Dance

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,...

Maddox was bright and boisterous. His life was full of friends, dancing and skating! One day a mysterious illness threatened to take that away. Only his little sister, Tilda knew the truth! A book about epilepsy for children and young...

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented...

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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,...

A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcendence of itself. Exploring dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a...

This is the loose-leaf version of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, Third Edition, which offers students a less expensive printed version of the text. Karen Clippinger's first two editions of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology were hailed as the standard in the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036715Author Chloe AngyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm...

Ballet and Modern Dance meets the needs of both students and inquisitive dance goers through a narrative focused on the development of Western theatrical dance from the Renaissance to the first decades of the 21st century, incorporating the most recent...

Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as "belly dance." Eyewitness accounts...

The origins of the art of exotic dancing lie in English drama and Viennese opera: Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, and Richard Strauss's 1905 opera based on it, brought onto the stage a female character who captured and dominated the audience with the raw...

First published in 1969 in Russian by one of the world's most respected experts on partnering, the original book was created for the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, the school that produced Pavlova and Nijinsky. This expanded edition contains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914308017Author A. S. FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Neonoir BooksPublisher Neonoir Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852731861Author David VaughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint David LeonardPublisher David LeonardWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *...

Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and...

A classic study of physiology and the effect of psychological processes on movement that has a mind/body approach, which makes it a favorite of dancers.Reviews"Still ahead of much contemporary practice in movement education." --Martha Meyers, Dance...

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 a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and professional experiences to explore alternative approaches...

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...

Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as...

This book examines the relation between bodies and political economies at micro and macro levels. It stands in the space between ends and beginnings - some long-desired, such as the end of capitalism and racism, and others long-dreaded, such as the...

Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms.This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of traditional performing arts in Bali-among the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical...

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures,...

This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers. Events took place at key cultural institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts,...

This study focuses on dance as an activist practice in and of itself, across geographical locations and over the course of a century, from 1920 to 2020. Through doing so, it considers how dance has been an empowering agent for political action throughout...