Performing Arts

 Dancer Robert Barnett trained under legendary choreographer Bronislava Nijinska. His professional ballet career was launched when he joined the Colonel de Basil Original Ballet Russe company. In the late 1940s, when George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed the New York City Ballet, Barnett...

The Horowitz System shows how to turn an idea into the first draft of a screenplay in 10 weeks or less - 80 percent of students who have used the method have completed original, well-structured scripts, many of which have gone on to win...

Luc Waldon always figured he knew what his passion was: football. He lives it, he breathes it--and he thinks he has what it takes to go all the way to the NFL. So when his football coach orders him to sign up for contemporary-dance...

High Plains Book Award -- Finalist, Young Adult - MYRCA Northern Lights Award -- Shortlisted - SYRCA Snow Willow Award -- ShortlistedAn aspiring teenage DJ must learn how to navigate life when people find out that she's the daughter of a famous singer. Fifteen-year-old...

'See that's the problem with this family innit, we never wanna talk real about Ife.' In the wake of the sudden death of their eldest son, Ife, one family is forced to confront the traumas they've long tried to bury. As the sun beats...

Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a multi-award-winning black gay theatre- and film-maker. A tireless mentor of minority/global majority and socially-outsider writers and performers, he's been struck by the lack of pieces reflecting different backgrounds suitable for performing at auditions by increasingly defiant generations of bold...

A true magician never reveals their secrets or takes "you can't" as an answer. Fourteen-year-old Kylie really wants to be a part of the magician's showcase. The problem is, the director has already decided that, because she's a girl, Kylie would be better off...

Pete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for...

See below for English description.Pat adore danser. Alors qu'il se dandine, Gaston, le crapaud bougon, se moque de lui. Pat, vexé, demande à ses amis de lui apprendre à danser, mais il ne réussit pas à reproduire leurs mouvements. Peu importe, il décide d'avoir...

Katy Duck meets a new friend AND learns a new dance in this encouraging tale for beginning readers. Tip-top-tap Tip-top-tap There's a new student in Mr. Tutu's dance class When dancing diva Katy Duck meets Alice, she thinks Alice has forgotten her ballet slippers...

This gripping and chillingly realistic novel from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper shows that all it takes is one bad decision for everything to change. Diamond knows not to get into a car with a stranger. But what if the stranger is...

There's something strange going on at the city zoo. During the day, people come to watch the animals play at the City Zoo. Elephants trumpet, hippos bathe, monkeys climb, and snakes slither. but once the zoo closes and the sun goes down, something magical...

Four-time Academy Award recipient Clint Eastwood is one of the most renowned film directors in the world. This authorized volume offers a revealing in-depth exploration of his influential filmmaking methods, comprehensively illustrated with unit photography, key art, production design sketches, and film frames. Covering...

Lindsay Scott hit the big time at age five, when she became the star of the television show "Just Me and the Kids." It seemed like she was set for life--until she had a nervous breakdown when she was eleven, because Lindsay had suddenly...

'I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone's eyes. And so it was discovered why I'd thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our local pond and walked into lamp posts...

This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.​​​​​​​It provides: The fundamentals of comedy History of comedy Specific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughter Examples of how those techniques have...

"Variety" is the perfect word to describe this book of 102 fresh monologues rarely before used in competitions or auditions, loaded with a broad assortment of choices in every aspect of this book: Tone: encompassing comedic to seriocomic to intensely dramatic Time period: ranging...

Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian's De Parasito, Nietzsche's "the vengeance of the weak," Dostoyevsky's "Underground," or Marxism, among others.Author: Thorsten Botz-BornsteinPublisher:...

This book examines the process of transnationalization of Latin American television industries. Drawing upon six representative case studies spanning the subcontinent's vast and diverse geo-political and cultural landscape, the book offers a unique exploration of the ongoing formation of interrelated cultural, technological, and political...

Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings. The contributors to this fascinating volume...