STYLE OF MOVEMENT: FASHION AND DANCE
Style meets movement: a new photography book featuring more than eighty of today's most famous dancers, captured in movement and styled in garments...
Dance, Ballet
SWAN DIVE: THE MAKING OF A ROGUE BALLERINA
Written by Pazcoguin, Georgina
Don't expect just tulle and toe shoes. In this fascinating insider's tale, NYCB dancer Pazcoguin reveals her world. . . . A striking debut. --People
GLOBAL GROOVE: ART, DANCE, PERFORMANCE & PROTEST
A transcultural history of more than 120 years of art and dance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Global Groove outlines how encounters between Western and Eastern societies gave rise to new expressive forms in art, dance, performance, and design, and what influence this has had on the history of Modernism.
ACOSTA DANZA: FUSION: THE VISION OF CARLOS ACOSTA'S DANCE COMPANY
Written by Acosta, Carlos
Taking readers behind the scenes of one of the world's most exciting dance companies, this richly illustrated book also tells the incredible back story of its famed creator and his brilliant vision to weave Cuban culture and history into classical and contemporary dance. As a troubled teenager, Carlos Acosta was whisked off the streets of his native Havana and enrolled in the Cuban nati
SERENADE: A BALANCHINE STORY (SIGNED)
Written by Bentley, Toni
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance--and live--in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era.
NEO-BURLESQUE: STRIPTEASE AS TRANSFORMATION
Written by Sally, Lynn
The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism.
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM: A HISTORY, A MOVEMENT, A CELEBRATION
Written by Novosel, Paul
2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee This definitive history is a celebration of the first African-American ballet company, from its 1960s origins in a Harlem basement, to the performances, community engagement, and education message of empowerment through the arts for all which the Company continues to carry forward today.
OUT LOUD : A MEMOIR
Written by Stace, Wesley
From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancer's rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own terms--and staying true to himself Before Mark Morris became "the most successful and influential choreographer alive" (The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seat
DANCE OR DIE: FROM STATELESS REFUGEE TO INTERNATIONAL BALLET STAR A MEMOIR
Written by Joudeh, Ahmad
A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. DANCE OR DIE is an autobiographical coming-of-age account of Ahmad Joudeh, a young refugee who grows up in Damascus with dreams of becoming a dancer.
MILONGAS
Written by Cozarinsky, Edgardo
With an introduction by award-winning author Alberto Manguel, Milongas is Edgardo Cozarinsky's love letter to tango, and the diverse array of people who give it life. From tango's origins in the gritty bars of Buenos Aires, to milongas tucked away in the crypt of a London Church, a café in Kraków, or the quays of the Seine, Cozarinsky guides us through a shape-shifting dan
SWAN DIVE: THE MAKING OF A ROGUE BALLERINA
Written by Pazcoguin, Georgina
Don't expect just tulle and toe shoes. In this fascinating insider's tale, NYCB dancer Pazcoguin reveals her world. . . . A striking debut. --People