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Welcome to the Arts: Dance by Sir Alistair Spalding 9781800783362
£17.79Brilliantly curated and beautifully illustrated, the Welcome to the Arts series offers all-hours admission to some of the world's most wondrous performances.From Swan Lake to Riverdance, flamenco to tap, Dance features some of the most iconic... -
The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques by Melanie Clarke
£16.44The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques explores the multifaceted learning processes and underlying principles behind the technical skills and abilities of a contemporary dancer. The depth and complexity of this challenging sensorial,... -
Dancing with Cats by Burton Silver 9781452128337 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dancing with Cats by Burton Silver 9781452128337
£8.27The cult classic is back! This petite 15th anniversary hardcover reissue keeps all the original mystery and magic of cat dancing delightfully intact. Perpetually ahead of its time, Dancing with Cats presents scores of delightful and inspiring photographs... -
Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance: Conversations with Alastair Macaulay by Matthew Bourne
RRP: £20.00£13.86Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance is an intimate and in-depth conversation between the prize-winning pioneer of ballet and contemporary dance Matthew Bourne and the New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay. In 1987, a small, aspirant dance... -
Little Wimmin by Figs in Wigs
RRP: £14.99£9.88Come join Figs in Wigs for their live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Blurring the boundaries of live art, music, theatre, comedy and dance Little Wimmin will examine how we think about the past, what's wrong... -
Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance by Joseph Campbell 9781608688890
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688890Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Making Broadway Dance by Liza Gennaro
RRP: £31.49£28.91Through in-depth analysis of musical theatre choreography and choreographers, Making Broadway Dance challenges long-held perceptions of Broadway dance as kitsch, disposable, a dance form created without artistic process. Setting out to demonstrate that... -
Looking at Contemporary Dance by Marc Raymond Strauss 9780871273543
RRP: £24.95£23.50This Guide provides the reader with a chronological survey of contemporary dance. It is studded with references to Internet sources to satisfy readers who may not have access to live performances. Rather than illustrating this book with photographs - ... -
The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies by Mary Fogarty
RRP: £97.00£96.77Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date. Filling a lacuna in both Hip Hop and dance studies, the Handbook places... -
Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story by Carlos Acosta
RRP: £10.99£7.25The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his astronomical rise to international stardom. In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of... -
Butoh Dance Training: Secrets of Japanese Dance Through the Alishina Method by Juju Alishina
£31.88Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the first time in its history. With practical instruction and fully illustrated exercises, this book teaches... -
Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide by Andrea Olsen
RRP: £29.95£19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819579461Author Andrea OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University PressWeight(grams)... -
A Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination by Miranda Tufnell; Chris Crickmay
RRP: £25.00£20.30This is a handbook for working in the creative arts, with an emphasis on imagination and receptivity: to our bodies, surroundings, materials, and to what we create. It puts particular emphasis upon the sensing, feeling, moving body as a basis for any... -
Dance in Close-Up: Hans Van Mahen Seen by Erwin Olaf by Erwin Olaf
RRP: £55.00£35.45"Ballet inspires me. Human beings have the capacity to express themselves through many art forms, but when it comes to dance - and especially classical modern ballet - I am always amazed by that unbelievably elevated form of expression. It's so precise... -
Clement Crisp Reviews:: Sixty Years of Dance by Gerald Dowler 9781527287747
RRP: £30.00£23.35Reviews of classic performances, premieres, and extraordinary moments, critiquing the stars and the choreographers. Some are riotously funny as, after all, 'someone had to say it!' The book also features longer appreciations of key influences in the... -
Ed Watson: A Different Dance by Sarah Crompton
RRP: £39.99£29.98Ed Watson, Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet for over 20 years is a unique talent; a widely celebrated collaborator in dance, photography and fashion. Each illustrated essay of this gorgeous volume focuses on a distinct aspect of Watson's career... -
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers by Jo Butterworth
RRP: £27.99£24.68Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field of choreography.Representing a wide range of dance genres... -
Ballet and Modern Dance by Susan Au
RRP: £12.95£8.58This cornerstone of the World of Art series is a succinct, vivid and authoritative guide to the rich history of western dance in all its incarnations from 16th-century court ballet to the genre-shattering contortions of 21st-century theatrical dance... -
Basic Concepts in Modern Dance: A Creative Approach by Gay Cheney 9780916622763
RRP: £19.95£18.75This book provides an introduction to modern dance and body movement techniques. It begins with an overview of the history of modern dance and proceeds to a discussion of basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography. A series of clearly... -
Dance and the Lived Body by Sondra Horton Fraleigh 9780822955795
RRP: £55.00£52.02In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes,... -
Landscape of the Now: A Topography of Movement Improvisation by Kent De Spain 9780199988266
£30.15In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches... -
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern by Neil Baldwin
RRP: £40.00£27.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385352321Author Neil BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 166mm... -
Out Loud: A Memoir by Mark Morris
RRP: £20.00£13.86Before Mark Morris became "the most successful and influential choreographer alive" (The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could practice walking on pointe. Moving to New York at... -
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul by Melin Levent Yuna 9781032011349
RRP: £38.99£34.22Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdogan.In this book,... -
Alvin Ailey: A Life In Dance by Jennifer Dunning
RRP: £16.99£12.28Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) was a choreographic giant in the modern dance world and a champion of African-American talent and culture. His interracial Alvin Ailey American Dance theatre provided opportunities to black dancers and choreographers when no one... -
How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World by Ann Cooper Albright
£26.30How 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... -
A Choreographer's Score: Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
RRP: £22.00£18.96An illustrated and in-depth exploration of four of Rosas's early works, Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, and Bartok, through sketches, notes, and photographs Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary... -
I Want to be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom by Danielle Goldman 9780472050840
£33.37This title provides a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. ""I Want To Be Ready"" draws on original archival research, careful readings of individual performances, and a thorough... -
Imaginative Bodies: Dialogues in Performance Practices by Guy Cools 9789492095206
RRP: £25.00£17.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095206Author Guy CoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz -
Basic Concepts in Modern Dance: A Creative Approach by Gay Cheney 9780916622763 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.00£2.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy by Werner Barfod 9781782505679
RRP: £16.99£11.33Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible. By incorporating zodiac gestures into their art, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner, eurythmists can draw on a deep connection between the earth and the cosmos.The zodiac, as representative of the whole... -
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques by Joshua Legg 9780871273253
RRP: £34.95£32.91A lively portrait of modern dance training that gives today's dancers and students the tools to compare the great classical techniques in the studio. This comparative approach will enable the student to try each technique AZ with sample lessons AZ and to... -
The Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon by Daniel Lewis 9780871272096
RRP: £29.95£28.75Providing 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... -
Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune by Kevin Winkler
RRP: £27.99£23.61Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the... -
Queer Dance by Clare Croft 9780199377336
£33.44If 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... -
Robert Redford & the American West by Elisa Leonelli 9781425753887
£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425753887Author Elisa LeonelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow by Hannah Kosstrin 9780199396924
£87.33Honest 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... -
Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America by Rebekah J. Kowal 9780190265311
£80.32Dancing 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... -
Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance by Julia M. Ritter 9780190051303
£90.99Tandem 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...