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We Will Remember This: Nova Bhattacharya’s Svāhā!

$24.95

LATEST RELEASE! Written and Curated by Brannavy Jeyasundaram Foreword by Peggy Baker We Will Remember This: Nova Bhattacharya’s Svāhā! holds a moment in the life of a dance company and its artistic work during the global pandemic. With shuttered theatres and empty rehearsal halls, dance artists searched for new ways of working when all performances stopped and close…

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    Annual Magazine Subscription

    $10.00

    It’s Just Nice to Get Mail Our annual magazine has been free for decades but the challenges we faced during the pandemic forced us to look at our bottom line. Unfortunately that means we will no longer be able to give away the print version of DCD The Magazine. Purchasing this subscription will not only…

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    Betty Oliphant: The Artistry of Teaching – A Series of Ballet Classes

    $60.00

    By Nadia Potts DanceForms Illustrations by Rhonda Ryman “At the age of seven I started studying with Miss Oliphant at her studio in Toronto. I immediately liked and responded to her teaching because I felt that I was learning the ‘real thing’ and that I could, by working hard on what she taught me, achieve…

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    Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories

    $24.95

    Edited by Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner Canadians want to hear stories about their country and the personalities who have forged a path to the present day. Now, thanks to Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner, two of Canada’s senior dance historians, there is finally an anthology that spans Canadian dance history…

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    Cecchetti: A Ballet Dynasty

    $27.00

    By Livia Brillarelli Translator: Deborah Oslansky The story of the Cecchetti family of dancers whose lineage descends from the early 1700s, is a remarkable tale of talent, celebrity and enterprise. Livia Brillarelli authored this book following her research into the Cecchetti family’s personal archives. Through a feast of photographs and fascinating narrative, a new perspective is…

  • Chasing the Tail of Contemporary Dance (Part One) by Carol Anderson

    Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance – Part 1

    $24.95

    By Carol Anderson As we crossed into the new millennium, Anderson looked intensely at Canada’s contemporary dance artists and the work they were creating … what they were thinking about … what they were doing … what movement vocabularies were being used. What was the state of the art? A week long visit to the…

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    Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance – Part 2

    $24.95

    By Carol Anderson Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance, Parts 1 and 2, provide a snapshot of Canadian theatrical dance at the dawn of the third millennium as seen by Carol Anderson during the 1998 and 2000 Canada Dance Festivals in Ottawa. As relevant as these public diaries are today, they will become even more significant with…

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    China Dance Journal

    $14.95

    By Grant State For more than 40 years, Grant Strate has been a prime mover on the Canadian contemporary dance scene. His work as a teacher and mentor has not, however, been restricted to Canada. Strate has established a special affection for and understanding of China through his repeated visits there as an honoured guest…

  • Dance Studies Bundle

    Dance Studies Bundle

    $80.00

    Over 30% Off! For anyone who teaches, studies or is simply interested Canadian Dance, these 3 publications are our most popular resources. Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada (Editor: Susan Macpherson); Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories (Edited by Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner); Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s (Edited by Allana…

  • Dancers Writing Bundle

    Dancers Writing Bundle

    $75.00

    Over 30% Off! Three books written by dancers – each a wonderful example of how experience within the art form informs and illuminates the subject. Carol Anderson’s Unfold : A Portrait of Peggy Baker; Sara Porter’s Peter in Process – Peter Boneham’s Sixty Years in Dance; and Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie – Reconstructing Fifteen Heterosexual…

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    Dancing for de Basil

    $32.00

    Letters to her Parents from Rosemary Deveson, 1938-1940 Editor: Leland Windreich With an Introduction by Karen Kain What is life really like in a big ballet company? In 1938, at age 16, Rosemary Deveson joined the Ballets Russes after a hurried midnight audition in Vancouver for Colonel de Basil and David Lichine. She signed a…

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    DCD The Magazine – Issue 45, 1998

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    Want a hard copy of DCD Magazine? Subscribe HERE and we will send you the print version (the next time we publish). Subscribers get free one year access to the entire DCD Magazine back catalogue. Contents: Inside the B.C. Ballet School with June Roper – Verity Sweeny Purdy Opening Remarks – Lawrence Adams, Miriam Adams…

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    DCD The Magazine – Issue 46, 1998

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    Want a hard copy of DCD Magazine? Subscribe HERE and we will send you the print version (the next time we publish). Subscribers get free one year access to the entire DCD Magazine back catalogue. Contents: Nostalgia or a Passion for Return – Nicola Savarese Opening Remarks – Lawrence Adams, Miriam Adams Pat Richards, 1946-1998…

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