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  • Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education

    Case Studies on Humanizing Dance Pedagogy

    Edited by Doug Risner, Karen Schupp ...
    The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studies from experts in the field of dance education, examining theory and practice developed from real-world scenarios that call for ethical decision-making. Dilemmas faced by dance educators in the studio, on stage, in recreation centers and correctional facilities, and on social media are explored, accompanied by ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Asymmetrical - Motion

    Notes on pedagogy and movement

    Series Book 12 - Escénicas
    Lucas Condró and Pablo Messiez gather in this essay a set of notes on pedagogy and movement, result from their long experience giving workshops on the work with the body.Lucas Condró (Buenos Aires, 1977), dancer, choreographer and teacher. For 10 years he has developed his research on movement within contemporary dance.Pablo Messiez (Buenos Aires, 1974), actor, director and playwright. Since 2009 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Italian Dance Quest. Finding Power, Wealth, and Innovation

    by Anna Harsh ...
    Anna Harsh, dancer and Italian American takes a trip to Italy with her mother and brother as a child that sets her on a path which changes her life forever.The Italian Dance Quest is a travel memoir of an adventure that has made a lasting impact on the life of this Italian-American dancer. Be immersed into five different regions through dances that reflect the people, food, and history. Anna ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A sapatilha que mudou meu mundo

    by Ingrid Silva ...
    Conheça a história inspiradora de Ingrid Silva: a bailarina brasileira que se tornou conhecida mundialmente ao pintar as sapatilhas com a cor da sua pele Nascida no subúrbio carioca, Ingrid Silva está hoje em um dos maiores postos do balé mundial. Aos 8 anos, ainda menina, conseguiu uma vaga em um projeto social que leva aulas de balé para as comunidades carentes do Rio de Janeiro e nunca mais ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Fierce and Delicate

    Essays on Dance and Illness

    Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.Renée Nicholson’s professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of elaborate platter tutus to strange language barriers and unrealistic expectations of the body. In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dança na cultura digital

    by Ivani Santana ...
    É impossível pensar o ser humano contemporâneo se não imerso em um ambiente naturalmente híbrido: biológico e tecnológico em constante interação. É esse o convite que o trabalho de Ivani nos faz, observar o corpo dançando ao sabor da tecnologia, numa metáfora para essa relação. O título é um dos primeiros livros sobre o tema lançado pela Editora. ... Read more

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  • Dicionário Laban

    by Lenira Rengel ...
    Apresento este trabalho como gênero dicionário; em ordem alfabética, com verbetes e suas respectivas definições. Cada verbete é significado isoladamente mas, como é grande a inter-relação da maioria deles, emprego a indicação de remissão v. (veja), comum a dicionários e, bem presente neste aqui.O ato de ler/manusear o dicionário várias vezes, devido aos links (às remissões), visa enfatizar a ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Making Dances That Matter

    Resources for Community Creativity

    by Anna Halprin ...
    Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience, as well as step-by-step processes for bringing people together to create dances that foster individual and group well-being. At the heart of this book are accounts of two dances: the Planetary Dance, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dancing with Unity

    Transcending Racism Globally

    by Jan Ford ...
    This book has a companion workbook - look for Dancing with Unity WorkbookDancing with Unity is based on true events. It is one woman's God-inspired quest to answer the questions: What can I do to make a difference in a world filled with racial hatred and violence? How can each of us, acting individually, change the world's perspective? The answers to these questions take us on a journey through ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Our Love Affair with Dance

    The creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the passion and motivation for the dance arts.This book's focus centers on the power and spirituality of the dance told through the life stories of two dance artists, Magda and Gertrud Hahn. This work additionally invites the reader to celebrate the sublime and nuanced inner and outer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Raising the Barre

    Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker

    Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams -- along with her youthful self-assurance -- and she stepped away from the barre.Fast forward four decades. Lauren -- suddenly, powerfully ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dos passos da bailarina

    by Cássia Pires ...
    As histórias de uma bailarina adulta, estudos sobre a dança clássica, repertórios e discussões sobre o ballet clássico são os temas que norteiam o livro, que reúne textos publicados no blog "Dos passos da bailarina" entre 2009 e 2013. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Behind the Sequins

    My Life

    Leave it all on the floor...Queen of Latin Ballroom, Shirley Ballas has a spectacular dance career spanning over 40 years – she has Cha-Cha'd her way across the world's dance floors to become a multi-award-winning ballroom champion and one of the most renowned dancers in the world. In 1996, Shirley retired from competitive dancing to become a highly-acclaimed coach and now holds the enviable ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • El lago de los cisnes: un beso entre dos culturas

    Se analiza El lago de los cisnes partiendo desde su creación, su adaptación moderna en la danza, su adaptación cinematográfica; todo desde el discurso de la modernidad y la posmodernidad, para entender a la sociedad, la política y la cultura. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Skin of Glass

    Dunya's intense passion for dance took her from a small seaside New England town in 1972 to the Juilliard School in the heart of NYC's vibrant, edgy art scene. A decade later, healing from a serious injury, she turned away from a successful performing career and retreated to a monastic mountaintop community directed by a charismatic Iraqi Sufi Master a sojourn that opened a mysterious, beautiful ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Puttin' On the Ritz

    Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache, A Biography

    Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. With white tie, tails and a succession of elegant partners - Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland and others - he created an indelible image of the Anglo bon vivant. His origins, though, were far more humble: Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Fred Astaire came from Midwestern stock that partially had its origin in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet

    This beautifully produced new book by Royal Ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski is a collection of exclusive photographs which shines the spotlight on ballet, the most beautiful of art forms. These exquisite photographs feature some of the finest dancers on stage today, bringing the reader into the magical world of ballet. As a Royal Ballet dancer himself, Andrej Uspenski has a unique perspective on ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Billie Eilish

    From e-girl to Icon: The Unofficial Biography

    by Adrian Besley ...
    With number one songs all over the world, a Bond theme, an armful of Grammys and over 70 million Instagram followers to her name, Billie Eilish is a global star.She has collaborated with Justin Bieber and Khalid, headlined Glastonbury and Coachella, and appeared in Calvin Klein ad campaigns. In her short career she has become an icon for Generation Z. Her postponed world tour is already sold out, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique)

    Teaching Creative Theatre

    by Jacques Lecoq ...
    Translated by David Bradby ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture, which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre.Neutral mask, character ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • K-POP Manía (Edición mexicana)

    Desde 2012, con la aparición del hit de PSY "Gangman Style", que rompió todos los récords posibles, se empezó a hablar de K-pop. Poco o nada se sabía de esta tendencia, sólo que viene desde Corea del Sur, con grupos multitudinarios que bailan complejas coreografías.En este libro te proponemos un recorrido por su origen, que ya tiene más de un siglo, e intentamos descubrir cómo llegó a América ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Moving Researcher

    Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in Performing Arts Education and Creative Arts Therapies

    This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices.Following extensive research on the method developed by Rudolf von Laban and his disciples, this book explains movement principles, exercises, and motif symbols in detail. Organized according to the four categories of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Illustrated Handbook of Salsa Dance Patterns

    Series Book 2 - Handbook of Salsa Dance
    This Handbook provides a breakdown of common positions, holds, turns, and patterns. It contains 36 dance positions, 51 dance patterns, 184 illustrations, 12 dance pattern combinations, and a curated list of links to 83 free online lessons. Each position is illustrated from multiple angles.Are you a beginner or intermediate level salsa dance enthusiast? Do you want to expand your repertoire of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dance

    Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery.This work has been collected and edited to form an astonishing sequence. Rather than being assembled as an anthology, the sequence has in fact been ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Afro-Mexico

    Dancing between Myth and Reality

    While Africans and their descendants have lived in Mexico for centuries, many Afro-Mexicans do not consider themselves to be either black or African. For almost a century, Mexico has promoted an ideal of its citizens as having a combination of indigenous and European ancestry. This obscures the presence of African, Asian, and other populations that have contributed to the growth of the nation. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD