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  • Buzz

    The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

    Series series Screen Classics
    A biography of the director and choreographer who kept America entertained through the Great Depression: “[A] fascinating read.” —PlaybillCharacterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley’s unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director’s chair, Berkeley is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing Man

    A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

    by Bob Avian ...
    Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway’s legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • Flowers Cracking Concrete

    Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies

    Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Koma—two artists from Japan who have lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1970s, establishing themselves as innovative and influential modern and postmodern dancers. They continue to choreograph, perform, and give workshops across the United States and around the world. Rosemary Candelario argues ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ballroom Blitz

    The escapist and romantic novel from the nation’s favourite entertainer

    by Anton Du Beke ...
    The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night.Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Valuing Dance

    Commodities and Gifts in Motion

    Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dance to the Piper

    Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova’s beauty, in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she faced—the resistance of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Critique Is Creative

    The Critical Response Process® in Theory and Action

    Winner of Silver Nautilus for Creativity & Innovation, given by Nautilus Book Award, 2023Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Using the Sky

    A Dance

    by Deborah Hay ...
    Deborah Hay is an internationally renowned dance artist whose unique approach to bodily practice has had lasting impact on American choreography. Her commitment to dance as a process is as exquisite as it is provoking. Rooted in NYC's 1960s experimental Judson Dance Theater in New York, Hay's work has evolved through experimentation with a use of language that is unique to dance. This book is an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In distinction to many extant histories of ballet, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet prioritizes connections between ballet communities as it interweaves chapters by scholars, critics, choreographers, and working professional dancers. The book looks at the many ways ballet functions as a global practice in the 21st century, providing new perspectives on ballet's past, present, and future. ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Balanchine

    A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance

    Edited by Eleni Hofmeister ...
    This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and ... Read more

    $48.99 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

  • 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

  • Dancing Women

    Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema

    by Usha Iyer ...
    Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms cinema and dance historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Butoh Dance Training

    Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method

    by Juju Alishina ...
    Translated by Corinna Torregiani ...
    Drawing 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 readers:· basic body training and expression exercises· exercises to cultivate Qi (energy) and to aid improvisation· about katas (forms) and how to ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Laban - Aristotle

    Towards a methodology for movement training for the actor and in acting

    by Kiki Selioni ...
    The focus of this book rests on an investigation into the links between Laban and Aristotle and aims at proposing a new approach to movement training for the actor. In contrast to the standard Platonic reading, Laban’s development is best understood through the conceptual framework of Aristotle. This not only provides a more secure theoretical approach, but a practical one as well, which ... Read more

    $36.99 USD $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Dance

    Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis

    by Eden Davies ...
    Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies to their field, few know the full story of how this ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Burlesque Handbook

    by Jo Weldon ...
    The Burlesque Handbook is the essential manual to understanding and performing both classic and neo-burlesque. Written by Jo Weldon, award-winning founder of the New York School of Burlesque, this book features easy-to-follow suggestions and exercises for developing stage-worthy confidence, presence, and sexiness. You'll learn about the fabulous makeup, costumes—including pasties!—moves, grooves, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daniel Lewis

    A Life in Choreography and the Art of Dance

    Daniel Lewis's legacy as a hugely influential choreographer and teacher of modern dance is celebrated in this biography. It showcases the many roles he played in the dance world by organizing his story around various aspects of his work, including his years at the Juilliard School, dancing and touring with the Jose Limon Company, staging Limon's masterpieces around the world, directing his own ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Oriented Gesture

    The Re-education of Movement

    Series series Reeducação do movimento
    The Oriented Gesture completes the trilogy of the Method of the Reeducation of Movement, by Brazilian choreographer and corporal educator Ivaldo Bertazzo, comprising the books Corpo vivo [The Living Body] (2010) and Cérebro ativo [The Active Brain] (2012). With photographs and illustrations, this volume discusses the role of the skin in the functions of sustaining the skeleton and organizing the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's les ballets C de la B

    Emotions, Gestures, Politics

    Series series Dance in Dialogue
    Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment.Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this book ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Choreography of Everyday Life

    A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the streetIn this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance—time, proximity, space, motion and tone—into text. As we follow Parson through her days—at home, reading, and on her walks down the ... Read more

    $9.99 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