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This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices. Following extensive research on the method developed by Rudolf von Laban and his disciples, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060779245Author Rodney DangerfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254g

Praise for the first volume:'It is very valuable to have [this collection of articles] all together in one place...a rich repository of insights and experiences for all the somatic disciplines. It is a wonderful collection of articles.' - Somatics This...

"This is the book on K-pop everybody has been waiting for....A must-read!" -Charlotte Naudin, PR Manager, Torpedo ProductionsK-Pop Now! examines Korea's high-energy pop music and is written for its growing legions of fans. Pop culture expert Mark Russell...

How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World presents a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world. Author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to...

From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in "dancing goddesses," mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist,...

Dame Beryl's life is defined by her love of dance. Both as a ballerina and an Artistic Director she helped make British ballet the powerhouse it is today. Knowing and working with virtually everyone in dance, she reveals fascinating insights into the...

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making...

A look inside a dancer's worldInspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a...

A Dance Book Club main selection, this guide offers a general explanation of anatomy, kinesiology, and technique for ballet dancers, students, and teachers.Book InformationISBN 9780871271914Author Valerie GriegFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint...

Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible. By incorporating zodiac gestures into their art, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner, eurythmists can draw on a deep connection between the earth and the cosmos.The zodiac, as representative of the whole...

This book focuses on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the importance of self-regulation and co-regulation. The chapters attend to self-regulating different tissues through movement, breath, sound and the imagination. Throughout the book the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386906885Author Rachna RamyaFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi BooksWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 180mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999119235Author Christine E GoodnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Brookside Suzuki Strings, LLCPublisher Brookside Suzuki Strings, LLCWeight(grams)...

The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of...

Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas", The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the former League of Exotic Dancers, one of the earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, to perform their...

Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders is written with an insider's understanding of the unique needs and pressures of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956530615Author Sally BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Pirotta Press LtdPublisher Pirotta Press LtdWeight(grams) 296gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The 'Female' Dancer aims to question dancers' relationships with 'female' through the examination and understandings of biological, anatomical, scientific, and self-social identity. The volume gathers voices of dance scientists, dance scholars, somatic...

The definitive work on the life, achievements and theory of the great choreographer Rudolf Laban Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) has been a seminal influence on the arts in this century...

Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last...

This title provides a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. ""I Want To Be Ready"" draws on original archival research, careful readings of individual performances, and a thorough...

In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches...

One woman embarked on a dance journey around the world, finding out how each dance tells a story of its country and learning how beautiful life can be when you take the lead.If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be? Alienor Salmon was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909141643Author Lauren KearnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Handspring Publishing LimitedPublisher Jessica Kingsley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981658643Author Janet JergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dance Teacher PressPublisher Dance Teacher PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563260Author Rosina-Fawzia Al-RawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569754108Author Tamalyn DallalFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 378g

Despite Prohibition, the 20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman s Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692433744Author Katayoun HutsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Mosaique LLCPublisher Mosaique LLCWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

The study of 'subjective wellbeing' has seen explosive growth in recent decades, opening important new discourses in personality and social psychology, happiness economics, and moral philosophy. Now it is moving into the policy domain. In this it has...

The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for...

This is the unique story of Louise Weber, better known as La Goulue. She became the undisputed Queen of the Moulin Rouge cabaret and the most famous dancer in France in the late 19th century. Toulouse Lautrec immortalized her in his world renowned poster...

Pina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595123Author Mel GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 461g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645140856Author Evan-Moor Educational PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Evan-Moor Educational PublishersPublisher Evan-Moor Educational...

The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Chemistry Teacher Handbook offers full support to help teachers embed a solid foundation at Lower Secondary level and ensure students develop the skills required to progress to IGCSE Chemistry. The Handbook...

This book provides a full guide to creating and running an intensive treatment program for youth with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It offers readers a guidebook on how to administer evidence-based treatments for OCD, including cognitive behavior...

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of...