When towards the end of the last century Rudolf Laban began to take an interest in all forms of d...

The Russian ballerina Lydia Kyasht was very much a free spirit. A childhood friend of her fellow ...

Michel Fokine and His Ballets

Rudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre works have lain hidden since th...

The problem of recording movements of the human body is almost as old as the art of dancing: it h...

A facsimile of the 1706 edition of John Weaver's translation of Raoul Auger Feuillet's 1701 danci...

Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936) was a Dutch composerwhose life was spent mostly in England. A re...

Does a dance communicate ? What ? How ?Are all dances meaningful ?Do spectators see what a choreo...

Pierre Rameau's Le Maitre a Danser is the standard work on the technique of eighteenth century da...

Robert Cohan is part of the pantheon of American contemporary choreographers which includes Alvin...

A facsimile of Feuillet's 1704 dance manual, 'Recueil de Dances contenant un tres grand nombres d...

The British actor Peter Bull returned from a visit to Greece in 1962 obsessed with a desire to bu...

This is the first English translation of André Levinson's classic biography of the celebrated bal...

Gregorio Lambranzi was an Italian dancing master, working in Venice in the late 17th and early 18...

First published in 1944, this classic book remains the definitive work on the masterpiece of the ...

Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the fir...

Dezais' ''II Recueil de Nouvelles Contredances' was published in Paris in 1712. Apart from a brie...

John Foulds was born in Manchester in 1880. The son of a bassoonist in the Hallé Orchestra, he co...

After a distinguished career as a dancer, Nicolai Serrebrenikov became one of the leading teacher...

These highly entertaining memoirs of Marius Petipa, the great Franco-Russian choreogapher had nev...

A transcription of the original French text, with full English translation, of de Lauze's dance a...

Every so often there occurs a revolution in one or more of the arts that proves to be not only an...

'Religious Dances' is an account of the origins and history of religious dances and their signifi...

The first part of this manual, first published in 1725, discusses the performance of various step...

This is the book of reminiscences of the Ballets Russes which Mr Beaumont, as the best qualified ...

Herman Finck (1872 - 1939) was a celebrated musical theatre conductor of the early 20th century, ...

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi, born in 1877, was a French multilingual musician, musicologist, writ...

The dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre's 'Letters on dancing and ballets' were first p...

Eric Coates, Haydn Wood, Albert Ketèlbey, Alfred Reynolds, Hubert Bath, Billy Mayerl, Richard Add...

A facsimile reprint of the second edition published in Paris, 1780.Malpied's instructional manual...

'Alphabet of Classical Dance' sets out in detail the classes taught in their first three years of...

The Code of Terpsichore

In 1922 the dance historian Cyril Beaumont contributed to the Dancing Times an article on the his...

Tamara Karsavina, premiere danseuse with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, was one of the greatest danc...

Talks about the art of character dancing in classical ballet. This book deals with class characte...

This work surveys a wide spread of old rites, practised during initiations, puberty, marriages, b...

Enrico Cecchettiwas an Italian dancer and choreographer and one of the greatest teachers in the h...

Laban's The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepte...

Drawn partly from the scattered remnants of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and partly from extraordin...

A visionary, a mystic, a lover, a leader, a dancer, an artist, a teacher, a theorist.Rudolf Laban...

The Diaghilev Ballet existed from 1909 to 1929; and from its beginningto its end Serge Grigoriev ...

The name of Jean Georges Noverre stands forth in bold relief agains the background of the history...

This was the first manual to be published in France,here in the version translated into English b...

The Russian dancer and teacher Vladimir Stepanov (1866 - 1896) developed a system of human moveme...

Tiberio Fiorilli, also known as Scaramouche, (November 9, 1608 - December 7, 1694) was an Italian...

This classic book is the definitive work on one of ballet's greatest and most popular works, Swan...

A facsimile reproduction of Giambatista Dufort's manual, published in Naples in 1728, with text e...

The career of Vaslav Nijinsky, genius of the dance, is endlessly fascinating. Anatole Bourman ent...