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    Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 27 min

    For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 8 min

    Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—the New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Just Different

    A Memoir

    by Wayne Sleep ...
    Narrated by Wayne Sleep ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    'This is a terrific and very entertaining book considering Wayne once told me that he had never read past page seven of any book.' David HockneyWayne Sleep has danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury and performed with Princess Diana, becoming her close friend.Behind the glitz and glamour, Wayne has always felt like an outsider. Sleep reveals the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wilhelm Tell

    Narrated by Georg Elmenhorst ...

    Unabridged

    14 min

    Die berühmteste Schweizer Freiheitsgeschichte, neu erzählt: In nur 12 Minuten entfaltet sich das Drama um Wilhelm Tell, den Apfelschuss und den Aufstand gegen die Tyrannei – packend, verständlich und ohne Umwege. Diese komprimierte Nacherzählung bringt Schillers Klassiker auf den Punkt: ideal für alle, die schnell in die Handlung eintauchen, den Stoff für Schule oder Studium wiederholen oder ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Der Ballettmeister: Erotische Novelle

    Series series LUST

    Unabridged

    31 min

    Heiß, verführerisch, aufwühlend:Für Balletttänzerin Anya bedeutet Tanz alles. Ihr Körper ist ein Instrument, das sie bis zur Perfektion meistert, und sie verliert nie die Kontrolle über sich selbst und ihren Körper. Bis sie eines heißen Sommers Bekanntschaft mit einem Ballettmeister aus New York macht, der sie vollkommen aus dem Gleichgewicht bringt... ... Read more

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    Bringing ballet to the townships of South Africa

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    A sprawling township outside of South Africa's biggest city of Johannesburg has become synonymous with a continued struggle nearly two decades after the end of apartheid. But while many cultural divides still remain, some black South Africans are now turning to ballet, once reserved for wealthy whites. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Martin Seemungal has the story. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    कथक योग : शालीना की नृत्यशाला

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    इस ऑडियोबुक को डिजिटल वॉइस में रिकॉर्ड किया गया है.िकर्त की मस्कराहट, हर्षोल्लास एव उमग में झमते नाचते पश-पर्ियों को देख कर हमारे पविजों ने नत्य को जन्म र्दया होगा। यह वह यग था जब मनष्य कदरत के बीच रहता था। जगल ही उनकी र्जदगी थी। आज हम भले ही उन्हें आर्दवासी या वनवासी कहें लेर्कन हम जो कछ भी हैं उन्हीं की के द्वारा स ्थार्पत मान्यताओ और र्वज्ञान के कारण है। आयािवति में चार ऋतओ का सगम धरती पर अनोखा ... Read more

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    Episode 4: Swan Lake

    Series Audiobook 4 - Opera and Ballet as Audio Drama with Music

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    "Swan Lake" tells the love story of Prince Siegfried and Odette, who has been transformed by the sorcerer Rothbart into the Swan Queen. Prince Siegfried comes of age and celebrates his twenty-first birthday in the palace gardens. The next day he is expected to choose his future bride at the court ball. Near the castle, on the shores of Swan Lake, the swan maiden Odette emerges from the water in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Балет. История великого искусства в одной книге

    Series series Балет

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    Уникальное исследование балета в России от первых танцевальных традиций до современности. Используя архивные документы, автор Янина Гурова — балетовед, автор лекций и научных монографий по истории балета и музыки — воссоздает полную хронологию развития искусства, которым мы гордимся. Вы познакомитесь с зарождением балета в XVII—XVIII веках, узнаете о первых учителях и постановках, о Московском ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Serenade

    A Balanchine Story

    by Toni Bentley ...
    Narrated by Toni Bentley, Leslie Howard ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era."Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in love with ballet…. [A] delicate balance of personal ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Diaghilev's Empire

    How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

    Narrated by Rich Miller ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    Serge Diaghilev, the Russian impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, is often said to have invented modern ballet. An art critic and connoisseur, Diaghilev had no training in dance or choreography, but he had a dream of bringing Russian art, music, design, and expression to the West and a mission to drive a cultural and artistic revolution.Bringing together such legendary talents as Vaslav ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ecstasy of Being, The: Mythology and Dance

    Mythology and Dance

    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the book he was working on when he died.Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Ballerina Mindset

    How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence

    Narrated by Megan Fairchild ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    Learn how to thrive in intense, competitive environments with these secrets from one of America's premiere ballerinas--and get a sneak peek at what her life is really like.Ballet may look glamorous and effortless to audience members, but it requires grueling discipline. It's a competitive and physically and mentally demanding career that combines elite athleticism, artistry, and performance. Not ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dance Theatre of Harlem

    Narrated by Dion Graham, Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    From its modest beginnings in the 1960s in a Harlem church basement, to its meteoric rise to international fame, the Dance Theatre of Harlem ignited the world with one simple, still-revolutionary statement: All can do ballet. Into the 21st century, as the world, and the country, continue their historicalstruggles and triumphs, the story of this haven for dancers of all colors and backgrounds ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Balanchine Variations

    by Nancy Goldner ...
    Narrated by Celeste Lawson ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    Artistic profile of one of the 20th century's great choreographers. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descriptions of what the dancers actually do.Beginning with Apollo (1928), Balanchine's first extant work, and ending with one of his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    På skrå brædder og bonede gulve

    Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter. Erindringer

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    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, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bolshoi Confidential

    Secrets of the Russian Ballet--From the Rule of the Tsars to Today

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 4 min

    On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. The scandal, though shocking, is not an anomaly in the turbulent and tormented yet magnificent history of the Bolshoi. Renowned music historian Simon ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Don't Think, Dear

    On Loving and Leaving Ballet

    by Alice Robb ...
    Narrated by Alice Robb ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    An incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet.Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. But by age fifteen, she had to face the reality that she would never meet the impossibly high standards of the hyper-competitive ballet ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Kabale und Liebe

    Nacherzählt in 25 Minuten

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Schillers zeitloses Drama – kompakt, verständlich und fesselnd erzählt. In nur 25 Minuten entfaltet sich die tragische Liebesgeschichte zwischen Ferdinand und Luise, eingebettet in Intrigen, Machtspiele und gesellschaftliche Grenzen. Diese Nacherzählung führt klar durch alle zentralen Handlungsschritte, beleuchtet die wichtigsten Figuren und macht spürbar, wie unerbittlich politische Ränkespiele ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Ballet

    by Maja Plesner ...
    Narrated by Susanne Storm ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    Har du prøvet at gå til ballet?Mange børn drømmer om at danse ballet. Det er en fed måde at bruge kroppen på, og du bliver stærk. Men du skal kunne lide at stå på en scene og kunne huske mange ting: smile, ranke ryggen, strække fødderne, danse de rigtige trin, smile ...Lyt med, og bliv klogere på ballettens verden. Maja Plesner er uddannet journalist og arbejder til dagligt med kommunikation og ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Kleider machen Leute

    Spannend nacherzählt in 25 Minuten

    Series Audiobook 7 - Spannend nacherzählt

    Unabridged

    24 min

    Gottfried Kellers Novelle »Kleider machen Leute« erzählt von Schein und Sein, gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und der Macht des äußeren Anscheins. Diese Hörbuchfassung bringt die bekannte Geschichte kompakt, verständlich und lebendig in einer Laufzeit von 25 Minuten auf den Punkt. Im Mittelpunkt steht der mittellose Schneider Wenzel Strapinski, der aufgrund seiner eleganten Kleidung für einen ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Anna Pavlova

    Narrated by Cheri Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    Episodes from life and work of the great ballerina Anna Pavlova. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mary's Last Dance

    The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer

    by Mary Li ...
    Narrated by Taylor Owynns ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 32 min

    'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.'Mary Li (ne� McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin published his bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer - but that book told only half the story.Growing ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Schachnovelle

    Spannend nacherzählt in 25 Minuten

    Series Audiobook 8 - Spannend nacherzählt

    Unabridged

    26 min

    Stefan Zweigs »Schachnovelle« ist eine eindringliche Erzählung über Isolation, geistigen Widerstand und die zerstörerische Kraft des Denkens. Diese Hörbuchfassung erzählt die Handlung konzentriert, klar und spannungsvoll in nur 25 Minuten nach. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Begegnung zwischen dem weltberühmten Schachweltmeister Czentovic und einem geheimnisvollen Mitreisenden auf einem Ozeandampfer. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus