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
NUREYEV
Written by Brown, Howard
Rudolf Nureyev is a legend, and this beautiful book is a fitting tribute to his extraordinary career and charisma. It brings together more than 180 of the greatest images of the greatest dancer of our time, taken by photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Snowdon, David Bailey, Martine Franck and Cecil Beaton.
YOUTH HABIT
Written by Tharp, Twyla
Award winning dancer, choreographer and best-selling author Twyla Tharp shares her secrets for maintaining mental and physical agility in this groundbreaking, always entertaining book. Forwardness is the new mindfulness.
MISTY COPELAND: POWER AND GRACE
Power and grace define Misty Copeland―an influential ballet dancer who has broken through difficult barriers to become the first female African-American to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.
DIAGHILEV AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE BALLETS RUSSES 1909-1929
While the early 20th century was rich with creative energy, no one brought theater and dance to the forefront of culture quite like Sergei Diaghilev did with his extraordinary Ballets Russes. From 1909 to 1929, the Ballets Russes attracted the involvement of major artists, composers, and designers.
AILEY ASCENDING: POETRY IN MOTION
Written by Alvin Alley America Dance Theater
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, this dazzling book includes both original black and white and full-color photographs by Andrew Eccles. This acclaimed photographer has been documenting the company for the past twelve years, and his breathtakingly beautiful images capture the dancers in performance, behind-the-scenes, and in stunning portraits.
APOLLO'S ANGELS: A HISTORY OF BALLET
Written by Homans, Jennifer
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past.
NUREYEV: THE LIFE
Written by Kavanagh, Julie
Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage.
DANCING THROUGH IT: MY JOURNEY IN THE BALLET
Written by Ringer, Jenifer
"A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer." --The Washington Post Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight.
ASTAIRES: FRED AND ADELE
Written by Riley, Kathleen
Before "Fred and Ginger," there was "Fred and Adele," a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon these two siblings from Omaha were. At the height of their success in the mid-1920s, the Astaires seemed to define the Jazz Age.
BALANCHINE AND THE LOST MUSE: REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF A CHOREOGRAPHER
Written by Elizabeth Kendall
Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, the extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova.
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