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Anna Halprin: Dance - Process - Form by Ronit Land
RRP: $42.56$41.13Anna 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,... -
The Art of Teaching Ballet: Ten Twentieth-century Masters by Gretchen Ward Warren
RRP: $32.19$24.37From 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... -
Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics by Randy Martin
RRP: $30.95$26.88In 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... -
Knowledge in Motion: Perspectives of Artistic and Scientific Research in Dance by Sabine Gehm
RRP: $21.92$18.19In a globalised society, dance is gaining in importance as a means of conveying body knowledge: It is perceived as an art form in itself, is fostered and cultivated within the bounds of cultural and educational policy, and is increasingly becoming the... -
Beyond Words: Movement Observation and Analysis by Carol-Lynne Moore
RRP: $46.43$40.88Beyond 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... -
Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene by Angenette Spalink 9780367758400
RRP: $64.49$56.12This 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,... -
A History of Buto by Bruce Baird
RRP: $41.91$38.45Buto 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... -
The Haumana Hula Handbook: A Manual for the Student of Hawaiian Dance by Mahealani Uchiyama
RRP: $18.05$12.68Apologies 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)... -
Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image by Douglas Rosenberg 9780199772612
RRP: $129.00$109.60The 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... -
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans 9780812968743
RRP: $29.67$19.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780812968743Author Jennifer HomansFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House... -
Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo Sondra Fraleigh (State University of New York, USA) 9781138572799
RRP: $47.72$41.96Now 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,... -
Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972 by Ninotchka Bennahum
RRP: $59.34$47.83In 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... -
How to Run a Preschool Dance Studio: The 7 Step System to Create, Grow and Expand Your Preschool Dance Classes by Emma Franklin Bell 9780646934877
RRP: $10.26$7.56Apologies 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 -
Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, Intervention, Participation by Gabriele Brandstetter
RRP: $50.30$41.77As 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... -
Ballet Class: An American History by Melissa R. Klapper
$39.01Surveying 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... -
The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn
RRP: $23.16$22.58This 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... -
The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture by Hannah Schwadron 9780190624194
RRP: $148.35$125.94Amidst 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 by Stephan Koplowitz 9780197515242
$40.76On 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... -
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism by Rhonda K. Garelick
RRP: $38.70$30.04Loie 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... -
Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education: Case Studies on Humanizing Dance Pedagogy Doug Risner 9781476667171
RRP: $46.43$38.18The 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... -
HowExpert Guide to Ballet: 101+ Tips to Learn How to Get Started in Ballet, Discover Tips & Tricks, and Become a Better Ballet Dancer by Howexpert 9781648918636
RRP: $25.79$21.22Apologies 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 -
Both Sides of the Mirror: The Science & Art of Ballet by Anna Paskevska 9780871271808
RRP: $32.19$31.70A 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... -
LO: TECH: POP: CULT: Screendance Remixed by Priscilla Guy 9781032372150
RRP: $55.46$48.49This 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... -
Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance by Leena Rouhiainen 9781032501987
RRP: $46.43$40.88A 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... -
To Dance is Human: Theory of Nonverbal Communication by Judith Lynne Hanna 9780226315492
RRP: $38.70$37.73Exploring 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... -
Dancing the Beautiful Wheel - A Guide to Rueda de Casino by Ian Smith 9781780354941
$24.08Apologies 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 -
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers by Jo Butterworth 9780367376765
RRP: $125.12$108.42Fifty 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 by Julia M. Ritter
RRP: $41.27$33.93Tandem 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: Rosas 2007-2017 by Christian Dumais-Lvowski
RRP: $58.05$51.64Anne 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... -
On Stage at the Ballet: My Life as Dancer and Artistic Director by Robert Barnett 9781476679105
RRP: $28.37$23.18Dancer 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... -
Fairfield Rose R/P by Dyson S 9781840672046 [USED COPY]
$2.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840672046Author Dyson SFormat PaperbackImprint Caxton EditionsPublisher Caxton Publishing -
An Owl, That's Who! by Autumn Leigh 9780823981755
RRP: $7.93$7.57Apologies 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 -
Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road by Laurel Victoria Gray 9781350249479
RRP: $24.50$21.65The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women’s dance – Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance. The book surveys the... -
Movements of Interweaving: Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration Gabriele Brandstetter 9780815356233
RRP: $174.15$151.81Movements 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... -
Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop by Imani Kai Johnson
RRP: $32.24$29.05The 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... -
Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal by Helene Neveu Kringelbach 9781785330384
RRP: $36.06$29.13Senegal 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... -
The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators by Jean Morrison Brown 9780871272058
$28.70This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in... -
Passion and Elegance: How Flamenco and Classical Ballet Met at the Ballets Russes by Barbara File Marangon 9781032421605
RRP: $64.49$56.12This 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... -
Why Music Moves Us by J. Bicknell 9780230209909
$65.31Music 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... -
The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances: Outrage at Couple Dancing in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Mark Knowles 9780786437085
RRP: $37.40$30.16Apologies 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