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Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities: Out Of The Shadows, Into The Light Geoffery Unkovich (He is a senior lecturer in DMP at the University of Roehampton) 9781138963313
RRP: £120.00£103.61This book provides an overview of dance movement psychotherapy for young people and adults with learning disabilities. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds examine their work with clients from across the disabilities spectrum, ranging from mild to... -
What Moves You?: Shaping your dissertation in dance by Charlotte Nichol 9781138857292
RRP: £135.00£117.28Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology. What Moves You? fosters a creative approach to dissertations and final projects. By... -
The Meaning of Movement: Embodied Developmental, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile by Janet Kestenberg Amighi 9781138484627
RRP: £125.00£108.26The new edition of The Meaning of Movement serves as a guide to instruction in the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and as the system's foremost reference book, sourcebook, and authoritative compendium. This thoroughly updated volume interweaves current... -
The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies by Helen Thomas 9781032085586
RRP: £42.99£37.59The 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... -
Foundations of Curative Eurythmy by Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt 9780863154669
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1921, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures on curative eurythmy. Over the subsequent years, as advice was sought in particular cases of illness, he added to the initial exercises and indications. For the benefit of those who did not attend the... -
Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice by Marilyn Grace Miller 9780822355663
RRP: £21.99£19.19From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin... -
Choreographing Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader by Mark Franko 9780815378969
RRP: £135.00£117.68Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly... -
Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore Stephanie Burridge 9780815369431
RRP: £45.99£41.60This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape, and its place in the city-state's social, cultural and... -
Movements of Interweaving: Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration Gabriele Brandstetter 9780815356233
RRP: £135.00£117.68Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a... -
A Dancer's Guide to Getting Work by Jenny Belingy 9780713669466
£25.15If you were born to dance, but are having difficulty with the first steps to stardom, this is the book for you. From finding the right training to getting an agent, from performing in music videos to working on the West End stage, this is a down-to-earth... -
Off the Ground: First Steps to a Philosophical Consideration of the Dance by Francis Edward Sparshott 9780691606118
RRP: £62.00£48.62What is dance, as seen from a philosopher's point of view? Why has dance played little part in traditional philosophies of the arts? And why do these philosophies of the arts take the form they do? The distinguished aesthetician Francis Sparshott... -
Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music by Kendra Stepputat 9781800730021
RRP: £107.00£86.17Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, particularly in as it relates to the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five... -
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance: Anthropologies of Sound and Movement by Evangelos Chrysagis 9781789208382
RRP: £27.95£22.58Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in... -
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance: Anthropologies of Sound and Movement by Evangelos Chrysagis 9781785334535
RRP: £99.00£79.83Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in... -
Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers by Allegra Romita 9780197586822
RRP: £20.99£19.07Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance training can unwittingly compromise the diligent efforts during classwork and rehearsals. The book goes... -
Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance by Ann R. David 9781350166196
£82.62Both a biography and a history, this book explores the significant role that Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) played in bringing Indian dance to international audiences from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Almost single-handedly, Gopal changed the... -
Mary Wigman by Mary Anne Santos Newhall 9781138572737
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book considers dancer, teacher, and choreographer Mary Wigman, a leading innovator in Expressionist dance whose radical explorations of movement and dance theory are credited with expanding the scope of dance as a theatrical art. Now reissued, this... -
Performance Generating Systems in Dance: Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity by Pil Hansen 9781789388763
RRP: £24.95£23.23Performance generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgies that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance, such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured... -
Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music by Kendra Stepputat 9781805391449
RRP: £27.95£22.58Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and... -
Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices by Rosemary Candelario 9780367703080
RRP: £125.00£107.86The only comprehensive textbook on dance research methodologies that covers all the main areas of dance research, previously only covered in individual books with narrower scope. Spans all areas of academic dance, including the main disciplines of dance... -
Dance in US Popular Culture Jennifer Atkins 9780367819842
RRP: £34.99£30.85This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in-and through-culture. By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture... -
Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History by Ray Miller 9781032121611
RRP: £125.00£107.86Traces the history and development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. A relevant text to meet the growing interest in Musical Theatre... -
Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home by Caroline Frizell 9781032119816
RRP: £120.00£103.61Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education, somatics and performance. With contributors... -
Dancing for The Gods - The Nora Bird Dance of Southern Thailand by Marlane Guelden 9789748434070
£34.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789748434070Author Marlane GueldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint White Lotus Co LtdPublisher White Lotus Co Ltd -
Theatre in Theory 1900–2000 – An Anthology by D Krasner 9781405140430
RRP: £110.95£96.92Theatre 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... -
Improvised Dance: (In)Corporeal Knowledges by Nalina Wait 9781032438276
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal... -
The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice by Franc Chamberlain 9781138646629
RRP: £34.99£30.85The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world's key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners... -
The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice by Franc Chamberlain 9781138646612
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world's key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners... -
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Corpus Based Approach by Fabio Ciambella 9780367541194
RRP: £16.99£15.22This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard's contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined... -
Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher by Cynthia Roses-Thema 9780367634599
RRP: £19.99£17.69Floating Bones charts the author's journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one's body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the... -
Dance Cultures Around the World by Lynn E. Frederiksen 9781492572329
RRP: £100.00£82.86Written by a diverse group of authors from across the globe, Dance Cultures Around the World offers students a rich and in-depth look at 25 different cultures of dance. Through a dynamic collaboration with the chapter authors, editors Lynn E. Frederiksen... -
Burlesque: Exotic Dancers of the 50s and 60s by Judson Rosebush 9780764336676
RRP: £22.99£15.65Presented here are 125 burlesque queens and belly dancing stars from the 1950s and 1960s portrayed in 8" x 10" glossy "booking photos." These attention-grabbing and sometimes startling photos are the publicity shots that dancers... -
Dancers After Dark by Jordan Matter 9780761189336
RRP: £15.99£13.37A celebration of the human body and spirit in more than 100 photographs - all nude, all taken at night. These photographs illustrate the hard work and the dedication it takes to succeed in dancing, acting, photography - or really any creative endeavour... -
Doorway to Ecstasy: A Dancer's Initiation by Sherry Brier
RRP: £17.95£14.90Apologies 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)... -
The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia: Mirroring the Master by Arjun Raina
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia.A rigorous analysis and detailed documentation of the teaching of multiple learners in Melbourne, both in the group... -
Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy by Sondra Fraleigh
RRP: £91.00£78.92Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Sondra Fraleigh chronicles the growth of this provocative art form... -
Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance: Unbecoming Rhythms by Jonas Rutgeerts
RRP: £89.95£84.30Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance develops a new framework to understand how temporality is performed in contemporary dance. It combines an in-depth analysis of the choreographic practices of Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Ivana... -
National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame: Celebrating 30 Years by Lisa Schlansker Kolosek
RRP: £32.81£21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438467450Author Lisa Schlansker KolosekFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press -
Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics: The Flowing Live Present by Sondra Fraleigh
RRP: £94.95£88.91This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. It is based in methods of phenomenology. A new collection of essays previously published with Intellect as journal... -
Improvised Dance: (In)Corporeal Knowledges by Nalina Wait
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal...