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Ralph Lemon

Book DescriptionAcclaimed choreographer explores the idea of intercultural performance.

Chapters: Ballet Master, Ballerina, Character Dancers, Repetiteur, Corps de Ballet, Principal Dancer, Danseur Noble, Soloist. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edgar Degas painting of the great balletmaster Jules Perrot conducting rehearsal in the Foyer de la Danse of the Palais Garnier. Paris, 1875'Ballet Master' (Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress. Premier Maitre de ballet or Premier Maitre de ballet en Chef) is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company. In modern times, ballet masters (or ballet mistress for a female) are generally charged with teaching the daily company ballet class and rehearsing the dancers for both new and established ballets in the company's repertoire. The artistic director of a ballet company may...

Sondra Fraleigh

Book DescriptionAccording to renowned performer, teacher, and dance scholar Sondra Fraleigh, "to value dance at all is to value the human, the beautiful, and the playful amid the erotic pulse of life. Dancing gives us the forms of our mind in movement, and it teaches us how to reconnect with our emotions, living them over again, sweeping clean their cellular foundations." Dancing Identity, her latest book, is a celebratory fusion of philosophy and movement. Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Fraleigh presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on the ways we perceive and construct our lives represent a journey toward self-definition informed by art, ritual, feminism, phenomenology, poetry, autobiography, and-always-dance. While aesthetic discourse is often dissociated from lived experience, Dancing Identity examines dance as an inherently gendered reality and exposes...

Chapters: George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Lincoln Kirstein, Leon Barzin, Hershy Kay, Peter Martins, Ruth Sobotka, List of Former New York City Ballet Dancers, American Ballet, Rosemary Dunleavy, Jerome Robbins Archive. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin and with founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946. The company was named New York City Ballet when it became resident at City Center of Music and...

Edmund Fairfax

Book DescriptionAn exploration of the various styles of eighteenth-century dance, i.e. ballroom versus ballet, the four traditional styles of theatrical dance, regional preferences for given styles, and the breakdown of this system of styles, together with a consideration of the importance of caprice, dance according to gender, the overall voluptuous nature of stage dancing and finally dance notation and costume.

Chapters: Nellie Campobello, Constanza Hool, Gloria Campobello, Guillermina Bravo, Waldeen Falkenstein, Gloria Contreras Roeniger, Ana Merida, Amalia Hernandez, Josefina Lavalle, Sonia Amelio. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nellie Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna, born Maria Francisca Moya Luna (b. November 7, 1900 d. July 9, 1986), was a Mexican writer. Like her half-sister Gloria, a well-known ballet dancer, she was also known as an enthusiastic dancer and choreographer. Campobello was born in Ocampo, Durango the third of six children of Rafaela Luna, and her father was her mother's nephew Jesus Felipe Moya Luna, son of her sister Florencia. Probably this was a reason, why she concealed traces of her past. She handled also her year of birth indiscriminately as 1909 or 1913. She spent her childhood...

Chapters: Frankie Manning, Dean Collins, Norma Miller, Sylvia Sykes, Jack Carey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frankie Manning (May 26, 1914 April 27, 2009) was an American dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered one of the founding fathers of the Lindy Hop. Manning was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1914. He moved to Harlem at the age of 3, with his mother, who was also a dancer. Frankie began dancing as a child, then started attending the early evening dances for older teens at the Rennaissance Ballroom. When he was older he started going to the Savoy, which was for better dancers. He frequented Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in the 1930s, eventually becoming a dancer in the elite and prestigious "Kat's Corner," a corner of the dance floor in which impromptu exhibitions and...

Adrienne Sharp

Book DescriptionAdam and Sandra are ballet dancers, friends since they were fifteen, and now lovers. Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just caught George Balanchine's eye. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. They are in love, passionate and ambitious, but ill-prepared to handle the demands, seductions, and expectations that are visited on them as they come within reach of their dreams. The novel proceeds from a true premise: Since the beginning of his career, Balanchine sought to create an opulent ballet from the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, but never had the means and the muse come together at the same time. In First Love, Adrienne Sharp conjures in Sandra a last muse for the ailing ballet master. Balanchine promises to make Sleeping Beauty for her, and that it will be his final and greatest ballet. But Balanchine's favor comes at a price, and Sandra is forced to decide...

Lisa Marie McNeill

The beauty of dance and the wonders of human creation infuse, as young ballerinas learn how each unique characteristic they possess enhances their ability to dance. The talented students of the McClendon Performing Arts Institute, in Atlanta, Ga., give visual interpretation to this story. Let it awaken the dancer in you!

Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John Mcbrewster

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Scottish country dance (SCD) or "reel" is a form of social dance involving groups of mixed couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography. Country dancing is often considered a type of folk dancing although this is not strictly true because it also has its roots in the courtly dances of the Renaissance. When it first became popular around the 18th century, it filled the niche that is occupied today by ballroom dances such as the waltz or tango, as a fairly refined form of entertainment. Related dance forms include English country dancing and contra dancing. The connection to styles like ceilidh dancing, "Old Time" dancing, Irish set dancing, or square dance is more tenuous. Also, Scottish country dancing should not be confused with Scottish highland dance, which (today) is closer to a sport rather than a social pastime, mainly being danced in competition and displays.