Ballett

This book is about surviving grief, and charts a journey of exceptional love. Now, aged 77, the burden of ambition has left the author and she has, with the help of close confidantes, reconfigured her life.Petal Ashmole Winstanley grew up in Perth, Western Australia with two great loves: her mother and classical ballet. Spurred on by her natural talent and ambition to dance, she made the voyage on the SS Canberra to London in the swinging '60s-the start of a vibrant career encompassing the glamour, global travel and trials and tribulations of a life on the stage.Her journey has been one of creative fulfilment often offset by deep sadness and loss: that of a longed-for baby, and the ultimate grief of losing three husbands. Petal speaks with gut-wrenching honesty of the brutal circumstances leading to each of their deaths, and the heartbreaking aftermath of a grief that would not ease. Repeated hospice experiences allow her to share an intimate knowledge of what happens before, during and after death-and have made her an advocate for early AIDS and cancer detection, and a fierce believer in Dignity in Dying. Sometimes shocking but frequently funny, Petal's story of sorrow is peppered with optimism as she recounts how, even at the gates of hell, she found the strength to get up, dress up and show up, sporting a dash of red lipstick.

El esplendor y las miserias de Los Ángeles y Hollywood. Una magnífica indagación en los secretos más inconfesables de una ciudad mítica. En la ciudad de Los Ángeles el sol brilla prácticamente los trescientos sesenta y cinco días del año; en una de sus colinas el legendario cartel de Hollywood anuncia la fábrica de sueños más potente del mundo y en otras se suceden las mansiones. Varias de estas fastuosas residencias forman parte de este libro, que reconstruye la desmesurada historia de la ciudad a través de cinco familias emblemáticas, con su glamour, sus excesos, sus secretos de alcoba, sus extravagancias, su acumulación de riqueza y poder y sus destructivas tensiones.La autora nos presenta a los Doheny, cuyo patriarca inspiró ¡Petróleo!, de Upton Sinclair, y Pozos de ambición, de Paul Thomas Anderson; a Jack Warner y sus hermanos, que levantaron uno de los grandes estudios de Hollywood; a Jane Garland, una joven aspirante a actriz psíquicamente desequilibrada; a la estrella Jennifer Jones, su marido, el megalómano productor Selznick, y sus vástagos, de trágico destino, y, por último, a su propia familia y la figura de su padre, fundador de la Music Corporation of America, pieza clave de la poderosa industria musical.Al oeste del Edén explora un siglo de historia de Estados Unidos, con sus luces y sus sombras, e indaga en el mito del sueño americano y en su tenebroso reverso, con la Gran Depresión, el Comité de Actividades Antiamericanas, la Mafia, los tabloides... El libro, fruto de dos décadas de trabajo, está escrito con el método de la 'historia oral' a partir de entrevistas con figuras como Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Arthur Miller, Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Naomi Klein, Stephen Sondheim, miembros de las familias Warner, Jones, Selznick y Stein, terapeutas, chóferes, criadas... El intenso resultado es un imponente fresco de Los Ángeles.

Rudolf Nureyev, uno dei più grandi ballerini del ventesimo secolo, aveva tutto: bellezza, genio, fascino, passione e sex appeal. Nessun altro interprete della danza classica ha mai suscitato nel pubblico la stessa vibrante eccitazione, sopra e fuori il palco. In questa biografia, Julie Kavanagh racconta le tappe straordinarie della sua carriera e della sua vita: l'educazione alla scuola del Kirov a Leningrado, il controverso allontanamento dall'Unione Sovietica nel 1961; la relazione lunga e tormentata col ballerino danese Erik Bruhn; lo spettacolare sodalizio artistico con Margot Fonteyn al Royal Ballet di Londra. Seguiamo tra le pagine le infuocate collaborazioni con i maggiori coreografi dell'epoca ¿ tra cui Ashton, Balanchine, Robbins, Graham, Taylor ¿ e il rivoluzionario impegno presso il Balletto dell'Opéra di Parigi nei primi anni ottanta, prima della morte prematura per le complicazioni dell'Aids nel 1993. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades.It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such legends as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. Her drive, ambition, tenacity, and money kept the doors open even during the lean years.A dancer when the company made its debut in 1940, she was artistic director for an unprecedented thirty-five years, from 1945 to 1980. Over the course of her career, she received numerous honors and awards, including the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.Combining unique personal insights as Chase's son along with experience garnered from his own professional dance and administrative career, Alex Ewing offers the definitive story of one of the true pioneers in the world of American ballet.

This is the HARDBACK version. In an era when aspiring actors desperately sought studioconnections, young Dickie Jones did not. Possessor of aload of multiple talents and under the guidance of hismother, he moved from studio to studio - dancing, acting,riding. Dickie had that most desirable gift for every actor -believability.In his independence, Dickie walked off with one of the plumjuvenile roles of his time - the voice of Pinocchio for WaltDisney. As he geared up to sing "No Strings on Me" hemight have been singing his personal theme song.In NO STRINGS: IN SEARCH OF DICKIE JONES, AnnSnuggs has shared Dick's stories from his days on the silverscreen in combination with her research on the films andpeople involved. Come search for the real Dick "Dickie"Jones.

Zita Johann graced the New York stages beginning in the summer of 1922. With her advanced intuitive professionalism in drama and the help of two great men of the theatre, Basil Sydney and Arthur Hopkins, Zita became a Broadway star in 1928. Hollywood came calling twice, and during a brief period in the early 1930s, Zita Johann became a Hollywood movie star.This would later be much to her chagrin. The Mummy (Universal Pictures, 1932), with Boris Karloff, and The Sin of Nora Moran (Majestic Pictures, 1933) with Paul Cavanaugh, are her two best-known motion pictures of eight.Guest Parking allotted Zita Johann eighty-nine years of life. Zita shared her life story with author Rick Atkins during their nineteen-year friendship. She told of her tumultuous family, with whom she immigrated at age six to America, her long love of the stage, her experiences in Hollywood, her failed marriages, and the reawakening that later changed her life. Zita's unpublished play, And Then It Was Morning, is within these covers, and the book concludes with an inspired Afterword written by actor Liesl Ehardt, a cousin to Zita Johann.