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How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World by Ann Cooper Albright 9780190873677
RRP: $205.80$167.83How 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
RRP: $215.25$191.08On 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
RRP: $50.38$40.30Stepping 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: $52.50$42.63Celebrated 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... -
Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image by Erin Brannigan 9780195367249
RRP: $91.33$60.63Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It traces the history of the form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film... -
Queer Dance by Clare Croft 9780199377336
RRP: $93.43$70.22If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures... -
Rhythmic Subjects: Use of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham by Dee Reynolds
$105.15Apologies 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: $79.70$73.19This 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
$133.46Martha 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... -
The Body as a Vessel by Kayo Mikami 9780993158742
$64.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993158742Author Kayo MikamiFormat HardbackImprint Ozaru BooksPublisher Ozaru BooksWeight(grams) 797g -
Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance by Katy Dymoke 9781789388367
RRP: $83.90$79.82Inclusive 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... -
Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes by Gabriele Brandstetter 9780199916573
RRP: $115.50$86.06When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature... -
Merce Cunningham Changes: Notes on Choreography by Merce Cunningham 9780998829074
RRP: $46.20$34.06On 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: $42.00$34.50When 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: $75.60$56.57Apologies 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... -
My Body, The Buddhist by Deborah Hay
$42.97Through a series of imaginative approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of the self and the body as the locus of artistic consciousness. Using the same uniquely playful... -
In-Between Dance Cultures: The Migratory Artistic Identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan by Guy Cools 9789492095114
RRP: $40.95$32.93Apologies 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 -
The Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon by Daniel Lewis 9780871272096
RRP: $62.90$58.95Providing the principles of dance developed by Jose Limon, this book gives the historical and physical aspects of his style and approach to dance that will be of interest to dancers, teachers, and students of dance at every level. It includes preparatory... -
Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema by Nell Andrew 9780190057282
RRP: $83.98$62.16In 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
$47.42This 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: $73.48$67.22One 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: $56.70$42.23Apologies 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
$66.36On 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
RRP: $69.28$66.95Anna 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: $37.70$37.53This 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
RRP: $63.00$48.91Loie 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
RRP: $67.18$55.23Tandem 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... -
Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow by Hannah Kosstrin 9780199396931
RRP: $80.83$59.60Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United... -
Watching Weimar Dance by Kate Elswit 9780199844838
RRP: $99.73$85.22Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw in the peculiarly turbulent and febrile moment of the Weimar Republic. It closely analyses the reception of various performances, from cabaret to concert dance and experimental theatre, in their own time and... -
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance by Rebecca Rossen 9780199791774
RRP: $88.18$63.32While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political... -
Destined To Dance: A Novel About Martha Graham by Marcy Heidish 9780983116493
RRP: $20.31$14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983116493Author Marcy HeidishFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Dolan & AssociatesPublisher Dolan & AssociatesWeight(grams) 348g -
Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Mary Simonson 9780199898039
RRP: $60.88$51.89In the early twentieth century, female performers regularly appeared on the stages and screens of American cities. Though advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they often exceeded these categories. Instead, their performances adopted an... -
Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America by Rebekah J. Kowal 9780190265328
RRP: $73.48$55.23Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. During and after the Second... -
Akram Khan's Rush: Creative Insights by Lorna Sanders 9781852731038 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.00$4.85'Rush' was the first group piece made by Akram Khan, already a celebrated and exciting young solo performer, whose unique Contemporary Kathak style had won critical and popular acclaim. Rush was pivotal in establishing Khan's own company and launched him... -
Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942 by Ellen Graff 9780822319535 [USED COPY]
RRP: $193.20$2.63Stepping 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... -
The Rage of Staging: Wim Vandekeybus by Mauro Pawlowski 9789401434713
$94.50"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: $16.70$15.62Apologies 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
$31.73Apologies 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: $17.96$15.77Apologies 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: $33.50$26.63Apologies 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...