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
ED WATSON: DANCING ON THE EDGE
Written by Crompton, Sarah
This visually stunning homage to the most distinctive male dancer of his generation combines photography and personal essays to explore every facet of Ed Watson's achievements both on stage and off. Ed Watson, Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet for over 20 years is a unique talent; a widely celebrated collaborator in dance, photography and fashion.
ERRAND INTO THE MAZE: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MARTHA GRAHAM
Written by Jowitt, Deborah
The definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. Between 1926 and 1991, the year of her death, Martha Graham choreographed close to one hundred masterpieces. She changed how dancers were perceived onstage, devised new ways of moving, and pioneered a revolutionary dance technique.
MOVEMENT AT THE STILL POINT: AN ODE TO DANCE
Renowned portrait photographer Mark Mann documents an impressive host of dancers--their eloquent bodies in posed tranquility and vibrant motion--representing years of excellence and varied disciplines of the art form. A celebration of the strength and emotive ability of dancers, this book is a collection of images that captures the dynamism and energy of the mediums of both dance and ph
DANCE VISION: DANCE THROUGH THE EYES OF TODAY'S ARTISTS
Written by Teal, Joshua
A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of danceThere's no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we've been creating art, from prehistoric cave drawings to the paintings of Degas.
DIAGHILEV'S EMPIRE: HOW THE BALLETS RUSSES ENTHRALLED THE WORLD
Written by Christiansen, Rupert
A Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph "Amusing and assertive . . .
DANCE WE MUST: THE ART AND COSTUMES OF RUTH ST. DENIS AND TED SHAWN, 1906-1940
On America's first modern dance company and its many collaborators, with reproductions of costumes, sets, ephemera and more
IDA RUBINSTEIN: REVOLUTIONARY DANCER, ACTRESS, AND IMPRESARIO
Written by Chazin-Bennahum, Judith
Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) captivated Paris's dancers, composers, artists, and audiences from her time in the Ballets Russes in 1909 to her final performances in 1939. Trained in Russia as an actress and a dancer, her life spanned the artistic freedom of the Belle Époque through the ravages of World War I, the Depression, and finally World War II.
SMALL TOWN BIG DREAMS: THE LIFE OF NANCY ZECKENDORF
Written by Scovell, Jane
This is a story of a young girl from a small town with a big dream that took her to Juilliard, Broadway, summer stock, the stage of the Metropolitan Opera and the Santa Fe Opera, and introduced her to her husband William Zeckendorf Jr.
WHY DANCE MATTERS
Written by Aloff, Mindy
A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers "A veritable master class."--Anne Doventry, Booklist Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the ultimate expression of human energy and feeling.
BLONDELL CUMMINGS - DANCE AS MOVING PICTURES
Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Picturesis the first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and Art + Practice, on view at Art + Practice in Los Angeles from September 18, 2021 through February 19, 2022.
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