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Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico by Susan Homar 9780472056545
£45.14This first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the lively field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as Habitar lo Imposible by BL Editorial in San Juan, the translation... -
How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World by Ann Cooper Albright 9780190873677
£79.92How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World presents a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world. Author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to... -
On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation by Stephan Koplowitz
£90.99On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array... -
Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942 by Ellen Graff
£20.84Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this... -
When I Open My Eyes: Dance Health Imagination by Miranda Tufnell 9781913743758
RRP: £25.00£20.30Celebrated dance artist and body therapist Miranda Tufnell takes us on a moving and inspiring exploration of the field of dance and health. For 14 years she worked in a GP surgery in Cumbria and the book opens with a vivid account of an arts project that... -
Rhythmic Subjects: Use of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham by Dee Reynolds
£50.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852731120Author Dee ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Dance BooksPublisher Dance Books Ltd -
Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey by Julia L. Foulkes 9780807853672
RRP: £37.50£36.16This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous. It was in 1930 that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of ""dance as an... -
Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy by Victoria Phillips
£65.68Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy. Representing every seated president from Dwight... -
Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance by Katy Dymoke 9781789388367
RRP: £39.95£38.01Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition. Touchdown Dance was the research 'ambition' of dancer Steve Paxton and theatre maker and... -
Merce Cunningham Changes: Notes on Choreography by Merce Cunningham 9780998829074
RRP: £25.00£16.69On the occasion of Merce Cunningham's centennial comes this handsome new edition of his classic and long out-of-print artist's book Changes: Notes on Choreography, first published in 1968 by Dick Higgins' Something Else Press. The book presents a... -
Body Space Image: Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance by Miranda Tufnell 9781913743772
RRP: £20.00£16.43When it was first published in 1990, 'Body Space Image' was acclaimed as the first book of its kind - a remarkable guide to improvisation, using a narrative of discovery that "set the mind loose from the rut of everyday perception". It was... -
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty
RRP: £36.00£26.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, Music and the Performing Arts category, 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of... -
In-Between Dance Cultures: The Migratory Artistic Identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan by Guy Cools 9789492095114
RRP: £25.00£16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095114Author Guy CoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 13mm -
Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema by Nell Andrew 9780190057282
£29.60In early twentieth-century Europe, the watershed developments of pictorial abstraction, modern dance, and cinema coincided to shift the artistic landscape and the future of modern art. In Moving Modernism, Nell Andrew challenges assumptions about... -
The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators by Jean Morrison Brown 9780871272058
RRP: £24.95£23.50This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in... -
Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora by Joanna Dee Das
RRP: £34.99£32.01One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over. As an African American woman, she broke barriers of race and gender, most... -
Move. Choreographing You: Art and Dance Since the 1960s by Stephanie Rosenthal 9780262516297
RRP: £29.95£20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516297Author Stephanie RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 235mm *... -
On Site: Methods for Site Specific Performance Creation by Stephan Koplowitz 9780197515242
£31.79On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array... -
Anna Halprin: Dance - Process - Form by Ronit Land
£31.88Anna Halprin is a world-famous theatre artist and early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement. This book explores her personal growth as a dancer and choreographer and the development of her therapeutic and pedagogical approach. The authors,... -
The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn
RRP: £19.95£18.36This is the story of the founders of modern dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Kurt Joos, whose work in the first half of the 20th century paralleled the independent development of modern dance in Americawithout being influenced by it... -
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism by Rhonda K. Garelick
£23.29Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of... -
Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance by Julia M. Ritter
£26.30Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling... -
Akram Khan's Rush: Creative Insights by Lorna Sanders 9781852731038 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£2.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942 by Ellen Graff 9780822319535 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00£7.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Rage of Staging: Wim Vandekeybus by Mauro Pawlowski 9789401434713
£45.00"Vandekeybus brought into focus a whole new genre of modern dance... Combat rolls, breakneck sprints and savagely wrestled duets became the defining vocabulary of a new generation." The Guardian In 2016, Wim Vandekeybus' company Ultima Vez celebrates... -
Mindfulness Through Dance (B&w): The Combo Method of Mindbody Conditioning by Dr Kimberly Chandler-Vaccaro 9781537485669
RRP: £7.95£7.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537485669Author Dr Kimberly Chandler-VaccaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
Backstage Economies: Labour and Masculinities in Contemporary European Dance by Dunja Njaradi 9781908258144
£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258144Author Dunja NjaradiFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press -
How To Draw Things That Go With Grid Method Step By Step For Kids: A Fun and Simple Step-by-Step Drawing Guide and Activity Book - 156 Pages - by Moonart Press 9798707102417
RRP: £8.55£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798707102417Author Moonart PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 216g -
Dancing Under His Anointing by Mary Ann Sierra 9781985037465
RRP: £15.95£13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985037465Author Mary Ann SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation by Brigitta Herrmann 9781476672786
RRP: £28.99£23.38Group Motion reflects 50 years of co-creation between dancers, choreographers, teachers Brigitta Herrmann and Manfred Fischbeck, along with the participation of thousands of dancers, musicians, videographers and people around the world. Part memoire,... -
Now a Woman, Now a Garden: Girlfly 2017 by Jo Kreiter 9781977961563
RRP: £10.00£8.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977961563Author Jo KreiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Performance Through The Dance Technique Of Lester Horton by Ana-Marie Forsythe 9781482392784
RRP: £30.00£23.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482392784Author Ana-Marie ForsytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Beautiful Dancers and Costumes by R S Rodella 9781545387610
RRP: £7.99£7.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545387610Author R S RodellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages by Carla Stalling Huntington 9780786429912
RRP: £14.99£12.55Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance... -
Dancing Identity: Metaphysics In Motion by Sondra Horton Fraleigh 9780822963004
RRP: £55.00£52.14Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and... -
Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance by Benita J. Brown 9780810892798
£65.48Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques of myth creation in dance performance, history as performance, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals in the field. Similarly,... -
Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan by Sondra Fraleigh 9780822961154
RRP: £50.00£47.20Dancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student. As... -
Moment Of Movement, The: Dance Improvisation by Lynne Anne Blom 9780822954057
RRP: £50.00£47.42Dance improvisation, the intriguing phenomenon of the creative process alive in the moving body, exists powerfully, sublimely - lending insight, solving problems, allowing moments of transcendence, diversion, and delight. Flourishing especially since the... -
Performance Through The Dance Technique Of Lester Horton: Second Edition by Ana-Marie Forsythe 9780578657912
RRP: £25.00£20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578657912Author Ana-Marie ForsytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bradley ShelverPublisher Bradley ShelverWeight(grams) 231g -
Your Flesh Shall Be A Poem: The Art of Plein Air Dance by Tarrl Morley 9780985126889
RRP: £23.34£18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985126889Author Tarrl MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Nauset PressPublisher Nauset PressWeight(grams) 150g