Wrights Wrongs My Life In Dance
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Wrights Wrongs
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Author : Peter Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23
Wrights Wrongs written by Peter Wright and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years. In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television. Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He has worked with such greats as Pina Bausch, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun, Monica mason, Karen Kain, Miyako Yoshida and Carlos Acosta - as well as today's generation of starts including Alina Cajocaru, Marianela Nunez, Natalia Osipova and Lauren Cuthbertson. While now regarded as part of the British ballet establishment, for many years Peter developed his career outside London, particularly in Germany with John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet. That distance gives him a unique and unrivalled view on ballet companies. His close association with choreographers Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan and David Bintley gives Peter an authoritative perspective on British ballet. Wrights and Wrongs includes black-and-white photographs from Wright's career, and as Exeunt magazine comments: 'Anyone with an interest in British ballet will find plenty to occupy them in Wright's book... the many dramas and delights of his life in dance spring forth from the page with brio.'
Leanne Benjamin Built For Ballet
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Author : Leanne Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Release Date : 2021-12-10
Leanne Benjamin Built For Ballet written by Leanne Benjamin and has been published by Melbourne Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the world’s most important ballet dancers of the past 50 years. Leanne was born and raised in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton in a tightly knit hard-working Catholic family. At the age of 3 she attended her first ballet class and at 16 she was accepted into the Royal Ballet School in London and at 18 danced her first leading role on the Royal Opera House stage in the school’s performance of Giselle that catapulted her to a stellar career. The book takes you behind the scenes to find a real understanding of the pleasure and the pain, the demands and the intense commitment it requires to become a ballet dancer. It’s a book for ballet-lovers which will explain from Benjamin’s personal point of view, how ballet has changed and is changing. It’s a book of history: she was first taught by the people who created ballet in its modern form and now she works with the dancers of today, handing on all she has known and learnt. But it’s also a book for people who are just interested in the psychology of achievement, how you go from being a child in small town Rockhampton in the centre of Australia to being a power on the world’s biggest stages — and how an individual copes with the ups and downs of that kind of career. It’s a story full of big names and big personalities — Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta to name a few. President Clinton, Michelle Obama, Diana Princess of Wales and David Beckham all make an appearance. But it is also a book of small moments of insight: what makes a performance special, how you recover from injury, illness and childbirth; how you combine athletic and artistic prowess with motherhood, how a different partner can alter everything, what it’s like to fall over in front of thousands of people and what it’s like to triumph. Above all, it seeks to explain, in warm and human terms, why women get the reputation for being difficult in a world where being a good girl is too much prized. And what they can do about it.
Cranko
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Author : Ashley Killar
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Cranko written by Ashley Killar and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shortly after the New York Times had hailed John Cranko’s achievement as 'The German Ballet Miracle', his death mid-Atlantic deprived the world of one of its greatest choreographers. After leaving his native South Africa at eighteen, never to return, Cranko quickly became a resident choreographer with the Royal Ballet. He collaborated closely with luminaries such as Benjamin Britten and John Piper and encouraged the young Kenneth MacMillan. Tirelessly innovative, he devised a hit musical revue, Cranks as well as perennial favourites such as Pineapple Poll. His charm and wit endeared him to colleagues and royalty alike, but in the late 1950s his star began to wane. This, and a much-publicised scandal, drove Cranko to leave England for Germany. There, his work as director and choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet enjoyed phenomenal success in USA, Russia and Europe. Fifty years after his tragically early death, Cranko’s story ballets continue to enrich ballet audiences around the world. The author danced in the Stuttgart Ballet’s premieres of Cranko’s Onegin, Romeo and Juliet and many more. He reveals the man behind the masterpieces and explores an array of lesser-known works, bringing to light fascinating facts about the genesis of Cranko’s ballets. Lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, the book contains Cranko’s personal letters and extensive reference material. It brings the reader surprising insights into the life and work of a truly exceptional man of theatre.
Ghost Dance
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Author : Douglas Wright
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 2004
Ghost Dance written by Douglas Wright and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Choreographers categories.
This is an unconventional memoir, beautifully written with an unexpected touch that will surprise and even delight the reader. Douglas Wright was one of the pioneers of contemporary dance in NZ and can now be revealed to be a superb writer as well. In this book he writes about growing up gay in a provincial New Zealand community becoming a dancer (he didn't start until he was 19) and moving from ballet to contemporary dance working in New York with the famous Paul Taylor Dance Company and becoming one of its stars gay relationships across the international arts scene performing with the Limbs company in Auckland drug and alcohol abuse and periods of ugly personal decline contracting HIV-AIDS a long-time close relationship with Janet Frame (the chapter on Frame is extraordinary, as good as anything from Michael King) searching for inspiration in his spiritual life (there's a fascinating account of going on a ten-day meditation retreat where the rule is total silence for the duration).
Overcoming Obstacles In The South
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Author : Ed Graves
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2020-07-08
Overcoming Obstacles In The South written by Ed Graves and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Overcoming Obstacles in the South is a purpose-driven collection of thoughts and actions of the persevering spirit of the author. The book contains vivid expressions of disappointments, failures, successes, and happiness on the road to finding fulfillment. It was written in autobiographical form, capturing many chances one must take, wall to penetrate or go around, and most of all, never, never quit or give up, something that will haunt you throughout eternity. Success is always around the eleventh corner...
The Fables Of La Fontaine Translated From The French By E Wright Junr
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Author : Jean de LA FONTAINE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
The Fables Of La Fontaine Translated From The French By E Wright Junr written by Jean de LA FONTAINE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with categories.
The Fables Of La Fontaine Tr In Verse By E Wright
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
The Fables Of La Fontaine Tr In Verse By E Wright written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with categories.
Mississippi Poets
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Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Mississippi Poets written by Catharine Savage Brosman and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide showcases forty-seven poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today’s culture. In Mississippi, the importance of poetry can no longer be doubted. It partakes, as Faulkner wrote, of the broad aim of all literature: “to uplift man’s heart.” In Mississippi Poets, author Catharine Savage Brosman introduces readers to the poets themselves, stressing their versatility and diversity. She describes their subject matter and forms, their books, and particularly representative or striking poems. Of broad interest and easy to consult, this book is both a source of information and a showcase. It highlights the organic connection between poetry by Mississippians and the indigenous music genres of the region, blues and jazz. No other state has produced such abundant and impressive poetry connected to these essential American forms. Brosman profiles and assesses poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grounds for selection include connections between the poets and the state; the excellence and abundance of their work; its critical reception; and both local and national standing. Natives of Mississippi and others who have resided here draw equal consideration. As C. Liegh McInnis observed, “You do not have to be born in Mississippi to be a Mississippi writer. . . . If what happens in Mississippi has an immediate and definite effect on your work, you are a Mississippi writer.”
Catalog Of Copyright Entries
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Catalog Of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Copyright categories.
Dance Canada
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Dance Canada written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Dance categories.