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101 Stories of the Great Balletsby George Balanchine, Francis MasonISBN 0385033982 (0-385-03398-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Angelina Ballerinaby Katharine Holabird, Helen GraigISBN 158485135X (1-58485-135-X)
Hardcover, Amer Girl Pub
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- Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 1584851945 (1-58485-194-5)
Hardcover, Amer Girl Pub - Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 1584856556 (1-58485-655-6)
Hardcover, Amer Girl Pub - Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 0517570890 (0-517-57089-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 0517550830 (0-517-55083-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 0517576686 (0-517-57668-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 158485135X (1-58485-135-X)
Hardcover, Amer Girl Pub
- Angelina Ballerina: ISBN 1584851945 (1-58485-194-5)
Angelina Ballerina: A Dance of Friendshipby Helen Craig, Katharine HolabirdISBN 0670060267 (0-670-06026-7)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Aria of the Seaby Dia CalhounISBN 1588370194 (1-58837-019-4)
Softcover, Winslow Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aria of the Sea'Book summary:On the island of Normost, in the kingdom of Windward, 13-year-old Cerinthe Gale is a folk healer who dreams of being a dancer. When her mother falls ill, Cerinthe fights to save her but fails. She blames herself for her mothers death, gives up healing, and decides to pursue dance. Cerinthe travels across Windward to audition at the School of the Royal Dancers, which accepts her even though she is a commoner. It should be the beginning of a brilliant future, but Cerinthe feels an emptiness she cant identify. A disagreement with a young man, a conflict with a cruel teacher, a rivalry with an aristocratic classmate, Elliana, and a meeting with a mederi a healer with magical powers add to her anguish. When the rivalry between the two girls causes a terrible accident, Ellianas life hangs in the balance. Cerinthe faces the same awful choice she had faced with her mother: Should she try to heal Elliana herself or hope that the mederi arrives in time? Only the song of the Sea Maid holds the answer. Aria of the Sea is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Book Sense 76 Recommended Childrens Book, and a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age. This fine story line has elements of fantasy ... as well as realistic descriptions of dance practice and performance. School Library Journal [via]
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The Art of Making Dancesby Doris Humphrey, Barbara Pollack, Tjaart Schillhorn Van VeenISBN 0871271583 (0-87127-158-3)
Softcover, Princeton Book Co Pub
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Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Balletsby George BalanchineISBN 0385113811 (0-385-11381-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ballet Basicsby Sandra Noll HammondISBN 1559341343 (1-55934-134-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballet Basics'Book summary:Written for the adult beginner, Ballet Basics is a well-illustrated introduction to the fundamentals of ballet technique. The text also provides an overview of the history of ballet and introduces students to the world of ballet. [via]
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- Ballet Basics: ISBN 0072557141 (0-07-255714-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social - Ballet Basics: ISBN 0767412028 (0-7674-1202-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Ballet Basics: ISBN 0874845890 (0-87484-589-0)
Softcover, Mayfield Pub Co - Ballet Basics: ISBN 1559341343 (1-55934-134-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
- Ballet Basics: ISBN 0072557141 (0-07-255714-1)
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Ballet Shoesby Noel Streatfeild, Diane GoodeISBN 0679847596 (0-679-84759-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballet Shoes'Book summary:Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Ballet Shoes: ISBN 0679801057 (0-679-80105-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Ballet Shoes: ISBN 0808542508 (0-8085-4250-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Ballet Shoes: ISBN 0844662410 (0-8446-6241-0)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Ballet Shoes: ISBN 0679847596 (0-679-84759-6)
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- Ballet Shoes: ISBN 0394908759 (0-394-90875-9)
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Barnyard Danceby Sandra BoyntonISBN 1563054426 (1-56305-442-6)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnyard Dance'Book summary:Everybody sing along-because it's time to do-si-do in the barnyard with a high-spirited animal crew! From Boynton on Board, the bestselling series of board books, here is BARNYARD DANCE, with Sandra Boynton's twirling pigs, fiddle-playing cows, and other unforgettable animals. Extra-big, extra-fat, and extra-fun, BARNYARD DANCE features lively rhyming text and a die-cut cover that reveals the wacky characters inside. Guaranteed to get kids and adults stomping their feet. Main selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club. Winner of the 1994 Gold Medal from the National Parenting Publications Award. Suitable for ages 1-4. [via]
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Baryshnikov at Workby Mikhail Baryshnikov, Martha SwopeISBN 0394403452 (0-394-40345-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses His Rolesby Mikhail BaryshnikovISBN 0394735870 (0-394-73587-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Basic Concepts in Modern Dance: A Creative Approachby Gay CheneyISBN 0916622762 (0-916622-76-2)
Softcover, Princeton Book Company Publishers
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Black Dance: From 1619 to Todayby Lynne Fauley Emery, Katherine DunhamISBN 0916622630 (0-916622-63-0)
Softcover, Princeton Book Co Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Dance: From 1619 to Today'Book summary:A complete history of black dance forms, this book explores folk, ballet, jazz, tap, Broadway/Hollywood, disco, and breakdancing. An ultimate research tool, it includes portraits of hundreds of important black dancers and choreographers.[via]More editions of Black Dance: From 1619 to Today:
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Blood Memoryby Martha Graham, Jane RosenmanISBN 0671782177 (0-671-78217-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Memory'Book summary:"Blood Memory" is the story of Martha Graham, from a difficult childhood in the American West and her "wild" days in the Greenwich Village Follies to her own company that began with only two students. Her views on dance are interspersed with anecdotes about Charlie Chaplin, Louise Brooks, Indira Gandhi, Margot Fonteyn, Woody Allen, the Pope and Madonna including her collaborative relationships with Isamu Noguchi, Halston, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Louis Horst. [via]
Cage-Cunningham-Johns: Dancers on a Planeby Susan SontagISBN 0394588479 (0-394-58847-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Compleat Belly Dancerby Julie Russo MishkinISBN 038503556X (0-385-03556-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compleat Belly Dancer'Book summary:Has step-by-step dance instructions which are easy to understand. Has photographs of the steps too. Is an excellent instruction book. [via]
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Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dameby Fabritio Caroso, Julia Sutton, F. Marian WalkerISBN 0486286193 (0-486-28619-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Creative Habit: Learn It And Use It For Lifeby Twyla Tharp, Mark ReiterISBN 0743235274 (0-7432-3527-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creative Habit: Learn It And Use It For Life'Book summary:All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career.
In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight.
Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin... [via]
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Dance to the Piperby Agnes De MilleISBN 0306796139 (0-306-79613-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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Dancerby Colum McCannISBN 1897580290 (1-897580-29-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancer'Book summary:Dancer, like Colum McCann's previous novels This Side of Brightness and Songdogs, is an elegant weave of historical fact and fictional imagining. Here his central character is the late, great, Rudolf Nureyev--the Soviet dancer who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War, partnered Margot Fonteyn and became ballet's first international male superstar. The "real" Nureyev remains an enigmatic, even iconic figure--as infamous for his petulance, lavish lifestyle, voracious sexual appetite and tragic AIDS-related death as for his dancing. McCann wisely eschews a straightforward account of Rudolf's outrageous life. His sympathetic portrait of the priapic star, which seems oddly weak on dance itself but certainly has scenes to rival The Satyricon, is ingeniously discursive. Nureyev is often more omnipresent than actually present--his story related through a serious of diary entries, reports and different narrative perspectives and voices, including the dancer's own. (On occasions, he even briefly drops from view entirely and the travails of his family, friends and his mentors, the Vasilevas, come to the fore.)
Divided into four loosely chronological sections, the novel spans the length of Nureyev's dancing career, opening in Stalin's war-ravaged Russia, where the young Rudolf earned sugar lumps for entertaining wounded soldiers, and closing with his last sickly, performance and a final, fleeting, visit home. Exile and displacement are really the chief themes of the book and McCann's Nureyev is a man scarred and agitated by the decision to abandon his homeland. "I dance", he notes at one point, "so much--too much--in order not to think of home". McCann seems to imply, however, that it is his disapproving father, who never saw him dance, who fuelled his relentless ambition. Forays into cod-Freudian psychoanalysis aside, this gripping reinvention of Nureyev, rich in period detail and characterisation, is well conceived, marvellously wrought and eminently readable. --Travis Elborough [via]
Dancing on My Graveby Gelsey Kirkland, Greg LawrenceISBN 1555043259 (1-55504-325-9)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Dancing Shoesby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0679854282 (0-679-85428-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing Shoes'Book summary:Aunt Cora is determined to turn two orphans, perky Hilary and sullen Rachel, into members of her dance troupe. But Rachel wants to keep Hilary from being one of Wintles Little Wondersis it selfishness or something else? Misunderstandings and a spoiled cousin come together for a tale full of high drama. Originally published in 1957. [via]
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Dancing with Catsby Burton Silver, Heather BuschISBN 0811824152 (0-8118-2415-2)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing with Cats'Book summary:With a hey diddle diddle, the creators of Why Cats Paint return with another version of feline (and human) reality. And suffice it to say that in Burton Silver and Heather Busch's hands, Kipling's cat that walked by himself has turned into a deeply codependent dervish. Their first book was a brilliant parody of artspeak--Busch's photos of creative felines matched by Silver's text. Their second, Dancing with Cats--an epic three years in the making!--juxtaposes psychological and spiritual mumbo-jumbo with the language of dance criticism. As Silver explores everything from visualization to mirroring to empathy, Busch is busy with her human-feline pairs. In one sequence, Fred, clad in tabby tights, kitty-cat body paint, and a tanga with a long black tail, leaps about the place with a slightly puzzled pussy: "I share its grace, power, and oneness with the universe. I relate to Fluff and the whole spectrum of feline physicality on a profound level--I even regard birds differently."
On the very next page, chubby Helen, sporting a tie-dyed purple gown and a deeply sworn belief in feng shui, identifies perhaps a bit too deeply with chunky, amber-eyed Boots (who looks suspiciously like "Trans-Expressionist" Bootsie from Why Cats Paint). And then there's Sue and Zoot. In one photo, the recumbent gray and peach cat raises his left paw to the sky as his ecstatic human does the same. Then Sue dons a feathery jerkin "in order to dance out some of her past traumas." It's difficult to say which is funnier, the photos or the text, as Silver catches pseudo-therapy's mixture of self-affirmation and non sequitur: "Dancing with Zoot helps Sue reenact and come to terms with the joy and sorrow of a brief but painful relationship: when she fell in love with her daughter's father while he was photographing bridges in the neighborhood." Though the two-legged models must have been prepared for this inspired silliness, one does wonder what on earth the cats made of their eurythmic adventures. Alas, until interspecies communication reaches a greater height, we can only dance amid our uncertainty! --Kerry Fried [via]
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Donde Viven Los Monstruos/ Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice SendakISBN 8437221854 (84-372-2185-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Donde Viven Los Monstruos/ Where the Wild Things Are'Book summary:Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had.
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Las travesuras llevan a Max a su habitacion castigado y sin cenar. Encerrado entre esas cuatro paredes, imagina un viaje fantastico al pais de los monstruos, donde se convertira en el rey. Un libro para aprender a domar monstruos (en este caso, de lo mas entranables y tiernos). Este clasico de la literatura infantil es ideal para los primeros lectores, quienes se veran identificados con Max, sus juegos, sus miedos, su mundo. [via]More editions of Donde Viven Los Monstruos/ Where the Wild Things Are:
English Dancing Master: Or, Plain and Easy Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, With the Tune of Each Danceby John Playford, Hugh Mellor, Leslie BridgewaterISBN 0903102803 (0-903102-80-3)
Softcover, Princeton Book Co Pub
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- English Dancing Master: Or, Plain and Easy Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, With the Tune of Each Dance: ISBN 0871270803 (0-87127-080-3)
George Washington, the Image and the Manby William W. WoodwardISBN 087140074X (0-87140-074-X)
Softcover, Liveright
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Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancingby Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-RawiISBN 1566563267 (1-56656-326-7)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Anatomical Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Classby Valerie Grieg, Naomi RosenblattISBN 0871271915 (0-87127-191-5)
Softcover, Princeton Book Co Pub
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The Intimate Act of Choreographyby L. Tarin Chaplin, Lynne Anne BlomISBN 0822953420 (0-8229-5342-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Looking for Little Egyptby Donna CarltonISBN 0962399817 (0-9623998-1-7)
Softcover, Intl Dance Discovery
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Margot Fonteyn: Autobiographyby Margot FonteynISBN 039448570X (0-394-48570-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Mark Morrisby Joan R. AcocellaISBN 0374524181 (0-374-52418-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Morris'Book summary:Mark Morris, written with the choreographer's full cooperation, is part biography, part critical study. It describes how he has lived and how he turns his life - and music, narrative, and tradition - into dance, and it discusses how to look at his dances.[via]
My Lifeby Isadora DuncanISBN 0766143384 (0-7661-4338-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Life'Book summary:Fabulous is the only adjective that comes close to doing justice to Isadora Duncan (1878-1927). Her awesomely self-assured autobiography depicts a woman who while still in her teens tells an eminent theatrical manager (from whom she desperately needs a job), "I have discovered the art that has been lost for two thousand years.... I bring you the dance." In Duncan's rendering of her life, composers fling themselves at the piano and compose new music for her on the spot. Men pine for her love (the book's sexual frankness, while hardly startling today, was considered quite scandalous in 1927). And the poor mortals who can never understand her need to be free can at least applaud wildly at her concerts. Duncan and her siblings sleep in a bare Parisian attic, then dance barefoot through the Luxembourg Gardens. They travel to Greece to worship "in the Sacred Land of Hellas," where they build their very own temple. Duncan is capable of seeing the humor in her rhapsodic immersion in art, but we don't really want her to be realistic and self-deprecating like ordinary mortals. It's her divine passion, her supreme confidence in her own genius that make My Life such fun to read. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The New York City Ballet Workout: Fifty Stretches and Exercises Anyone Can Do for a Strong, Graceful, and Sculpted Bodyby Peter MartinsISBN 0688152023 (0-688-15202-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Nijinskyby Richard BuckleISBN 0140037829 (0-14-003782-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nijinsky'Book summary:This book is the full and moving record of Nijinsky's years of genius and madness, of the ring master who made him, the forces that broke him and the woman who never faltered in love. Nijinsky is based on years of painstaking research, countless conversationswith people who knew and worked with him, as well as reinterpreting Nijinsky's diaries and his wife's biography. [via]
No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Centuryby Nancy Reynolds, Malcolm McCormickISBN 0300093667 (0-300-09366-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Orchesographyby Thoinot ArbeauISBN 0486217450 (0-486-21745-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Push Comes to Shoveby Twyla TharpISBN 0553372645 (0-553-37264-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Push Comes to Shove'Book summary:The well-known choreographer chronicles her life and career, describing her childhood, her training in music and classical ballet, the influence of the avant-garde climate of New York in the 1960s on her choreography, and more. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. [via]
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality Through Movement & Ritualby Iris J. StewartISBN 0892816058 (0-89281-605-8)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab Worldby Wendy BuonaventuraISBN 1566563003 (1-56656-300-3)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Song and Dance Manby Karen AckermanISBN 0590430092 (0-590-43009-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song and Dance Man'Book summary:Once a song and dance man, Grandpa reclaims his youth and profession before the delighted eyes of his three grandchildren one afternoon. He simply cannot resist the urge to dress up in clothes left over from his vaudeville days--complete with top hat and gold-headed cane--and to perform tricks, play banjo and tell jokes. He taps, twirls and laughs himself to tears on a thrown-together stage in his attic. Artist Stephen Gammell takes full advantage of lamplight to render Grandpa in shadow and silhouette, trivializing the concept of age and creating a feeling of intense nostalgia. Related from the point of view of the children, the text in Song and Dance Man is soft and understated, and Gammell's artistry is superb. The book won the Caldecott Medal in 1989. [via]
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Song and Dance Manby Stephen Gammell, Karen AckermanISBN 0394993306 (0-394-99330-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song and Dance Man'Book summary:Once a song and dance man, Grandpa reclaims his youth and profession before the delighted eyes of his three grandchildren one afternoon. He simply cannot resist the urge to dress up in clothes left over from his vaudeville days--complete with top hat and gold-headed cane--and to perform tricks, play banjo and tell jokes. He taps, twirls and laughs himself to tears on a thrown-together stage in his attic. Artist Stephen Gammell takes full advantage of lamplight to render Grandpa in shadow and silhouette, trivializing the concept of age and creating a feeling of intense nostalgia. Related from the point of view of the children, the text in Song and Dance Man is soft and understated, and Gammell's artistry is superb. The book won the Caldecott Medal in 1989. [via]
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Stardanceby Spider Robinson, Jeanne RobinsonISBN 1568652615 (1-56865-261-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Book & Music Clubs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardance'Book summary:Shara Drummond went to space to create a new art form: zero gravity dance. And when the aliens arrived, her stardance was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars. [via]
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- Stardance, a Quantum Novel: ISBN 0440183677 (0-440-18367-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Stardance: ISBN 067172097X (0-671-72097-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Stardance: ISBN 0385271166 (0-385-27116-6)
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Starmindby Spider Robinson, Jeanne RobinsonISBN 0441003052 (0-441-00305-2)
Softcover, Anson-Cartwright Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starmind'Book summary:With the help of the benevolent Starmind, the planet Earth has finally achieved peace and prosperity, but a terrorist sect, threatened by the Starmind, plots to destroy it before the human race approaches its final evolution. [via]
Starseedby Spider Robinson, Jeanne RobinsonISBN 0441783600 (0-441-78360-0)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starseed'Book summary:When a personal tragedy destroys her hopes for fame as a dancer on Earth, Rain McLeod volunteers for the Starseed Foundation, a symbiotic lifeform that enables her to defy the laws of gravity in space. Reprint. LJ. PW. [via]
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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Balletby Gail GrantISBN 0486218430 (0-486-21843-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet'Book summary: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 that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also invaluable aids. "More information available in one book than we have ever had before." - Dance Magazine . [via]
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To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novelby Siena Cherson Siegel, Mark SiegelISBN 1416926879 (1-4169-2687-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Very Young Dancerby Jill KrementzISBN 0394408853 (0-394-40885-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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White Swan, Black Swanby Adrienne SharpISBN 034543868X (0-345-43868-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Winter Seasonby Toni BentleyISBN 0394525477 (0-394-52547-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Winter Season: A Dancer's Journalby Toni BentleyISBN 0813027055 (0-8130-2705-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal'Book summary:"Quite possibly the most revealing book about the world of ballet ever to see print."--National Review[via]
"One of the most intelligent and introspective glimpses ever offered into one of the most competitive and excruciatingly nervous existences in the arts."--New York Times Book Review
"Without entirely stripping away the glamour of being a dancer, Bentley's candid and modest account makes for a moving revelation about the price discipline and control exacts from young dancers in the name of art."--Chicago Tribune
"A mini-marvel, impossible to put down. . . . As a dancer's-eye portrait of the choreographer, a divinity to Ms. Bentley as well as, apparently, to everyone else in the NYCB and to uncounted other ballet lovers in the world beyond, the book is invaluable."--New York Review of Books
An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most demanding of all the arts.
Bentley's association with the New York City Ballet began when she was accepted by the affiliated School of American Ballet at the age of eleven. Seven years later, she became a member of the company. In the fall of 1980, as the winter season opened, she found herself facing an emotional crisis: her dancing was not going well. At 22 she felt that her life had lost direction. To try to make something of her experience, on paper if not on stage, she began to keep a journal, describing her day-to-day activities and looking back on her past. The result is perhaps the closest that most of us will ever come to knowing what it feels like to be a dancer, on stage and off. It also offers memorable glimpses of some notable members of the City ballet, with, at the center, the man whose vision they all served--George Balanchine.
Toni Bentley was born in Perth, Australia, and after moving to Bristol, England, took her first ballet lesson at the age of four. At the age of 18 she became a member of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, where she performed for ten years. Since retiring from dancing, she has written Holding On to the Air with Suzanne Farrell (Farrells autobiography), Costumes by Karinska, and Sisters of Salome, as well as articles for periodicals ranging from the New York Times, New York Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times, to Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Mirabella, and Ballet Review.More editions of Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal:
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Readerby Arlene CroceISBN 0374528721 (0-374-52872-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Max et le Maximonstersby Maurice SendakISBN 221101965X (2-211-01965-X)
Softcover, Archimede Editions
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Les formidables illustrations de ce livre en ont fait un classique de la littérature jeunesse. Les enfants laissent leur imagination vagabonder avec Max dans ce pays où ils peuvent vivre de grandes aventures et dompter les monstres les plus effrayants. --Ségolène Dujardin [via]
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