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Honest 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 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...

Apologies 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) 348gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances...

Group Motion--an improvisational dance performance practice--represents fifty years of co-creation by the authors, with the participation of thousands of dancers, musicians, videographers and others around the globe. Informed by Mary Wigman's...

Tracing 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...

Combining 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...

Dancing 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...

Dance 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Dancers 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...

In 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 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,...

Inclusive 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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...

This 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...

The 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...

Molissa 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...

Daniel 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 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

For 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 expression of...

Anne 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...

Stepping 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...

Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations explores how people experience diaspora not only through geography or shared histories of exile and displacement, but also through the body itself. Drawing upon extensive archival materials,...

Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations explores how people experience diaspora not only through geography or shared histories of exile and displacement, but also through the body itself. Drawing upon extensive archival materials,...

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For a long time, dance scholars and the public were hardly aware that modern dance existed in Russia. This book, however, delves into its presence, significance and survival in the late Tsarist and Soviet era, showing the large and significant positive...

'The absorbing story of an uncompromising genius of the dance.' Salman Rushdie'Candid, compelling. . . I loved every word of insight into the mind of a master.' Sunday TimesMark Morris was nineteen when he moved to New York to become a professional...

More than 60 works across media, including major ensemble performances, emerging in the afterlife of postmodern dance Philadelphia-based artist, dancer and choreographer Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to arise from New...

Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible through movement. As well as gestures for speech and music, eurythmy also incorporates gestures that relate to the stars and the planets, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner. In this fascinating book, a...