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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...

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Moe Yamamoto,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449912287Author Warren EcksteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

Dance and the Christian Faith is an examination of dance and worship in the context of the bible; the book is a critical discussion of religious dance and how it can be used in the church and in education today. Martin Blogg explores, in both theoretical...

N=omai dance drama, an artistic expression combining sacred, communal, economic, and cultural spheres of community life in the district of Higashidorimura, is a performing tradition that provides an identity to agriculturally based villages. It has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982799574Author Nick EngeFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Redowa PressPublisher Redowa PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm

This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place within the global flow of sojourners, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and tourists from the...

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space...

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space...

Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and...

A musical experience is marked by the synthesis of passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and mind. Ferrara demonstrates that each method of musical analysis confines musical significance to a single level: formal methods explain...

This fascinating book explores the rich history of exhibition ballroom dancing from its heyday in the 1910s to the present. Julie Malnig's record of this intimate, theatrical genre of dance features male-female teams--idolized as theatre personalities in...

The Chilkat Dancing Blanket is the life story of a magnificent woven robe which graced the shoulders of Indian nobility from Yakutat, Alaska to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. From the legendary origins of this weaving, the story unfolds to tell of...

The dancers profiled in First Position represent the pinnacle of their art over the last century. Author Toba Singer polled scores of dance critics, dance teachers and professors, and active and retired professional dancers to create a list that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648949206Author Dianne LeathemFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Publicious Pty LtdPublisher Publicious Pty LtdWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This overview of folk dancing in the United States showcases an important historical movement and explains how folk dance communities evolved to fulfill the needs of specific groups of people over time.While the general term "folk dance" encompasses a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648671909Author Jen DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Publicious Pty LtdPublisher Publicious Pty LtdWeight(grams) 168g

Colloquially the term ""powwow"" refers to a meeting where important matters will be discussed. However, at the thousands of Native American intertribal dances that occur every year throughout the United States and Canada, a powwow...

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social...