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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

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and...

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",...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639236354Author Ojasi SukhatankarFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 113g

Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the connection between physical and fictional or virtual worlds: the fields of inquiry into the complex relationship between live performance and...

This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance. As 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...

This pivot offers an innovative approach to dance education, bringing a creative and inclusive dance education pedagogy into Chinese dance classrooms. Associate Professor Ralph Buck's experiences of teaching dance at the Beijing Dance Academy and the...

This 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...

This book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of "revaluing all values" alongside the religious rhetoric and subject matter evident in the work of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, who found justification and...

Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes studies of the dance and movement systems of varied global communities.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655788754Author Rustin MatthewFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint SpinesPublisher SpinesWeight(grams) 386g

This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings. It also demonstrates the potential for dance/movement therapy in prevention and wellness in clinical and...

This book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia. In the face of colonial legacies and extractive capitalism, it examines how Indigenous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639014181Author Elizabeth Drake-BoytFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891640407Author Yoshinobu InouraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Floating World EditionsPublisher Floating World EditionsWeight(grams)...

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to...

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513611129Author Sandy McQueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Sandy M McQueenPublisher Sandy M McQueenWeight(grams) 458g

This book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia. In the face of colonial legacies and extractive capitalism, it examines how Indigenous...

This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore...

The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history. Today territorial disputes in the region including China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia make it potentially one of the most dangerous points of conflict in Asia and millions of people...

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative...

This book is about dance’s relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language’s affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompany one...

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to...

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 as a poly-centric aesthetic-temporal...

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...