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Mindful 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 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

These 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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)...

This 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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.

With 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...

Through 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,...

The 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 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...

This 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...

This 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...

This 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,...

Apologies 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

This 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 expands critical inquiry and knowledge about contemporary dancers' embodied experiences in the practice. The work features original interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary,...

This 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,...

This 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...

This 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...

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...

This 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...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223111580Author Sas155Format PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Sas155Publisher Sas155Weight(grams) 254g

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 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...

Tracing 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 *...

This 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 features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection...

Apologies 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...

This 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...

People 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",...