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Fred Stone: Circus Performer and Musical Comedy Star by Armond Fields 9780786411610
£55.91Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences quickly discovered he could do anything and everything, from tightrope walking and acrobatics to song-and-dance, musical comedies, and straight... -
Dance and the Christian Faith: A Form of Knowing by Martin Blogg 9780718892494
RRP: £24.00£23.34Dance 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... -
My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community by Peter Dickinson 9780228001089
RRP: £35.00£29.28In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC. But this is only part of a vibrant and diverse story of... -
Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan by Susan M. Asai 9780313306983
£83.24N=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... -
Cross-Step Waltz: A Dancer's Guide by Nick Enge 9780982799574
RRP: £20.66£18.17Apologies 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) 562g -
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild 9780275963736
£39.24This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to... -
Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity by Barbara Sellers-Young 9781349949533
RRP: £99.99£99.71This 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... -
Worlding Dance by S. Foster 9780230298385
RRP: £89.99£89.87What 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... -
Worlding Dance by S. Foster 9780230205949
RRP: £89.99£89.87What 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... -
Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 by Theresa Jill Buckland 9780230277144
RRP: £89.99£89.87Based 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... -
Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Musical Sound, Form, and Reference by Lawrence Ferrara 9780313283451
£83.64A 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... -
Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance by Julie Malnig 9780313276477
£83.24This 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 by Cheryl Samuel 9780806122991
£27.27The 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... -
First Position: A Century of Ballet Artists by Toba Singer 9780275983918
£55.96The 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... -
Look Before You Leap: Steps to Your Child's Greatest Success in Dance. Pulling Back the Curtain on the Dance Industry by Dianne Leathem 9780648949206
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies 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) 152g -
Folk Dancing by Erica M. Nielsen 9780313376887
£38.39This 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"... -
Disco Dance by Lori Ortiz 9780313377464
£38.39This book sheds light on the fascinating untold story behind what is collectively and disputably called "disco dancing," and the incredible effect that the phenomenon had on America-in New York City and beyond. Disco is a dance and musical... -
Teaching Dance Beyond The Steps: A Guide For Dance Teachers Who Want To Achieve Dance Teacher Mastery And Become Industry Leaders by Jen Dalton 9780648671909
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies 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 -
Indians and Wannabes: Native American Powwow Dancing in the Northeast and Beyond by Ann M. Axtmann 9780813061979
£18.57Colloquially 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... -
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance by Ananya Chatterjea 9780230114081
RRP: £74.99£52.69Founder 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... -
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance by Ananya Chatterjea 9780230114098
RRP: £54.99£38.05Founder 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... -
Higher Education in the World 4: Higher Education's Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action by Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI) 9780230535558
£45.97From the series of thematic reports from the Global University Network for Innovation, this new report explores key issues facing higher education institutions today. This report is essential reading for university leaders, academics and policy-makers... -
Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora by Ketu H. Katrak 9780230278554
RRP: £44.99£44.97Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative... -
Dance: a Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing by Lincoln Kirstein 9780837139722
£83.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837139722Author Lincoln KirsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Writing Dancing Together by Valerie A. Briginshaw 9780230535640
RRP: £44.99£44.97With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to... -
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild 9780313296840
£83.24This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to... -
Embodied Performances: Sexuality, Gender, Bodies by Beatrice Allegranti 9780230245938
RRP: £44.99£44.97With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and... -
Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics by Randy Martin 9780822322030
RRP: £85.00£74.21In Critical Moves Randy Martin sets in motion an inquiry into the relationship between dance, politics, and cultural theory. Drawing on his own experiences as a dancer as well as his observations as a cultural critic and social theorist, Martin... -
Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance by Ellen W. Goellner 9780813521275
RRP: £31.00£22.81Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as... -
Latin Dance by Elizabeth Drake-Boyt 9780313376085
£38.39This title in the American Dance Floor series provides an overview of the origins, development, and current status of Latin social dancing in the United States. Latin dance and music have had a widespread influence upon the development of other social... -
Joyce Grenfell: A Biography by Janie Hampton 9780719564901 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) was a British institution and one of the country's best-loved entertainers. She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues on stage and radio at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her background... -
Ageing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance: Finding a Balance by Elisabeth Schwaiger 9780230276406
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore... -
Why Music Moves Us by J. Bicknell 9780230209893
RRP: £49.99£44.97Music 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... -
Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance by Mindy Aloff 9780195326239
RRP: £14.99£11.43Mindy Aloff, a leading dance critic who has written for The Nation, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, has brought together here a marvelous book of stories by and about dancers-entertaining and informative anecdotes that capture the boundless variety... -
Dance's Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures by Telory D. Arendell 9781349955510
£101.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity by Barbara Sellers-Young 9781349956852
£101.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dance's Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures Telory D. Arendell 9781137596093
£104.64Dance's Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by various authors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover a range of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film on stage,... -
Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study by Annie-B Parson 9780819500908
RRP: £36.95£30.42A multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographers In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic book project is dedicated to an artist-centric... -
The Book What I Wrote by Eddie Braben 9780340833735 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.65With his recent theatrical success, The Play What I Wrote, Braben shows that the audience for the spirit of the incomparable Eric and Ernie is just as alive today as it was in their glory years. Now, the key figure behind their success, scriptwriter... -
The Official Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2012 by Alison Maloney 9781849901550 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29After last year's sensational final between Matt Baker and Kara Tointon, as well as the many show-stopping performances throughout the series from Pamela Stephenson, Gavin Henson, Felicity Kendal, Patsy Kensit and Scott Maslen and some unforgettable...