History & Criticism

When Marie and Rudolf Steiner developed the art of eurythmy in the early twentieth century, their aim was to awaken the musical element within the human form, in a spiritual way. In this unique form of movement, both music and the spoken word are made...

In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061565380Author Radio City EntertainmentFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727481891Author Alisa D OrdunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733357104Author Ofosuwa M AbiolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Intelligentsia PressPublisher Intelligentsia PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734567861Author Bill LefurgyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint High Kicker BooksPublisher High Kicker BooksWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733357111Author Ofosuwa M AbiolaFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Intelligentsia PressPublisher Intelligentsia PressWeight(grams) 140g

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781518698613Author Jessica GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692509333Author Douglas W WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint WoodspublishingcompanyPublisher WoodspublishingcompanyWeight(grams) 349g

A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts - onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street -...

In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwyna ""Salt"" Evelyn and Jewel ""Pepper"" Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were black show business headliners, playing...

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983-2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical...

How NEA funding policies have shaped the field of dance Funding Bodies is the first scholarly study of NEA to focus specifically on dance. It departs from a choreographic question: How have federal grant guidelines rewarded specific patterns of dance...

In the first book to focus exclusively on George Balanchine's early Russian ballets, most of which have been lost to history, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group...

The definition of Asian American dance is as contested as the definition of ""Asian American."" The contributors to this volume address such topics as the role of the 1960s Asian American movement in creating Japanese American taiko...

Moving Lessons is an insightful and sophisticated look at the origins and influence of dance in American universities, focusing on Margaret H'Doubler (1889-1982), who established the first university courses and the first degree program in dance. Janice...

The dynamic history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company, with revelatory behind-the-scenes details of its creators and significant worksThe ingeniously innovative and enduringly popular American dance theater...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051204Author Nathaniel ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

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Attend a grand ball of the bizarre and never look at dance the same way again!Weird Dance processes through the odd, grim, and unintentionally humorous history of dance, uncovering strange stories and weird facts.These dark tales of murder, rivalry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472132454Author Christine GreinerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Choreographing Copyright provides a historical and cultural analysis of U.S.-based dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Although federal copyright law in the U.S. did not recognize choreography as a protectable class prior to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969989882Author Cristian BercoFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint University of Alberta. Department of Art and DesignPublisher University of Alberta...

Driven by facts and hard data, this volume reveals how gender dynamics affect the lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, students, educators, and others who are involved in the world of dance. It unpacks real issues that matter-not just to dance...

Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression...

This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. It makes this history vivid through a picture of movement in the lives of an extraordinary...

British Dance, Black Routes is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context. Until now discussion of choreography by...

Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance carries with it features of the place where it originated. Influenced by different social, political, and environmental circumstances, dances change and adapt. American dance evolved in large...

Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As...

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of...

Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora. In the book, written documentation and diverse methodologies...

Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance. It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979194822Author Lillian PastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872531Author Rupert ChristiansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535846Author Mindy AloffFormat HardbackPage Count 677Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces...