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Snake Hips
Chicago Review Press 2004; US$ 11.95This hilariously uplifting memoir follows an Arab American woman?s merry life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Feeling lost and heartbroken, Anne Thomas Soffee moves back home to Richmond, Virginia. Against the wishes of her extended family and friends,... more...
The Joffrey Ballet School's Book of Ballet-Fit
St. Martin's Press 1999; US$ 7.99The world-renowned Joffrey Ballet School makes the art and joy of ballet available to everyone. Let Dena Simone Moss and Allison Kyle Leopold teach you everything you need to know to get in shape, beautifully sculpt your body, and truly appreciate the art of ballet. They'll let you in on all their secrets, including: -A demystifying explanation... more...
A Whole Load of Front
New Holland Publishers (Australia) 2011; US$ 9.99Its hard to miss Maria Venuti when shes dressed to thrill for a show, a day at the races or a charity event. Always larger than life, she has occasionally outraged, sometimes shocked and frequently delighted those whose lives she has touched and inspired by her boundless energy. But Maria is not just a curvaceous bella donna... more...
Nureyev
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 22.00Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor, Tatar-peasant background to the most sophisticated... more...
Mao's Last Dancer
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableRaised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in search of young peasants to study ballet at the academy in Beijing and he was thrust into a completely... more...
Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 79.00Nye presents a detailed and fascinating study of the influential eighteenth-century European theatrical form, the 'ballet d'action'. more...
The Ballet Companion
Touchstone 2005; Not AvailableA New Classic for Today's Dancer The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs,... more...
Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home
Algonquin Books 2010; US$ 13.95Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair, take risks, and sort out what it is you really want. As Maria's world begins to... more...
The Ballet Companion
Touchstone 2005; Not AvailableA New Classic for Today's Dancer The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs,... more...
Hip Hop Dance
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 37.00This guide provides an overview of the history of hip hop culture and an exploration of its dance style, appropriate both for student research projects and general interest reading. more...









