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Mindful Rigor: Holistic Training to Enhance Dance Performance by Lisa D. Long 9781793581525
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $62.27Mindful Rigor: Holistic Training to Enhance Dance Performance establishes a framework for integrating mindfulness into dance practice and performance. Clarifying the significance of mindfulness for dancers, the book begins by building awareness of this... -
World Dance History: Ritual, Politics, Global Engagement, and Citizenship by Debi Worth 9781793550613
Booksplease Price: $152.36World Dance History: Ritual, Politics, Global Engagement, and Citizenship provides readers with a comprehensive exploration of dance across a multitude of cultures and eras. The text examines the relationship between dance and society, interrogating... -
Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music by Pil Hansen 9781350118843
Booksplease Price: $47.50This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and... -
The Art of Dance - 2023 Exhibition Catalogue, Birley Studios, Preston, UK by Anthony Padgett 9781447868392
Booksplease Price: $15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447868392Author Anthony PadgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 236g -
Liebe Hanya by 9780299190743
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.10These vividly written letters document the lives of two remarkable women artists who were at the center of twentieth-century dance modernism. Mary Wigman's groundbreaking choreography and inspired performing in Germany during the 1910s and 1920s brought... -
Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music by Pil Hansen 9781474284714
Booksplease Price: $145.91This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and... -
The Engineer's Guide to Hustle Dancing by Michael Yusim 9781581128246
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581128246Author Michael YusimFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
The People's Dance: The Power and Politics of Guangchang Wu by Rose Martin 9789811591655
Booksplease Price: $74.23This book presents the first analysis in English of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance' in China has become a national phenomenon. Through oral narratives offering rich descriptions of lived encounters, the experiences of those... -
Contemporary Dance Choreography and Spectatorship: Embodied Emotion by Lucía Piquero Álvarez 9783031449611
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $133.00This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itself—its materials, its structures—as a medium of emotional communication. Contemporary dance often seems to contend with issues of... -
Studying Dance Cultures around the World: An Introduction to Multicultural Dance Education by Pegge Vissicaro 9781524924454
Booksplease Price: $128.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524924454Author Pegge VissicaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. -
Writing Dancing Together by Valerie A. Briginshaw 9781349358465
Booksplease Price: $60.29With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to... -
Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism by Royona Mitra 9781137393654
RRP: $147.06Booksplease Price: $145.90Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses,... -
Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance by Daniela Perazzo Domm 9783030276799
Booksplease Price: $93.73The first monograph on the work of British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, this book examines his artistic practice and poetics as articulated through his choreographic works, his writings and his contributions to current performance debates. It... -
Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick by 9780367680770
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.40Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the... -
Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism by Alexandra Kolb 9783039113514
RRP: $66.31Booksplease Price: $61.21This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction between choreography and literary writing in German modernism. It explores the connections between dance, literature and gender... -
Cultural Dance in Australia: Essays on performance contexts beyond the Pale by Jeanette Mollenhauer 9789811959028
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $145.90This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural... -
Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra: Celebrating Dance in North East India by Ralph Buck 9781032504988
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $45.09This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys,... -
Mime & Movement Manual: A Nonverbal Communication Primer for Aspiring Performers by Brennan Meyer 9798348484910
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348484910Author Brennan MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Brennan MeyerPublisher Brennan MeyerWeight(grams) 154g -
Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice by Aoife McGrath 9783319667386
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $117.88This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland. Bringing together key voices from a new wave of scholarship to examine recent practice and research in the field of contemporary dance, it examines the... -
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance by Shantel Ehrenberg 9783030734022
RRP: $96.74Booksplease Price: $92.29Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance expands critical inquiry and knowledge about contemporary dancers' embodied experiences in the practice. The work features original interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary,... -
Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance: South-South Choreographies by Ananya Chatterjea 9783030439149
RRP: $103.19Booksplease Price: $92.29This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a "South-South" axis,... -
Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South by Eric Mullis 9783030293130
Booksplease Price: $93.73This book investigates how Pragmatist philosophy as a philosophical method contributes to the understanding and practice of interdisciplinary dance research. It uses the author's own practice-based research project, Later Rain, to illustrate this. Later... -
Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South by Eric Mullis 9783030293161
Booksplease Price: $93.73This book investigates how Pragmatist philosophy as a philosophical method contributes to the understanding and practice of interdisciplinary dance research. It uses the author's own practice-based research project, Later Rain, to illustrate this. Later... -
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Dramaturgy and Engaged Spectatorship by Lise Uytterhoeven 9783030278151
Booksplease Price: $87.23This 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... -
A History of Irish Ballet from 1927 to 1963 by Victoria O'Brien 9783039118731
RRP: $49.99Booksplease Price: $46.83This work presents a detailed study of the five key ballet organisations that operated in Ireland between 1927 and 1963: the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet, the Abbey School of Ballet, the Sara Payne School and Company, the Irish Ballet Club and the... -
Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identities by J. Roche 9781137429841
Booksplease Price: $78.15This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic... -
Rhythmic Moves: A Journey Through the Art of Dance by Sas155 9798223111580
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $19.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223111580Author Sas155Format PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Sas155Publisher Sas155Weight(grams) 254g -
Dancing Out of the Closet - Totally True Stories (hardback) by Matthew Shaffer 9781629334554
RRP: $36.25Booksplease Price: $34.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334554Author Matthew ShafferFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 526g -
Chamber by Shaun McLeod 9783639045451
RRP: $52.46Booksplease Price: $48.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639045451Author Shaun McLeodFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 95g -
Tribal Dancing by W D Hambly 9781906830014
Booksplease Price: $28.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830014Author W D HamblyFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint The Noverre PressPublisher The Noverre PressWeight(grams) 514g -
Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the Human–Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing by Anna Dako 9781789386936
RRP: $128.94Booksplease Price: $116.45Dances with Sheep presents the methodology of Felt Thinking in Movement as an eco-somatic practice inspired by re-thinking nature of being human, as well as contextualises it within wider frameworks of cultural, philosophical and therapeutic viewpoints... -
Dancing Genius: The Stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky by Hanna Jarvinen 9781137407726
Booksplease Price: $119.70Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are... -
Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies by Jade Rosina McCutcheon 9781137320049
Booksplease Price: $61.22This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, conscious studies, methods of training performers, modes of creating a staged narrative, Asian aesthetics, and post-modern theories of performance in an examination of the relationship between... -
Prodigy Performance Habits by Rustin Matthew 9789655788747
Booksplease Price: $19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655788747Author Rustin MatthewFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint SpinesPublisher SpinesWeight(grams) 245g -
Burlesque: A Collection of Comedy Blackouts by Jane Briggeman 9781593932213
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593932213Author Jane BriggemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Finding Common Ground within Rural Dance Studio Classes in Aotearoa by Kristie Mortimer 9789811611704
Booksplease Price: $74.23This book provides a critical reflection on the ways dance studio teachers recognize, reflect and respond to cultural difference within their dance studio classes, particularly in the rural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Through dance teachers'... -
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance by Shantel Ehrenberg 9783030734053
RRP: $96.74Booksplease Price: $92.29Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection... -
The Complete Book Of Square Dancing: And Round Dancing by 9781574411195
Booksplease Price: $24.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574411195Author University of North Texas PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint University of North Texas Press,U.S.Publisher University of North... -
Dancing Across the Lifespan: Negotiating Age, Place, and Purpose by Pam Musil 9783030828684
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $145.90This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance. As a novel collection of diverse authors’ voices, this edited book traverses the human lifespan from early childhood to death as it negotiates a breadth of dance experiences and... -
Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit: Staging Popular Dances Around the World by Anthony Shay 9781349955176
Booksplease Price: $148.17People all over the world dance traditional and popular dances that have been staged for purposes of representing specific national and ethnic groups. Anthony Shay suggests these staged dance productions be called "ethno identity dances",...