Joan M Lawson

The Principles of Classical Dance

The Story of Ballet

The Story of Ballet

The Teaching of Classical Ballet: Common Faults in Young Dancers and Their Training

Teaching Young Dancers: Muscular Co-Ordination in Classical Ballet

The Principles of Classical Dance

The Kay Ambrose Ballet Companion

A Ballet-Maker's Handbook: Sources, Vocabulary, Styles

Waking Up to Spirit: Twenty Stories of Transformation

This anthology is a living testament that shows, no matter what your circumstances, you can transform your life. In Waking Up to Spirit, twenty people share deeply intimate stories about their individual struggles and triumphs on their journeys to remarkable spiritual transformation. They changed li...

The Art of Pas De Deux

After a distinguished career as a dancer, Nicolai Serrebrenikov became one of the leading teachers at the Vaganova Choreographic School in St. Petersburg. In this major work on pas de deux, the students and teachers are taken step by step through the fundamentals of double work to the most complex e...

Beginning Ballet: From the Classroom to the Stage

Beginning Ballet is an essential first book for ballet students and their parents. The newly edited and revised edition provides a guide to technique, vocabulary and practice in class as well as to the costumes required for class and stage. Joan Lawson also offers invaluable advice to parents on how...

Character Dance

The art of character dancing in classical ballet is now almost lost, but when this unique book was first published in Russia in 1939 it still thrived. The authors, all brilliant character dancers themselves, were teachers at the Kirov Ballet and its school, and were establishing a five-year course i...

Ballet stories

Presents the stories of 14 traditional and modern works of ballet. Includes photographs of recent productions and historical notes about the music, choreography, and origins of the tales on which the ballets are based.

The principles of classical dance

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Teaching Young Dancers: Muscular Co-ordination in Classical Ballet

A guide for teachers in eliminating the common faults found among children studying classical dance, whether as amateurs or aspiring professionals. The author writes from long experience in teaching at the Royal Ballet School in London. She has made a prolonged study of the various methods of teachi...

Teaching of Classical Ballet: Common Faults in Young Dancers and Their Training

Beyond Stanislavsky takes the reader through a course in the new system, complete with exercises. Infused with the author's personal experience this is never a set of dry instructions, but a vital engagement with Stanislavsky's mature ideas on actor training.