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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980116519Author Thea B ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Forked Road PressPublisher Forked Road PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974120843Author TaajFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Belly Dance TrainerPublisher Belly Dance TrainerWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692655108Author Clarissa S StroudFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Green Cove PublishingPublisher Green Cove PublishingWeight(grams) 141g

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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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772896823Author Monna DithmeFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 832g

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...

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...

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...

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...

This 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...

Celebrating 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...

This study chronicles the American adaptation of the theory and practice of the French acting, singing, and aesthetics teacher, Francois Delsarte. Delsartism was introduced in the United States by Steele Mackaye, Delsarte's only American student...

Designed specifically for university-level study, Moving Notation will benefit students and teachers of both dance and music, offering a complete introduction to the theory and practice of musical rhythm and elementary Labanotation. Performing Arts...

This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements.This book explains why Western...

The Art of Dance Composition: Writing the Body is an introduction to modern dance composition, providing clear and structured approaches to designing and defining movement that demystify the creative process.The book introduces the concepts of creating...

In 1921, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures on curative eurythmy. Over the subsequent years, as advice was sought in particular cases of illness, he added to the initial exercises and indications. For the benefit of those who did not attend the...

From 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...

This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape, and its place in the city-state's social, cultural and...

Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, particularly in as it relates to the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five...

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in...

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in...

Performance 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...

Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and...

The only comprehensive textbook on dance research methodologies that covers all the main areas of dance research, previously only covered in individual books with narrower scope. Spans all areas of academic dance, including the main disciplines of dance...