Dance

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...

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...

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

For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571280Author Laurence LouppeFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945884719Author Bernard M PattenFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Identity PublicationsPublisher Identity PublicationsWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

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,...

This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews. Beginning with an analysis of flamenco...

By relating the development of modern dance to movements in painting, architecture, drama, and music, the book prompts students to develop a keen ear for emerging trends in the arts as a continual resource for dance.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989846301Author Sherry BrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Inner Rhythm ProductionsPublisher Inner Rhythm ProductionsWeight(grams)...

The literature on Balanchine is large, but it is primarily biographical. ""Balanchine Variations"" is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descriptions of what the dancers actually do.Beginning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938493072Author Jill MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Buzz Books USAPublisher Buzz Books USAWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903006122Author Anthony HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grey Suit EditionsPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated field of practice to articulate a philosophy of agency and...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879722418Author TIMMERMANFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin...

Based on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira-a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines feats of great strength and athleticism with music and poetry-and a...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish, as preserved in texts from Spain from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. After discussing general...