Dance

The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific...

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance...

Anna Halprin is a world-famous theatre artist and early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement. This book explores her personal growth as a dancer and choreographer and the development of her therapeutic and pedagogical approach. The authors,...

In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within...

From Christiane Vaussard in Paris, to David Howard in New York City and Larisa Sklyanskaya in San Francisco, Gretchen Warren profiles ten world-renowned master ballet teachers to capture their philosophies, training methods and the classroom presence...

In Critical Moves Randy Martin sets in motion an inquiry into the relationship between dance, politics, and cultural theory. Drawing on his own experiences as a dancer as well as his observations as a cultural critic and social theorist, Martin...

Beyond Words presents a range of illuminating approaches to examining every day social interactions, to help the reader understand human movement in new ways.Carol-Lynne Moore and Kaoru Yamamoto build on the principles that they expertly explored in the...

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance.Focusing on a range of 20th- and 21st-century performances that include modern dance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170554Author Mahealani UchiyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The relationship between the practice of dance and the technologies of representation have excited artists since the advent of film. Dancers, choreographers, and directors are increasingly drawn to screendance, the practice of capturing dance as a moving...

Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines:* an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646934877Author Emma Franklin BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Emma Franklin Renison BellPublisher Emma Franklin Renison BellWeight(grams) 259g

As performative and political acts, translation, intervention, and participation are movements that take place across, along, and between borders. Such movements traverse geographic boundaries, affect social distinctions, and challenge conceptual...

Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of Clure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and...

This is the story of the founders of modern dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Kurt Joos, whose work in the first half of the 20th century paralleled the independent development of modern dance in Americawithout being influenced by it...

Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display. A social phantasm with real legs, she moves boldly between neo-burlesque...

On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array...

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648918636Author HowexpertFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint HowexpertPublisher HowexpertWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

A technical exploration of the art of ballet incorporating findings in the fields of kinesiology, biomechanics, and physiologyBook InformationISBN 9780871271808Author Anna PaskevskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Princeton Book CompanyPublisher...

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular...

A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic...

Exploring dance from the rural villages of Africa to the stages of Lincoln Center, Judith Lynne Hanna shows that it is as human to dance as it is to learn, to build, or to fight. Dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the body: it is at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780354941Author Ian SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

Buto is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Buto a new account...

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field of choreography.Representing a wide range of dance genres...

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling...

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) founded her dance company, Rosas, in 1983. Her work is grounded on a rigorous exploration of the relationship between dance and music, and over the years she has engaged the musical structures and scores of different...

Dancer Robert Barnett trained under legendary choreographer Bronislava Nijinska. His professional ballet career was launched when he joined the Colonel de Basil Original Ballet Russe company. In the late 1940s, when George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840672046Author Dyson SFormat PaperbackImprint Caxton EditionsPublisher Caxton Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823981755Author Autumn LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Rosen Publishing GroupPublisher Rosen Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 23g

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a...

The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations-evident in expressive qualities like call and...

Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was...

This book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance, then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco. The book outlines the early roots of flamenco in India, and the journey of the Romani...

Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786437085Author Mark KnowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & Company

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance.By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983069034Author Morocco C Varga DinicuFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Hypatia-Rose PressPublisher Hypatia-Rose PressWeight(grams)...