This inspirational and instructive book shows how actors can use their body to be as expressive and 'articulate' as they are with their voices. It attempts to rethink and analyse the actor's physical needs, offering a graded series of exercises aimed at realising those needs and making the body fully articulate as a medium of expression.

The book is useful not just for actors, but also for teachers, directors, movement directors and choreographers.

‘A quick look at the contents, which places Football Songs next to Free Jazz, gives you some idea of its open-mindedness. It serves a much-needed purpose in informing us about many kinds of Australian music and dance missed by other reference books. Highly recommended.’ Lucky Oceans, The Planet, ABC Radio National.

The centenary of the birth of Frederick Ashton was marked in 2004. Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, whose work defined the English style of ballet, was inspired to dance by Anna Pavlova and encouraged by Ninette de Valois (Founder of the Royal Ballet). Ashton's career as dancer, choreographer and director spans the Company's history from its earliest days. His influence is still seen today in the repertory and style that informs the Company, with ballets such as La Fille mal Gardée, Ondine and Façade. This is one of the first of a series of books in the Royal Opera House Heritage Series, featuring a unique collection of images from the Royal Opera House Archives. The Series celebrates some of the legendary figures from the world of ballet and opera who have been associated with the Royal Opera House and its resident Companies, The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.

A beautiful collection of colour and black and white photographs of ballerina Sylvie Guillem. Introduction by Dominique Frétard.

A handbook, complete with graded exercises, for teachers and students wanting a practical introduction to Laban's famous system of movement.

Rudolf Laban is to movement what Stanislavski is to acting. He devised the first wholly successful system for recording human movement, a system which is increasingly influential in the training of actors and dancers.

See also Laban for All, a basic 'how to' book on Laban from the same author.

Rudolf Laban is one of the great theorists and practitioners of movement. He laid down a system of analysing – and annotating – the way the human being moves in space. He ascribed values to these movements, releasing the expressive power contained within each one of them.

Laban For All offers a simplified version of his system which can be used by relative beginners upwards. The result is a thorough – and thoroughly practical – grounding in the most significant movement system of modern times.

Margot Fonteyn is The Royal Ballet's legendary Prima Ballerina Assoluta, and the company's first ‘home grown' ballerina. Frederick Ashton's first muse, her lyrical style and innate grace were illuminated in the many ballets he created for her. Her Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 and confirmed The Royal Ballet as the major classical ballet company in the UK. It was also the role in which she conquered American audiences when The Royal Ballet first appeared in New York in 1949. This book brings together for the first time over 120 images which chart the whole of Fonteyn's career with The Royal Ballet, from 1934 until her last appearances in galas in the 1980s. This is the second of a series of books in the Royal Opera House Heritage Series, featuring a unique collection of images from the Royal Opera House Archives.

A comprehensive course of exercises for body strength and balance, to be achieved without stress or injury, by the famous Czech dancer Jarmila Kröschlová. For teachers and students of dance, mime or any activity that benefits from an understanding of movement principles. Translated/edited by Olga Malandris and Zora Šemberová.

A unique collection of Australian performance pieces. Includes texts by Sydney Front, Jenny Kemp ( The Call of the Wild), Kooemba Jdarra, Tasdance/That Was Fast, Margaret Cameron, Sidetrack Performance Group, Doppio Teatro, Kinetic Energy Theatre Company, Entr’Acte, Legs on the Wall, Ex-Stasis Theatre Collective and All Out Ensemble.