"... a slave or an old man was seized and carried off to the bush ... what there befell him nobody could tell, but it is certain that a few days later ...

Robert Cohan is part of the pantheon of American contemporary choreographers which includes Alvin Ailey and Paul Taylor. Like them he follows in the tradition ...

This classic book is the definitive work on one of ballet's greatest and most popular works, Swan Lake. The book is in two parts. The first describes ...

The name of Jean Georges Noverre stands forth in bold relief agains the background of the history of the art of ballet. His Lettres sur la Danse have been ...

John Foulds was born in Manchester in 1880. The son of a bassoonist in the Hallé Orchestra, he composed copiously from childhood. Initially an orchestral ...

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi, born in 1877, was a French multilingual musician, musicologist, writer and critic, who flourished in Paris during the first ...

Theodore Stier’s With Pavlova Round the World is one of the few first-hand accounts of what is was like to work with the great ballerina. Stier ...

Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and friend ...

When towards the end of the last century Rudolf Laban began to take an interest in all forms of dance, it was with an en­thusiastically searching mind ...