Martha Graham Dance Company: 100 Years – a photographic celebration by NYC Dance Project
NYC Dance Project’s Ken Browar and Deborah Ory have created a luxuriously illustrated book of 200 photos to celebrate the Martha Graham Dance Company at 100.
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Books: Amici della Scala celebrates Italy’s theatre designers – Luciano Damiani, Anna Anni, Gabriella Pescucci, Franca Squarciapino, Luisa Spinatelli
Amici della Scala has published an annual collection of books on La Scala’s designers for more than 20 years. The new collection features Luciano Damiani and others.
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Review: the autobiography of Anna Maria Prina, director of La Scala Ballet School for more than three decades
Anna Maria Prina’s autobiography provides a fascinating insight into La Scala’s history, with juicy titbits, opinions and copious information.
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The lonely father – Jonathan Gray reviews a new biography of the choreographer John Cranko
It is written with love for John Cranko but does not shy away from noting his insecurities, nor from stating that not all his ballets were works of genius.
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Acosta Danza: Fusion – a new glossy dance book
A new illustrated dance book, Acosta Danza: Fusion, has just been released in the UK and soon will be available in the US and elsewhere.
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[Interview] Tears of a Ballet Mum – Sabine Naghdi on her ballerina daughter, Yasmine
Interview with Sabine Naghdi and her ballerina daughter Yasmine Naghdi, The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer on the new book Tears of a Ballet Mum.
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Dancing Words – Roberto Bolle talks about his new book
Roberto Bolle’s new book ‘Parole che danzano’ (Dancing Words) has many photos but many words too with his reflections and opinions about dance.
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The new Royal Opera House Pocket Photobook
The Royal Opera House is one of the world’s leading performing arts venues, so there is naturally much interest in the production of the performances. The new Pocket Photo Book from Thames & Hudson has 120 photographs by the landscape photographer Harry Cory Wright “that capture the charm and the splendour of this London landmark”.
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Amici della Scala celebrates Carla Fracci’s 80th birthday and Anna Crespi’s latest book
The indefatigable Anna Crespi, founder of the Amici della Scala association (Friends of La Scala), organised a party to celebrate Carla Fracci‘s 80th birthday at the organisation’s beautiful base which is in a tranquil, leafy street, just off via Montenapoleone. A magical space which, though in the heart of the city and near to the…
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Carlos Acosta at The Royal Ballet: celebrating 17 years
Carlos Acosta at The Royal Ballet is a new book to celebrate Carlos Acosta’s 17 year career with The Royal Ballet from 1998 – 2015. The book, which captures some of his greatest performances as well as intimate behind-the-scenes moments, is published by Oberon Books and will be released in November 2015. It contains over 150 images…
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Roberto Bolle celebrates his 40th birthday with a tour and book
Today Roberto Bolle turns forty, and he has announced both his summer Bolle and Friends tour and the publication of a new book. The 2015 tour will see the Bolle caravan arrive in Los Angeles at the Music Center, then Italian dates will follow at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Verona Arena, the Grand Theatre in Pompeii,…
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Call Me Debbie: the Down-to-Earth Diva Deborah Voigt tells all
In January next year, Deborah Voigt‘s “strikingly honest memoir” will be published by HarperCollins entitled Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva. The press release announces that she recounts “with characteristic candor, charisma, and wit – her harrowing and ultimately successful private battles to overcome the addictions and self-destructive tendencies that nearly cut short her life”….
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Carla Fracci’s autobiography: Step After Step
Based on a long series of conversations with Enrico Rotelli, Passo dopo passo (Step After Step) is Carla Fracci telling her story in her own words. From a simple childhood during the war to the triumphs with the American Ballet Theatre and beyond: it is a fascinating journey. Rotelli has divided the autobiography into short…
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Leonard Slatkin explains the Conducting Business
Leonard Slatkin’s gloriously entertaining and informative book, Conducting Business, is subtitled Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro, and that is exactly what his book does, with wit, acute observation, and the knack of evocatively conveying the inside story. Although partly autobiographical, it is also part manual – a conductor’s survival guide – and doesn’t follow…
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Mikhail Baryshnikov helps achieve the dream of Russian poet Josef Brodsky
Nobel prize-winning poet Josef Brodsky and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov were good friends. Really good friends. Brodsky hated calling Baryshnikov ‘Mikhail’ or ‘Misha’ so he called him ‘Mysh’: mouse! He called himself Josef the Cat, adding in a little miaow afterwards This is how the pair always referred to each each. They met in 1974 in New York where the twenty-year-old…
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The Man I Love – was George Gershwin gay?
Michael Feinstein’s book on the Gershwins called, sensibly, “The Gershwins and Me” (Simon & Schuster) was published in October. While he was still working in piano bars, Feinstein got to know Ira Gershwin intimately, cataloguing his collection of records, unpublished sheet music and rare recordings in the Gershwin home over a period of six years….
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Carlos Acosta’s (untitled) first novel to be published by Bloomsbury
Carlos Acosta has written a novel, set in Cuba, and includes a section set duing the 1950s revolution. It will be published by Bloomsbury in 2013. Bill Swainson, senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury, described Acosta’s fiction debut as “a bold, earthy and imaginative novel, packed with wonderful characters and the sights, sounds and smells of the…
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Dexter author concerned that people think his creation is ‘nice’
Jeff Lindsay, creator of serial killer Dexter, talking at Marseille’s Semaine Noire book festival, said, Some believe that Dexter cares about justice. Dexter doesn’t care about justice, he cares about killing. He’s attractive because he’s dangerous. It’s a mistake to think that Dexter is nice. He’s not nice – people romanticise him. He’s a serial…
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Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano wins courage award
Italian author Roberto Saviano, who has been in hiding since writing an expose about the Naples mafia, has won the Pen/Pinter International writer of courage award. His 2006 book Gomorrah explores the vast reach and corruption of the Camorra. Saviano, 32, has lived under constant police protection since death threats were issued against him by the mafia…
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Maurice Sendak: Being gay in the old days was hard, being gay later was weird.
Maurice Sendak, creator of Where the Wild Things Are, which has sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide, is 83 and walks with a stick (“It’s for hitting people”). Sendak has not published a book that he has written and illustrated in 30 years, but this week BumbleArdy is published – the story of a pig whose parents are…
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The Royal Ballet’s Deborah Bull: ‘ There is no reason for any of us to be missing lunch’
On the publication of Deborah Bull‘s new book The Everyday Dancer she talked to The Observer’s Kate Kellaway. Here are some of her words: On family It was a singing and dancing family… My mum was the principal boy and dad was the dame in all the pantomimes.” On ambition It was never: I want to be…
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The Telegraph’s Harry Mount on Alan Hollinghurst’s “shocking” omission from the Man Booker Prize shortlist
It’s not just because Hollinghurst was the favourite that his failure to make the shortlist is so shocking. He is the finest British novelist of his era, and his production rate is relatively low – opportunities for making the shortlist are infrequent. His last book, The Line of Beauty, came out in 2004. That did…
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David Hare wins Pinter literary prize
Playwright Sir David Hare has been awarded this year’s Pen/Pinter Prize, it has been announced. The award, set up by the writers’ charity Pen in memory of playwright Harold Pinter, is given to a British writer who casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world. Pinter’s widow, Lady Antonia Fraser, said Sir David was a “worthy…
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The signature on Oriana Fallaci’s will disputed
The signature on Oriana Fallaci’s will is a forgery, the late writer’s sister has said, thrusting a family feud into the courts. The Florence Prosecutor’s office this week began investigating Paola Fallaci’s accusations which cast doubt on the legitimacy of the current heir to the estate, Edoardo Perazzi, Poala’s son and Oriana’s nephew. Paola’s dispute with…
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Cecil Beaton celebrated in a new volume from the Amici della Scala
The Amici della Scala have added another 4 volumes to their collection of illustrated mini-books on the Teatro alla Scala and its collaborators. The complete collection now numbers 36 titles. Vittoria Crespi Morbio has kept her habitual critcal eye on these latest volumes producing four gems: Alessandro Sanquirino, the set designer active during the Napoleonic yhears who…
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So Emily Bronte didn’t have **** in mind after all? Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum replies…
The BBC’s new version of Wuthering Heights for the radio has got everyone talking. Something of a first for a radio transmission. Apart from notable exception such as the havoc caused by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, radio usually stays happily in its niche. But, as already mentioned on this blog, this is the “swearing” version….
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“I Was a Dancer” – Jacques d’Amboise’s new autobiography – is exuberantly dishy, yet unkind to no one.
The Wall Street Journal finishes its rave review of d’Amboise’s recollections with these words: One of Mr. d’Amboise’s nicknames in the company was “Daisy,” because he was “always optimistic and sunny.” Another was “Georgette,” because the dancers often called each other by their mother’s names… Dance was good to Daisy and he’s returned the favor…
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Apollo’s Angels, the new book on ballet has got everyone talking
Jennifer Homans is a historian and critic who was also a professional dancer: She brings to Apollo’s Angels a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. She traces the evolution of technique, choreography, and performance in clean, clear prose, drawing readers into the intricacies of the art with vivid descriptions of dances and the artists who…
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