Dance

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...

From 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...

A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of the twentieth century. The creator of iconic works such as Blues Suite, Revelations, and Cry, he is...

Everything from early conceptual work through performance and touring are covered in this how-to book for dance management. Dancers will create a fictional company and follow it through a myriad of steps and complexities necessary for a successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615728186Author Erik SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint MovespeakspinPublisher MovespeakspinWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789874295330Author Mora Noel SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Adrian Hector LunaPublisher Adrian Hector LunaWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

This book analyses the world-renowned Belgian choreographer's key approaches and dramaturgical strategies through selected case studies from his oeuvre between 2000 and 2010, from Rien de Rien to Babel(words). It investigates Cherkaoui's choreographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950864737Author HowexpertFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint HowexpertPublisher HowexpertWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

Amidst 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...

Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom, has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306800948Author Leo KersleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette Books

This book offers insights and guidelines for teaching the best students. Staying true to the Russian Academy of Ballet (St. Petersburg) pedagogy that he has taught for forty years, ""Advanced Principles in Teaching Classical Ballet"" is a continuation of...

Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its origins have been obscured by misinformation and conjecture, rooted in Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East-a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963288042Author Tony ParkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Hands Four ProductionsPublisher Hands Four ProductionsWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm)...

Functional Awareness and Yoga is an essential book for all who wishes to deepen their yoga practice and discover strategies to reduce strain or discomfort on the mat as well as in daily life. It is also an excellent book of introductory concepts in...

Ishtyle follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing the cultural practices they are most familiar with into these spaces, these men accent the aesthetics of...

"Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and...

This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance makers: Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, Shanti Bardhan, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and Ranjabati...

This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security.This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470173435Author Kyle FromanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm)...

In 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...

What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film-the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of "casting" an actor in a part...

Theatre in Theory is the most complete anthology documenting 20th-century dramatic and performance theory to date, offering a rich variety of perspectives from the century's most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers. Includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516297Author Stephanie RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 235mm *...

There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830274Author Anatole BourmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The Noverre PressPublisher The Noverre PressWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research. The book commences with an introduction that privileges...

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments.It locates these features both historically-within dance in particular social and cultural...

Tandem 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...

Part memoir, part dance history, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, and spiritual development. Women who dance offer perspectives on such questions as: How do dancers deal with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476681993Author Sherifa ZuhurFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 178g

Dancer 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843423300Author John CharnockFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886547832Author Darrell MichaelFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

'Earth Bound Companions' is a collection of poems written about animals in Scots and English by Poet William Hershaw, with illustrations by Artist Les McConnell. The title is taken from the Robert Burns poem 'To A Mouse'. The poems and paintings were...

Apologies 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

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648917776Author HowexpertFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint HowexpertPublisher HowexpertWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Teaching What You Want to Learn distills the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today's dance instructor. From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into action, to...