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Asian American Soul
Christy Adair
Hardcover - $96.95
Christy Adair's study is valuable, first because it introduces non-dancers to a history of dance--a history from the point of view of gender. Conversely, it introduces students of dance to critical theory, and suggests ways in which dance studies can ...
From the Ballroom to Hell : Grace and Folly in Nineteenth-Century Dance
Elizabeth Aldrich
Paperback - $39.95
'From The Ballroom To Hell' collects over one hundred little-known excerpts from dance, etiquette, beauty, and fashion manuals from roughly 1800-1890. It will be of great interest to dancers and dance historians, choreographers, and dramatists intere ...
The Joffrey Ballet : Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company
Sasha Anawalt
Paperback - $42.95
A comprehensive history of the quintessential American dance troupe and a textured portrait of Robert Joffrey, the creative maverick who led and inspired it, this broadly researched, richly anecdotal, and elegantly written book probes the complex rel ...
Democracy's Body - PB
Sally Banes
Paperback - $47.95
Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s ...
Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes : Ballet History as It Ought to Be Taught
David W. Barber
Paperback - $27.95
In his latest book, "Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes," popular music historian and humorist David W. Barber casts a wicked, witty and insightful eye at the history of ballet from its earliest beginnings in the French court to its later heights in such clas ...
The Pointe Book : Shoes, Training & Technique
Janice Barringer
Paperback - $35.95
This thorough guide covers the pointe technique, pointe injury and remedies, pointe shoes--including fit, care and custom design--interviews with ballet stars, and more.
The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet : Theory and Technique
Cyril W. Beaumont
Paperback - $27.95
Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928) performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. He provided dance with a hitherto unknown unity by balancing the adagio and allegro, strengthening the arabesque, and developing exercises of plies. Assisted by ...