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A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years, Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches, directors, choreographers and stagers -- former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others -- to explain the state of ballet today. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer, Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected, most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction, and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary, her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth, illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today, though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine.
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• I. Danza clásica. Ruta Butviliene / por Margarita Morales
• Maruja Leiva / por Akaida Orozco
• Isabel Llull / por Margarita Morales
• Yolanda Machado / por María Teresa García
• Roumen Rachev / por María Isabel Franco
• Danzo contemporánea. Julie Barnsley / por Margarita Morales
• Luz Urdaneta / por Akaida Orozco

• From the heart of the tradition
• Madman at the gate, 1918-1927
• Renaissance, 1927-1936
• Reconstruction, 1936-1947
• Dancing for murugan, 1947-1961
• On the back of a peacock, 1961-1972
• "Something great and grand," 1972-1984.

This book presents an intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century. This is the first complete biography of T. Balasaraswati (1918-1984), an internationally acclaimed dancer and musician from southern India. Her life story offers an extraordinary view of the matrilineal devadasi community and traditional artistic practice from which modern South Indian dance styles have emerged. This deeply engaging biography draws together Balasaraswati's personal account of her life and her reflections on the process of making dance and music with the commentary of family members and dozens of contemporaries from throughout her fifty-year career. The book is generously illustrated with rare historical photos and a duotone gallery of distinguished photographers' images of Balasaraswati's dancing.
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This documentary, by director Nanna Frank Moller, features Ayin de Sala and Sky de Sala.