A Life Well Danced Maria Zybinas Russian Heritage Her Legacy Of Classical Ballet And Character Dance Across Europe

Author : Jane Gall Spooner
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 180313402X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life Well Danced: Maria Zybina’s Russian Heritage Her Legacy of Classical Ballet and Character Dance Across Europe written by Jane Gall Spooner and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationships between dancers and their teachers, and classical ballet pedagogy through the life of Maria Zybina. It was inspired by the author’s direct connection through Zybina and her teachers.

Author : Jane Gall Spooner
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803134828
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life Well Danced: Maria Zybina’s Russian Heritage Her Legacy of Classical Ballet and Character Dance Across Europe written by Jane Gall Spooner and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively little has been written about how ballet teachers become teachers themselves and how each generation passes on its experience to the next. The teacher-dancer relationship within the context of the Russian classical tradition is a theme of “A Life Well Danced”. It is presented through the lens of a young girl who lived through emigration and displacement at the time of the Russian Revolution, who experienced this again as an adult after the Second World War and who went on to establish a successful career as a teacher, examiner and choreographer. The book also touches on the teaching and performing of European character dance which is also an under-appreciated field. “A Life Well Danced” was inspired by the author’s direct connection through Zybina and her teachers, Nicolai Legat in London, Evgenia Eduardova in Berlin and Elena Poliakova in Belgrade, to the flowering of Russian classical ballet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Marius Petipa was choreographing works such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. An interview with Zybina provides the framework for material in memoirs and first-hand accounts that are drawn upon for their lively descriptions of the Imperial Theatre School and the Mariinsky ballet company in St. Petersburg. Born in Moscow, Zybina and her family fled to Europe at the time of the Russian Revolution. Her first marriage to an English diplomat took her to Belgrade and a career as a dancer and ballet mistress in Yugoslavia. The Second World War saw her still in Yugoslavia with her second husband when they and a number of close friends worked in intelligence on behalf of the Allies. A strange twist of events, brought them to England where Zybina established her ballet school and became an examiner for the Federation of Russian Classical Ballet and the Society of Russian Style Ballet Schools.

Author : Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319767918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Olympian and Paralympian Events written by Linda K. Fuller and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women’s sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative to the International Olympic Committee, then introduces the underlying Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis theory used throughout the book’s analysis before delving into a literature review of female Olympians and Paralympians’ events. It includes a listing of noteworthy “firsts” in the field, followed by individual discussions of twenty-eight Summer and seven Winter events, analyzed according to their historical, rhetorical, and popular cultural representations. Women’s unique role(s) in the various events are discussed, particular athletes and Paralympic events are highlighted, and original tables are also included. At the end of each section, affiliated organizations and resources are included in this invaluable referential volume.

Author : Simon Rofe
Publisher : Key Studies in Diplomacy
ISBN 13 : 9781526143709
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Diplomacy written by Simon Rofe and published by Key Studies in Diplomacy. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.

Author : Missy Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101984929
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relentless Spirit written by Missy Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-time Olympic Gold medalist and her parents trace the inspirational story of how she became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, achievements that were accomplished by doing things their own way and making the right choices for their family. --Publisher's description.

Author : Amanda Beard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451644388
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Water They Can't See You Cry written by Amanda Beard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A seven-time Olympic medalist describes her battles with depression, eating disorders and substance abuse in spite of her successful career, recounting how she hid her struggles from her loved ones before seeking help and finding renewal in the birth of her son. 75,000 first printing."

Author : Dara Torres
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767931912
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Age Is Just a Number written by Dara Torres and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams. Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijing—including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the women’s 50-meter freestyle—America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results. Now, in Age Is Just a Number, Dara reveals how the dream of an Olympic comeback first came to her—when she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious training—while nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved father’s long battle with cancer. Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older athlete in a younger athletes’ game; about competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and finally—about seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all ages—and with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.

Author : Summer Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385334211
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champions are Raised, Not Born written by Summer Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanders offers parents the unique perspective of the child in guiding them through the agony and joy of raising a child with aspirations of greatness.