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  • The Story of Irish Dance

    by Helen Brennan ...
    From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Helen Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance. Every type of dance from social to traditional to clergy is included. Brennan takes care to explain the different styles and traditions that evolved from different parts of Ireland; which results in some lively discussions as people reminisce over old ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

  • Dancing Revelations

    Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

    In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ballet Beyond Tradition

    For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and control that comes only from years of progressive training.Ballet Beyond Tradition seeks to reconcile these age-old conflicts and bring a new awareness ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Speaking of Dance

    Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft

    Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on**Their Craft delves into the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging and revolutionary dancemakers. Based on personal interviews, the book's narratives reveal the methods and quests of, among others, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Mark Morris. Morgenroth shows how the ideas, craft, and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Salsa and Its Transnational Moves

    Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Anarchic Dance

    Edited by Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ...
    Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and downloadable resources, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. The downloadable ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • 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 Cambridge Companion to Ballet

    Edited by Marion Kant ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Sunnybrook Ballroom

    Series series Images of America
    As one of the last major ballrooms located in this great nation, the Sunnybrook Ballroom is a historical and intricate part of Pennsylvania's past. Since 1926, the Sunnybrook Ballroom has been an established landmark in its community and is recognized nationwide. Opening its doors in 1931, the grand ballroom was built as an addition to the swim club and dance pavilion. For years, Sunnybrook has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rudolf Laban

    The Dancer of the Crystal

    by Evelyn Doerr ...
    Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter, sculptor, and architect, and allowed those skills to influence his innovative choreographic techniques. His important works and his creation of one of the most significant forms of dance notation make him an essential component of dance history. Rudolf Laban: The Dancer of the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Reworking the Ballet

    Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

    Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets.In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these contemporary reworkings destroy and recreate their source material, turning ballet from a classical ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach

    A unique study of dance forms and rhythms in the Baroque composer’s repertoire.Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach’s compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician’s repertoire, little has been written about it.The original edition of this book addressed works that bore the names of dances—a considerable ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Men Dance

    Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders

    Edited by Jennifer Fisher, Anthony Shay ...
    When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Chapters tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives, and are accompanied by fascinating personal histories that complement their themes. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Dreaming Out Loud

    Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes,

    by Bruce Feiler ...
    Country music has exploded across the U.S. and undergone a sweeping revolution, transforming the once ridiculed world of Nashville into an unlikely focal point of American pop culture. Bruce Feiler was granted unprecedented access to the private moments of the revolution. Here is the acclaimed report: a chronicle of the genre's biggest stars as they change the face of American music.From the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Art of Stage Dancing, the story of a beautiful and profitable profession

    by Ned Wayburn ...
    "Every age has had its ways of dancing; every people has expressed itself in some form of rhythmic motion. The dance originally was the natural expression of the simple emotions of a primitive people. Triumph, defeat, war, love, hate, desire, propitiation of the gods of nature, all were danced by the hero or the tribe to the rhythm of beaten drums." ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laat de nacht nooit eindigen

    Eddy De Clercq, deejay, muziekpionier en medeoprichter van club RoXY, vertelt in Laat de nacht nooit eindigen openhartig over zijn muzikale leven en zijn fascinatie voor het extravagante nachtleven. Bij alle muziekstijlen die hij omarmt en bij een groot publiek bekendmaakt, zoals Belgian popcorn, disco, new beat, house en techno, creëert hij steeds een eigen wereld die een speciale mix aan ... Read more

    $8.87 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California

    Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

    Queen Ida, Danny Poullard, documentary filmmaker Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and zydeco, and they have one other thing in common—-longtime residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are all part of a vibrant scene of dancing and live Louisiana-French music that has evolved over several decades.Cajun and Zydeco ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

    by Alice Echols ...
    Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music.In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nieboskie Buenos: W pogoni za tangiem

    “…w książce taniec jest stale obecny. Na ulicach, towarzyskich imprezach, w klubach. Ale to dopiero początek. Tango jest tu bowiem punktem obserwacyjnym. Sunąc przez parkiet Marcin Miszczak wychwytuje codzienne obrazki, pozostałości historii, mentalność.” - DZIENNIK POLSKI ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Madura's Danceland

    Series series Images of America
    Danceland! For hundreds of thousands of couples from all around the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago�s East Side, the name alone conjures up memories of dancing and romancing to thousands of live big bands. Opening night in October 1929 drew over 2,000 people to the beautiful ballroom with the famous maplewood dance floor. It continued to thrive with live music four nights a week ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Record Players

    DJ Revolutionaries

    From the co-authors of the classic Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: A fascinating oral history of record spinning told by the groundbreaking DJs themselves.Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary and outrageous DJs who shaped the last half-century of pop music. The Record Players is the fun ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography

    It Starts From Any Point

    by Steven Spier ...
    William Forsythe’s reinvigoration of classical ballet during his 20-year tenure at the Ballett Frankfurt saw him lauded as one of the greatest choreographers of the postwar era. His current work with The Forsythe Company has gone even further to challenge and investigate fundamental assumptions about choreography itself.William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography presents a diverse range of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD