Dance

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423474722Author Charles De BeriotPage Count 15Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Bringing together scholars and researchers in one volume, this study investigates how the thinking of the Ukrainian-Israeli somatic educationalist Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-84) can benefit and reflect upon the creative practices of dance, music and theatre...

Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social, cultural, aesthetic, and kinetic aspects of various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692477892Author Bob BorossFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Bob BorossPublisher Bob BorossWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition. Touchdown Dance was the research 'ambition' of dancer Steve Paxton and theatre maker and...

In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830687Author Cyril W BeaumontFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint David LeonardPublisher David LeonardWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to...

A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: ...

A lively discussion of North America's favorite ballet-its history, productions, and significance The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas...

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First...

Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their...

This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily)...

This book is about the intersection of two evolving dance-historical realms-theory and practice-during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. France was the source of works on notation, choreography, and repertoire that dominated European dance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935150718Author Antero AlliFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Original Falcon PressPublisher Original Falcon PressWeight(grams) 268g

This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn. It focuses on the concept of intersubjectivity and theorises about...

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...

Beginning Jazz Dance is the perfect resource for helping students gain a strong foundation of beginning jazz dance techniques. Written by jazz dance choreographer and professor James Robey, this text prepares students to have a successful experience in a...

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...