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Author : Jean Georges Noverre
Publisher : Princeton Book Company Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Letters on Dancing and Ballets written by Jean Georges Noverre and published by Princeton Book Company Publishers. This book was released on 1966 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Georges Noverre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Letters on dancing and ballets written by Jean Georges Noverre and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Copeland
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195031970
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book What is Dance? written by Roger Copeland and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance andthe Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society.
Author : John Haskell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979793
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Complete Ballet written by John Haskell and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes) In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicality—and psychology—of dance. The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the pre–cell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novel’s violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person. As the narrator revisits his past, he simultaneously inhabits and reconstructs the mythic stories of ballet, assessing along the way the lives and obsessions of Nijinsky and Balanchine, Pavlova and Fonteyn, Joseph Cornell and the story’s presiding spirit, the film director John Cassavetes. This compulsively readable fiction is ultimately a profound and haunting consideration of the nature of art and identity.
Author : Monica Wellington
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823439321
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Dear Ballerina written by Monica Wellington and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dream comes true for a girl who loves tutus, pointe shoes, and dancing on tiptoe! The girl in this story loves to stretch, to pose, to point her toes, to swirl and twirl and leap! She practices new steps every day. All her efforts are rewarded when one special day, she gets to dance in a performance with her favorite ballerina. "Dear Ballerina," the girl writes, "I dream of being a dancer just like you." The pictures in the book take the reader behind the scenes of the ballet to a practice room, a costume room, and the wings of the stage. At last, the curtain goes up, and the girl and her idol dance. Their tutus swirl together! "Dancing makes me happy!" the little ballerina says. A touching story about dance, passion, effort, and intergenerational mentorship. The five ballet positions are illustrated, and behind-the-scene secrets are revealed. Back matter provides interesting information about point shoes, tutus, and the contents of a ballet bag. The author-illustrator is the mother of a little girl who has grown up to be a professional ballerina with New York City Ballet. This book was inspired by letters Lydia Wellington wrote to dancers she admired, as well as letters she has received from young fans. Every detail in this book is filled with joy and love and is authentic and accurate. A glittery cover makes Dear Ballerina a perfect gift for ballet recitals. A great choice for fans of Angelina Ballerina.
Author : Jean Georges Noverre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Letters on Dancing and Ballets written by Jean Georges Noverre and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
ISBN 13 : 0199794014
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Dance as Text written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised et performed court ballets.
Author : Carol MacClintock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253144959
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Readings in the History of Music in Performance written by Carol MacClintock and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". extremely useful... In MacClintock's selections, even when the source is primarily theoretical, she chooses passages that give a lively insight into actual music-making."A -- Continuo Readings on the performance of Western music from the late middle ages to the early nineteenth century describe the accepted conventions and actual practices of former times.
Author : August Bournonville
Publisher : David Leonard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters on Dance and Choreography written by August Bournonville and published by David Leonard. This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of 8 letters reflecting the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville's views on the ballet of his time.
Author : Carol Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415942577
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Ballet in Western Culture written by Carol Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of ballet from the origins of dance through the 20th century.
Author : Carolyn Brown
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307575608
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Chance and Circumstance written by Carolyn Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.
Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199377332
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Queer Dance written by Clare Croft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Queer Dance' challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. The text joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.
Author : Jennifer Homans
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847084540
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Apollo's Angels written by Jennifer Homans and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain, Denmark, Russia and contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected political and cultural upheavals, how dance and dancers were influenced by the Renaissance and French Classicism, by Revolution and Romanticism, by Expressionism and Bolshevism, Modernism and the Cold War. Homans shows how and why 'the steps' were never just the steps: they were a set of beliefs and a way of life. She takes the reader into the lives of dancers and traces the formal evolution of technique, choreography and performance. Her book ends by looking at the contemporary crisis in ballet now that 'the masters are dead and gone' and offers a passionate plea for the centrality of classical dance in our civilization. Apollo's Angels is a book with broad popular appeal: beautifully written and illustrated, it is essential reading for anyone interested in history, culture and art.
Author : Waslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520009455
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky written by Waslaw Nijinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius.
Author : Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134361297
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Dance Words written by Valerie Preston-Dunlop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her unique collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers, Valerie Preston-Dunlop presents a comprehensive view of people in dance: what they do, their movement, their sound, and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of the performers, choreographers, audiences, administrators, and teachers. The words and phrases of their technical and vernacular languages, which are used to communicate what is essentially a non-verbal activity, have been collected in rehearsal classes and workshops by interviews, and from published sources. In this first collection of its kind Valerie Preston-Dunlop extends her selection of verbal language to include the various social and theatrical domains of dance.
Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571806
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Terpsichore in Sneakers written by Sally Banes and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dance critic's essays on post-modern dance. Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpischore in Sneakers, Sally Bane's Writing Dancing documents the background and development of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how postmodern dance is integrally connected to other oppositional, often marginalized strands of dance culture, and considers how certain kinds of dance move from the margins to the mainstream. Banes begins by considering the act of dance criticism itself, exploring its modes, methods, and underlying assumptions and examining the work of other critics. She traces the development of contemporary dance from the early work of such influential figures as Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine to such contemporary choreographers as Molissa Fenley, Karole Armitage, and Michael Clark. She analyzes the contributions of the Judson Dance Theatre and the Workers' Dance League, the emergence of Latin postmodern dance in New York, and the impact of black jazz in Russia. In addition, Banes explores such untraditional performance modes as breakdancing and the "drunk dancing" of Fred Astaire.
Author : Maria Tallchief
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142300187
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Tallchief written by Maria Tallchief and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on the Osage Indian reservation, Maria Tallchief was a gifted pianist and dancer. According to Osage tradition, women are not permitted to dance, but Maria's parents recognized her gifts and allowed her to break the rule. Then when Maria reached the age of twelve, her father told her it was time to choose between her two loves. Maria chose ballet. It was a decision that would change not only the course of her life, but the face of classical ballet in America. The fascinating story of Maria Tallchief's rise to become America's prima ballerina will captivate young readers.
