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Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation by Brigitta Herrmann 9781476672786
RRP: $37.40$30.16Group 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: $12.90$10.55Apologies 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: $38.70$30.20Apologies 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: $10.31$9.13Apologies 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: $19.34$16.19Tracing 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
$65.91Combining 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
RRP: $91.59$79.59Diaspora 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
$59.64Dancing 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
$58.58Dance 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: $32.25$25.48Apologies 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: $30.11$23.21Apologies 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 -
Dancing Mestizo Modernisms: Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico by Jose Luis Reynoso 9780197622568
RRP: $33.53$30.16This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and... -
Abidjan USA: Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants by Daniel B. Reed 9780253022219
RRP: $98.04$78.32Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Cote d'Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through... -
Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange by Clare Croft 9780199958214
RRP: $43.85$43.14Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as... -
Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics by Mark Franko 9780253065414
RRP: $69.66$56.00In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th century.A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism... -
Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins by James Moreno 9781138300477
RRP: $70.94$61.56Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins examines staging's of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, Jose Limon (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994). Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980,... -
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity by Ramsay Burt 9781138313040
RRP: $47.72$41.96This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First... -
Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance by Katy Dymoke 9781789388695
RRP: $154.74$134.38Inclusive 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... -
Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics by Mark Franko
RRP: $28.37$22.63In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th century.A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism... -
Dancing to Transform: How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity by Emily Wright
RRP: $103.20$89.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789382839Author Emily WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Intellect (UK)Publisher Intellect (UK)Weight(grams) 170g -
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Rosas 2007-2017 by Christian Dumais-Lvowski
RRP: $58.05$51.64Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) founded her dance company, Rosas, in 1983. Her work is grounded on a rigorous exploration of the relationship between dance and music, and over the years she has engaged the musical structures and scores of different... -
Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero by Elizabeth Streb
RRP: $18.05$12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616561Author Elizabeth StrebFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The... -
Days on Earth: The Dance of Doris Humphrey by Marcia B. Siegel
RRP: $33.53$27.40Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B... -
Drumming: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas by Noe Soulier
RRP: $32.25$26.99This book documents more than 20 years of performances of Drumming, a world-renowned dance piece on music by Steve Reich, through beautiful photography. Drumming is a widely admired dance piece choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), set... -
Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop by Imani Kai Johnson
RRP: $32.24$29.05The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations-evident in expressive qualities like call and... -
Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley by Ann Murphy
RRP: $43.86$42.53Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that... -
Abidjan USA: Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants by Daniel B. Reed
RRP: $38.69$31.14Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Cote d'Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through... -
Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins by James Moreno
RRP: $21.92$19.63Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, Jose Limon (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book... -
Sunday. Pierre Droulers Choreographer by Pierre Droulers
RRP: $32.25$29.05This book celebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from the... -
Ralph Lemon by David Velasco
RRP: $25.74$17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450073Author Thomas J. LaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 470g -
French Moves: The Cultural Politics of le hip hop by Felicia McCarren 9780199939978
RRP: $53.52$34.71For more than two decades, le hip hop has shown France's "other" face: danced by minorities associated with immigration and the suburbs, it has channeled rage against racism and unequal opportunity and offered a movement vocabulary for the... -
Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century Lindsay Guarino 9780813080765
RRP: $36.06$30.65National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practice An African American art form, jazz dance has an... -
Edges of Ailey Adrienne Edwards 9780300278842
RRP: $64.50$54.83A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of the twentieth century. The creator of iconic works such as Blues Suite, Revelations, and Cry, he is...