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Leanne Benjamin: Built For Ballet

Author : Leanne Benjamin
Publisher : Melbourne Books
ISBN 13 : 1925556735
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Leanne Benjamin: Built For Ballet written by Leanne Benjamin and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 age of 3 she attended her first ballet class and at 16 she was accepted into the Royal Ballet School in London and at 18 danced her first leading role on the Royal Opera House stage in the school’s performance of Giselle that catapulted her to a stellar career. The book takes you behind the scenes to find a real understanding of the pleasure and the pain, the demands and the intense commitment it requires to become a ballet dancer. It’s a book for ballet-lovers which will explain from Benjamin’s personal point of view, how ballet has changed and is changing. It’s a book of history: she was first taught by the people who created ballet in its modern form and now she works with the dancers of today, handing on all she has known and learnt. But it’s also a book for people who are just interested in the psychology of achievement, how you go from being a child in small town Rockhampton in the centre of Australia to being a power on the world’s biggest stages — and how an individual copes with the ups and downs of that kind of career. It’s a story full of big names and big personalities — Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta to name a few. President Clinton, Michelle Obama, Diana Princess of Wales and David Beckham all make an appearance. But it is also a book of small moments of insight: what makes a performance special, how you recover from injury, illness and childbirth; how you combine athletic and artistic prowess with motherhood, how a different partner can alter everything, what it’s like to fall over in front of thousands of people and what it’s like to triumph. Above all, it seeks to explain, in warm and human terms, why women get the reputation for being difficult in a world where being a good girl is too much prized. And what they can do about it.

Wrights & Wrongs

Author : Peter Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783197196
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Wrights & Wrongs written by Peter Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years. In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television. Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He has worked with such greats as Pina Bausch, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun, Monica mason, Karen Kain, Miyako Yoshida and Carlos Acosta - as well as today's generation of starts including Alina Cajocaru, Marianela Nunez, Natalia Osipova and Lauren Cuthbertson. While now regarded as part of the British ballet establishment, for many years Peter developed his career outside London, particularly in Germany with John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet. That distance gives him a unique and unrivalled view on ballet companies. His close association with choreographers Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan and David Bintley gives Peter an authoritative perspective on British ballet. Wrights and Wrongs includes black-and-white photographs from Wright's career, and as Exeunt magazine comments: 'Anyone with an interest in British ballet will find plenty to occupy them in Wright's book... the many dramas and delights of his life in dance spring forth from the page with brio.'

Dance On!

Author : Stephanie Burridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000882519
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Dance On! written by Stephanie Burridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burridge and Svendler Nielsen bring together many perspectives from around the world on dancing experiences through life of senior artists and educators, whether as professionals working with community dance groups, in education or for recreation and well-being. Broadening our understanding of the burgeoning sector of maturing dances and dancers, this book incorporates a range of theoretical approaches with an emphasis on cultural and experiential dimensions. It includes examples of how artists, community practitioners, teachers, policy makers and academics work to better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance performance, education and well-being. Each section of the book includes a mixture of chapters based on research and case narratives focusing on practitioners’ experience, as well as conversations between world-renowned mature dance artists and choreographers. It features an eclectic mix of lived experiences, wisdom, deep knowledge and reflection. The book is a valuable resource for students of performing arts, pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, dance therapy and more. Artists working across generations and in communities can also find useful inspiration for their continued dance practice.

Sadler's Wells - Dance House

Author : Sarah Crompton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849435111
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Sadler's Wells - Dance House written by Sarah Crompton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadler’s Wells is the world’s leading Dance House. Sadler’s Wells has developed new audiences for dance, this powerful and emotive art, for performances shown within its theatre spaces and outside – in fact around the world. What makes Sadler’s Wells different is its determination to nurture world class artists like Akram Khan, Sylvie Guillem, Wayne McGregor, Matthew Bourne, Jasmin Vardimon, the Ballet Boyz and Hofesh Shechter, using its unique vision, style and creativity to put together choreographers, dancers, lighting and stage designers, composers and other artists to make dance that is wildly exciting, new and different. Sadler’s Wells Dance House looks at the making of some of the most iconic dance works of this century and into the mix of dancers, choreographers and creators Sadler’s Wells has helped inspire. Including insightful analysis of this phenomenon by Sarah Crompton, arts editor in chief and dance critic for the Sunday Telegraph, and colour photographs of many of those works, Sadler’s Wells Dance House gives a clear view both of the creative process of the Sadler’s Wells artists and of the role this legendary theatre has played in remaking and reshaping dance for the 21st century. Selected as a 'Illustrated Book of the Week' by the Daily Mail (May 2013)

The How to Be Happy Box Set

Author : Sophie Keller
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459255518
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book The How to Be Happy Box Set written by Sophie Keller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take charge of your happiness, one tip at a time, and make this year your happiest yet. Happiness expert and life coach Sophie Keller will show you how to change your health, love life, marriage and home with easily tailored tips you can use to cater to your individual needs. You'll discover: – How putting a mirror on your fridge can help you lose weight – How to attract a date—anywhere, anytime – Why disagreeing can actually be good for your relationship – Simple feng shui principles to make your home a healthier, happier place to live

How Happy Is Your Love Life?

Author : Sophie Keller
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459281691
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book How Happy Is Your Love Life? written by Sophie Keller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change your love life…for the happier. With these 50 tips, it's easier than ever to find—and keep—your life partner. Discover: – How to attract a date—anywhere and anytime. – How to handle Valentine's Day and the holidays while single. – The 7 essential questions you need to ask your date. – How to know when you've met "the one." Take charge of your happiness, one tip at a time.

The Boy from Kyiv

Author : Marina Harss
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717494
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Boy from Kyiv written by Marina Harss and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and The New Yorker The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky, the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time. “A revelatory book about how [Ratmansky] evolved into the internationally sought-after choreographer of the moment . . . A must-read.” — Martha Anne Toll, NPR Alexei Ratmansky is transforming ballet for the twenty-first century. An artist of daring imagination, the choreographer has created breathtakingly original works for the world’s most revered companies. He has fashioned a singular approach to balletic storytelling that bridges the space between narrative and abstraction and heightens ambiguity and surprise on the stage. He has boldly restored great centuries-old ballets to their former glory, combining archival research with his own choreographic genius to retrieve detail and color once lost to the ages. And above all, he is renowned for fusing the Western and Eastern ballet traditions, and for drawing on the visual arts, literature, music, film, and beyond with inspired vim, to forge a style that is vibrant, eclectic, and utterly new: one that promises to leave an indelible mark on this venerable art form. But before Ratmansky was the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, the resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre, the artist in residence at New York City Ballet, and generally, as The New Yorker has it, “the most sought-after man in ballet,” he was just a boy from Kyiv, sneaking into the ballet at night, concocting his own juvenile adaptations of novels and stories, and dreaming up new possibilities for bodies in motion. In The Boy from Kyiv, the first biography of this groundbreaking artist, the celebrated dance writer Marina Harss takes us behind the curtain to reveal Ratmansky’s fascinating life, from his Soviet boyhood through his globe-spanning career. Over a decade in the making, this biography arrives at a pivotal moment in Ratmansky’s journey, one that has seen him painfully and publicly break ties with Russia, the country in which he made his name, in solidarity with his native Ukraine, and take on a new challenge at the storied New York City Ballet. Told with the lyricism, drama, and verve that befit its subject, The Boy from Kyiv is a riveting account of this major artist’s ascent to the peaks of his field, a mesmerizing study of creativity in action, and a triumphant testament to ballet’s enduring vitality.

Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet

Author : Andrej Uspenski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783194308
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet written by Andrej Uspenski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced new book by Royal Ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski is a collection of exclusive photographs which shines the spotlight on ballet, the most beautiful of art forms. These exquisite photographs feature some of the finest dancers on stage today, bringing the reader into the magical world of ballet. As a Royal Ballet dancer himself, Andrej Uspenski has a unique perspective on photographic composition of dance imagery, as well as unrivalled access not only to the Royal Ballet's productions, but also to the dancers who perform in them. This gives the reader an exclusive insight in to the Royal Ballet's work. Dancers includes exclusive, backstage photographs, as well as a number of breathtaking images taken from the wings during live stage performances, making this a unique photographic record, perfect for all ballet fans.

The Sentient Archive

Author : Bill Bissell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819577766
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Sentient Archive written by Bill Bissell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sentient Archive gathers the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. Its twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, and illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Marcia B. Siegel, Jenn Joy, Alain Platel, Catherine J. Stevens, Meg Stuart, André Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Whitaker's Shorts: Five Years in Review

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472906160
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Whitaker's Shorts: Five Years in Review written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 146th edition Whitaker's Almanack is the definitive reference guide containing a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. Available only as ebooks, Whitaker's Shorts are selected themed sections from Whitaker's Almanack: portable and perfect for those with specific interests within the print edition. Whitaker's Shorts: Five Years in Review includes a digest of the year's events from 2008-9 to 2012-13 in the UK and abroad and articles covering subjects as diverse as Archaeology, Conservation, Business and Finance, Opera, Dance, Film and Weather. There is also an A-Z listing of all the results for the major sporting events from Alpine Skiing through to Fencing, Football, Horse Racing, Polo and Tennis.

Whitaker's Shorts 2014: The Year in Review

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472906152
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Whitaker's Shorts 2014: The Year in Review written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 146th edition Whitaker's Almanack is the definitive reference guide containing a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. Available only as ebooks, Whitaker's Shorts are selected themed sections from Whitaker's Almanack 2014: portable and perfect for those with specific interests within the print edition. Whitaker's Shorts 2014: The Year in Review includes a digest of the 2012-13 year's events in the UK and abroad and articles covering subjects as diverse as Archaeology, Conservation, Business and Finance, Opera, Dance, Film and Weather. There is also an A-Z listing of all the results for the major sporting events from Alpine Skiing through to Fencing, Football, Horse Racing, Polo and Tennis.

The Doll Universe (b/w)

Author : Cheatham Robert
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557397952
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Doll Universe (b/w) written by Cheatham Robert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The doll is a fetish of presences which have left the room, a keepsake of revenants, ghost long gone but retaining efficacy, some hexing power, some ability to monstrate, come alive and eat its young witch's famiiar hovering at the distance turning from flying monkey into military drone.'

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Mfab Catalog 2011-2012

Author : Ken Ludden
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257053779
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Mfab Catalog 2011-2012 written by Ken Ludden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Margot Fonteyn Academy of Ballet offers complete education in ballet and related art forms (music, drama and painting) for students who aim to have a professional career in classical ballet or any other type of professional dance. We offer residency and visa support for International students. Students from the United States who do not live in the New York area can also apply for housing through MFAB. The Lower School accepts applicants from ages 8-15, the Upper School accepts applicants from age 16-22. You must audition.

Performing Epic or Telling Tales

Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192585789
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Performing Epic or Telling Tales written by Fiona Macintosh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is less on 'what' the recent epic turn in the theatre consists of than 'why' it seems to be so prevalent: this turn is explained with reference not only to the translation and scholarly histories of the epics, but also to earlier performance traditions and, notably, to recent theoretical debates relating to text-based 'drama' and performance based 'theatre'. What is perhaps most remarkable about this epic turn is not simply the sheer number of outstanding performances that it has produced; it is also that recent practice appears to have outstripped much theoretical discussion about theatre. In chapters ranging from spoken word performances to ballet, from the use of machines and technology to performances that make space for voices occluded by the ancient epics, Performing Epic or Telling Tales seeks to contextualize and explain the 'narrative'/storytelling (re-)turn in recent live performances - a turn that regularly entails engagement with ancient Graeco-Roman epics, which have long provided poets, playwrights, artists, and theatre makers with a storehouse of rich, often perceived as 'raw', material. Refigured and refracted for the modern era, the epics of ancient Greece and Rome are found to be particularly revealing, and particularly 'telling' of the contemporary wider cultural sphere.

The Royal Ballet: 75 Years

Author : Zoë Anderson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057126090X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Ballet: 75 Years written by Zoë Anderson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet. In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, The Royal Ballet - as it became - was established as one of the world's great companies. It has produced celebrated dancers, from Margot Fonteyn to Darcey Bussell, and one of the richest repertoires in ballet. The company danced through the Blitz, won an international reputation in a single New York performance and added to the glamour of London's Swinging Sixties. It has established a distinctive English school of ballet, a pure classical style that could do justice to the 19th-century repertory and to new British classics. Leading dance critic, Zoë Anderson, vividly portrays the extraordinary personalities who created the company and the dancers who made such an impact on their audiences. She looks at the bad times as well as the good, examining the controversial directorships of Norman Morrice and Ross Stretton and the criticism fired at the company as the Royal Opera House closed for redevelopment.

Never Far from Dancing

Author : Barbara Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317325516
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Never Far from Dancing written by Barbara Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Barbara Newman has expertly edited each of her interviews to read as a monologue, addressing every aspect of ballet, from its styles and technical demands to its personalities, its celebrated roles and, most of all, to what happens when the dancing stops. While ballet invites all manner of writing from critics, admirers and academics, the thoughts and experiences of the dancers themselves are seldom recorded. Here, those who scaled the heights of their art hand down their wisdom and recount lives spent in this most enduring of art forms.