‘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.

‘My dialogue with Keith has never stopped. His teachings are the foundation of my technique.’
Cate Blanchett.

‘He had a profound impact on the way I conduct myself physically and in that sense is with me all the time’, Richard Roxburgh.

‘I think he has hooked more people on dance than anyone’
Graeme Murphy.

Keith Bain, a born teacher and himself a champion dancer, actor and choreographer, was the first in Australia to create a comprehensive discipline in the study of movement for performance. Over 50 years he has profoundly influenced Australia’s performers for stage and screen and his book is full of examples of the gentle wisdom recalled by many. With wit and simplicity he tells his life story and reveals the sources behind his belief in the infinite capacity of the human body to convey emotion and defy gravity.  

 

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.

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.

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.

Ninette de Valois was an extraordinary woman. Not only did she create The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and the company that has become Birmingham Royal Ballet – in themselves great achievements – but she was a gifted choreographer, dancer, teacher, administrator, speaker and writer. She also identified and developed so many of the talented dancers, choreographers and teachers who went onto make Britain a world leader in ballet and dance.

During the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of The Royal Ballet in 1981, Ninette de Valois accepted an invitation to speak to the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars. In that illuminating talk, printed here for the first time, she focuses on what 'English Ballet’ is. Combined with her 1955 article, Some Problems of Ballet Today, and Sir Peter Wright’s fascinating Madam’s Memorial Address, this volume raises questions as meaningful today as they were when de Valois first addressed them.

In an increasingly connected dance world, what does it mean to have a national style? Why is a national style important? How might a national style be identified, developed and nurtured? This volume provides thought-provoking and fascinating reading for all lovers of ballet, dance and art.