Foundations of Classical Ballet
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This is the most respected and most widely-read Russian ballet manual in the world, written in 1938 by Agrippina Vaganova (Russia's most influential ballet teacher of all time) and published in its final version (renowned as the 3rd edition) in U.S.S.R. in 1948. The book is presented - for the first time in English! - in its complete, unabridged, original form.Agrippina Vaganova played a pivotal role in the rebirth of Russian ballet, and her teaching method has gained unparalleled fame throughout the world. This Russian ballet techniques reference manual is the basis for all other classical ballet textbooks. The book contains the original text, additional documentation, contextual analysis, a biographical essay of Vaganova's lifetime achievements, photos, specific illustrations of movements, forms and positions of her ballet method, and a fundamental new study on the influence of the Italians (led by Enrico Cecchetti) on the development of Russian ballet.
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
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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. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo's Angels--the first cultural history of ballet ever written--is a groundbreaking work. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings "a dancer's grace and sure-footed agility to the page."
The Encyclopedia of World Ballet
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Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling ballet to thrive and delight audiences all over the globe. In The Encyclopedia of World Ballet,Mary Ellen Snodgrass surveys the emergence of ballet from ancient Asian models to the present, providing overviews of rhythmic movement as a subject of art, photography, and cinema. Entries in this volume reveal the nature and purpose of ballet, detailing specifics about leaders in classic design and style, influential costumers and companies, and trends in technique, partnering, variation, and liturgical execution. This reference covers: Choreographers Composers Costumers Dance companies Dancers Productions Set designers Techniques Terminology Among the principal figures included here are Alvin Ailey, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pierre Beauchamp, Sergei Diaghilev, Agnes DeMille, Nacho Duato, Isadora Duncan, Boris Eifman, Mats Ek, Erté, Martha Graham, Inigo Jones, Louis XIV, Amalia Hernández Navarro, Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Agrippina Vaganova. This work also features dance companies from the Americas, Australia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and Vietnam. Productions include such universal narrative favorites as Coppélia, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Scheherazade, Firebird, and Swan Lake. Featuring a chronology that identifies key events and figures, this volume highlights significant developments in stage presentations over the centuries. The Encyclopedia of World Ballet will serve general readers, dance instructors, and enthusiasts from middle school through college as well as professional coaches and performers, troupe directors, journalists, and historians of the arts.
Ballet and Modern Dance
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A complete history of Ballet and Modern Dance
Tap Dancing America
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Tap Dancing America presents the first comprehensive, fully-documented history of tap dancing - the oldest American vernacular dance form -- in its three hundred-year evolution in America.In this meticulously researched story, Hill, herself a tap dancer, traces the early origins of tap dance as an Afro-Irish fusion, as the melding of West African and Irish musical and dance traditions. It was through this three-hundred-year musical and social exchange, with its steady pattern of imitation, assimilation, and the transformation of such percussive step dances as the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing and juba, that tap dance evolved in America, and perpetuated such key features as the tap dance challenge -- any competition, contest, breakdown or showdown in which tap dancers compete against each other before an audience of spectators or judges. As such, the tap challenge is the rhythmically expressive "engine" and driving force in tap dance.Proceeding decade by decade through the twentieth century, Hill enumerates tap's musical styles and steps-- from buck and wing and ragtime stepping at the turn of the century, and jazz tapping in the twenties, thirties and forties, to hip-hop-inflected hitting and hoofing in heels from the 1990s to the millennium. She shows how the Irish jig and clog tradition and black rhythm tap tradition evolved along parallel but intersecting paths that were distinguished not by race or ethnicity but by rhythmic sensibilities. And along the way, she presents the contributions of women in this stereotypically "male " dance form, from the hundreds of chorus line dancers to the pioneering women composers of the tap renaissance and the hard-hitting rhythm-tapping women of the millennium.Groundbreaking in scope and detail, Tap Dancing America accounts traces how tap developed as people listening to and watching each other dance in the street, dance hall, or social club, as steps were shared, stolen and reinvented. Here is the story of a uniquely American dance form, a form in which the rhythms and steps of every dancer resounds the elders, ancestors, teachers and masters who came before.
GV is the primary call number range for subjects in Dance.
GV Dance
GV1645-1728 Dance History and Historical Dance
GV1743 National Dances
GV1746-1771 Social Dancing
GV1781-1795 Theatrical Dancing
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