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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Parade is a ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed 1916-1917 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on May 18, 1917 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, with costumes and sets designed by Pablo Picasso, a choreography by Leonide Massine (who was also dancing), and the orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet.The idea of the ballet seems to have come from Jean Cocteau: he had heard Satie's Trois morceaux en forme de poire ("Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear") in a concert, and thought of writing a ballet scenario to such music. Satie welcomed the idea of composing ballet music (which he had never done until that moment), but refused to allow any of his previous compositions to be used for the occasion: so Cocteau started writing a scenario (the theme being a publicity parade in which three groups of circus artists try to attract an audience to an indoor performance),...

Tony Parkes

Here is the first comprehensive entry-level book on contra dance calling, newly revised and updated for the Internet age. Every aspect of the caller's work is dealt with clearly and thoroughly: music, timing and phrasing, voice technique, dance notation, teaching, programming, sound equipment, event management, and working with special groups. The book includes an in-depth discussion of the basic movements (such as do-si-do), a selection of easy-to-call dances, a complete glossary, and a Resources section listing dance titles, tunes, books, recordings, videos, software, organizations, retailers, dance events, and websites.

Chapters: Australian Ballet Principal Dancers, Australian Ballet Soloists, Australian Ballet School, Lucette Aldous, Gina Brescianini, Tzi-Chao Chou. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. 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: The Australian Ballet is the foremost classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by the English ballerina Dame Peggy van Praagh in 1962 and is today recognised as one of the world's major international ballet companies. The roots of The Australian Ballet can be found in the Borovansky Ballet, a company founded in 1940 by the European dancer Edouard Borovansky. Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company of the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and, after visiting Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, he decided to remain in Australia, establishing the country's first ballet...

Judy L. Hasday

Yvonne Rainer

If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals--including breakfast--have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. --from Feelings Are Facts In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts (the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in...

Helen Exley

Book DescriptionThis beautifully illustrated book is filled with quotations from famous musical artists.

Chapters: 2pm, T.i.p., Last for One, Expression Crew, Gamblerz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. 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: 2PM is a South Korean boy band, originally a seven-member group, but currently consisting of six members due to sudden withdrawal of leader Jaebeom following an Internet controversy in September 2009. They are managed by JYP Entertainment. The current members are Junsu, Junho, Nichkhun, Taecyeon, Wooyoung and Chansung. 2PM is one of the two subgroups branched out from the eleven-member (before Jaebeom's departure) boy band One Day, the other being 2AM. They debuted with the song "10 Jeom Manjeome 10 Jeom" (10 10, lit. 10 Points Out of 10 Points), which showcased their acrobatic and b-boy dance styles. They achieved their first #1 song with "Again

Ananya Chatterjea

Book DescriptionFirst major study of two important contemporary female dancers.

Siu Wang-Ngai

Book DescriptionSiu Wang-ngai has established himself as one the world?s foremost performance photographers. In this volume, his vivid photographs brilliantly capture the dancers, the costumes and the spectacle of the Hong Kong Ballet. He records 25different ballets from the Hong Kong Ballet's repertoire, including such classics as Swan Lake and Giselle, ballets especially appropriate for a Chinese company such as The Last Emperor, and some experimental works. In addition to the memorable images, asynopsis of each ballet is provided, and biographical information for the pictured dancers in the company. This is a book for all who delight in the ballet, and for all who admire outstanding photographs.