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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615659893Author Susanna HardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Susanna/HardtPublisher Susanna/HardtWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615817620Author Marlita HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Marlita HillPublisher Marlita HillWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615379937Author Lisa OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Rivers PublishingPublisher Rivers PublishingWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595484416Author Dorothy Dean StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g

This 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...

The "material turn" in science and art has brought the artistic process and the materiality of staging into focus, thereby challenging the paradigm of dance and performance as ephemeral arts. At the same time, digital media have given rise to new forms...

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393853103Author Shama BhateFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 486g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776746896Author Susanne RavnFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University Press of Southern DenmarkPublisher University Press of Southern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772891019Author Lisbet TorpFormat HardbackPage Count 511Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 1750g

In 2021, La Ribot presented Distinguished Anyways at the Spanish Academy in Rome, four pieces that played with sunlight and paint, as part of her project, "Distinguished Pieces", developed since 1993. One of these was created specifically for the...

In Western neo-liberal society, the human body is increasingly used as an "identity project" and "designable object". Antje Velsinger investigates these specific roles of the body and develops choreographic strategies for becoming unfamiliar to the own...

Rudolf Steiner's original contribution to human knowledge was based on his ability to conduct 'spiritual research', the investigation of metaphysical dimensions of existence. Samples of his work are to be found in this introductory reader in which Beth...

Dance Production: Design and Technology, Second Edition is an introduction to the skills needed to plan, design, and execute the technical aspects of a dance production.Covering a broad range of topics, author Jeromy Hopgood takes the reader through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972745048Author Sarah HicklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Joy PressPublisher Joy PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 6mm

The music and dance traditions of Ghana's four main ethnic groups are covered comprehensively in this book. It discusses concepts of music, dance and performance in general, and also goes into cultural perspectives, performance practices and the form...

In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a recent dance work produced by his company and inspired by the...

By relating the development of modern dance to movements in painting, architecture, drama, and music, the book prompts students to develop a keen ear for emerging trends in the arts as a continual resource for dance.Book InformationISBN...

Featuring visionary creators from various fields, from art and contemporary dance to architecture and robotics, this lavishly illustrated book reports from the forefront of the crossdisciplinary synthesis that creates new forms of art. The project was...

Dance and Cultural Diversity examines the art of dance within the context of different cultures and demonstrates the connections between dance and academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. The text shows that...

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented...

Appreciating Dance is a thorough and accurate history of various forms of dance, analyzing everything from social dance, and ballet to modern dance, tap, jazz, theatrical dance and contemporary dance. In it readers will find: a brief biography of notable...

Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as 'postmodern dance', creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art. This first comprehensive biography examines Halprin's fascinating life...

An international anthology about dance as a world of dreams, ideals or paradises lost, a place where identity and reality are put at stake. Through essays, interviews and analytical reflections such diverse subjects are treated as Bournonville's ideal of...

Is anthroposophy a body of revealed spiritual knowledge, or is it a discipline, a path towards spiritual understanding?Around the globe, individuals are longing for, and seeking, a deeper understanding of themselves and the world we all inhabit and share...

This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book...

Dance Production: Design and Technology, Second Edition is an introduction to the skills needed to plan, design, and execute the technical aspects of a dance production.Covering a broad range of topics, author Jeromy Hopgood takes the reader through the...

Matthew Shaffer's more than twenty years as a performer, choreographer, director, Broadway collaborator, writer, and producer has allowed him opportunities to work with celebrities like Megan Mullally, Ben Stiller, and the elite competition team of Dance...

Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New...

When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: “When we look at a dance, what do we see?” Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are...

Pina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material...

This 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...

This 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...

Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy is the first book of its kind to explore the supervisory process in the psychotherapeutic practice of movement and dance. Helen Payne brings together international contributors to discuss how the language of...

During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central...

Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American,...

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...

Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatrical performance made by actors with intellectual disabilities. It presents a close examination of certain key theatrical performances across a variety of...

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon, but also the Bard's contemporaries (e.g. dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined...