Written by former prima ballerina Flora Twinkletoes, this handbook is a goldmine of insider information - letters, postcards, programmes, tickets and booklets - gathered from a lifelong love of ballet. From tips for your very first lesson to taking a curtain call as a principal dancer, this is a fact-filled journey through the world of ballet, picking up the language, movements, costumes and ...

Helps to learn the origins of ballroom dancing and the trends that influenced its evolution. This package explores the music and tempos that match the dances, including exercises to help the dancer hear and count the beat. It helps the dancer cope with problems that may arise on the social dance floor.

An extended exploration of Yvonne Rainer's influential 1968 dance program The Mind is a Muscle, discussing its critique of relations between labor and value, it's relationship to 1960's art practice in New York, leisure time in postwar America, and the mind-body duality.

This text offers a theoretical and practical framework for the teaching of dance in education. The author examines the processes of composing, performing and appreciating dances, and analyzes how dance education can contribute towards artistic, aesthetic and cultural education.

This dictionary provides the information necessary for dance fans to navigate the diverse modern dance scene. With an emphasis on performance - readers will find both fact and analysis on a wide range of subjects from dancers and choreographers to dance styles and technical terms.

This text contains a short summary of the evolution of jazz dance from its roots in folklore to its modern status as a style of performance dance. The author pays tribute to jazz dance's earliest exponent, the Swiss choreographer Alain Bernard.

A thoroughly up-to-date and full-colour third edition of this popular text written for the new AS/A2 specifications and relevant Applied A-levels, BTEC and other vocational Dance qualifications.

Helps you learn how to become a Ballroom Babe or a Latin Lover. This work teaches the basic moves that help you to get to grips with various types of ballroom dancing. It includes instructions and illustrations that teach you various dances including the traditional Foxtrot, Waltz, and Tango as well as the more modern Mambo, Rumba and Samba.

Fully updated and featuring brand new photographs of some of the world's hottest dancing talent, it covers all the most popular ballroom dances, from the four classics that should form the basis of any dancer's repertoire, Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep and Tango to the great Latin American dances that are so popular.

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to enjoy and excel at ballroom dancing. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout.

A step-by-step guide to tap-dancing for beginners, with accompanying CD.

Locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. This book highlights the diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces, from dance halls to raves and the club striptease.

If you were born to dance, but are having difficulty with the first steps to stardom, this is the book for you. From finding the right training to getting an agent, from performing in music videos to working on the West End stage, this is a down-to-earth source book of tips that will inspire and encourage you.

With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics.

The story of Li Cunxin, plucked aged 11 from a poor, remote Chinese village to train as a ballet dancer at the madam Mao's Beijing Academy.

School of Classical Dance is the official textbook of the Vaganova School and takes the reader from the basic concepts of the syllabus to the most complicated exercises taught at the end of the eight-year course.

The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult childhood, living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba, to his astronomical rise to international stardom.