Dancers Memoir

The Maryhill Museum of Art is located on 5,300 acres in the Columbia River Gorge. Miles from any sizeable town and surrounded by the gorge's spectacular scenery, Maryhill is an internationally recognized - and undeniably eclectic - repository of art that ranges from one of the nation's best Rodin collections to one of the world's largest assemblage of chess sets. Dancer, Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania is the story of the four widely disparate people whose lives intertwined in such a way as to lay the foundation for the museum.

At the touch of emotion, A Dance with Destiny becomes one of the greatest timeless biographical novel. Real or not real? Real, this incredible story is true, and its dramatic twists and turns go far beyond anything we could imagine. For those who are in love with soul, there is no such thing as separation. The Second World War-story of the passionate and tragic affair between Betty Bjurström, the beautiful, famous dancer, and Renato Senise, film producer and Allied Intelligence agent, has taken on an almost mythical dimension.

Сергей Лифарь, прославленный танцовщик, балетмейстер, премьер Парижской Оперы, много лет возглавлявший балетную труппу "Гранд-Опера", ближайший друг легендарного основателя Русского балета Сергея Дягилева, написал две книги воспоминаний о нем. Впервые книга Сержа Лифаря о Дягилеве была издана в Париже в 1939 году на русском языке в количестве 615 экземпляров, и сразу стала библиографической редкостью.

This is Holland's Got Talent juror Dan Karaty's devastating, moving, and painfully honest account of his life before, during, and after rehab. Choreographer Dan Karaty is living the life: he is traveling around the world partying, garnering attention, and making money. When he joins the jury of So You Think You Can Dance and Holland's Got Talent the Dutch audience falls for the charms of this smiling American. But behind his smile, Dan is hiding a big secret. He's an alcoholic. The more successful Dan becomes, the more he drinks.

This book is about the personal odyssey of becoming a dancer, teacher, and educator. With a few biographical elements, it represents a lifelong reflection of transformations from the innate gift to the fulfillment as an artist with the focus on self-education. As an artist, I take on a cosmopolitan approach to art by dissolving stigmas, national identities, borders, and walls from my experiences of the Soviet Union in the Cold War Era, through Canadian immigration, Danish society, and finally the American emergence, all through the eyes of a ballet teacher and artist.

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. In Brotherhood in Rhythm, Constance Valis Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a rich, detailed history of jazz music and dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colorful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and their changing style.

Este Libro es una expresión de mi alma. Este libro es una extensión de mi alma, mi misión de vida, mi más grande pasión y felicidad que es bailar, porque ¡la vida es una danza! Desde muy pequeña, le pedí mucho al Universo que me mostrara mi camino, mi misión y propósito de estar aquí, quería dedicar mis días a algo que realmente llenara mi corazón, en donde pudiera evolucionar como ser humano, que me hiciera feliz y pudiera ayudar a otras personas.

Through her experiences in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Marianne Preger-Simon offers a rare account of exactly how Cunningham taught and interacted with his students. She describes the puzzled reactions of audiences to the novel non-narrative choreography of the company’s debut performances. She touches on Cunningham’s quicksilver temperament, lamenting his early frustrations with obscurity and the discomfort she suspects he endured in concealing his homosexuality and partnership with composer John Cageyet she celebrates above all his dependable charm, kindness, and engagement.

Norman Mathews was born in the wrong town, the wrong era, and with the wrong name. What’s a boy to do? He conjured up a more enticing, imaginary world to better navigate the perils of childhood. Dreams of a life in the theater and of passionate romance were stymied by lack of self-assurance.

When World War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versatile and influential dancer who got his start with Martha Graham, an icon of modern dance. His memoir is a rare firsthand view of the dance world in the 1940s and through the end of the twentieth century. One of the few male dancers in Graham’s company—and in the New York dance scene at the time—Hodes offers a unique perspective and a one-of-a-kind narrative.

羽生結弦は、いかにして唯一無二の存在となったのか。膨大な取材メモから紐解く、絶対王者の素顔――。

Balletdanser, skoleleder, førstedame, underviser, koreograf og instruktør. Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter er dedikeret til balletten. Hun har været tilknyttet Det Kongelige Teater i 66 år, og hun arbejder stadig. Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter fortæller i erindringsbogen På skrå brædder og bonede gulve til journalist Trine Munk-Petersen om sin opvækst i en teaterfamilie, om skiftende balletmestre, verdenskendte dansere, turneer, det daglige arbejde bag kulisserne og ikke mindst om Danmarks store koreograf, som hun gør alt for at holde levende: August Bournonville.

The Radio City Rockettes are as American as baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July. Their legendary synchronized leg kicks, precise lines, and megawatt smiles have charmed audiences for a century. But there is a hidden side to this illustrious national institution. Like Gelsey Kirkland’s iconic Dancing on My Grave, Becoming Spectacular allows us to walk in Jones’ tap shoes—beautiful and glittering, yet painful and binding. Bringing into focus the wounded life of a trailblazer, this searing memoir is also a triumphant celebration of a spirit who refused to be counted out.

Why we matter. Von Kindesbeinen an zieht es Ana Milva Gomes auf die Bühne. Mit außergewöhnlichem Talent, viel harter Arbeit und unbändigem Willen erkämpft sich die Tochter kapverdischer Immigranten erfolgreich Musical-Hauptrollen in »Mamma Mia!«, »Sister Act« oder »Cats«. Doch abseits des Scheinwerferlichts stößt die sympathische Künstlerin immer wieder an die Grenzen einer monochromen Gesellschaft.

Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; met Ella Fitzgerald and Groucho Marx; and learned the twist from Louis Armstrong. In September 2013, aged ninety-nine, Eileen returned to Australia. Now, at 108, she is still dancing.

Young dancer Nia Sioux was only nine years old when she stepped into stardom as one of the original cast members of Lifetime’s reality TV show Dance Moms. Training under the notorious Abby Lee Miller, Nia learned new choreography week after week, competed against dancers from across the country as well as at her own studio, and suffered through Abby’s ranking of the girls against each other in her infamous pyramid—all in front of an audience of millions. In this captivating memoir, Nia reclaims both the spotlight and her narrative.

세계적 안무가 리아 킴. 유튜브 조회 수 35억 건, 구독자 2천 만 명을 거느린 원밀리언 댄스 스튜디오, 그곳을 대표하는 리아 킴은 안무가로서 뿐만 아니라 비주얼 디렉터로서의 감각을 『Reality, No Reality』에서 유감없이 드러낸다. 그녀가 만들고 지금까지 성공적으로 이끌어 온 〈원밀리언 댄스 스튜디오〉는 2014년 자그마한 공간에서 다섯 명의 안무가로 시작했지만, 현재는 20여 명의 안무가가 활동하는 세계적 댄스 스튜디오이자 에이전시로 자리 잡았다. 백만 명의 사람들이 다 같이 함께 춤추기를 바라는 마음에서 이름 지은 〈원밀리언1MILLION〉은 이미 유튜브 채널 구독자 수가 2천만 명에 달하니, 처음부터 〈원빌리언〉으로 지어야 했는지도 모른다. 〈함께 춤을 출 때 인생은 아름답다〉는 리아 킴의 말처럼 이 책은 그녀의 오랜 팬부터 이제 막 원밀리언의 유튜브를 보면서 하나씩 동작을 따라 하기 시작한 초보 댄서들까지, 춤을 좋아하는 사람이라면 모두에게 특별한 선물이 될 것이다.

Marie Empress was an English singer, dancer, male impersonator, and comedienne who performed in vaudeville and theater around the world at the turn of the 20th century. She achieved her greatest success as an actress in early American motion pictures, circa 1910-1917, and was known as "the sublime vampire woman." She was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, and for a short period, her star was very bright. But her life, like her sudden appearance on the world stage in 1910, and her disappearance less than a decade later, is cloaked in mystery.

Musical director and arranger David Loud, a legendary Broadway talent, recounts his wildly entertaining and deeply poignant trek through the wilderness of his childhood and the edge-of-your-seat drama of a career on, in, under, and around Broadway for decades. He reveals his struggle against the ravages of Parkinson's and triumphs repeatedly. This memoir is also a remarkable love letter to music. Loud is the Ted Lasso of the theater business, ever the optimist!

Ein leidenschaftlicher Kampf um Selbstbehauptung. Als Marie von der renommierten Berliner Ballettschule angenommen wird, ist sie überglücklich; das Sportinternat gilt als Kaderschmiede für junge Talente und auch sie strebt eine tänzerische Laufbahn an. Doch der Alltag ist ganz anders als erhofft und die Lehrer gängeln ihre Schützlinge von früh bis spät, insbesondere das Gewicht ist ein brisantes Dauerthema. Marie steht den gnadenlosen Drill bis zum Abschluss durch, droht aber schließlich an dem Erlebten zu zerbrechen. Will sie das vermeiden, muss sie für sich einstehen.