Dance

Since the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has delighted and inspired thousands of people in the West (as well as many more in his native Java) who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise influenced by his Amerta Movement practice. But what is...

The Royal Ballet Yearbook series is back, with extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content - in addition to the usual selection of beautiful ballet images. Featuring lavish photographs of last Season's performances, a special...

"Ambitious in its scope and interdisciplinary in its purview. . . . Without doubt future researchers will want to refer to Hanna's study, not simply for its rich bibliographical sources but also for suggestions as to how to proceed with their own work...

Written by a group of dedicated flamenco enthusiasts this book traces the history and development of flamenco the stirring form of folk dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century and still popular today.Book...

Dramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement performance. Katherine Profeta, a working dramaturg for more than fifteen years, shifts the focus from asking "Who is the dramaturg?" to...

How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet? How do teachers impart the stylistic qualities of ballet while also supporting each dancer's artistic instincts and development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315293Author Toni BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

With PROGRAMMING WITH MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 2019/2022 by bestselling technology author Diane Zak, even readers with no prior programming experience can quickly learn how to effectively plan and create interactive Visual Basic 2019/2022 applications. A...

If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures...

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost...

An introduction to embodied movement through the work of a dance education pioneerIn this introduction to the work of somatic dance education pioneer Nancy Topf (1942-1998), readers are ushered on a journey to explore the movement of the body through a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732563Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm)...

In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. Dancer, Steve Paxton in the 1970s considered this distance a territory for investigation. His study of intentional contact resulted...

Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater's increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the "landscape...

Teaching Dance as Art in Education is a comprehensive introductory textbook that helps dance education majors and dance specialists understand and incorporate the aesthetic foundations of educational dance in grades K-12. Unlike other models of teaching...

In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and...

One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over. As an African American woman, she broke barriers of race and gender, most...

In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African...

An illustrated and in-depth exploration of four of Rosas's early works, Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, and Bartok, through sketches, notes, and photographs Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957066417Author Abbe Henri Louis HulotFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Mediatrix PressPublisher Mediatrix PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903102759Author Ann Hutchinson GuestFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dance BooksPublisher Dance Books Ltd

Based on the latest scientific research, Dancing Longer, Dancing Stronger offers a complete conditioning program to help dancers improve technique and lessen the danger of injury. By presenting general principles of injury prevention as well as specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491280768Author Clarissa TalveFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create SpacePublisher On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830786Author Cyril W BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint David LeonardPublisher David LeonardWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615868356Author David SalazarFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Dance SecretsPublisher Dance SecretsWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

". . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body...

Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American,...

Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy. Representing every seated president from Dwight...

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and...

Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s...

This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 - 14 July, 2013. Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars...

This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in-and through-culture. By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture...

On the occasion of Merce Cunningham's centennial comes this handsome new edition of his classic and long out-of-print artist's book Changes: Notes on Choreography, first published in 1968 by Dick Higgins' Something Else Press. The book presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878057016Author Carol MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of MississippiWeight(grams)...

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices...

Written just before the author's death in 1958, this book is an autobiography in art, a gathering of experiences in performance, and a lucid and practical source book on choreography.Book InformationISBN 9780871271587Author Doris HumphreyFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027537Author Tatsumi HijikataFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 286g

Kazuo Ohno is one of the founders of the Japanese modern dance form, Butoh, which had a large influence on contemporary American modern and postmodern dance. Now for the first time, Ohno's words and insights are available in English. This book brings...

What is the legacy of Martha Graham and why does it endure? How and why did the philosophy and subsequent canon of Martha Graham flood out into an artistic diaspora that is still a wellspring of inspiration for contemporary artists? How do dancers...

The first of its kind, this volume presents case studies from experts in the field of dance education, examining theory and practice developed from real-world scenarios that call for ethical decision-making. Dilemmas faced by dance instructors in the...