#paperback #africanamericandancers #autobiography #ballerina #ballet #biography #dance #mistycopeland 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Life in motion an unlikely ballerina

#ballettextbook #dancehistory #dancearts #dance #ballet #performanceeducation this book has some bent covers but over all is in good condition.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present

A compelling and detailed "living history," this book chronicles dance through the writings of its greatest innovators.

Dance As a Theatre Art

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#Black #History #black #dance #racism #America #people #rights #activists #overcome #amazing #break #dancing

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A History Through Its People

Surveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing. Includes brief biographies of influential dancers and companies.

Black Dance in America

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#paperback #dance #dancemoms #dancestarz #scholastic

Arkansas

The Callback

Montana

Bunheads meets The Kicks in this third novel in this entertaining middle grade series from New York Times bestselling author, dancer, model, and actress Maddie Ziegler! Harper and her fellow Dance Starz are headed to New York City for the big national competition! Not only will they be up against their arch-rivals, the Belles, but Harper will also face off against her old dance team. Does Harper have what it takes to finally prove that she belongs on the big stage?

The Competition

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This is an autographed edition of The Audition by Maddie Ziegler. I’m a dancer and big fan of hers and this would be perfect for any other dancer out there too!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Autographed Edition

The Audition (Autographed Edition)

Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket had edge wear & marks / stains. actual book is in great condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

Black Tradition in American Dance

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Florida

The Stories, Music, and Magic of Classical Dance

Ballet dancers of all ages love the mesmerizing stories of the world's great ballets, and in this charmingly illustrated book plus music CD, younger readers will enjoy fun facts, dancing how-tos, some history behind the dances and compositions, plus profiles of famous ballerinas and dancers while listening to excerpts of classical music.

From Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Peter and the Wolf and Fancy Free, the twenty-five of the world's best-loved ballets are shared, accompanied by corresponding tracks on an enclosed CD. These stories bring ballet to life, inspiring readers to dance along to the music that has made them enduring classics.

Woven into these tales is a captivating, illustrated history of ballet, filled with information and profiles of the world's great dancers, choreographers, and composers. There are even instructions on ballet positions and the key moves that every dancer needs to know.

The musical selections included on the CD are keyed to specific points in the text, making the book uniquely interactive, educational, and fun.

A Child's Introduction to Ballet

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Gotta love a good cutthroat ballet ya #fiction #ballet #ya #dance #youngadult 

Pennsylvania

Vanessa has just enrolled in the world-renowned New York Ballet Academy-the same school from which her sister, Margaret, mysteriously disappeared.

Three years later, Vanessa follows in Margaret's footsteps to find out what happened to her. But when Vanessa lands the role most girls at NYBA would kill for, she ends up trapped in a sinister spiral of secrets that go beyond the dance world. Because someone-orsomething-wants to use Vanessa for more than her talent. Is she doomed to relive her sister's strange fate?

Riveting and sexy,Dance of Shadows is a psychological thriller you won't be able to resist.

Dance of Shadows

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Vintage How To Belly Dance with photographic illustrations.  Glue is a little dry on binding but all pages are intact.  #nonfiction #hobbies #paperback #vintage #bellydancing #exercise #middleeasternentertainment #dance

The Compleat Belly Dancer

#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #youngadultfiction #taherehmafi #contemporary #bipoc #dance smoke free home; new and never read but some shelf wear from the store

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice. It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments—even the physical violence—she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. But then she meets Ocean James. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. It terrifies her—they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds—and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down.

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

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Massachusetts

A compendium of stories about the magical world of dance includes selections by Louisa May Alcott, Joan Aiken, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Ure, Elizabeth Goudge, Oscar Wilde, and other noted authors. Original.

The Random House Book of Dance Stories

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New Jersey

Series Description:Ready, set, dance! Best friends CeCe Jones and Rocky Blue have just landed their dream roles as dancers on the hit show Shake It Up, Chicago! But when the cameras are turned off, CeCe and Rocky are faced with the pressures of fame, competition, and celebrity—not to mention the normal stresses of being a teenager. Full of the excitement, comedy, and entertainment that you've come to expect from Disney Channel, this series has become a certified hit! Title Description: Shake It Up #2: Bring It! Rocky and CeCe are psyched to show the world their latest moves at a dance marathon on Shake It Up, Chicago! But when CeCe's younger brother Flynn keeps them up late the night before the marathon, will the girls be too exhausted to participate? The excitement continues when Rocky and CeCe volunteer to choreograph the Little Cutie Queen Pageant!

Shake It up Bring It!

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#hardcover #art #photography #dance #phaidon

Dance 2wiceis a collection of unique photographic essays dedicated to contemporary dance, distilled from the pages of the celebrated interdisciplinary arts journal 2wice. The iconic images explore the dynamic dialogue between performance and photography, bringing together the top talent of some the world's most respected dancers, choreographers, and photographers. In these carefully conceived collaborations, the transitory art of such key contemporary dance figures as Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and Karole Armitage is captured vividly: the pages become the stage for beautifully conceived performances, intriguing ideas, and intimate portraits.

Founded in 1997, 2wicemagazine is a publication that evolved out of the magazine Dance Ink, now no longer published. The publication, edited by New York-based founder and arts patron Patsy Tarr and designed and co-edited by Pentagram designer Abbott Miller, has been honoured with numerous awards and was named 'Magazine of the Year' by the Society of Publication Designers. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, but the broad range of material brought together in its pages shares a focus on issues of the body: its movement, its fashions, and the representations we create of ourselves and others.

Dance 2wiceis the most cutting-edge and innovative artistic collaboration of its sort: it escapes all conventions of function and form to create a striking tour de force of intellectual, visual and physical energy.

Dance 2wice

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From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also invaluable aids. "More information available in one book than we have ever had before." -- Dance Magazine.

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

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Washington

What does it take to succeed when you're a teen with your life spread before you, waiting for you to claim it? Author Paddy Eger says, "Tenacity". Top national book reviewers agree. In the Spring Issue of YA ForeSight, ForeWord Reviews recommends "84 Ribbons" as one of five new Young Adult novels for teens up against steep challenges. DanceSpirit Magazine chooses '84 Ribbons' for it's "Pick of the Month" and features it in the up-coming April 2014 issue. Leia Menlove, reviewer for ForeWord Reviews wrote, "These titles remind us that youth isn't all puppy love and teen angst... This lifetime offers boundless opportunity for growth--even for greatness... For those young readers who are experiencing the inevitable rough patches, these titles serve as a reminder that many of the direst troubles can be surmountable or, at least, survivable." Eger believes it's tenacity that carries us through uncertainty at all ages. "We possess three types of tenacity: physical, mental and emotional. Each comes into play for everyone including my ballet dancer, Marta Selbryth." Eger powerfully steps into fiction writing with her debut novel, the first of three in the series, that follows Marta as she realizes her dream: to join a professional ballet company. "Marta¿s prepared for dancing," Eger says, "but not for the myriad of obstacles that begin as she steps off the bus in Billings, Montana in the late 1950s and into her new journey to adulthood. She's a typical teen, looking ahead with excitement, yet not fully grasping all that growing up has in store." Seventeen-year-old Marta Selbryth steps into womanhood and onto the stage. We feel the music swell as the moment arrives for Marta--and ballerinas everywhere. As Marta realizes her dream, life's challenges beyond the footlights are not at all what she anticipated. We walk beside her as she approaches each twist and turn in her new life. A compelling coming-of-age novel, this look inside the world of ballet offers both inspiration and heartbreak. How will she handle being on her own for the first time in a new town? Will she see success beyond the thrill of the music and lights, the costumes and applause? "Like these young dancers, new adults often face challenges and disappointments and are pushed to their limits as they strive for physical, mental and emotional tenacity," says Eger. "'84 Ribbons' presents a balance between the world of ballet and the everyday world that waits just beyond the spotlight."

84 Ribbons

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Letters to Follow

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#hardcover #fiction #romance #dance #blm #booktok

Instructions for Dancing 

Wisconsin

The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900-1955

"If you like tap dancing and tap dancers--this is your book."--Gene Kelly From the vaudeville era, through the Astaire-Rogers movies, to the intricate artistry of bebop, tap has dominated American dance with its rhythm, originality, and humor. This book collects the voices and memories of thirty of America's best-loved tap-dance stars and two hundred rare theater, film, and publicity photographs. Here Shirley Temple recalls her magical duo with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; Fayard Nicholas describes his days at Harlem's Cotton Club performing with Cab Calloway; Fred Kelly visits his and his brother Gene's Pittsburgh dance studio; Hermes Pan reminisces about his work with George Gershwin, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire; and, in a chapter new to this edition, Toy and Wing tell about their days as the world's leading Asian tap duo. Appended with the most comprehensive listing of tap acts, recordings, and films ever compiled-newly updated for this paperback edition-Tap! brings to life the legends of one of America's most cherished and enduring art forms. Foreword by Gregory Hines

Tap!

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Art, Music, Drama/Theater

The Basics and Beyond for Jazz Dance Students

In an accessible, easy-to-read style, this text provides students with well-illustrated descriptions of all basic jazz steps and movements, including valuable information on alignment, improvisation, injury prevention, nutrition and fitness, and history of jazz dance. Throughout the text, "Movement Tips" boxes help students with particularly challenging movements, and "Precaution" boxes help students utilize correct techniques to avoid injury.

Jump into Jazz

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Acclaimed for her insightful depiction of the magic and mystery in everyday life and relationships, Luanne Rice is one of today's most gifted novelists. Now the author of eight consecutive New York Times bestsellers delivers her most powerful book yet--the story of a man and woman forced to choose between the past that haunts them and the love that won't let them go.

Jane Porter left the apple orchards of rural Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, years ago, fleeing memories that could tear two families apart. Now she has been unexpectedly drawn home to her mother and only sister. Dylan Chadwick has come back, too, shedding the steely exterior he wore as a federal agent in order to follow in the footsteps of his apple-farming father and forget the life he once lived. Amid this landscape of loss and renewal, a haunting story of converging lives, small-town secrets--and the magical sway of unexpected miracles--unfolds. Deeply moving and richly told, Dance with Me explores emotional connections at their very core, with keen insights into the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers that will resonate long after the final page is turned.

Dance with Me

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#hardcover #youngadult #youngadultfiction #fiction #botm ##youngadult #ya #romance #dance #diversereads #melanininya #bipoc 
 

"After picking up a book from the library, Yvette--who has given up on love--gains the ability to see how other people's romantic relationships will end"--

Instructions for Dancing

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A Time To Dance

#hardcover #muslim #fiction #desi #dance #wedding #time

She's All That goes desi in this hilarious, affecting, and sweetly romantic comedy by the author of More Than Just a Pretty Face.



Arsalan has learned everything he knows from Nana, his 100-year-old great-grandfather. This includes the fact that when Nana dies, Arsalan will be completely alone in the world, except for his estranged and abusive father. So he turns to Beenish, the step-daughter of a prominent matchmaker, to find him a future life partner. Beenish's request in return? That Arsalan help her ruin her older sister's wedding with a spectacular dance she's been forbidden to perform.



Despite knowing as little about dancing as he does about girls, Arsalan wades into Beenish's chaotic world to discover friends and family he never expected. And though Arsalan's old-school manners and Beenish's take-no-prisoners attitude clash every minute, they find themselves getting closer and closer--literally. All that's left to realize is that the thing they both really want is each other, if only they can get in step.



At turns laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, and sincerely heartfelt, Sway With Me is a coming-of-age story for anyone trying to find their place in the world. 

Misty Copeland

Life in motion an unlikely ballerina

Selma Jeanne Cohen (Editor); Katy Matheson (Editor)

Dance As a Theatre Art

James Haskins

Black Dance in America

Maddie Ziegler

The Callback

Maddie Ziegler

The Competition

Maddie Ziegler

The Audition (Autographed Edition)

Richard A. Long

Black Tradition in American Dance

Meredith Hamilton (Illustrator); Laura Lee

A Child's Introduction to Ballet

Yelena Black

Dance of Shadows

Julie Russo Mishkin

The Compleat Belly Dancer

Tahereh Mafi

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

Robinson Publishing Staff; Felicity Trotman

The Random House Book of Dance Stories

Disney Book Group; Disney Storybook Art Team (Illustrator)

Shake It up Bring It!

2wice Arts 2wice Arts Foundation; Nancy Dalva; Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton (Editor)

Dance 2wice

Gail Grant

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

Paddy Eger

84 Ribbons

Paddy Eger

Letters to Follow

Nicola Yoon

Instructions for Dancing

Rusty Frank

Tap!

Minda Goodman Kraines; Esther Pryor

Jump into Jazz

Luanne Rice

Dance with Me

Nicola Yoon

Instructions for Dancing

Padma Venkatraman

A Time To Dance

Syed M. Masood

Sway with Me