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The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet
The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world, from Giselle and Swan Lake to Cinderella and Steptext. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon alongside classics by Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev and Balanchine. Features include: - plot summaries - an analysis of each ballet's principal themes - useful background and historical information - a unique, behind-the-scenes, performer's-eye view Dip in at random or trace the development of dance from cover to cover. Written by former Royal Ballet principal Deborah Bull and leading dance critic Luke Jennings, this ever popular Faber Pocket guide is a must for all ballet-goers - regulars and first-timers alike.
Gaia's Children
This Scottish novel offers a glimpse of a world ravaged by climate change, where heroes struggle against impossible odds to preserve the land, and those whom they love. In a fast paced narrative, the reader is drawn into the lives of climate refugees.Aberdeenshire 2050 In a world transformed by climate change, Scotland has become a war zone. City gangs battle homesteaders for food supplies. An unstoppable plague kills one in ten. A new race is born, the Lupans: golden-eyed and wild, they reject their mothers and live apart, speaking no recognizable language. Alienated from society, these Lupans are even hunted for sport.For thirty years Linella Sienkiewicz has taken in climate refugees. She ...
Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
In 1970, Hans Rookmaaker published Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, a groundbreaking work that considered the role of the Christian artist in society. This volume responds to his work by bringing together a practicing artist and a theologian, who argue that modernist art is underwritten by deeply religious concerns.
Perfect Cocker Spaniel
"Natalia's love of this breed is easy to see as she compiles her experience and research into this handy guide. Perfect for a lover of the breed." DOGS MONTHLY MAGAZINEFinally, here is a one-of-a-kind book, BLACK&WHITE EDITION, that tells you everything about English cocker spaniels. Aimed at both the perspective puppy parents and the true lovers of the breed, "Perfect cocker spaniel" is the result of thirty years of acquired knowledge and personal experience of living and raising dogs, including the English cocker. The breed became the author's choice over a decade ago. Since then all her efforts have been channelled into studying, observing and learning everything she possibly could about ...
First We Take Manhattan
Four American women: Marcia Siegel, Deborah Jowitt, Arlene Croce and Nancy Goldner are writers who became dance critics partly by design. By showing us extensive examples from their vivid writing about dance, Diana Theodores presents a detailed and illuminating analysis of their styles and ideas from 1965 to 1985, the Golden Age of Dance in New York. For the first time, she presents these four writers as a school of dance criticism, four women who defined American dance in a key era of its recent history. About the Author
Frederick Ashton's Ballets
The second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but also presents a detailed account of Ashton's work and dances, demonstrating his remarkable choreographic and artistic talent. Having danced with the Royal Ballet Company during the years Ashton was Director, author, Geraldine Morris also draws on her years as an academic in the field. As well as highlighting the dances, the book explores the contribution made by Ashton's collaborators, both designers and musicians. Central is the...
The Spectator
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The Ballet Lover's Companion
This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern choreographers. She provides a wealth of facts and insights, including information familiar only to dance world insiders, and considers such recent works as Alexei Ramansky's Shostakovich Trilogy and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale as well as older ballets once forgotten but now returned to the repertory, such as Sylvia. To enhance enjoyment of each ballet, Anderson also offers tips on wh...
New York Christmas Melody
Als ehemalige Pop-Prinzessin möchte ich nichts mehr, als endlich mit einem neuen Image, auf die Bühne zurückzukehren. Mein Management glaubt, dass ausgerechnet ein kitschiges Weihnachtsduett bestehend aus dem Rockstar Benjamin Kingston und mir, mein perfektes Comeback wäre. Die Idee ist noch absurder, als die glitzernden Bühnen-Leggins, die ich vor zehn Jahren getragen habe. Benjamins Ruf eilt ihm weit voraus. Er ist unanständig attraktiv, hat an jedem Finger zehn Frauen und Flirten scheint seine Muttersprache zu sein. Doch um mich von meinem Pop-Sternchen Image zu lösen, ist mir jeder Weg recht. Wirklich jeder. Bis mein Management wieder eine vollkommen abwegige Idee hat. Bis Neujahr...
Passion to Dance
This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics. Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for dance as a living, evolving art form. From catch-as-catch-can beginnings – borrowed quarters, tiny stages, enormous dreams the National Ballet has emerged as one of North America’s foremost dance troupes. The company at sixty is a company of its time, engaged in creating challenging new work, yet committed to maintaining the classics of the past, favourites like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker,and The Sleeping Beauty. One hundred and fifty photographs from the company’s archives illustrate this definitive history, filled with eyewitness accounts, backstage glimpses, and fascinating detail. This is a record of one of Canada’s boldest cultural experiments, a book to enjoy now and keep forever.
