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Stephen Papich presents Katherine Dunham in "Bamboche". With Vanoye Aikens, Lucille Ellis, Ural Wilson, Dorothy Speights, Ricardo Avalos and the Singers, Dancers and Musicians of the KATHERINE DUNHAM COMPANY. Introducing BESSIE GRIFFIN with the
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[New York]: [Dunetz and Lovett], [1962].. Lossely inserted is the 2 page playbill for the performane at the Geary Theatre, San Francisco, beginning Monday Evening, September 10, 1962.. Pictorial paper wrappers. Fine.. 4to. [18 pp.], 2 pieces. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of Katherine Dunham and her dance company. more information
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The Ballet Annual
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1952. Sixth issue. cloth. fine in partial dj. 4to. 144pp. profusely illus. A Record and Year Book of the Ballet. Edited by Arnold L. Haskell. more information
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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Season 1946-47. Sergei J, Denham, director
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New York: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1946.. Pictorial paper wrappers. Fine.. 4to. 70 pp. Full page color illustrations by Christian Berard, Isamu Noguchi, Henri Matisse and Eugene Berman. Double page black and white photograph of 30 legendary ballet personages including George Balanchine, Maria Tallchief, Agnes De Mille, Boris Aronson, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin etc. etc. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs by Irving Penn, Erwin Blumenfeld and Herman Landshoff. Cover design by Corrado Cagli. This program for the season 1946-1947 is a tour de force of design and photography by the legendary director of Vogue, Alexey Brodovitch. It appears 1 year after his book titled Ballet published by J.J. Augustin in 1945. That book has become one of the trophy books in modern design and photography. This Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo program is of the same importance and caliber for Brodovitch brought Irving Penn, Erwin Blumentfeld and Herman Landshoff to do the photography to his, Brodovitch's mis en page. Sweet, sweet sweet. more information
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Dance News Annual
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New York: Knopf, 1953. First edition. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 211 pp. color frontispiece, 57 b/w illus. bibliography. Edited by Winthrop Palmer and Anatole Chujoy. more information
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The Ballet Annual. Edited by Arnold L. Haskell. 1963, A Record and Year Book of the Ballet
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Seventeenth issue. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 128pp. profusely illus. more information
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The Ballet Annual. Edited by Arnold L. Haskell. 1951, A Record and Year Book of the Ballet
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Fifth issue. cloth. fine in partial dj. 4to. 143pp. profusely illus. more information
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Classical Dances and Costumes of India. Introduction by Ram Gopal. Foreword by Arnold Haskell
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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1950. First edition. decorated cloth. fine in worn and partial dj. 96 pp. 14 b/w plates, numerous b/w illus. in the text, bibliography. more information
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Hommage A Balanchine
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Paris: Revue Choregraphique De Paris, Mai, 1952. Paperback. fine. 4to. 25 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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The Book Of Ballet. Illustrated by Grace Golden and 15 plates from photographs
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London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1967. Third revised edition. Decorated cloth. very good + in price clipped dj. 8vo. 112 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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Balanchine's New Complete Stories of the Great Ballets. Edited by Francis Mason, Drawings by Marta Becket
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 625pp. 46 b/w. photographs, bibliography. glossary. Annotated selection of ballet recordings, more information
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Balanchines's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets (Quantity available: 2)
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New York: Doubleday, 1977. Revised and enlarged edition. cloth. fine in slightly chipped dj. dj. Stout 8vo. xiv, 902 pp. illus. more information
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Diaghilev Ballet in London
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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1951. 3rd edition,. cloth. fine in chipped dj. 4to. color frontispiece, illus, in b/w. A signed, dated presentation copy from Cyril Beaumont to Joseph Baird, art historian and art dealer. more information
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Dancers Under My Lens: Essays in Ballet Criticism
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London: C.W. Beaumont, 1949. Presentation copy from Cyril Beaumont to Hugh Arnold. Hugh Arnold was a dancer, professor of mathematics and a pre-eminent collector of 20th century ceramics especially California and Japan. Cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 160 pp. 15 b/w. illus. more information
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Complete Book of Ballets, A Guide to the Principal Ballets of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition. cloth. very good. 4to. 899 pp. 185 b/w illus. more information
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A Manual of The Theory and Practice of Classical Theatrical Dancing, (Classical Ballet), Cecchetti Method. With a preface by Maestro Cav. Enrico Cecchetti and illustrations by Randolph Schwabe
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London: C.W. Beaumont, 1966. New edition revised by Cyril W. Beaumont. Cloth. Fine. 8vo. 220 pp. plus 22 pp. of black and white illustrations. more information
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Ballet in Moscow Today
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Greenwich, Ct.: New York Graphic Society, nd (1957). cloth. fine in partial dj. sm. 4to. 203pp. 154 b/w plates, more information
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Isadora, Portrait of the Artist As A Woman
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. Cloth. fine in dj. lg. 8vo. 470 pp. illus. in b/w. bibliography. more information
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The Royal Ballet, The First Fifty Years. With a Foreword by Dame Ninette De Valois
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Garden City, Ny.: Doubleday, 1981. cloth. fine in dj. sm. folio. 320 pp. 30 color plates, 110 b/w plates. Dancers of the Royal Ballet, Choreographers, Repertory, Itinerary. more information
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Ballets De Moscou Par la Troupe Du Theatre Lyrique National Stanislavski et Nemirovitch-Dantchenko
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Paris: Editions Cercle D'Art, 1956. stiff wrappers with dj. fine. previous owners first name on half-title. 4to. 20 pp. of text plus 72 pp. of b/w photographs. signed by 2 dancers in the troupe. more information
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This Thing Called Ballet
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London: Macdonald, 1952. 2nd edition,. cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 223pp. profusely illus. in b/w. more information
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The International Book Of Ballet
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New York: Stein and Day, 1971. Cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. xiii, 304 pp. illus. in b/w. bibliography. more information
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The Ballet In Britain: Eight Oxford Lectures. Introduction by Dame Ninette De Valois. With drawings by Warren Chappell
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London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Presentation copy from Peter Brinson to Hugh Arnold. Hugh Arnold was a dancer, professor of mathematics and a pre-eminent collector of 20th century ceramics especially California and Japan. Cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 148 pp. 16 b/w. illus. 5 b/w. figures in the text. Bibliography, Appendix I: Extra-Mural Departments and Ballet. Appendix II: Archives and Other Organizations. Appendix III: Notes on Illustrations. more information
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In The Wake Of Diaghilev
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982. First American edition. Cloth. very good in dj. 8vo. 367 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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In Search of Diaghilev
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New York: Nelson, 1956. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 128pp. 10 color plates, 114 b/w illus. Scarce. more information
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Nijinsky
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. cloth. fine in dj. lg. 8vo. 482pp. 86 b/w illus. 16 line drawings, bibliography. previous owners name on front free end paper, more information
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Buckle At The Ballet, Selected Criticism
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New York: Atheneum, 1980. Cloth. fine in dj. lg 8vo. 416 pp. 22 b/w illus. more information
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Diaghilev
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New York: Atheneum, 1979. cloth. fine in spine sunned dj. 4to. 616pp. 53 b/w illustrations, bibliography, list of sources. The biography of Diaghilev. more information
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The Story of World Ballet. Translated by Olga Kuthanova
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London: Allen Wingate, 1963. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 329pp. 12 color plates, 208 b/w plates, 85 illus. in the text, index of names and ballets. A stunning book with uncommom photographs printed by Artia, Czechoslovokia in their inimitable way. more information
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Studies in Ballet
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London: John Lehman, 1948. cloth. fine. 8vo. 158 pp. 24 b/w photographs, 38 line drawings by the author. more information
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The Ballets of Antony Tudor, Studies in Psyche and Satire
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Cloth. fine in dj. lg. 8vo. 311 pp. 41 b/w illus. Bibliography, glossary. more information
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The New York City Ballet
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New York: Knopf, 1953. First edition. cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 382 pp. xiv pp. illus. in b&w. more information
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Understanding Ballet. With a foreword by Natalia Makarova
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New York: Harmony Books, 1976. Cloth. fine in price clipped dj. 8vo. 112 pp. illus. in b/w. Glossary, biographies. more information
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Ballet Art From The Renaissance to the Present
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New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978. Paperback. very good+. 4to. 144pp. 180 color & b/w. illus. more information
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The Encyclopedia of Dance
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 376 pp. illus. in color & b/w. bibliography. more information
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Dictionary of Modern Ballet. Translated from the French by John Montague and Peggie Cochrane
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New York: Tudor, nd (1961?). cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 360pp. 143 color illustrations, 220 b/w illus. more information
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Three Centuries of Ballet
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Houston-New York: Elsevier Press, 1953. Cloth. binding shows a little wear. Very good +. 4to. 248 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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Conversations With A Dancer
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New York: St. Martins Press, 1980. Cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 177 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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Dance Index. Vol. II, no. 8, Aug. 1943, Vol. III, Nos. 4,5,6, April-June, 1944,Vol. III, Nos. 9,10,11, Sept.-Nov. 1944, Vol. IV, no. 12, Dec. 1945, includes separate insert (working chart of Perrot\'s career), .
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Several of the paper covers on individual issues show wear and some covers are present but partially or wholly detached. Internally very good. 8vo. Various paginations. illus. in b/w. Each physical issue whether 1 number or more is $20. A 4 page prospectus for 1946 is offered for $15. more information
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Mike Davis at the Royal Ballet. With essays by Dame Ninette De Valois, Mary Clarke, Frederick Ashton, Noel Goodwin, Arnold Haskell, Margaret Dale, Peter Williams and Pegian Crowle (Quantity available: 2)
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cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 142pp. 176 b/w plates by Mike Davis, more information
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Alicia Alonso At Home and Abroad. With an appreciation by Arnold L. Haskell
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New York: Citadel Press, 1971. First edition,. cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 190pp. profusely illus. with b/w. more information
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Speak to me, Dance with me
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. First edition. cloth. staining on front and rear free end papers otherwise fine in dj. 8vo. 404 pp. illus. in b&w. more information
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America Dances
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New York: Macmillan, 1980. Cloth. fine in dj. 4to. 222 pp. Profusely illus. in color & b/w. Bibliography, chronology. more information
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Martha, The Life And Work of Martha Graham
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New York: Random House, 1991. 2nd printing. cloth. fine in dj. lg.8vo. 509 pp. illus. in b/w. bibliography. more information
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Lizzie Borden, A Dance of Death
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Boston: Atlantic-Little Brown, 1968. First edition,. cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 302pp. illus. more information
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Come Dance With Me, A Memoir 1898 - 1956
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Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1957. cloth. fine in dj. 8vo. 254pp. illus. more information
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Sous le Haut Patronage de Son Excellence Monsieur l'Ambassadeur de la Republique et pour la premiere fois En France
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Paris: Theatre Marigny. Pictorial paper covers, Very good + in chipped pictorial glassine. 4to. 14 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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The Book of the Dance. Illustrations by N.M. Bodecker
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New York: Golden Press, 1963. Fabricoid binding. fine in worn dj. folio, illus. in color & b/w. more information
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Looking at the Dance
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New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1949. cloth. fine in chipped dj. lg 8vo. 432 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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Theatre du Chatelet. Grande Saison De Paris. Direction: G. Astruc Et Cie. Du 6 au 17 Juin 1911. Sixieme Saison Russe. Organisee Par Serge de Diaghilev. Huit Representations De Gala Ballets Russes. Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes. Theatre Chatelet.
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Paris: Comoedia Illustre, 1911. 2 programs and assorted ephemera. The publisher is the father of the creator of the BABAR books. All programs and ephemera bound in a cloth binding with a leather spine label lettered in gilt. . Slight repairs to 4 pages otherwise very good +.. Folio, 70 pp. Original color illustrations for the covers of the 2 programs by Leon Bakst showing Nijinsky in costume for the ballet La Peri, which was not performed during this Paris engagement, and of Nijinsky in costume for the ballet Narcisse. Original double page color illustration of the scenery for the ballet Narcisse by Leon Bakst. Full page color plate of Mademoiselle N. Trouhanova dans "La Peri", which was not performed, after a watercolor by Leon Bakst Full page color plate of the Premiere Bacchante de "Narcisse" after a watercolor by Leon Bakst. Green illustration of Narcisse after a watercolor by Leon Bakst. Full page color illustration of Le Pelerin du " Dieu bleu" by Leon Bakst after a watercolor by Leon Bakst. Full page illustration blue-gray tones of Divinite Mineure "Narcisse" from a drawing by Leon Bakst. Full page biography with photograph of Leon Bakst. 4 page glazed paper pages with elaborate gilt design labeled Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes. Full page drawing in bistre of Mikhail Fokine, principal choreographer of the Ballets Russes, after a drawing by Serov. 2 full page and 2 half page photographs of Vaslav Nijinsky. 3 full page photographs of Tamara Karsavina. Full page photograph of Vera Fokina. Full page and half page photographs of Natalia Trouhanova. Full page photograph of Georges Rosay. Full page photograph of M. Fokine and Mme Fokine. Half page photographs of Sophie Fedorova, and M. Orlov. 2 full page photographs of the principal dancers in the ballet Carnaval. Full page photographs Chef Des Eunuques, Le Shah Zeman, Un Adolescent and Un Negre from the ballet Scheherazade. Full page advertisements for Tecla Jewelers, Prince Igor Parfum, Panhard Levassor automobiles, Chapeau Marie Crozet, Fourrures de Revillon Freres, F. Rothschild & Fils, Carrosserie, Au Theatre Apollo, Limousine grise de Belvallette, Chapeau Gabrielle Chanel, Daimler automobile, Parfum Esperies, "L'Ombre", derniere creation de Mme Guillot, Hotchkiss automobile, Parfum Seduction, Creation Paquin, Au Cafe Americain - Grill Room Du 1er Etage, Babani, La Derniere Mode dans la Coiffure par Williams Cuvernelle, Pneu Goodrich, Comoedia Illustre, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, Reims, Les Corsets & Corselets de Mme Berthe Barreiros, Automobiles Lorraine-Dietrich, Automobiles Clement Bayard, La Cour Batave, la plus importante specialite de Blanc, A La Marquise de Sevigne, Chocolat Royal. All pages with either crimson or blue borders show an art nouveau leaf motif. Extremely rare. No copy in OCLC. No copy for sale on the NET. 2 programs and ephemera for the 2 sequences of ballets performed by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, June 6 - June 17, 1911. This was the 3rd season of the Ballets Russes in Paris preceded only by the 1909 and 1910 seasons and was to date the most successful season. It was also the 6th overall season for this company of ballet dancers. The roster of names i.e. the dancers, choreographers, composers and designers is a Who's Who of Ballet in the 20th century. There were many firsts for the aforementioned. The dancers were led by the geniuses Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina. Igor Stravinsky composed Petroushka for this Paris season, its world premiere, with Vaslav Nijinsky dancing the title role for the first time. The ballets performed for the first sequence were: Carnaval, Narcisse, Le Spectre de la Rose and Sadko, June 6, 8, 9, 10, 1911. The ballets performed for the second sequence of ballets were: Petroushka, La Bataille de Kerjenetz, Le Spectre de la Rose and Scheherazade, June 13, 15, 16, 17, 1911. Tipped in is the revised program for the printed original which was changed at the last moment. The printed original is also present as part of the original program. more information
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The Power Of Dance, The Dance And Related Arts For Children
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New York: John Day, 1939. Cloth. fine in worn and chipped dj. 4to. 180 pp. illus. in b/w. more information
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