Mime in Ballet

Mime in Ballet

A stunning and unique new book - this is a 'must' for teachers, dancers, students and ballet enthusiasts

20 graduated studies in Classical Gesture as used in Balletic Mime, culminating in a detailed description of Carabosse and the Lilac Fairy from the Prologue of The Sleeping Beauty.

Author:

BERYL MORINA

Ballet examiner and Artistic Adviser Beryl Morina became a principal dancer in the Lydia Kyasht Russian Ballet in London at the age of just 14, in 1939, after training in London and Paris. Many years in ballet companies in Europe and Israel followed, but Beryl's great love for teaching found fulfilment for 20 years in the U.K.

328 PHOTOGRAPHS TO DEMONSTRATE THE WORK BY ARTISTS OF

THE ROYAL BALLET

AND

ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET

Muriel Valtat

Photography by

MADDIE ATTENBOROUGH

Illustrated drawings by

MICHAEL HEVESI

Michael Raynaud

Foreword by

SIR ANTHONY DOWELL C.B.E.

Introduction by

RICHARD GLASSTONE

Muriel Valtat

"I highly recommend this guide to the art of mime."

Sir Anthony Dowell CBE

Drawings by

Michael Hevesi

"An excellent work."

Dame Antoinette Sibley, DBE

"This book is particularly welcome in that it will help preserve for future generations something of a tradition which could otherwise be lost. The detailed description of each gesture is amplified by the clarity of the many photographs, providing an important source of information for both teachers and dancers."

Richard Glasstone

DTOL