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Author | : Christine Temin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Download Behind the Scenes at Boston Ballet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A photographic portrait of an entire ballet season "An amazing book. Temin is a crackerjack journalist, and this book touches on every hot-button issue that is relevant to ballet companies today."--Mindy Aloff "Temin and Gilbert have given us a long-overdue libretto for a ballet about a ballet company. Players on both sides of the proscenium will find Behind the Scenes at Boston Ballet a real page-turner!"--Toba Singer, author of First Position For centuries, ballet companies have been transporting audiences beyond their workaday worlds, one performance at a time. A layperson who sees a ballerina perform in SwanLake may be thrilled or impressed--may imagine the hours of rehearsal that lie behind each performance or understand something about the demands made on a dancer--but many who appreciate ballet remain unacquainted with all the steps, parts, people, and money that must come together for a world-class company to complete a season of performances. Beyond the flash of lights onstage is a world of physical trainers and fundraisers, artistic directors and executive boards, all laboring to ensure that the show goes on. In this unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the life of a company, former Boston Globe dance critic Christine Temin and photographer Wally Gilbert present a compelling portrait of the Boston Ballet. Their evocative prose and penetrating photography turn the spotlight on all the elements--from toe shoes and costumes to rehearsals and revenue--that come together (or fall apart) in a season. Boston Ballet, in turn, makes a perfect study: After a rash of mysterious firings and defections in the early 2000s, the company seems to have moved past the controversy with a new artistic director and a new schedule of international performances. Its story highlights the tremendous amount of work and energy that goes in before the curtain can ever go up.
Author | : Andrej Uspenski |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2013-08-28 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1783194308 |
Download Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This beautifully produced new book by Royal Ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski is a collection of exclusive photographs which shines the spotlight on ballet, the most beautiful of art forms. These exquisite photographs feature some of the finest dancers on stage today, bringing the reader into the magical world of ballet. As a Royal Ballet dancer himself, Andrej Uspenski has a unique perspective on photographic composition of dance imagery, as well as unrivalled access not only to the Royal Ballet's productions, but also to the dancers who perform in them. This gives the reader an exclusive insight in to the Royal Ballet's work. Dancers includes exclusive, backstage photographs, as well as a number of breathtaking images taken from the wings during live stage performances, making this a unique photographic record, perfect for all ballet fans.
Author | : Nancy Ellison |
Publisher | : Universe Publishing(NY) |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Ballet |
ISBN | : |
Download The Ballet Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.
Author | : Caroline Randall Williams |
Publisher | : Third Man Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780997457827 |
Download Lucy Negro, Redux Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro, Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu.
Author | : Michael Meylac |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2017-10-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 178673205X |
Download Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth century - during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War - the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This important new book uncovers previously-unseen interviews and provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age - from the dancers Anna Pavlova and Alicia Markova to the choreographers Leonide Massine, George Balanchine and Anton Dolin. The dancers' own words reveal what life was really like for the stars of the Ballets Russes and provide fascinating new insights into one of the most vibrant and creative groups of artists of the modern age.
Author | : Misty Copeland |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476737983 |
Download Life in Motion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Profiles the life and career of the professional ballerina, covering from when she began dance classes at age thirteen in an after-school community center through becoming the only African American soloist dancing with the American Ballet Theatre.
Author | : Jan Greenberg |
Publisher | : Flash Point |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1466818611 |
Download Ballet for Martha Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.
Author | : Leanne Benjamin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781925556575 |
Download Leanne Benjamin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the worlds most important ballet dancers of the past fifty years. The book takes you behind the scenes to find a real understanding of the pleasure and the pain, the demands and the intense commitment it requires to become a ballet dancer. It is a book for ballet-lovers which will explain from Benjamins personal point of view, how ballet has changed and is changing. It is a book of history: she was first taught by the people who created ballet in its modern form and now she works with the dancers of today, handing on all she has known and learnt. But it is also a book for people who are just interested in the psychology of achievement, how you go from being a child in small-town Rockhampton in the centre of Australia to being a power on the worlds biggest stages -- and how an individual copes with the ups and downs of that kind of career. It is a story full of big names and big personalities -- Margot Fonteyn, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta to name a few. President Clinton, Michelle Obama, Diana Princess of Wales and David Beckham all make an appearance. But it is also a book of small moments of insight: what makes a performance special, how you recover from injury, illness and childbirth; how you combine athletic and artistic prowess with motherhood, how a different partner can alter everything, what it is like to fall over in front of thousands of people and what it is like to triumph. Above all, it seeks to explain, in warm and human terms, why women get the reputation for being difficult in a world where being a good girl is too much prized. And what they can do about it.
Author | : Leslie E. Spatt |
Publisher | : Puffin Books |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1997-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780140559057 |
Download Behind the Scenes at the Ballet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A behind-the-scene look at the rehearsal and performance of the ballet based on Perrault's fairy tale.
Author | : Janice Ross |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-11-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780811856980 |
Download San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Long renowned as one of the world's preeminent ballet companies, San Francisco Ballet marks its seventy-fifth anniversary with a stunningly beautiful retrospective. Replete with intimate portraits of the dancers and behind-the-scenes contributors, this book is the first serious depiction of America's oldest ballet company. Included in this deluxe package is a DVD that provides insight into the company's illustrious history and together with the book, tells the story of how San Francisco Ballet has forged a fresh identity for American dance and is now pioneering a new model of internationalism in the dance world.