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London, United Kingdom: Saqi Books, 2003. Buonaventura's book is rich with fascinating anecdotes (like the New Jersey girl arrested for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and astonishing facts (the first geisha were men), as well as tender portrayals of dancers whose stage antics have earned them lasting fame. The author takes us to Buenos Aires and the first immigrants dancing the tango; to Paris and the bawdy entertainers of the Moulin Rouge; to Chicago and New York, where struggling black Americans cakewalk, charleston and shimmy their long road from slavery. She returns to the Middle East, and the Arabic dance that led to a life-long fascination with the dancing body. On the way, she takes in Princess Diana, anorexia, transvestism and cosmetic surgery. N.B.One inch closed tear to top edge rear d/j cover.. ISBN: 0863567886. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. THEATRE WOMEN DANCE. more information

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00151 Roma, Italy: Gremese International,Italy, 2000. A book of the Cecchetti method of classical dance. This volume presents the main theory and exercises, and is ideal for schools and academies, or anyone interested in the Italian School of the 19th and 20th centuries. 189pp.. ISBN: 8873010725. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS DANCE. more information

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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: University Press of Colorado, 2001. 190pp.In 1941, Hanya Holm, a German-American dancer and educator who would later become a celebrated Broadway choreographer, created a sanctuary for dance in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains at Colorado College. In Dancing With Principle, Claudia Gitelman details Holm's work during an amazing span of forty-three years. The Hanya Holm/Colorado College Summer School of the Dance in Colorado Springs educated many thousands on both sides of the footlights in the art of modern dance. With exhortations to understand what they were doing and stick with their principles, Holm helped thousands of students with their craft. As Gitelman notes, many of her students went on to work in regional and national dance companies, and some even achieved international status as choreographers and company directors. Fascinated by her own work with Hanya Holm in Colorado, both as a student and as one of Holm's assistants, Gitelman examined archives held by the Holm family and interviewed more than fifty of Holm's students, associates, and observers of the program. Describing the birth, constant renewal, and lasting legacy of an institution that has been overlooked in studies of American dance culture, Dancing With Principle will appeal to dance lovers and dance specialists, regional historians, and students of American culture and Colorado history.. ISBN: 0870816519. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CHOREOGRAPHERS DANCING STUDY TEACHING PERFORMING ARTS DANCE GENERAL. more information

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New Jersey: Princeton Book Co ,U.S., 1987. This is perhaps the most important book on choreography ever published. Written just before Humphrey's death in 1958, it is her autobiography in art, a gathering of her experiences in performance and a lucid and practical source book on choreography. 192pp. ISBN: 0871271583. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS DANCE. more information

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New York: Limelight Editions, 2001. ISBN: 0879100680. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BALLET DANCE. more information

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