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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 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,...

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments-unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763507844Author Dorita HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

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 9780615728186Author Erik SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint MovespeakspinPublisher MovespeakspinWeight(grams) 322g

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdogan.In this book,...

This book reveals what it was like for TV and radio professionals to report the most terrifying story of their lives -- and our time. Candid first-hand accounts take you to Ground Zero in New York, as well as to the crash sites in Pennsylvania and...

Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.Performing Pedagogy examines the theory and practice of performance art as an art of politics. It discusses the different ways in which performance artists use...

"What is strikingly new about Miss Siegel's achievement is that she goes beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment...She performs on behalf of this most evanescent of the arts an act of significant recovery. By tracking down - often in rare stage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871272850Author Anne DunkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Princeton Book CompanyPublisher Princeton Book CompanyWeight(grams) 387g

During the Cold War, dancers and musicians from the United States and the USSR were drawn into the battle for hearts and minds, crossing the Iron Curtain to prove their artistic and ideological prowess. After the passage of the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement,...

Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through more than 200 critiques in that magazine, she confirmed a classical aesthetic framework for dance, influencing the work of numerous contemporary...

Arthur Barnes--"The 100 Somersault Man"--was the world's greatest acrobat, a legend of the circus. He toured for 23 years with the biggest companies in Britain, Europe and the United States, performing for all the crowned heads, as well as for Abraham...

Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences quickly discovered he could do anything and everything, from tightrope walking and acrobatics to song-and-dance, musical comedies, and straight...

White Screens, Black Dance analyzes the film and television dances of male screen stars in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. Unpacking the complex physical and visual codes performed by four case studies--the Nicholas Brothers, Gene...

What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a...

La danse a inspire la litterature, et la litterature a inspire la danse. Mais comment fonctionne exactement l'articulation entre les deux, et quelles sont les consequences de leur reciprocite ? Cet ouvrage analyse ce lien depuis la Renaissance jusqu'a...

The music and dance traditions of Ghana's four main ethnic groups are covered comprehensively in this book. It discusses concepts of music, dance and performance in general, and also goes into cultural perspectives, performance practices and the form...

Through the writings of noted Chinese philosophers, scholars, artists, and critics from the time of Confucius to the present, this rich compendium provides a fascinating guided tour of China's evolving conceptions of theater and performance. The book's...

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830106Author F de LauzeFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint The Noverre PressPublisher The Noverre PressWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830038Author Raoul Auger FeuilletFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint The Noverre PressPublisher The Noverre PressWeight(grams) 262g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781338995Author Ineke VandevyvereFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink Press

Drawn partly from the scattered remnants of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and partly from extraordinary new talent, Colonel W. de Basil's company of dancers kept alive the heritage of the Russian ballet for a period spanning virtually twenty years. De...