Results for: books tagged ‘Dance’
The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet: Deborah Bull and Luke Jennings
This essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art, is a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today. Spanning nearly two centuries of classical dancing, this ... More
Secret Muses: Julie Kavanagh
Sir Frederick Ashton, Britain's greatest choreographer, was a major figure on the cultural landscape of the twentieth century and his influence extended far beyond the world of dance. Julie Kavanagh ... More
The Royal Ballet: 75 Years: Zoe Anderson
In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, the Royal Ballet - as it became - was one of the world's great ... More
Cecil Sharp: Maud Karpeles
Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil ... More
Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Volume 3: Robert Craft
At the centre of this third and final volume of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky is four decades of the composer’s correspondence with his publishers. Stravinsky’s letters to Schotts ... More
Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Volume 2: Robert Craft
In this second volume of Igor Stravinsky’s correspondence - selected and annotated by his friend and associate Robert Craft - we are given a wealth of material relating to the composer’s ... More
Different Drummer: Jann Parry
The first complete biography of one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century – a hugely gifted man, often thought an outsider and plagued by anxiety. More
Making a Ballet: Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
Making a Ballet is a survey of the processes which bring a ballet to the stage; it successfully dispels much of the mystique that surrounds what is a hard-learned and ... More