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Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World by Rupert Christiansen 9781250872531
RRP: $25.80$17.93Apologies 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 -
Dance In America: A Reader's Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication by Mindy Aloff
RRP: $49.01$32.03Apologies 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 -
Milestones in Dance in the USA by Elizabeth Mcpherson
RRP: $45.14$39.80Embracing 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... -
Tilt Pause Shift - Dance Ecologies in India by Anita E. Cherian
RRP: $74.82$67.20This book is an investigation of movement, and in particular of a marked subset of that: dance. In its many peregrinations it seems to ask, what kind of movement is dance? Most pointedly, it performs the question, what is dance in India? And, relatedly,... -
Social Dance: A Short History by Arthur Franks
RRP: $135.45$117.21Originally 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... -
Street Theatre and the Production of Postindustrial Space: Working Memories by David Calder
RRP: $109.65$34.82Deindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. How have these companies converted derelict factories into spaces of theatrical production? How do they connect their... -
Funding Bodies: Five Decades of Dance Making at the National Endowment for the Arts by Sarah Wilbur
RRP: $25.74$21.16How NEA funding policies have shaped the field of danceFunding 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... -
Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politcs in Israel by Dina Roginsky
RRP: $174.15$151.29Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel is a pioneering project in examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through dance. It proposes a research framework for study of the social, cultural, aesthetic and political dynamics between Jews... -
America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk by Megan Pugh
RRP: $35.48$30.04An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole... -
African Theatre 17: Contemporary Dance by Yvette Hutchison
RRP: $96.75$92.79To date, scholars have tended, with a few exceptions, to write about African dance in primarily ethnographic terms. This collection seeks to challenge this pattern and expand dance research by engaging with the aesthetics and socio-political impact of... -
The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies by Sherril Dodds
$61.84The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research. The book commences with an introduction that privileges... -
Essays on Classical Indian Dance by Donovan Roebert
RRP: $49.01$43.58The book is a wide-ranging collection of essays on Indian classical dance, which include writings on dance appreciation, the criticism, theory and philosophy of dance, as well as some historical and light controversial articles. Also included is a... -
Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque Mark Franko 9781350236882
RRP: $109.65$93.20This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet – and in today’s performances that recall them. Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from... -
Fantasies of Ito Michio Tara Rodman 9780472076833
RRP: $89.01$75.66Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1892–1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito spent two years... -
Kathakali: Tradition, Innovations and Transitions in the Dance Drama of Kerala Sudha Gopalakrishnan 9781350236325
RRP: $21.92$18.63Provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring the origin, evolution and characteristics of the form today and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali provides an introduction to this vibrant mode of dance drama, which comes from... -
Jill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian Life Clare Croft 9781478026808
RRP: $121.26$103.07Performer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 1970s feminism. She was the first critic to identify postmodernism’s arrival in American dance and was a fierce advocate for the importance of lesbians... -
Fantasies of Ito Michio Tara Rodman 9780472056835
RRP: $43.80$37.23Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893–1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito spent two years... -
A Queer History of Flamenco: Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808-2018) Fernando López Rodríguez 9780472077120
RRP: $82.56$70.18A Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultural studies. Previous histories have provided a largely distorted image about why, where, and how people have done flamenco—as well as... -
Kathakali: Tradition, Innovations and Transitions in the Dance Drama of Kerala Sudha Gopalakrishnan 9781350236318
RRP: $64.50$54.83Provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring the origin, evolution and characteristics of the form today and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali provides an introduction to this vibrant mode of dance drama, which comes from... -
A Queer History of Flamenco: Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808-2018) Fernando López Rodríguez 9780472057122
RRP: $33.48$28.46A Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultural studies. Previous histories have provided a largely distorted image about why, where, and how people have done flamenco—as well as...