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This book provides a critical understanding of dance studies in India, bringing together various embodied practices identified loosely as dance. It suggests an alternative reading of the history of patronage, policies, and institutionalized understanding...

This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze. Rather than a discussion of African dance per se, the author challenges hegemonic perceptions of contemporary...

This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn. It focuses on the concept of intersubjectivity and theorises about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777004637Author Gabor PalosFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Gabor PalosPublisher Gabor PalosWeight(grams) 86g

This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms in the particular context of that...

This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms in the particular context of that...

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639018974Author Cynthia Roses-ThemaFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783843360043Author Dr Jill HayesFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 408g

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 focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural...

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...

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 uses ethnographic research to examine the role of dance in the construction of identity in the distinctly British electronic dance music club culture of drum 'n' bass. Dancing is revealed as the central way in which drum 'n' bass clubbers...

This study is the first monograph on the work of French choreographer Jerome Bel, following his artistic trajectory from the beginning of his career as a choreographer in 1994 to his most recent piece in 2016. It contains an overview and in-depth...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639003642Author Verena AnkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334547Author Matthew ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 358g

This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze. Rather than a discussion of African dance per se, the author challenges hegemonic perceptions of contemporary...

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 guidance in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926798332Author Sandra Vander SchaafFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Clements PublishingPublisher Clements PublishingWeight(grams) 203g

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...

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830496Author Prince Serge WolkonskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Noverre PressPublisher Noverre PressWeight(grams) 413g

It was indeed an adventure for those pioneers in France who struggled for the recognition of the new-born dance of the twentieth century - from the free dance of Isadora Duncan, through the absolute dance of Mary Wigman, to the modern dance of Martha...

The Screendance Practitioner's Workbook: A Pre-Production Guide for Creativity and Organizationtakes artists through a step-by-step process of considerations before filming a screendance. From picking a project theme and location scouting, to creating...

A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an international range of scholars and subsequently creating a critical dialogue for approaching this fundamental topic...

What is the legacy of Martha Graham and why does it endure? How and why did the philosophy and subsequent canon of Martha Graham flood out into an artistic diaspora that is still a wellspring of inspiration for contemporary artists? How do dancers that...

From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre. Through the integration of song and dance in the 'dream ballets' of choreographers like Agnes De Mille; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039105571Author Gabriella GiannachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 437Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 600g

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 9783639140279Author Jennifer de LeonFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639100815Author Young-Eun NohFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 181g

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.Springer Book ArchivesAbout the...

This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance makers: Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, Shanti Bardhan, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and Ranjabati...

This book takes choreographer William Forsythe’s choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228859437Author Lyn RoewadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 349g

Movements 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...

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Dance 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...