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Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945060465Author Kara TatelbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Motina BooksPublisher Motina BooksWeight(grams) 553g

What is physical dramaturgy? While the traditional dramaturg shares research intellectually, the physical dramaturg does so viscerally and somatically. By combining elements of text, history, dramatic structure, and the author's intent with movement...

"Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research." -Nineteenth-Century French Studies"This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty...

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance.By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593936631Author Jane BriggemanFormat PaperbackImprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 694g

This guide provides an overview of the history of hip hop culture and an exploration of its dance style, appropriate both for student research projects and general interest reading. Rapping. Breakdancing. MCing. DJing. Beatboxing. Graffiti art. These are...

This 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 in dance history courses,...

Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines:* an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno,...

Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing for the screen, filming and editing, and distribution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974120829Author TaajFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Belly Dance Trainer thePublisher Belly Dance Trainer theWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key...

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601457882Author Deleela Morad MAFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)...

Choreographing 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,...

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...

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the...

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance...

Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu...

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field of choreography.Representing a wide range of dance genres...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646934877Author Emma Franklin BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Emma Franklin Renison BellPublisher Emma Franklin Renison BellWeight(grams)...

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c. 1100 to c. 1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature. However, it has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries...

This 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...

The Performer-Audience Connection is a pioneering foray into one of the major puzzles of human communication: the communication of emotion in dance. It is the first attempt of its kind systematically to investigate what performers wish to convey and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982799543Author Nick EngeFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Redowa PressPublisher Redowa PressWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 14mm

Through the concept of "social choreography" Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history...

Social media transforming authenticity into a choreographed and commodified image

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The surprising story behind Walt Disney’s most successful live-action film

Social media transforming authenticity into a choreographed and commodified image

Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into creative processes, and innovative challenges to understandings about dance making.

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Pedagogy is an interactive text that provides theory and tools for practice on creating a movement pedagogy of care.

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This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India. The Dancing Body is a body that exists, survives, inhabits and performs in multiple space and time, by moving, laboring, migrating and...

Examines how the DanceSport dispositive shapes its actors’ opportunities, desires, and choices to reify the heteronormative gender binary.

Hollywood Dance-ins and the Reproduction of Bodies proposes that a figure who barely registers in film studies or dance studies offers valuable insight into ideas about "the body" and the reproductive labor that gives rise to images of bodies. The book...

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This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to...

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This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the 'female' category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents...