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The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society by Judith Lynne Hanna
RRP: €27.36€23.81The Performer-Audience Connection is a pioneering foray into one of the major puzzles of human communication: the communication of emotion in dance. It is the first attempt of its kind systematically to investigate what performers wish to convey and... -
Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion by Susan Leigh Foster 9780190933982
RRP: €41.64€31.30Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing... -
Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine by Felicia McCarren
RRP: €33.31€28.73A 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... -
Mark Leckey: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore by Mitch Speed
RRP: €28.91€24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382079Author Mitch SpeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
A Child's Introduction to the Nutcracker: The Story, Music, Costumes, and Choreography of the Fairy Tale Ballet by Heather Alexander
RRP: €17.84€17.11A charmingly illustrated exploration of The Nutcracker ballet, from the story to the characters to the music, for kids aged 8 - 12 to enjoy. The Nutcracker is one of the world's most beloved and recognizable ballets. A holiday perennial, it is frequently... -
Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness by Renee K. Nicholson
RRP: €23.74€16.98Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.RenEe Nicholson's professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of... -
Periodisation: A Framework for Dance Training by Matthew Wyon
RRP: €27.36€23.93The training of elite dancers has not changed in the last 60 years; it is often only those that have survived the training that go on to have a career, not necessarily the most talented. It is time to challenge and change how we train tomorrow's... -
Dancing Motherhood by Ali Duffy 9780367619275
RRP: €42.83€37.71Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape... -
Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices by Rosemary Candelario
RRP: €39.26€34.70Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from... -
Basic Ballet: The Steps Defined by Joyce Mackie 9780140464450
RRP: €28.56€18.74All the basic movements in classical ballet, illustrated with 275 detailed photographs.This unique handbook shows all the basic positions, steps, and movements in classical ballet, arranged in the sequence of lessons usually followed over six years of... -
Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content) I Wayan Dibia 9780804852760
RRP: €17.84€11.66Discover 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... -
When I Open My Eyes: Dance Health Imagination by Miranda Tufnell 9781913743758
RRP: €29.75€24.16Celebrated dance artist and body therapist Miranda Tufnell takes us on a moving and inspiring exploration of the field of dance and health. For 14 years she worked in a GP surgery in Cumbria and the book opens with a vivid account of an arts project that... -
Capoeira by Bira Almeida
RRP: €21.41€14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780938190295Author Bira AlmeidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image by Erin Brannigan 9780195367249
RRP: €51.75€34.36Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It traces the history of the form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film... -
Chaplin's Music Hall by Barry Anthony 9781780763149
€61.81Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture... -
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Nair
RRP: €15.46€10.64The title of this book comes from the African proverb - "until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." In this poetic reimagining, Nair writes, for the first time, the history of the women in the... -
Black Dance from 1619 to Today by Lynne Fauley Emery 9780916622633
RRP: €35.64€33.63This is a complete history of black dance forms, including folk, ballet, jazz, tap, Broadway/Hollywood, disco, and breakdancing. It is an ultimate research tool with portraits of hundreds of important black dancers and choreographers.Book InformationISBN... -
Queer Dance by Clare Croft 9780199377336
RRP: €52.94€39.79If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures... -
Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and Evolution by Carol Lee
RRP: €44.02€39.19Ballet in Western Culture is a history of the development of ballet designed for dance history courses. After a brief discussion of the origins of dance through the middle ages, the author then traces the beginnings of ballet to Renaissance spectacle in... -
Dance Theatre Of Harlem: A History, A Movement, A Celebration by Judy Tyrus
RRP: €57.11€38.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496733603Author Judy TyrusFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing -
Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form by Cheryl Pallant 9780786426478
RRP: €26.17€21.38In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. Dancer, Steve Paxton in the 1970s considered this distance a territory for investigation. His study of intentional contact resulted... -
Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s by Carol Martin 9780878057016
RRP: €41.59€39.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878057016Author Carol MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of MississippiWeight(grams)... -
I KNOW WHO I AM WHEN I BELLY DANCE! A Handbook for Reclaiming Your True Feminine Self by Deleela Morad MA 9781601457882
€16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601457882Author Deleela Morad MAFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)... -
Strictly Ballroom Diana Melly 9781780722542
RRP: €13.08€9.28In this delightful and gently humorous book, Diana Melly takes us on an eye-opening tour of dance halls up and down the country, introducing us to everything from tango to swing.About the AuthorDiana Melly was married to the jazz musician George Melly... -
Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age by Michael Meylac 9781780768595
RRP: €59.50€44.84The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the... -
Rhythmic Subjects: Use of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham Dee Reynolds 9781852731120
€59.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852731120Author Dee ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Dance BooksPublisher Dance Books Ltd -
Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance by Susan Leigh Foster
RRP: €55.92€48.75"This is an urgently needed book - as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument." - Andre Lepecki, New York University"May well... -
Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design Gayle Kassing 9780736002400
RRP: €74.97€63.22- Explains, with sample unit plans, how to teach the basics of 10 popular dance forms for K-12 settings- Explains how to apply educational theories to dance - Presents dance education in context of the national standards for dance- Helps readers build... -
Ballet: The Definitive Illustrated Story by DK 9781465474780
€50.66Uncover the most mesmerizing moments in ballet history with this scintillating visual guide.Written with ballet legend Viviana Durante, this book will introduce you to the most famous performers and enthrall you with fascinating stories. Discover more... -
Balanchine: A Biography, With a new epilogue by Bernard Taper
RRP: €35.70€28.19Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of... -
The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities by Ramsay Burt
RRP: €42.83€37.71This 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... -
Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey by Julia L. Foulkes 9780807853672
RRP: €45.16€41.58This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous. It was in 1930 that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of ""dance as an... -
The Making of Markova: Diaghilev's Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon by Tina Sutton
RRP: €23.74€17.23In pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl is diagnosed with flat feet, knock knees, and weak legs. In short order, Lilian Alicia Marks would become a dance prodigy, the cherished baby ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev, and the youngest ever soloist at... -
Hiking the Horizontal by Liz Lerman
RRP: €22.55€21.18The 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... -
The Royal Ballet Yearbook: 2016/17 by Royal Ballet
RRP: €23.79€23.34The Royal Ballet Yearbook series is back, with extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content - in addition to the usual selection of beautiful ballet images. Featuring lavish photographs of last Season's performances, a special... -
Embodied Lives: Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement Katya Bloom 9781909470323
RRP: €29.75€24.16Since the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has delighted and inspired thousands of people in the West (as well as many more in his native Java) who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise influenced by his Amerta Movement practice. But what is... -
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance by Peter Harrop
RRP: €47.59€42.91This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices... -
Musical Theatre Choreography: Reflections of My Artistic Process for Staging Musicals by Linda Sabo 9780578221397
RRP: €32.07€26.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578221397Author Linda SaboFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Farnham Academy PressPublisher Farnham Academy PressWeight(grams) 608g -
Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance by Anna Pakes 9780199988228
€44.30Dance 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... -
The Body as a Vessel by Kayo Mikami 9780993158742
€36.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993158742Author Kayo MikamiFormat HardbackImprint Ozaru BooksPublisher Ozaru BooksWeight(grams) 797g