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Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) by Heike Walz
£63.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525568545Author Heike WalzFormat HardbackImprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams) 155g -
Processing Choreography - Thinking with William Forsythe's 'Duo' by Elizabeth Waterhouse
RRP: £53.99£43.87Told from the perspective of the dancers, "Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo" is an ethnography reconstructing the dancers' activity within William Forsythe's "Duo" project, written legibly for readers in... -
You, the Choreographer: Creating and Crafting Dance Vladimir Angelov 9780367444464
RRP: £59.99£51.93YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography. The book is designed for readers at every stage of creative... -
Jazz Gentry: Aristocrats of the Music World by Warren W. Vaché
£107.43Based on more than twenty years of interviews and first-hand knowledge of the people featured in Jazz Gentry, this factual account of the years between World Wars I and II explores the era that saw the development of a number of exceptional breakthroughs... -
Revealing the Inner Contours of Human Emotion: Preserving the Ballets of Anthony Tudor by Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
RRP: £19.95£18.80Antony Tudor stands as one of the pillars of twentieth-century ballet choreography. An English born choreographer who found a home in the United States, Tudor gained renown as the most innovative choreographer of his day. He explored the inner contours... -
Dance Appreciation by Amanda Clark
RRP: £35.99£32.09Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social, cultural, aesthetic, and kinetic aspects of various... -
Elementary Dance Education: Nature-Themed Creative Movement and Collaborative Learning by Janice Pomer
RRP: £44.00£37.21Children love to observe, explore, learn, and create.Elementary Dance Education helps them do all four. And it does so in a unique way, shaping its movement activities around nature themes. In fact, all of the learning experiences are based on different... -
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre: Movement, memory and metaphor by Libby Worth
RRP: £135.00£117.28Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the... -
Dance Appreciation by Dawn Loring
RRP: £83.00£69.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492592587Author Dawn LoringPage Count 216Imprint Human KineticsPublisher Human Kinetics Publishers -
Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice Emma Meehan (Coventry University) 9781783208951
RRP: £78.95£69.15Increasingly, choreographic process is examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives and seminars provide opportunities for... -
Milestones in Dance History Dana Tai Soon Burgess 9781032029405
RRP: £34.99£30.85This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses,... -
Traversing Tradition: Celebrating Dance in India Urmimala Sarkar Munsi 9781138662889
RRP: £47.99£41.81Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India... -
Beyond the Apsara: Celebrating Dance in Cambodia Stephanie Burridge 9781138662629
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book celebrates and documents the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the infamous Pol Pot regime. It honours the remarkable commitment of the few remaining masters of the art of dance who are reviving and... -
Mary Wigman Mary Anne Santos Newhall (University of New Mexico, USA) 9781138572744
RRP: £36.99£32.53This 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... -
Identity and Diversity: Celebrating Dance in Taiwan Wang Yunyu 9781138662940
RRP: £53.99£46.87Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia-Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan's dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with... -
Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities Pallabi Chakravorty 9781138215511
RRP: £135.00£117.68Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume... -
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia by Rachmi Diyah Larasati
RRP: £21.99£19.19Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966,... -
Choreographing Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader Mark Franko 9780815378983
RRP: £36.99£32.53Choreographing 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... -
Choreographing Shakespeare: Dance Adaptations of the Plays and Poems by Elizabeth Klett
RRP: £135.00£117.28Choreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakespeare. This book investigates forty dance works in genres such as ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop,... -
Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz by Bettina Vernon-Warren
RRP: £135.00£117.28First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057550355Author Bettina Vernon-WarrenFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
Sharing Identities: Celebrating Dance in Malaysia by Mohd Anis Md Nor
RRP: £47.99£41.81This anthology celebrates dancing diversities in Malaysia, a multicultural nation with old and not-so-old dance traditions in a synchronicity of history, creativity, inventions and representation of its people, culture and traditions. These articles and... -
Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: International Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice by Helen Payne
RRP: £115.00£99.36Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy contributes to the global interest in embodiment approaches to psychotherapy and to the field of dance movement psychotherapy specifically. It includes recent research, innovative theories and case studies of... -
Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher by Cynthia Roses-Thema
RRP: £53.99£46.87Floating 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,... -
Contemporary PerforMemory - Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century Layla Zami 9783837655254
RRP: £43.99£35.94Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical... -
Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine by Nicholas Rowe
£60.63Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th... -
Teaching What You Want to Learn: A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers by James William Evans
RRP: £31.99£28.33Teaching What You Want to Learn distils the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today's dance instructor. From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into... -
Performance Generating Systems in Dance: Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity Pil Hansen (University of Calgary) 9781789386400
RRP: £84.95£73.88Performance 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... -
Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories: Trans-Historical Perspectives Beyond Dance and Human Bodies in Motion by Anna Leon
RRP: £54.99£44.67From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded... -
Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness by Jenefer Davies
RRP: £135.00£113.38Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging, equipment, advice on optimal conditioning, and a step-by-step guide to technique, including anatomical references, space and... -
Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages by Pallabi Chakravorty
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed... -
The Early History of Eurythmy Rudolf Steiner 9781621480723
RRP: £30.00£24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480723Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Revisions by Yvonne Rainer
RRP: £23.00£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484052Author Yvonne RainerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press -
Dance Studies in China: Selected Writings from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy Deng Youling 9781789385274
RRP: £75.00£70.51Dance Studies in China is a collection of articles selected from issues of the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated for an English-speaking audience. Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitment to... -
Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations: Dancing Modernity by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
RRP: £109.99£99.71This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b - 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male... -
Nordic Dance Spaces: Practicing and Imagining a Region by Petri Hoppu
RRP: £49.99£43.50Dance has been connected to the practices and ideologies that have shaped notions of a Nordic region for more than a century and it is ingrained into the culture and society of the region. This book investigates different dance phenomena that have either... -
Lighting Dance: A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio 9780367219178
£37.16Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as... -
Choreography: The Basics by Jenny Roche
RRP: £94.99£82.35This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography as both a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice. Providing invaluable practical... -
Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Dance in Australia Stephanie Burridge 9781138660083
RRP: £47.99£43.75This, the fourth book in the series 'Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and the landscape. It looks at... -
Moving Oceans: Celebrating Dance in the South Pacific by Ralph Buck
RRP: £130.00£112.11Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of... -
Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice by Marilyn Grace Miller
RRP: £85.00£73.81From 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...