, Uwe

Published: 2009

Category: DVDs - Modern dance

German choreographer Uwe Scholz here presents two versions of Stravinsky's score: the first, in the version for two... [full description]

DVD [5574-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageRaymonda. Ludmilla Semenyaka, Irek Mukhamedov, Gedeminas Taranda, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Yuri Grigorovich's production of the Petipa classic, filmed live at the Bolshoi Theatre in the 1980s. The picture... [full description]

DVD [5562-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageMary Wigman.

Author: Newhall, Mary Anne Santos

Published: 2008

Category: Modern - General

A dancer, teacher and choreographer, Mary Wigman was a leading innovator in expressionist dance. Her radical... [full description]

Paperback [5570-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Fiddle and the Drum. Joni Mitchell, the Alberta Ballet Company.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern ballet

An exploration of folk-rock singer Joni Mitchell's live-long concerns about environmental neglect and the warring... [full description]

DVD [5571-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageAiley ascending: a portrait in motion.

Author: Eccles, Andrew

Published: 2007

Categories: Modern - General, Black dance

A large format book with nearly 90 photographs (about one third in colour, the rest in monochrome) of the Alvin Ailey... [full description]

Hardback [5572-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageBroadway musicals, show by show.

Author: Green, Stanley

Published:

Category: Musical theatre and film

A new edition of a standard reference book listing major Broadway musicals from 1866 (The Black Crook) to 2007... [full description]

Paperback [3472-PB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageSpartacus. Carlos Acosta, Alexander Volchikov, Nina Kaptsova, Maria Allash, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Author: Grigorovich, Yuri

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

Filmed at the Paris Opera in January 2008. A bonus DVD is included containing a documentary about the making of the... [full description]

DVD [5563-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageMariinsky Theatre.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A documentary film celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Mariinsky Theatre, including excerpts from Swan Lake,... [full description]

DVD [5565-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageNutcracker Story.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Ballet

A documentary about The Nutcracker ballet, with excerpts from productions by The Royal Ballet and the Mariinsky... [full description]

DVD [5566-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageConstant Lambert Conducts Ballet Suites. Sadler's Wells Orchestra.

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published:

Category: CDs - Ballets (collections)

Digitally remastered recordings from 1939 and 1940 of excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty,... [full description]

CD [5564-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageVocalise - Improving Dance Performance II.

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

Published: 2008

Category: DVD-ROM

THESE DISCS ARE INTENDED FOR COMPUTER USE: THEY WILL NOT PLAY ON DVD PLAYERS.

Vocalise, produced by Bedford... [full description]

DVD-ROM [5551-DR] £ 172.25 Add to order


Cover imageLiving Architecture: Rudolf Laban and the Geometry of Dance.

Author: Carlisle, Anna

Published: 2008

Categories: DVDs - Modern dance, DVDs - Educational

Living Architecture presents, for the first time, Laban's space harmony dance material, its geometric basis and... [full description]

DVD [5560-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imagePoint of departure.

Author: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie

Published: 2008

Categories: Aesthetics, philosophy and theory, Modern - General

This book is for dancers and choreographers. It is based on Rudolf Laban's inspired work on spatial organisation for... [full description]

Spiral bound [5561-SP] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imagePina Bausch Dance Theatre.

Author: Servos, Norbert

Published: 2008

Category: Modern - General

Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal have created a global art form, captivating audiences worldwide. In their... [full description]

Paperback [5548-PB] £ 28.99 Add to order


Cover imagezero degrees. Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nitin Sawhney, Antony Gormley.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - Modern dance

zero degrees explores borders between countries, cultures, and, most importantly, between life and death. It... [full description]

DVD [5559-DV] £ 19.49 Add to order


Cover imagePure Street Dance. Urban Strides.

Published: 2008

Category: DVDs - popular - technique

Do you want to be a better dance, have fun, and learn some sik moves along the way? Pure Street Dance is the... [full description]

DVD [5555-DV] £ 19.56 Add to order

 

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