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Dance

For many years Whistlestop Bookshop has been a strong supporter of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, from its original genius-dreamer Marcia Dale Weary to the dazzling and dynamic institution that it is today.  Cumberland County is now home to several studios of dance, and we welcome and support all of them.  I particularly admire dance for a counter-intuitive reality:  it is a bookish art even as it abstracts beauty and grace from physics and human movement.  Great writing about dance surrounded it from the beginning, great photography is drawn to it, and artwork for both adults and children celebrates it.  We welcome dancers throughout the year, we welcome their brave and heroic families, and we welcome the opportunity to stock wonderful books about the art.

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Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology
36.00 40.00
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Ballet: the Definitive Illustrated Story
36.00 40.00
sale
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A Body of Work: Dancing to The Edge and Back
25.20
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Boston Ballerina: A Dancer, a Company, an Era
31.50
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
24.30 27.00
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The Art of Movement: NYC Dance Project Ken Browar and Deborah Ory
50.00
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Ballerina Body
27.00 30.00
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Life in Motion
15.99
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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
35.00
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The Ballet Companion
29.95
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The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet
15.95
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The Art of Teaching Ballet
24.95
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Ballet and Modern Dance
19.95
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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
5.95
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Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique
9.95
sold out
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Surprise Was My Teacher
19.95
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La Dame Aux Camelias 2-Disc DVD Set
39.99
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The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training, Technique
29.95
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Dance Anatomy
24.95
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Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet
25.00
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
18.95
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Dance to the Piper
17.95
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My Life: the restored edition
17.95
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Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Anatomical Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Class
19.95
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101 Stories of the Great Ballets: the scene-by-scene stories of the most popular ballets, old and new
20.00
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Basic Ballet: The Steps Defined
12.00
  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
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WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

Whistlestop Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Carlisle PA.  Founded in 1985, Whistlestop sells new and secondhand books  in all categories and a wide variety of sidelines, from magazines to puzzles, literary t-shirts to cds and dvds, from totes to local honey.  Our mission is to get the right books in the right hands at the right time.

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