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Being an Actor
When it was first published in 1984, this book exposed the pressures, rewards and insecurity of an actor’s life, and caused a storm of controversy for its forthright views on the shortcomings of contemporary directors. Ten years later, Simon Callow has provided a new and gloomy assessment of the state of British theatre today, with the decline of ensemble playing, a lack of training for young actors, “brochure theatre” where novelty replaces substance, and audiences who applaud the hydraulics of the stage machinery rather than the quality of the actor’s performace. It ends with a warning that without attention to the roots of the art of stagecraft, the tree of British theatre will surely die.Read more
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Bernard Manning: A Biography
The first biography of one of Britain s most controversial and contradictory comedians.Read more
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Book The Fucking Job!: A Guide for Actors
As the follow-up to his best-selling At Left Brain Turn Right and Alphabet Soup for Grown-Ups, Book The F*cking Job is fast becoming the how-to manual for working actors all over the world. To Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop, we created a variety colorful covers for the re-issue of Book The Fucking Job! Pick the color that fits your mood!For over 20 years, top Acting Coach Anthony Meindl has been demonstrating his unique approach to modern acting training to thousands of actors worldwide. The demands for today’s actors have changed and with it have emerged many new breakthroughs in understanding creativity.From science to the power of the moment; from consciousness and mindfulness meditation to the art of the “f*ck it,” Mr. Meindl describes how you can let go of your control of how you think a scene should be and instead let something much more powerful and creative happen for you. Discover the exciting possibilities that await you in your creative journey when you learn the science of surrender.Find answers to your questions about technique, the business, and life in Book The F*cking Job! A new guide for the next generation of artists.Read more
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Breaking and Entering: A Manual for the Working Actor: From Auditions to Agents to a Career
Philip Carlson was the first agent to sign Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Liev Schreiber, Claire Danes, Idris Elba, Kyra Sedgwick, Adrien Grenier and Paul Giamatti. He has represented Viola Davis, Kathy Bates, Brian Dennehy, and W.H. Macy among many and gifted others. He shares his practical trade secrets in this extraordinarily comprehensive guide on how to get into show business. Topics include: The Schools • The Business • Showcases • Casting Directors • Agents • Auditions • Which Coast? • Producers • Staying Real • Negotiating 101 • Where Do I Fit? • Movies • TV: Where the Real Money Is (These Days) • and more!His clients rave:
“He saw more in me than I saw in myself.” – Kyra Sedgwick
“A great and resonant canyon of thanks to Philip Carlson for his invaluable work with a generation of young talent – including me.” – Billy Crudup
“Philip Carlson is one of the wisest people on the subject of building a career that will last. Luck didn’t have him representing New York’s top character actors; wisdom, intelligence, patience and loyalty did. He was, and is, as good as it gets.” – Tim Blake Nelson
“Philip Carlson was my ‘Guide in shining armor!’ Smart, honest and hardworking, this book is his thinking and experience on a shelf.” – Idris Elba
“I was so fortunate to have found Philip when I did. I can’t imagine a better introduction to the world of acting and the business of getting there.” – Liev Schreiber
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Breaking Down Your Script: The Compact Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Actor (The Compact Guides)
This clear, concise and practical guide provides actors with a structured and effective method for breaking down and understanding a performance script. It offers a flexible approach that works with plays from any period or genre, with television and film scripts, and even when preparing for your audition.Inside, you’ll find the tools you need for every step of the process, from making sense of the whole script, to breaking it down scene by scene, through to detailed line-by-line analysis. There are strategies for exploring character arcs, objectives, beat shifts and subtext, as well as practical exercises and sample scenes from leading playwrights to help you put the concepts into action. Also included are worksheets you can use and reuse on all your future projects.
Wherever you are in your acting career, this book is your essential working companion – giving you a method for tackling any script, and providing the foundation to take your performances to the next level.
The Compact Guides are pocket-sized introductions for actors and theatremakers, each tackling a key topic in a clear and comprehensive way. Written by industry professionals with extensive hands-on experience of their subject, they provide you with maximum information in minimum time.
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Breaking into Acting For Dummies
Understand the business side of your showbiz career
We all know acting can be a glittering whirl of glamour—plush red carpets, simply divine outfits, huge sums of money, and oh, the parties! But what a lot of wannabe actors forget is that it takes a lot of practical work to get to the flashbulbs of your first premiere, and that the savviest actors put as much stress on the business side of the profession as they do on the show. Breaking Into Acting For Dummies demystifies the behind-the-curtain side of showbiz to help you understand how it really works, who the decision-makers are, what they’re looking for when they’re picking talent, and how to get them on your side. If you truly want to be the next Emma Stone or Leonardo DiCaprio, you’ll want to have a well-thumbed copy of this book alongside your pile of scripts.
Written by two friendly insiders, this guide takes you behind the scenes to help you map out your plan of attack, showing you how to open doors—and keep them open—and use your time wisely, so you’re not breaking a leg rushing from one random audition to another. You’ll understand how to flesh out your professional persona as thoroughly as a movie part, craft your resume as minutely as a script, and judge the angle of your headshots and webcam appearances as intimately as any director. Once you’ve mastered these skills, it’s time to go to market as your own publicity department, building your media and online presence until everyone who’s anyone knows exactly who you are.
- Understand different acting markets—from theater to commercials
- Network in-person and online
- Build your image via resumes, head shots, and webcam
- Keep a firm grip on the financial side
Whether you’re studying, a hopeful amateur, or have been treading the boards for a while, this is your breakthrough script for succeeding in the business of acting, and for learning how to play your ultimate role: yourself.
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British Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus (Cinema and Society)
Cinema was one of the Cold War’s most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured Cold War culture. Now in paperback, this timely book fills a significant gap in the international story by uncovering British cinema’s contribution to Cold War propaganda and to the development of a popular consensus on Cold War issues. Tony Shaw focuses on an age in which the ‘first Cold War’ dictated international (and to some extent domestic) politics. This era also marked the last phase of cinema’s dominance as a mass entertainment form in Britain. Shaw explores the relationship between film-makers, censors and Whitehall, within the context of the film industry’s economic imperatives and the British government’s anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda strategies. Drawing upon rich documentation, he demonstrates the degree of control exerted by the state over film output. Shaw analyses key films of the period, including High Treason, which put a British McCarthyism on celluloid; the fascinatingly ambiguous science fiction thriller The Quatermass Experiment; the dystopic The Damned, made by one of Hollywood’s blacklisted directors, Joseph Losey; and the CIA-funded, animated version of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”. The result is a deeply probing study of how Cold War issues were refracted through British films, compared with their imported American and East European counterparts, and how the British public received this ‘war propaganda’.Read more
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Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton’s career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles. This entralling biography follows him from his parents’ hotel in Scarborough to his climactic assumption of the role of King Lear in Statford at the end of his life. Along the way we meet a galaxy of Hollywood greats – from Korda, Hitchcock and Billy WIlder to Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. We also discover a hugely talented and complex man – a legend in his own lifetime who nonetheless counted himself a failure.Read more
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Choreography – craft and vision: Developing and Structuring Dance for Solo, Duet and Groups
SOFTCOVER SPECIAL Edition KDP
This book offers a comprehensive toolbox of approaches
to analysing and creating contemporary
choreography.Are you ready to deepen your understanding
of the world of dance and the creative
process of choreography?In this book about choreography you will learn
how to develop dance and performance.
In order for you to truly enjoy the process of
choreography, I will offer you tools to help you
enter into a creative flow.
Because ultimately, that’s what it’s all about:
getting into a free flowing joyful process with the
dancers and having plenty of fun along the way,
as you develop a solo, a duet or a group piece for
the stage or a film.You will learn how to expand your repertoire and
how to trigger in your dancers, identification and
connection with your theme.I will present various ways in which you can
develop and structure your work. Tools with
which you can introduce tension, multiple facets,
variety and powerful dynamics into your dances,
allowing a dramaturgy to emerge.You will receive over 120 exercises to inspire you
for your rehearsals or classes.
You can now preview the entire book online for
free or download a reading sample.
Take a look.
It will inspire you and your dancing and it will
improve your choreography.When it comes to choreography, many
dancers are initially lost.
Nevertheless, there are people who can’t
dance and still develop great pieces.
Maybe you’re a gifted mover, but that
doesn’t mean that your material works in one
piece.Even if your movements are great and
others admire you for how you dance, it can
happen very quickly that the sensation of your
skills wears off very quickly and your movements
seem arbitrary. Especially if you have transferred
them to a group. And you ask yourself in such a
moment: What am I doing wrong? My dancers
are great, my movement material is innovative,
but on stage it all seems interchangeable and it’s
just movement. And you think: This is all
pointless.No, that’s not it! It’s about how you deal
with everything. How you connect the dancers
with your ideas and with your material. How you
manage that the dancers make your visions and
your movements theirs. How to get them there
to identify with what moves you. But even that is
not enough.You need to know more about how
dramaturgy works in dance. How you build up an
arc of suspense and what that has to do with
space and rhythm. How to create interesting
contrasts and how to deal with music and
movement.This book covers all of that. You can open
it anywhere and get inspiration for the rehearsal
or class and expand your thought space. But you
can also focus on certain topics such as music
and movement. You can delve deeper into the
work of thematic development and structuring
of access development.In total there are 120 studies and
exercises that you do not have to do one to one.
You can use the exercises as a suggestion and
develop them further in order to get on with
your dancing and choreography.Read more
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Choreography Book: Wait, what was my next move? A book for creating dance routines for choreographers and students.
The choreography notebook has 103 pages. Room for 25 dance routines. Each routine has 4 pages dedicated to breaking down the music into counts, verses, and the chorus, logging class information, stage cues, lighting, costumes, notes and more.
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103 pages-room for 25 routines
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choreographers
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dance teachers
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dance captains
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dance coaches
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Zumba instructors
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dance fitness instructors
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student choreographers
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student teachers
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musical theater teachers
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studio gifts
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graduation gifts
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birthday gifts
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Christopher Walken A to Z: The Man – The Movies – The Legend
Is Christopher Walken from Mars? He must be. How else can you explain his incredible range of talents and experiences? He has worked as a lion tamer, he has danced in music videos for Madonna, Duran Duran, and Fatboy Slim, and he has appeared in 100+ films for some of Hollywood’s hottest directors, including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, and Tim Burton. He is the most popular guest host in the history of “Saturday Night Live”. He is the only actor to play a Bond villain and a Batman villain. He was handed his high school diploma by Gypsy Rose Lee. He was on a houseboat with Natalie Wood on the night she mysteriously drowned. He has appeared in some of the worst films of all time – everything from “Kangaroo Jack” to “Mousehunt to Gigli” – and yet his popularity never wanes.No wonder Christopher Walken has attracted an enormous cult following. Now his fans can learn about the wide world of Walken in Christopher Walken A to Z, the first-ever biography of the most fascinating man in show business, arranged in a fun, breezy A-to-Z format. With entries on everything from Actors Studio (the famous theatre workshop where Walken worked as a janitor) to zombie movies (one of his favourite movie genres), “Christopher Walken A to Z” is a trippy salute to the world’s most endearing and enduring celebrity.Read more
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Class Actor: My Autobiography
From his first notable role as a teenage actor alongside Ray Winstone in the cult film Scum, via the central character of Jimmy the mod in the mighty Quadrophenia, to the voice of Blur’s Parklife, Phil Daniels has built a solid reputation as one of Britain’s most talented and well-respected character actors. A graduate of the Anna Scher Theatre in the 1970s, Daniels has always stayed true to his working class roots, lending his roles a much-admired authenticity and integrity. With his distinctive voice, cheeky mistrust of authority figures and wicked sense of humour, Daniels remains a driven individualist committed to his craft.Daniels’ career covers a period that has seen unprecedented change in UK society, and Class Actor, his first ever autobiography, reads like a provocative popular culture history of the past 30 years. It charts his 1960s childhood in a rundown part of London’s King’s X, his passion for Chelsea FC, his coming of age during punk rock, his anger and disaffection throughout the Thatcher years – perfectly realised in highly acclaimed pieces such as Mike Leigh’s Meantime- through to his role as Kevin Wicks in EastEnders and his place in Britpop’s hall of fame. Class Actoris a lively and entertaining insight into the passions of a unique artist who remains driven to tell ‘ordinary’ people’s lives through drama.
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Commercial Dance: An Essential Guide
This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance, tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop, Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s, to today’s huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture.
Chapters including ‘Iconic Moments’ and ‘Main Movers’ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers, choreographers and creatives – including JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s choreographer), Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators), Rebbi Rosie (Rihanna’s dancer), Dean Lee (Janet Jackson’s choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINK’s choreographer) – this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts, not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history, copyright law, inclusivity and dance class culture as well as additional contributions from dance scholars enable this book to give credence to Commercial Dance as a legitimate academic area of study.
This is a complete and comprehensive textbook for all dance students at any level of study on college, university or conservatory courses.
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Commercial Dance: An Essential Guide
This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance, tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop, Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s, to today’s huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture.
Chapters including ‘Iconic Moments’ and ‘Main Movers’ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers, choreographers and creatives – including JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s choreographer), Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators), Rebbi Rosie (Rihanna’s dancer), Dean Lee (Janet Jackson’s choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINK’s choreographer) – this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts, not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history, copyright law, inclusivity and dance class culture as well as additional contributions from dance scholars enable this book to give credence to Commercial Dance as a legitimate academic area of study.
This is a complete and comprehensive textbook for all dance students at any level of study on college, university or conservatory courses.
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Confessions Of An Actor, A Lined Notebook: Funny Novelty Gift For Actors | Secret Santa, White Elephant, Christmas or Birthdays
Funny Parody Notebook for Actors
If you are looking for a funny gift for a friend or co-worker with a sense of humor, then this notebook will do the trick.
Ideal for colleagues or good mates, this lined notebook is sure to give them a laugh. And, it is also a really rather useful lined notebook for musings, jottings, journaling, and creative procrastination.Features include:
Size 5.5″x8.5″ / 14 x 21.5 cm (similar to A5)
140 lined pages
Good quality crisp white paper
Great for journaling or to-do lists
Appealing typographic cover design
Matt finish cover
A parody classic style book coverThis Notebook makes a great joke Secret Santa gift, stocking stuffer, or anytime gift for good friends.
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Confessions of an Actor: The Autobiography
Laurence Olivier was a true legend. No classical actor had ever been such a dazzling star. No star had been such a magnificent actor. In this marvellous autobiography Laurence Olivier tells his own story: his brilliant career as actor, director, film-maker and producer; his role as husband to three women including Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright; and his many friendships – with Sir Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward and Sir Winston Churchill, to name just a few. CONFESSIONS OF AN ACTOR is more than just a memoir. It is a deeply felt testament by one of the most astonishingly gifted artists of all time.Read more
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Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers: Male (NHB Good Audition Guides) (The Guide Audition Guides) (The Good Audition Guides)
Extremely useful and thorough… A collection of great value to students –Teaching Drama MagazineForty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
Whether you’re applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it’s likely you’ll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It’s vital to come up with something fresh that’s suited both to you in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer and to the specific purposes of the audition.
In this invaluable collection you’ll find forty speeches by leading contemporary playwrights including Annie Baker, Jez Butterworth, Nadia Fall, Ella Hickson, Arinzé Kene, Dawn King, Jessica Swale, Jack Thorne, Enda Walsh and Tom Wells, from plays that were premiered at many of the UK’s most famous and respected venues, including the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Manchester Royal Exchange, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre, Traverse Theatre, the Young Vic, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten things you need to know about the character, and then five ideas to help you perform the monologue.
This book also features a step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.
‘Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike’ Teaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition Guides
A NOTE ON THE TITLE
The use of the word ‘Male’ in the title of this monologue collection refers to the characters as originally written, and is not intended to suggest any restriction in terms of usage.
We encourage performers of all gender identities to explore and choose any monologue that they connect with as an individual, and not feel constrained by who it was originally written to be performed by.
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Contemporary Monologues for Young Actors: 54 High-Quality Monologues for Kids & Teens
Contemporary Monologues for Young Actors features 54 original monologues created specifically for actors and acting students ages 7-14 and for the teachers, directors and acting coaches who work with them.
These refreshing monologues encompass a broad range of circumstances and emotions perfect for young actors seeking new material to explore – some of which will appeal to slightly younger actors and others of which will excite slightly older actors.
Here are some of the features of this book:
- A broad range of circumstances and emotions, from comedic to heartfelt to quirky
- Emotional arcs and strong endings to challenge actors and keep audiences engaged
- Modern day topics with contemporary language
- Convenient organization from “younger” to “older” as the book progresses
- Ideal for auditions, as short performance pieces or for use in the classroom
This resource was created by Beat by Beat Press, the same award-winning publisher of Teaching Drama: The Essential Handbook, a #1 best-seller on Amazon which has sold over 35,000 copies and has been translated into 5 languages.
PLEASE NOTE: This is the only official volume of this title that has been tested and proven in thousands of classrooms around the world. Please check for the Beat by Beat logo before purchasing any similar products online to assure you’re receiving the highest quality of material for young actors.
Below are sample monologues from the book:
SHARING
Some people think I don’t like sharing, but that isn’t true at all. I love sharing. I mean, what’s not to love about being able to go up to someone and say, “Hey, can I have some of that candy?” And then they give you some! Or, “Can I ride your bike for a while?” And then you get to ride their bike! Sharing is awesome. Sometimes you have to be careful, though. Like if someone comes up to me and says, “Can I have one of your cookies?” Well, if I gave them a cookie, then I might not have any cookies left to share with other people and that would be, like, the opposite of sharing. So I have to say no. Because sharing is really important.
SCOUT
Before we moved here, we had this big dog named Scout. Mom always said he was a total mutt, but I think he was also part collie. And maybe part golden retriever. But he was definitely at least half mutt. Scout was supposed to be the whole family’s dog, but he was really mine. I mean, after school, it was me he would be waiting for. And when anyone threw his ball, I’m the one he always brought it back to. And at night, it was always my bed he slept in. But before we moved here, my Mom found out we weren’t allowed to have any pets, so we had to give him away to my cousins. I don’t really talk about it, but sometimes I dream about Scout. He’s got his ball in his mouth and he’s looking for me. And I’m saying, “Here, Scout. I’m right here.” But he doesn’t hear me, and he can’t see me, and I’m saying, “I’m right here. Scout. I’m right here.” And then, I don’t know, I guess I wake up . . . I don’t know if Scout dreams about me.
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Craig Revel Horwood’s Ballroom Dancing: A Strictly Fantastic Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering All Your Favourite Dance Moves (Teach Yourself General)
Whether you’re an absolute beginner or a Strictly Come Dancing wannabe, it’s time to get up and dance
Craig Revel Horwood’s Ballroom Dancing gives you the confidence you need to take your first steps on the dancefloor. It even includes style tips from the style guru, Len Goodman, to give you that professional look.
Discover the history, foot positions, turns, and more, to all your favourite Strictly dances:
· Waltz
· Social foxtrot
· Quickstep
· Tango
· Rumba
· Samba
· Cha cha cha
· JiveBallroom dancing is totally cool, funky, and fantastically rewarding. What better way to get fit than tangoing your tension away, and foxtrotting the fat off your thighs?
Happy dancing.
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Dance Anatomy 2nd Edition
Dance Anatomy is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote correct alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries.Read more
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Dance Coloring Book For Girls: The show on the stage dancing and ballet with music scene
Dance Coloring book for girls is filled with fun and a variety of adorable ballet and dancing on stage, it will entertain them for hours while they bring them to life by coloring!!
Perfect Large Size: 8.5″ x 11″
Cover: Glossy.
Interior:
• 30 Coloring Pages: Ballet and Dancing Girls on stage with music sceneSpecial Bonus: At the end of the book you will find 5 characters for How to draw !!
Great gift for Kids and Funny activity together all persons!!!
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Dance flower notebook 120 lined glossy A5. Perfect for journaling, diary, corrections, notes, class planning and ideas.
Stay organised and keep all your choreography notes, teachers lesson plans, corrections, ideas or journaling all in 1 place. An inspirational notebook for teachers or students that you can use as your own personal diary or as a custom personalized gift. •Dimensions: A5•Interior: 120 pages / 60 SheetsContains lined pages•Cover: Full colour soft cover paperback with glossy print.Use for homework, note taking, creative writing, corrections, lesson plans or journaling. Record your memories, thoughts, quotes or achievements. A perfect gift for your teacher, friend, student or just for you.Read more
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Dance into Business: A how-to-guide for dance students, teachers and professionals
Dance into Business is intended primarily as a guide for dance students, teachers and professionals taking up their first teaching post, planning their own business, setting up a freelance career, contemplating a change in career, transitioning from employment to self-employment, returning to the work place and expanding or selling an existing business. Using insight from working in the dance world, chapters containing helpful tips, practical examples, and points to consider cover topics such as: Choosing your options; Going self-employed; Writing a business plan; Choosing a business name; Choosing a business structure; Using financial tools; Costing your business; Setting fees; Analysing cash flow; Funding; Paying taxes; Up and running Operating; Complying with the law; Attracting customers; Engaging freelancers; Using volunteers; Expanding; and Buying (or selling) a business.Dance into Business looks at demystifying some of the concepts around employment and self-employment. It looks at different types of employment and the main stages of getting into business: preparation, planning, setting up and starting out. It explains the principals of business plans, budgets, costing, pricing, cash flow, break-even, finance, operations, and other issues that can be key components to a successful business. The author assumes readers could be living and working anywhere in the world and therefore the book has not been written to answer specific queries relating to individual cases or jurisdictions. However the types of business and laws described in this book are generally those of the United Kingdom, although similarities exist in many countries. Because of this complexity, Dance into Business should be read as a guide or general overview, the examples and exercises illustrative only and readers should always seek appropriate professional advice as formal legal, accounting, or other professional advice has not been given in this book. Although not suitable for all individuals, businesses or situations, many of the principles can be applied to other dance businesses such as productions, conferences, workshops, and course provision, or to other products and services.Read more
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Dance Is My Superpower: A 6×9 Inch Softcover Diary Notebook With 110 Blank Lined Pages. Funny Vintage Dance Journal to write in. Dance Gift and SuperPower Retro Design Slogan
This is a Vintage and Retro Birthday, Anniversary, Valentine’s day, or any occasion gift for Dance lovers to doodle, sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in.Read more
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Dance journal: Life Is Better When You Dance | Keep Track and Reviews About Your Training Sessions | Record Date, Duration, Studio, Teacher, Stretch, … More On 100 Detailed…
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Dance Journal: Log your routines and choreography
This dance journal is perfect for any dance no matter the style.
With this journal, you can track all your practices and make notes for things to work on.
Simple and Easy to use and a small enough size to fit in a dance bag.Makes a great gift for any dancer.
200 Pages
6×9 Size
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Dance Nation (Modern Classics)
“”Barron paints a wholly plausible picture of teenage insecurity and ambition… a play that wittily shows how dance can be a source of liberation without ever quelling the tremulous terrors of adolescence.”” – GuardianSomewhere in America, a revolution is coming. An army of competitive dancers is ready to take over the world, one routine at a time. With a pre-teen battle for power and perfection raging on and off stage, Dance Nation is a ferocious exploration of youth, ambition and self-discovery. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award, Dance Nation is Clare Barrons explosive play about the challenges of being young, and competitive dancing. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama’s Modern Classics series, this edition features a brand new introduction by Eboni Booth and Purva Bedi.Read more
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Dance Notebook: Lined 6×9 Journal Notebook for Dancers, Dance Teachers to Express Creativity and Inspiration (120 Pages)
This Notebook is Perfect for Dancers, Dance Teachers and Dance Enthusiasts of All Genres such as Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Ballroom, Modern and Hip Hop Dancers to Capture their Creativity and Inspiration!Use this All-In-One Notebook for:
- Dance Routines
- Choreography
- Practice Time
- Goals & Aspirations
- Motivation & Inspiration
- Journaling
- Gratitude
- Reflection
- Daily Ideas
- Women’s Diary
- Gifts
Product Details:
- High-Quality Gloss Cover
- 120 Lined Pages
- Interior: White Lined Paper
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Dance Notebook: Lined 6×9 Journal Notebook for Dancers, Dance Teachers to Express Creativity and Inspiration (120 Pages)
This Notebook is Perfect for Dancers, Dance Teachers and Dance Enthusiasts of All Genres such as Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Ballroom, Modern and Hip Hop Dancers to Capture their Creativity and Inspiration!Use this All-In-One Notebook for:
- Dance Routines
- Choreography
- Practice Time
- Goals & Aspirations
- Motivation & Inspiration
- Journaling
- Gratitude
- Reflection
- Daily Ideas
- Women’s Diary
- Gifts
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- High-Quality Gloss Cover
- 120 Lined Pages
- Interior: White Lined Paper
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Dance Teacher Because Super Amazing Multi-tasking Life Saving Miracle Worker Isn’t An Official Job Title: Dance Teacher Notebook Journal | … Gifts For Dance Teachers/ Coach/…
Features:
- 108 pages interior lined journal
- Have First page for writing owner name & Info
- Matte Finish Cover
- Dimensions: Large – 6 x 9 inch format.
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Dance to Express. Not to Impress. 2024 Planner: Ballroom & Latin Dance Themed 12 Month Diary/Journal | Perfect Gift For Dancing Fans
Thoughtfully Designed By Dancing Feet Journals & Notebooks This 2024 Personal Planner/Diary Is Perfect For Any Ballroom And Latin Dance Fan Wanting To Efficiently Organize Their Year.Features:
⇢ 12 MONTH DATED PLANNER: Daily planner begins in January 2024 and ends December 2024 for 12 months of coverage. Provides at-a-glance calendars for 2023, 2024 and 2025 and a dedicated space to write down all your notable dates for 2024.
⇢ WEEKLY AND MONTHLY VIEWS: The diary features dated weekly spreads with clearly divided sections for daily planning. At the start of each month a mini calendar has been included as well as a lined “to do” column with check-boxes to set goals and write lists, and an area to jot down important notes for the week ahead.
⇢ COMPACT AND LIGHTWEIGHT: The journal measures 6 inches wide by 9 inches long making it ideal for carrying in backpacks, purses, or dance bags. Complete with 120 crisp, white pages to record all your appointments, events and important dates.
⇢ BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCE DETAILS: The planner features Ballroom and Latin Dance themed illustrations throughout that any dance fan will love.
⇢ EXTRAS: The Personal Organizer includes space on each monthly spread to list any events or socials you may be attending that month as well as any special dates you need to remember e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, dance examinations, competitions or dance lessons. There are also blank, lined pages provided at the back of the journal for jotting down all your important notes.
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Dance to the Beat: An action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. (Collins Big Cat)
A bright, action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. The step-by-step instructions include sequential words at the start of each sentence: First, Next, Then, Now and Stop. Photographs of children dancing support and clearly demonstrate the actions referred to in the text.
- Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
- Text tye – An instruction text.
- The summary on pages 14 and 15 allows children to discuss and recap the instructions.
- Curriculum links – Music: feel the pulse, exploring rhythm; PE: dance activities.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery
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Dance with your Heart your feet will follow: Ballet College Lined Ruled Notebook (6×9 Inches 130 pages) | Gifts for Dancers, Journal for Dance Lover & … Lessons Notes |…
This college ruled lined notebook is perfect for dancers to note their progress and keep record of all dance lessons notes in order to progress and become a better dancer every day.This book contains:
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Size: 6 x 9 Inches.
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College ruled lined pages.
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A cover design that appeal to girls and women for all ages.
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Dance Your Way To Success: Reach Your Dream as a Professional Dancer
Olivia Beckford is a successful and dynamic dancer from Manchester who has gone on to make her mark on the world’s stage. She has toured the world as a professional dancer, going to all the far-flung corners of the globe, and at the very young age of twenty-seven has now produced this very interesting and handy book. In it, she describes her journey to the top of her game and gives useful and on-point advice to any would-be professional dancer. She covers topics ranging from how to present yourself in auditions, to how to navigate the often choppy waters of the world of professional dance, how to stay on top of and ahead of your game, and how to do it with people still liking you in the end. And calling you back to give you more work! This young author is savvy about life and is a driven, motivated go-getter who shows in this book what it means to achieve success – that it’s not just money and bookings but about a deeper appreciation of life, about strict discipline, emotional intelligence, and having a versatile approach to everything you do. She knows how to use her energy to achieve all she has achieved, and that same energy and drive bounces off the pages of this fascinating book that is both a study of a person in place and time and a very motivational educational piece.Read more
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Dance-The Sacred Art: The Joy of Movement as a Spiritual Practice (The Art of Spiritual Living)
For many people, the idea of dance is relegated to professionals. But for Cynthia Winton-Henry, dance is the movement of life. In the pages of this book, she invites all of us, regardless of experience, into the possibility of dance/movement as a spiritual practice. Offering simple movement suggestions that even the clumsy among us can try, Winton-Henry opens up a liberating form of spiritual practice that can lead to spirit-centred living in our human bodies. Drawing on her extensive background in movement and dance and her studies and understanding of spirituality, she combines her lived experience to introduce such practices as: · Dance for Soul Retrieval: Movements that can bring serenity, energy, humour, strength and healing · Seven Minutes of Heaven Therapy, or Just Vacation: Movement practices for invoking, blessing, releasing, balancing, discerning · A Few Elegant Forms: Open, loose movement structures to help us follow our own instincts to move DANCE THE SACRED ART is a simple, approachable resource for people at all levels on the movement path who want to explore how dance and movement can be an important element in their spiritual growth. The book, also, includes suggestions for Creating Dancing Community for readers who want to take their dance and movement practices to the next level.Read more
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Dance: Training Handbook
This easy-to-use handbook helps you remember dance terminology and steps. With helpful photos to guide you through each move, never forget how to do the basics.Read more
£9.30Dance: Training Handbook
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Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street
The debut novel from Strictly’s very own Craig Revel Horwood, this book will make you laugh, make you cry, and everything in between.
‘Heartwarming, funny and FAB-U-LOUS!’ Woman magazine
_________________________‘A story that sparkles on the page – I absolutely loved it.’ Milly Johnson
_________________________Set against the colourful boho backdrop of London’s Camden in the 1990s, Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street, tells the story of an unlikely family of friends who each rent a room in a ramshackle six-bedroom, four-storey townhouse. Like any family, the residents of Diamond Street sometimes fight and often act up but when the chips are down, they’re there for each other in an instant – usually brandishing a cheap bottle of booze and the offer of an impromptu kitchen disco.
Presided over by the wise-cracking but warm-hearted patriarch of the family, Danny Hall, a professional dancer turned choreographer, the novel follows a year in the life of the inhabitants of Diamond Street, rough diamonds one and all, as they try to achieve their dreams – with unexpected, heart-warming and sometimes hilarious results.
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Dancing in Time: The History of Moving and Shaking
With a Foreword by Oti Mabuse.
Dance is at the heart of diverse cultures around the globe, from the increasing popularity of salsa clubs, to break dance battles that gather crowds in the street, to the constant stream of dance routines going viral on TikTok. Every Saturday from September to December, 8 million people tune in to watch Strictly Come Dancing.
But behind the glitzy performances are amazing and unpredictable histories: the shocking debut of the waltz in eighteenth-century Vienna; the power of African-American influence on the jive and Lindy hop; and the early foundations of hip-hop in funk and disco styles. Tango, samba, Charleston, cha cha cha, rumba – each dance has distinct rhythms, quality of movement and complex rules to learn and follow. But they all shook up society and gave ordinary people the freedom of self-expression.
Choreographer Robert Hylton navigates an extraordinary array of photographs, periodicals and ephemera from the British Library collections, which reveal the true origins of the popular dance styles that have, at one point or another, swept the population off their feet.
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Dancing on Eggshells: Kitchen, ballroom & the messy inbetween
‘We come for the glitter, but instead we get the grit, in stories told with insight, tenderness and joy.’ – Russell T Davies
With a foreword by Steph McGovern
‘I never thought I’d write a memoir. I never thought I’d do a lot of the things I have done in my thirty-four years, but life has a wonderful way of surprising us.’
Well-known as the winner of the third series of The Great British Bake Off and runner up of Strictly Come Dancing with his same-sex dance partner Johannes Radebe, John Whaite’s personal story is a complicated narrative of contradictions, highs and lows, told with tenderness, joy, insight and wit, but also unflinching honesty.
A shy little boy from rural Lancashire, who was sacred to sleep alone and danced a little ‘too gay’ at family weddings, he was also an unruly teen who shaved a checkerboard pattern into his hair and refused to conform.
From childhood his life has revolved around food – his parents owned a fish and chip shop where John worked in the back peeling potatoes – but for long periods he has been haunted by bulimia and body dysmorphia and not a day goes by when he doesn’t worry about what or how much he eats.
He achieved TV fame but then seemingly wilfully chose to self-destruct, before finding the strength to pull back when he woke up in a car with half a kebab at his feet and chilli sauce on his shoes.
Through it all, his essential optimism has meant that he has chosen to take every step back as a chance to reassess and begin again, finally arriving at the realisation that external validation and fulfilment is transient – a distraction from the sometimes painful pilgrimage we make as we gain wisdom from our experiences.
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