Dance

This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the...

Burridge and Svendler Nielsen bring together many perspectives from around the world on dancing experiences through life of senior artists and educators, whether as professionals working with community dance groups, in education or for recreation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998247816Author Emmaly WiederholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Stance on DancePublisher Stance on DanceWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and processes of the performing arts as interconnecting with visual arts, this book features interviews with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646993925Author Evdokia BelovaFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

This book details how bias affects the brain, perception and decision-making--and identifies how these factors affect the field of dance. It applies social psychology to the events, communities, and teaching strategies in dance classrooms of all sizes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861108Author Edgardo CozarinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group's I Understand Everything Better is a "deeply felt and deeply moving" (New York Times) performance piece, a multi-disciplinary, dance-based work that explores the impulse to report on calamity, the shimmer of...

When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature...

In this memoir of a roller coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet's greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963288035Author Tony ParkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Hands Four ProductionsPublisher Hands Four ProductionsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and...

Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company. Considering the body as a means of...

This revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography. In this authoritative...

Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded on impeccable technique and centuries of tradition, has a reputation for elite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780353920Author David PullingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Upfront PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904750475Author Rosemary ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University Press

This work combines the author's vision and practicality and seeks to answer questions such as ""why dance?"", and to give voice to her plea of universal dance training as a reconized course in formal education.Book InformationISBN 9780299015244Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953242924Author Thomas O'FlahertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint WWW.Spiritsalsa.comPublisher WWW.Spiritsalsa.com

Choreographing Copyright provides a historical and cultural analysis of U.S.-based dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Although federal copyright law in the U.S. did not recognize choreography as a protectable class prior to the...

Dreams are made and broken every year in the dazzling Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England. Fierce competition, brutal politics, and stunning artistry are all on the programme at the world's most prestigious competition, known to...

A companion guide to one of the bestselling Limelight Edition titles this book by Asaf Messerer a founder of what has become known as the Bolshoi School is one of the most celebrated manuals of classic dance instruction in the world. Messerer has...

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume a range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era, such as Anna Halprin's West Coast...

Dance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all ages...

In early twentieth-century Europe, the watershed developments of pictorial abstraction, modern dance, and cinema coincided to shift the artistic landscape and the future of modern art. In Moving Modernism, Nell Andrew challenges assumptions about...

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The need to 'rethink' and question the nature of dance history has not diminished since the first edition of Rethinking Dance History. This revised second edition addresses the needs of an ever-evolving field, with new contributions considering the role...

When Marie and Rudolf Steiner developed the art of eurythmy in the early twentieth century, their aim was to awaken the musical element within the human form, in a spiritual way. In this unique form of movement, both music and the spoken word are made...

This work presents a definitive book on accompaniment, as well as the author's personal and often humorous look behind the scenes at the world of dance. It emphasizes the link between music and ballet technique, and the necessity of communication between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, Music and the Performing Arts category, 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830021Author E Louis BackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint The Noverre PressPublisher The Noverre PressWeight(grams) 529gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666767995Author Robert BrasselFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

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Flexible Bodies honors the lives and labor of British South Asian dancers and celebrates their contributions to a distinct and dynamic sector of British dance. Drawing on expertise gained from over seven years dancing in Britain, author Anusha Kedhar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852730925Author Pierre RameauFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Dance Books LtdPublisher Dance Books LtdWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061565380Author Radio City EntertainmentFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

JoJo Siwa is only 16 years old, but she's already captured the hearts and imaginations of fans around the world - and she's not slowing down!Dream Crazy Big traces every step of this young star's rise to success, from making a splash on shows like Abby's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830847Author Valerien SvetlovFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint David LeonardPublisher David LeonardWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographsWinner of the 2005 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Publication in Dance Research"This work is not just reader friendly,...