Mime in Ballet

A stunning and unique authoritative book by Beryl Morina

ISBN 0-9539358-0-9

Mime in Ballet – DetailsMime in Ballet

  • A4 size
  • Hardback
  • 144 pages
  • 328 quality photographs

“This is a must for teachers, dancers, students, and ballet enthusiasts.”

  • Foreword by Sir Anthony Dowell CBE
  • Introduction by Richard Glasstone
  • Photography by Maddie Attenborough
  • Illustrations by Michael Hevesi

The book focuses on 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 to the Sleeping Beauty.

These are illustrated by 328 specially commissioned photographs of Muriel Valtat (Royal Ballet 1st Soloist) and Michael Raynaud (English National Ballet), providing an important source of information for both teachers and dancers.

This wide-ranging book is suitable for those of all ages and abilities from young children to professional dancers.

Mime in Ballet – Reviews

  • Franz Anton Cramer, Ballet Tanz International
“A new illustrated book now illuminates the ways of body language long suppressed. Beryl Morina’s “Mime in Ballet” enters the linguistic breach and has recorded the most important dialogue in the world literature of ballet and gives exhaustive commentary. Here, talk is accompanied through all the rules of the dancing art: with fingers, feet and forehead. Study Mime in Ballet and ballet will again speak to you in a thousand words”
  •  Sir Anthony Dowell CBE, Director of The Royal Ballet
“I highly recommend this guide to the art of mime”
  • Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE, former Principal Ballerina of The Royal Ballet
“An excellent work”
  • Sir Peter Wright CBE, former Director of Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet
“Clear, concise and beautifully illustrated. This book is a must for anyone seriously interested in classical ballet.”
“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 descriptions of each gesture is amplified by the clarity of the many photographs providing an important source of information for both teachers and dancers”  
  • Maina Gielgud, former Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet and Boston Ballet
“Beryl Morina’s book, Mime in Ballet, is more than welcome. Mime, so wonderful when done with conviction and stagecraft, is rapidly becoming a hopelessly lost art, often simply deleted from the original text of classical works, or performed without conviction. It is wonderful to have a book which describes so lovingly and in so much detail the elements that go to make up believable mime — Thank you, Beryl!”

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