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"Making a Ballet" is a survey of the processes which bring a ballet to the stage; it successfully dispels much of the mystique that surrounds what is a hard-learned and very arduous craft. There is a historical introduction that describes something of the collaborations and creativity that made the nineteenth century ballet. Then Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp, through the direct testimony of a distinguished gallery of choreographers, dancers, musicians and painters, examine the varying elements that are combined in twentieth century ballet and the relevance of the changes that have occurred in the conditions of work and the methods of collaboration. Choreographers describe their creative processes, dancers discuss the way a role develops and the way the classroom steps are adapted for the stage; composers and conductors tell how ballet scores are commissioned and arranged and designers relate the many problems associated with providing the sets and costumes.As relevant today as at its first publication in 1974, this welcome reissue of "Making a Ballet" is fully illustrated, and the authors also provide documentation of the famous collaborations of Petipa and Tchaikovsky, Nijinska and Goncharov and Ashton and Lanchbery. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on April 25, 2004. The length of the article is 379 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Troupe will dance classic choreography of Paul Taylor.(Entertainment)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: April 25, 2004
Publisher: The Register Guard
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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1504 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: When the spirit moves: choreographers who draw inspiration from prayer.
Author: Janet Weeks
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 12Page: 56(3)

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"The book on Mr. Cunningham aims at, and is, as complete and clear a portrait of the modern dance choreographer and his epochal work as has ever been published... The surprise of the Cunningham book is the grace with which it almost definitively sums up Mr. Cunningham's 63-year life in dance ... Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years is a compelling portrait of a simple yet complex man and an artist who has seldom faltered in his explorations of life and art on the simplest and most complex levels."--Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times"What emerges from this dispassionate, scrupulous account is much more than the chronicle of fifty years in the amazing and creative life of Merce Cunningham... Kudos to David Vaughan who has given us a noble work. As archivist for the Cunningham company for twenty years, he knows better than anyone how to turn this book about a great artist and about the art of this century into a work of art in itself." --Mikhail Baryshnikov Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years celebrates the career of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century from his first innovative and explosive solo dances to the present. This unique book incorporates images of performances by many world renowned photographers, including Imogen Cunningham, Barbara Morgan, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Hujar, and Arnold Eagle.Essay by David Vaughan.Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in./320 pgsAmazon.com Review
Unlike so many biographies of dance maestros, Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years offers no litany of substance or psychological abuse. The volume, assembled by the archivist of Merce Cunningham's world-renowned U.S. company, records and analyzes Cunningham's work process and documents the provenance of his modern dance classics. Heavily spiced with biographical detail, Merce Cunningham packages the choreographer'slife story in a lovely design that respects his whole body and conveys a rare sense of movement in its mass of still photos. ... Read more

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Merce Cunningham:Fifty Years
An excellent resource. Insightful. Beautiful pictures. Highly recommend for folks in dance education, collaborative artists, school teachers, dancers,and children. ... Read more

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The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema.

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In this unique critical volume, the authors turn the semiotic spotlight on an obscure area of art: the drawings and notations choreographers use to think about the human body in motion. ... Read more

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Discussing the private life of a pioneer choreographer, an in-depth portrait notes how his father's absence, racism in the dance world, and the Katherine Dunham Company affected his work in such ballets as "Revelations" and "Blues Suite." ... Read more

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A sometimes uncomfortably honest account.
I found this book very readable. It cast a different light onto the lifeof a maneveryone new as brilliant. I was very surprised at how franklythis was written. No bars were held, even when Mr. Ailey didn't come acrossas a shining example. I think great pains were taken to retain theintergrity of the story without compromising Mr. Ailey's driving desire forprivacy. The voices of many dance stars lent a certain energy to the book.Mr. Ailey made me laugh out loud while recounting details of hiswell-publicized breakdown. I was left wishing i'd paid more attention tothis great dancer while he was yet alive. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 837 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Attitudes.(New York Choreographic Institute)
Author: Clive Barnes
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 2Page: 162(1)

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 637 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sci-fi dance. (News).
Author: Heather Wisner
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 77Issue: 6Page: 9(1)

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1712 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Choreographer Jerome Robbins made significant contributions to both theater and dance. He based his exuberant and emotional interpretations, rhythms, movements and structures on a broad foundation of classical traditions, including ballet and ethnic and modern dance. Robbins choreographed many Broadway plays and staged 66 ballets during his lengthy career.

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Title: Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998.(Obituary)
Author: Laura Jacobs
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 17Issue: 1Page: 48(1)

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1059 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Float, shake, melt, quake: Gaga is sparking sensations and imaginations worldwide.(teach-learn connection)
Author: Erika Eichelberger
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 83Issue: 1Page: 190(3)

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on October 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1820 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: All the right moves: competition experts share their rules for making a great piece.
Author: Khara Hanlon
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2009
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 83Issue: 10Page: S10(4)

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A captivating illustrated autobiography of the early years of a major American choreographer.Amazon.com Review

I believe that we are never more truly andprofoundly human than when we dance. --JoséLimón

You couldn't ask for better stewardship for these papers, which hadbeen viewable until now only at the dance collection of the New YorkPublic Library for the Performing Arts. The Society of Dance HistoryScholars, with Lynn Garafola acting as editor, drove thisproject. Carla Maxwell, the current artistic director of theJosé Limón Dance Company, wrote the foreword; andVillage Voice dance critic Deborah Jowitt penned theintroduction. For a short time, at least, Limon lives again. --JeanLenihan ... Read more

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Jose Limon
You must read this incredible work! What an amazing story and what a great contribution to American Dance!!!

pretty good
The book is in excellent condition, got here sooner than expected. I am happy with the whole process. ... Read more

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The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has been described by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art." Here, she combines broad outlooks on culture and society with practical applications and accessible stories. Her expansive scope encompasses the craft, structure, and inspiration that bring theatrical works to life as well as the applications of art in fields as diverse as faith, aging, particle physics, and human rights law. Offering readers a gentle manifesto describing methods that bring a horizontal focus to bear on a hierarchical world, this is the perfect book for anyone curious about the possible role for art in politics, science, community, motherhood, and the media. ... Read more

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More than forty photographs highlight a profile of contemporary American choreographer Mark Morris, in a biography-dance study that explores how Morris transforms life into dance and his use of such themes as love, community, religion, and grief. ... Read more

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Understanding the Artist and his Work
This book was fascinating!Mark Morris' work is brilliant, beautiful and new.This book offers insight into the artist's childhood and early introduction to the arts, traces the evolution of his company from itshumble and informal beginnings to its present place as one of theoutstanding modern companies in the world, and explores the themes Morris'work so often addresses.The insight into his complex character makeswatching his work still more rewarding.Includes many great photos. ... Read more

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A professional dancer who performed in 49 countries and 45 States provides hundreds of job contacts she collected during her career, covers thoroughly the business aspects of succeeding as a professional performer, and inspires dancers with her positive advice. There is extensive information on all possible avenues of a dance career, a plethora of dance information for every major US city where dancers can perform for a living, and interviews with 20 other professional dancers, including Broadway performers. All questions about leading the life of a successful professional dancer are answered in this unprecedented, 344-page book. ... Read more

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A MUST HAVE FOR ALL DANCERS!!!
This Sourcebook has ANY and ALL information that every dancers should absolutely have! Even as a dance major, there wasn't an emphasis on HOW to start AND maintain a successful dance career from a business perspective but everything is very clearly written and outlined. From how to write a cover letter, a resume, sample resumes, doing a demo reel, audition tips, different avenues of dance careers, etc... and the best part is ALL of the valuable detailed contact information for castings for all different types of dance jobs...all the research is already done for you! And she writes it from her own professional dance experiences so you are getting a first hand account which is informative and yet also entertaining to read...Plus its on a CD-ROM which makes it very easy to navigate through specific topics. This Sourcebook is useful for any dancer no matter what stage they are in their career...I definitely have found the information in here invaluable!!! Five stars all the way! ... Read more

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An intimate portrait of the legendary dancer and choreographer chronicles Massine's life, from his early roles as lover and prote+a7ge+a7 to Diaghilev, through his spectacular forty-year international career, to his private life and lasting influence on the world of dance. ... Read more

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A much-needed addition to ballet biographies
An intimate look (although admittedly a bit biased, as the writer was an admirer of Leonide Massine)at a man who was a premier male dancer and chief choreographer of European ballet from 1914 through 1939. Historian Vicente Garcia-Marquez helps to ensure that Massine is recognized for his role in 20th century ballet history, as a dancer who collaborated with other prominent figures such as Diaghilev, Straveinsky, Falla, Cocteau, Pcasso, Matisse, Miro and Dali...among others. High points of the book include vintage photos and passages such as these, where Massine, while dancing, gives insight into the creative process of ballet: "I felt instinctively that something more than perfect technique was needed here, but it was not until I had worked myself up into a frenzy that I was able to transcent my usual limitations. I felt an almost electrical interaction between myself and the spectators....until I was dancing with a sustained force that seemed far beyond my reach at other times." ... Read more

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Blanchine discovered
A great book on a choreographer & dancer who had a great impact on dance in the USA and world wide...

If you are at all interested in dance, and the history of dance...then this book is for you!

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A long-time observer of George Balanchine describes his experience with and reactions to the great choreographer`s work. Handsomely illustrated with dramatic photographs of past and present members of the New York City Ballet, this fascinating book is both a major contribution to dance criticism and an absorbing chronicle of the education of one man`s taste. ... Read more

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A Classic
This is the most important Balanchine book - yet.
Rich and thoughtful, and astonishingly generous to readers, in its intimacy with the author's judgments, no, passions - aboutballets, ideas, dancers, that the author deeply cared about.
Why haven't I read this book before?Why am I reading it only now?Anyway, it's precious. ... Read more

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The internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer chronicles his life, the evolution of his terpsichorean art, and his professional and personal collaboration with Arnie Zane, who died of AIDS in 1988. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour. ... Read more

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Compelling
Although journalist Peggy Gillespie was involved with Bill T. Jones in writing his memoir, from hearing him speak (including reading from the book) I know that the voice in it is his and am fairly confident that hedecided what incidents and topics to include. Jones has long been an openlygay dancer and choreographer, and more recently an openly HIV+ oneslandered as perpetrating "victim art" (by a critic long hostile to him whocondemned while refusing to see "Still/here," his attempt to craft a pieceabout living with terminal diseases).

Jones is acutely aware of hisbody and the fetishization of the body of the big, black stud. He playswith that objectification on-stage and off without forgetting its cost. "Myeroticism, my sensuality is often coupled with wild anger andbelligerence," he says. "I know that I can be food for fantasy, but at thesame time I am a person with a history-and that history is in part thehistory of exploitation."

It is what Jones does with his own (andothers') bodies on stage, not just his physical appearance, upon which hewants to focus the interest of many: "The performer who takes the stagemust believe that he is fascinating, that he or she deserves being thelocus of several hundred or thousand points of attention. . . . Theperformer wants to be one of many, but even more, he wants to command theattention of many."

As I already said, Jones's voice comes throughon the page. The book is compelling as a narrative of an interesting lifein a difficult time (the time of AIDS to which Jones lost his partner on-and off-stage) and as an account of the wellsprings of Jones's art.

Stellar Memoir, Amazing Honesty
Bill T. Jones, one of the most innovative and controversial choreographers of our time, writes his memoir with honesty, insight, and emotion.I would recommend it to any Bill T. Jones fan, dancer, choreographer, or human. ... Read more