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The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet - Softcover

Jennings, Luke; Bull, Deborah

 
9780571309740: The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet

Synopsis

The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet, by Deborah Bull and Luke Jennings, with in-depth descriptions of over eighty famous works of ballet, is essential reading for ballet dancers, enthusiasts, and beginners alike.

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About the Authors

Luke Jennings is the dance critic for The Observer and has written extensively about dance and contemporary culture for the New Yorker and in the UK press. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker and the author of several novels - Breach Candy (1993), Atlantic (1995) Beauty Story (1998) and of a personal memoir Blood Knots (2010).

Deborah Bull was a Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, noted particularly for her performances in the works of Forsythe and MacMillan. Formerly Creative Director of the Royal Opera House, she is now Director, Cultural partnerships at King's College London, as well as a writer and broadcaster. She has written and presented several programmes for BBC TV and radio, including the award-winning 'The Dancer's Body'. She is the author of The Vitality Plan (1998), Dancing Away (1998) and (with Luke Jennings) The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet (2004) and The Everyday Dancer (2011). She was awarded a CBE in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours list.

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