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  • Big Deal

    Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

    by Kevin Winkler ...
    Series series Broadway Legacies
    Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bob Berg Iconic Jazz Style

    by Olegario Diaz ...
    Jazz players tend to be good sharers and good listeners–the qualities are virtually obligatory in often spontaneously conceived ensemble music. And the respect that the best players command can frequently be measured by the behavior of their fellow professionals in the audience. Bob Berg, the lean, flint-featured American saxophonist, often received that kind of attention. Berg's particular skill ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Class Act

    The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

    Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Dance Appreciation

    Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social, cultural, aesthetic, and kinetic aspects of various forms of dance. Dedicated chapters cover ballet, modern, tap, jazz, and hip-hop dance, complete with summaries, charts, timelines, discussion ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dance Education around the World

    Perspectives on dance, young people and change

    Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Duke

    The Musical Life of Duke Ellington

    by Bill Gutman ...
    Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was one of jazz’s greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy‑five. Interviewing Duke’s friends, fans, and fellow musicians, Gutman documents the progress of a man who dedicated his life to crafting the ever‑changing sound of jazz. Gutman plunges ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embodied Nostalgia

    Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre

    by Phoebe Rumsey ...
    Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Identity and Diversity

    Celebrating Dance in Taiwan

    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with an array of eclectic influences including martial arts and Peking Opera from China, and dance forms such as contemporary, neo-classical, post ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Instruments of Embodiment

    Costuming in Contemporary Dance

    by Eric Mullis ...
    Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Jazz Dance Today Essentials

    The video text dance series

    Series series The video text dance series
    Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial levels. It has been used as the primary textbook in the field and has been read worldwide by ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jazz Dancing

    by Anonymous ...
    Are you a dance lover? Do you like to tone your body with dancing? Are you planning to learn any particular dance form? If the answer to all these questions is yes... then you can go for jazz dancing.Jazz dancing is one of the most exhilarating and fashionable forms of modern dance.It is perfect choice for fun and good health! Today many individuals take jazz classes for maintaining their health ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Josephine Baker

    Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the delight of French audiences, dancing entirely nude on some occasions. When she toured central Europe ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jumping the Color Line

    Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929–1945

    by Susie Trenka ...
    From the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in "specialty acts" and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Kinetic Atmospheres

    Performance and Immersion

    This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Learn the Language of Dance That Ladies Love

    by Paul Zaidman ...
    When you dance, it doesn't matter whether you'rea man or woman, you cannot hide your true self,dancing is simply a window into your soul. It is amirror to your own reality. Dancing literally says tothe onlooker,"This is who I truly am" ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lighting Dance

    A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows

    Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Look Before You Leap

    Look Before You Leap guides parents towards helping their children to achieve their greatest success in dance. As we pull back the curtain on the dance industry, it has never been more important for parents and students to become as informed as possible to avoid the damage that is being done to children through the world-wide epidemics of extreme training, over-training, unqualified teachers and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milestones in Dance in the USA

    Edited by Elizabeth McPherson ...
    Series series Milestones
    Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Music Gigs That Pay: How To Get Paid Gigs For Your Band Fast

    by John Little ...
    When many people think of musicians, they think glitz and glamour and people accepting Grammy awards on television. However, for most people this isn’t the case. The average professional musician books gigs without the fanfare and the worldwide prestige. People who want to make a living making music should always shoot for the stars, but should also be aware of the many different practical and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Hard Feelings - A Dancer's Reflections

    I thank my lucky stars that I am a so-called dumb dancer, for I can state unequivocally, without presenting an elaborate argument to prove it, that dance is the foundation of all the arts. This little book recounts my experience with dance in Manhattan and Miami Beach, and includes an unfinished novelette I wrote as a student under master teachers long ago, under the guise of "fiction," and ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rooted Jazz Dance

    Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

    National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation ... Read more

    $27.99 USD