Errand into the Maze - The Life and Works of Martha Graham by Deborah Jowitt
$65.00 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
From the legendary dance critic Deborah Jowitt, Errand into the Maze is the definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. "Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend." --Mikhail Baryshnikov In the pantheon of Ameri ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Ballet Confidential: A Personal Behind-the-Scenes Guide by David McAllister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal ...Show more
Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans
$69.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the century that shaped him. Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his rich ...Show more
Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today's Artists by Joshua Teal
$49.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of dance There's no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we've been creating art, from prehistoric cave drawings to the paintings of Degas. This ...Show more
Built for Ballet: Leanne Benjamin by Leanne Benjamin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the world’s most important ballet dancers of the past 50 years. Leanne was born and raised in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton in a tightly knit hard-working Catholic family. At the a ...Show more
Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet-the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that ha ...Show more
Ballet: The Essential Guide to Technique and Creative Practice by JENNIFER JACKSON
$79.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, ...Show more
Free: A Life in Images and Words by SERGEI POLUNIN
$130.00 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
The early life path of Ukraine-born Sergei Polunin was akin to a dancer's fairytale. A precocious talent. Ballet training in Kiev. Admission to the Royal Ballet School in London at 13. First solo performance at the Royal Ballet at 19. At 20, promotion to the youngest ever principal. Then, at 21, a sudde ...Show more
Foundations of Classical Ballet - New, Complete and Unabridged Translation of the 3rd Edition by Agrippina Vaganova; Flavia Pappacena (Foreword by); Bruce Michelson (Editor); Aleksandr Wilansky (Translator)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
This is the most respected and most widely-read Russian ballet manual in the world, written in 1938 by Agrippina Vaganova (Russia's most influential ballet teacher of all time) and published in its final version (renowned as the 3rd edition) in U.S.S.R. in 1948. The book is presented - for the first tim ...Show more
Dancing Under the Southern Skies by Valerie Lawson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
With its vivid narrative, Valerie Lawson's Dancing Under the Southern Skies goes far beyond what audiences see on stage to reveal what has been behind the red velvet curtain. The lives of the dancers who toured to Australia, among them Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn, and of those who stayed and of thos ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$45.00 AUD
Category: Ballet/Contemporary Dance
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass ...Show more