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Burlesque: Exotic Dancers of the 50s and 60s by Judson Rosebush 9780764336676
RRP: £22.99£15.65Presented here are 125 burlesque queens and belly dancing stars from the 1950s and 1960s portrayed in 8" x 10" glossy "booking photos." These attention-grabbing and sometimes startling photos are the publicity shots that dancers... -
Dancers After Dark by Jordan Matter 9780761189336
RRP: £15.99£11.93A celebration of the human body and spirit in more than 100 photographs - all nude, all taken at night. These photographs illustrate the hard work and the dedication it takes to succeed in dancing, acting, photography - or really any creative endeavour... -
Tenth of a Century by Mildred B Haessler Ballet Group 9781013363771
RRP: £13.95£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013363771Author Mildred B Haessler Ballet GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 54g -
Doorway to Ecstasy: A Dancer's Initiation by Sherry Brier
RRP: £17.95£15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989846301Author Sherry BrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Inner Rhythm ProductionsPublisher Inner Rhythm ProductionsWeight(grams)... -
The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia: Mirroring the Master by Arjun Raina
RRP: £135.00£117.28This 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... -
Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy by Sondra Fraleigh
RRP: £99.00£84.29Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Sondra Fraleigh chronicles the growth of this provocative art form... -
Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance: Unbecoming Rhythms by Jonas Rutgeerts
RRP: £89.95£84.30Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance develops a new framework to understand how temporality is performed in contemporary dance. It combines an in-depth analysis of the choreographic practices of Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Ivana... -
National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame: Celebrating 30 Years by Lisa Schlansker Kolosek
RRP: £32.81£21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438467450Author Lisa Schlansker KolosekFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press -
Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics: The Flowing Live Present by Sondra Fraleigh
RRP: £94.95£88.91This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. It is based in methods of phenomenology. A new collection of essays previously published with Intellect as journal... -
Improvised Dance: (In)Corporeal Knowledges by Nalina Wait
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal... -
Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) by Heike Walz
£68.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525568545Author Heike WalzFormat HardbackImprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams) 155g -
Processing Choreography - Thinking with William Forsythe's 'Duo' by Elizabeth Waterhouse
RRP: £53.99£43.87Told from the perspective of the dancers, "Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo" is an ethnography reconstructing the dancers' activity within William Forsythe's "Duo" project, written legibly for readers in... -
You, the Choreographer: Creating and Crafting Dance by Vladimir Angelov
RRP: £59.99£51.93YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography. The book is designed for readers at every stage of creative... -
Jazz Gentry: Aristocrats of the Music World by Warren W. Vaché
£111.73Based on more than twenty years of interviews and first-hand knowledge of the people featured in Jazz Gentry, this factual account of the years between World Wars I and II explores the era that saw the development of a number of exceptional breakthroughs... -
Revealing the Inner Contours of Human Emotion: Preserving the Ballets of Anthony Tudor by Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
RRP: £19.95£18.80Anthony Tudor stands as one of the pillars of twentieth century ballet choreography. An English born choreographer who found a home in the United States, Tudor gained renown as the most innovative choreographer of his day. He explored the inner contours... -
Dance Appreciation by Amanda Clark
RRP: £35.99£32.09Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social, cultural, aesthetic, and kinetic aspects of various... -
Elementary Dance Education: Nature-Themed Creative Movement and Collaborative Learning by Janice Pomer
RRP: £44.00£37.21Children love to observe, explore, learn, and create.Elementary Dance Education helps them do all four. And it does so in a unique way, shaping its movement activities around nature themes. In fact, all of the learning experiences are based on different... -
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre: Movement, memory and metaphor by Libby Worth
RRP: £135.00£117.28Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the... -
Dance Appreciation by Dawn Loring
RRP: £83.00£69.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492592587Author Dawn LoringPage Count 216Imprint Human KineticsPublisher Human Kinetics Publishers -
Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice by Emma Meehan
RRP: £78.95£69.15Increasingly, choreographic process is examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives and seminars provide opportunities for... -
Milestones in Dance History by Dana Tai Soon Burgess
RRP: £34.99£30.85This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today. Designed for weekly use on dance history... -
Traversing Tradition: Celebrating Dance in India by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
RRP: £47.99£41.81Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India... -
Beyond the Apsara: Celebrating Dance in Cambodia by Stephanie Burridge
RRP: £47.99£41.81This 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... -
Mary Wigman by Mary Anne Santos Newhall
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book considers dancer, teacher, and choreographer Mary Wigman, a leading innovator in Expressionist dance whose radical explorations of movement and dance theory are credited with expanding the scope of dance as a theatrical art. Now reissued, this... -
Identity and Diversity: Celebrating Dance in Taiwan by Yunyu Wang
RRP: £53.99£46.87Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia-Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan's dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with... -
Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities by Pallabi Chakravorty
RRP: £135.00£117.68Dance 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... -
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia by Rachmi Diyah Larasati
RRP: £23.99£20.84Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966,... -
Choreographing Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader by Mark Franko
RRP: £36.99£32.53Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly... -
Choreographing Shakespeare: Dance Adaptations of the Plays and Poems by Elizabeth Klett
RRP: £135.00£117.28Choreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakespeare. This book investigates forty dance works in genres such as ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop,... -
Movements of Interweaving: Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration by Gabriele Brandstetter
RRP: £38.99£34.22Movements 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... -
Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz by Bettina Vernon-Warren
RRP: £135.00£117.28First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057550355Author Bettina Vernon-WarrenFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism by Prarthana Purkayastha
RRP: £49.99£19.99This 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... -
Sharing Identities: Celebrating Dance in Malaysia by Mohd Anis Md Nor
RRP: £47.99£41.81This 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... -
Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: International Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice by Helen Payne
RRP: £115.00£99.36Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy contributes to the global interest in embodiment approaches to psychotherapy and to the field of dance movement psychotherapy specifically. It includes recent research, innovative theories and case studies of... -
Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher by Cynthia Roses-Thema
RRP: £53.99£46.87Floating Bones charts the author's journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one's body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones,... -
Contemporary PerforMemory - Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century by Layla Zami
RRP: £43.99£35.94Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical... -
Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine by Nicholas Rowe
£59.58Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th... -
Teaching What You Want to Learn: A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers by James William Evans
RRP: £31.99£28.33Teaching What You Want to Learn distils the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today's dance instructor. From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into... -
Performance Generating Systems in Dance: Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity by Pil Hansen
RRP: £84.95£73.88Performance 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... -
Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories: Trans-Historical Perspectives Beyond Dance and Human Bodies in Motion by Anna Leon
RRP: £54.99£48.02From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded...