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Book Time for Ballet

Download or read book Time for Ballet written by Adèle Geras and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tilly, who loves ballet, plays the part of a cat in her class's dance recital.

Book It s Time for Ballet   Bubble Guppies

Download or read book It s Time for Ballet Bubble Guppies written by Nickelodeon Publishing and published by Nickelodeon Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will dance for joy with Nickelodeon’s Bubble Guppies as they leap into ballet. This Nickelodeon Read-Along contains audio narration.

Book It s Time for Ballet   Bubble Guppies

Download or read book It s Time for Ballet Bubble Guppies written by Mary Tillworth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her way to school, Molly sees a televised performance of ballet and explains it to her class who agree to practice and put on their own show.

Book The Ballet Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Ellison
  • Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Ballet Book written by Nancy Ellison and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.

Book A Time to Dance

Download or read book A Time to Dance written by Padma Venkatraman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of the human spirit. Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance—so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who’s grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is painful and humbling. But Veda refuses to let her disability rob her of her dreams, and she starts all over again, taking beginner classes with the youngest dancers. Then Veda meets Govinda, a young man who approaches dance as a spiritual pursuit. As their relationship deepens, Veda reconnects with the world around her, and begins to discover who she is and what dance truly means to her.

Book Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

Download or read book Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet written by Gail Grant and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions also included.

Book Turning Pointe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chloe Angyal
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2021-05-04
  • ISBN : 1645036723
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Turning Pointe written by Chloe Angyal and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

Book Apollo s Angels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Homans
  • Publisher : Granta Books
  • Release : 2013-01-03
  • ISBN : 1847084540
  • Pages : 672 pages

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.

Book 10 Ballet Dancers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Malek-Ahmadi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-15
  • ISBN : 9781947408241
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book 10 Ballet Dancers written by Amanda Malek-Ahmadi and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a special day. The children practice their ballet. But something is odd. Let's count down from 10 to 1 to find the surprise before the class is done.

Book Brontorina

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Howe
  • Publisher : Candlewick Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0763644374
  • Pages : 33 pages

Download or read book Brontorina written by James Howe and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.

Book The Complete Ballet

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Haskell
  • Publisher : Graywolf Press
  • Release : 2017-09-19
  • ISBN : 1555979793
  • Pages : 208 pages

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.

Book Wilde Times

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel Lobenthal
  • Publisher : University Press of New England
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 1611689430
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Wilde Times written by Joel Lobenthal and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In her heyday in the 1950s and '60s, she was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine era - the golden age of the company and its hugely gifted, influential, exploitative, and dictatorial director. In Wilde Times, Joel Lobenthal brings the world of Wilde and Balanchine, of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Diana Adams, Suzanne Farrell, Maria Tallchief, and many others thrillingly to life. With unfettered access to Wilde and her family, friends, and colleagues, Lobenthal takes the reader backstage to some of the greatest ballet triumphs of the modern era - and some of the greatest tragedies. Through it all Patricia Wilde emerges as a figure of towering strength, grace, and grit. Wilde Times is the first biography of this seminal figure in American dance, written with the cooperation of the star, but wide-ranging in its use of sources to tell the full and intertwining stories of the development of Wilde, of Balanchine, and of American national ballet at its peak in the twentieth century.

Book Ballet for Martha

Download or read book Ballet for Martha written by Jan Greenberg and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.

Book Time to Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alyssa Campbell
  • Publisher : WestBowPress
  • Release : 2013-08-23
  • ISBN : 1449793436
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Time to Dance written by Alyssa Campbell and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time to Dance is a weekly devotional for Christian dancers of all levels. The devotional is applicable for budding artists to professional dancers and can be done individually or as a group, using the questions for discussion. Time to Dance follows a read it, learn it, live it format, which starts with Scripture and follows up with questions and a challenge for the week. This format allows for acknowledging the Scripture, understanding its significance, and living out the message. Subjects that are covered include the purposes of dance, how dance reflects Gods character, the history of dance, the importance of purity, how each style of dance can glorify God, and how dance can be used as a tool of evangelism. If you are a dancer seeking to deepen your relationship with Christ and use your gifts to glorify his name, Time to Dance can take you on that journey.

Book First Ballet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deanna Caswell
  • Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
  • Release : 2009-10-06
  • ISBN : 9781423113539
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book First Ballet written by Deanna Caswell and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lights, the velvet curtain, the spotlight, the graceful dancers—nothing beats going to the ballet for the very first time. In this beautiful picture book, Deanna Caswell and Elizabeth Matthews conspire to recreate all the joy and wonder of the first theatrical experience, for children to relive again and again. /DIVDIV

Book Dance Is for Everyone

Download or read book Dance Is for Everyone written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an alligator shows up to class one day, Mrs. Iraina and her ballet students are very suprised. But she is able to follow along, so they decide it's okay for her to join. The class starts calling her Tanya and even creates a new dance to showcase her larger-than-life talents and big, swishy tail: "The Legend of the Swamp Queen." Tanya has the starring role.

Book I m a Ballerina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Fliess
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2015-07-14
  • ISBN : 0553497588
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book I m a Ballerina written by Sue Fliess and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl invites us into her ballet class, and later performs onstage (gulp!) in her first recital. Young readers will enjoy seeing what happens in a class, and young ballerinas will see themselves in this book.