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  • ¡Dale Mambo! A Perspective on Salsa Dancing

    by Jason Harry ...
    Whether your goal is simply to make sense of Salsa music, or to explore the world of Salsa dancing and improve your skills on the dance floor, this book is for you! Here you will find a lot of useful tips and unique concepts that can help you make progress faster as you take your Salsa dancing to the next level! Dance instructors can teach you the moves, but this book will provide additional Salsa ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • ZILLS-ZAGAT Teaching Syllabus

    A teaching syllabus for teachers of Middle Eastern dance to allow students to play correctly to Arabic music. Inspired and dedicated to the teachings of the late Ibrahim Farrah. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Zar

    Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt

    An examination of the history and waning culture of zar in Egypt, and the world in which Muslim women negotiate relations with spiritsZar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible world, the capricious spirits manifest their anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which require ritual ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zapotecs on the Move

    Cultural, Social, and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective

    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs (“Yaláltecos”) in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in order to delineate migration patterns, community formation in Los Angeles, and the emergence of transnational identities of the first and second generations ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Zaida

    Belly Dancing for Older Women

    by Zaïda ...
    Your height your weight your body shape your age the colour of your eyes - do not matter when you want to learn to belly dance.You will feel healthier, more energetic and happier, than you have ever felt.You will feel you are a beautiful woman.You will feel self-assured.You will feelJOY!Zada first started to belly dance at the age of 60 and has felt healthier and happier in the past 5 years than ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

    A Teachers Guide

    The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series of exercises, this book guides students through:movement, stillness, timing, shaping, accentstravellingdirection ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

    Exercise Sheets

    First published in 1995. A collection of sixty exercise sheets for activities in dance that include such areas as shifting body areas, body direction like tilting, displacement, and destination motion as well as contraction, elongation, folding, rotational twists, and the five forms of aerial steps. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Your Move

    A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

    Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations of movement technique and notation symbols it provides a new way to see, to teach and to choreograph dance. This book gives a list of primary actions upon which all physical ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Your Move

    This second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis and choreography as well as the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Your Body Knows

    A Movement Guide for Actors

    Your Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning: knowing your body and experiencing how it works.Through the work of F.M. Alexander, Rudolf Laban, and Michael Chekhov, this book offers basic training in movement fundamentals. Its step-by-step process supports the actor's work in any acting or ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • You, the Choreographer

    Creating and Crafting Dance

    YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography. The book is designed for readers at every stage of creative development who seek to refine their artistic sensibility.Through a review of major milestones in the field, including contributions to choreography from ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • You Can Dance

    Get This Ultimate Handbook And Learn Dancing By Grabbing The Excellent Ideas About The Importance Of Dance, Belly Dancing Basics And Other Dance Fun Facts!

    There are many things in life we can do to show emotions and let others know how we feel. Some people sing, some people write poetry and prose, some retreat within themselves and hold it all inside. Others dance. Dance has for centuries been a way to express a wide range of emotions. It is an excellent outlet for the emotions that at times our minds simply cannot process. Dancing is a method in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • You Call Me Louis, Not Mr. Horst

    Dorothy Madden's lively book about Louis Horst (You don't call me Mr. Horst, you call me Louis, he always said) makes for compulsive reading. She follows Horst's extraordinary life, punctuating her narrative with reminiscences, illuminating anecdotes from her personal store of memories, as well as the shared thoughts of others, all interspersed with her choice of evocative and expressive ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Yoga Deconstructed®

    Movement Science Principles for Teaching

    by Trina Altman ...
    Many people are drawn to a physical yoga practice as a way to reduce stress and move more. However, because most of their time is spent at a desk, their bodies are often not prepared to perform many of the traditional physical poses.Additionally, naturally flexible people will be drawn to the practice, because it comes easily to them. However, they frequently lack the stability needed to support ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Yes? No! Maybe…

    Seductive Ambiguity in Dance

    by Emilyn Claid ...
    Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance.Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing.Using the 1970s revolution of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • YES TO SOCIAL DANCE

    35+ Partner Dance Styles to Stay Fit, Find Joy & Make Connections

    by Myra Kolm ...
    Never feel bored, lonely, or out of shape again... Just say “YES” to social dance!ARE YOU• Simply curious and longing for a fun-filled and challenging activity to improve your health and social life?• A social dance student who just started taking couple dance classes and needs a little boost?• An experienced dancer who grabs every opportunity to learn more about your passion?• A competitive ... Read more

    $8.87 USD

  • Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker

    An Arlene Croce Reader

    by Arlene Croce ...
    The best of America's best writer on dance"Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything-once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love."From 1973 until 1996 Arlene Croce was The New Yorker's dance critic, a post created for her. Her entertaining, forthright, passionate reviews and essays have revealed the logic and history of ballet, modern dance, and their postmodern variants ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Writing Choreography

    Textualities of and beyond Dance

    A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts.Through the contributions of 15 dance–artists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artist–researchers, the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Wrights & Wrongs

    My Life in Dance

    by Peter Wright ...
    Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television.Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Worlds of social dancing

    Dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing, c. 1910–40

    Edited by James Nott, Klaus Nathaus ...
    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    By the 1920s, much of the world was ‘dance mad,’ as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances. Worlds of social dancing examines how these dance cultures spread around the globe at this time and how they were altered to suit local tastes. As it looks at ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • World Dance Cultures

    From Ritual to Spectacle

    From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures, which are practiced around the world.This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • World Dance Cultures

    From Ritual to Spectacle

    From healing, fertility and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms practiced around the world.This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts, taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawai’i, New Zealand ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Words We Can Dance

    Thoughts for dance students, performers and teachers

    Words We Can Dance is a collection of words of wisdom, inspiration, motivation and wit for dancers of all levels. Dance teacher trainer, author and blogger Francisco De La Calleja, draws on the experience of a 33 year dance performing and teaching career to share his experiences about performinging, learning, teaching and living the dancer's life. 82 memorable and unique thoughts that touch the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Words for the Theatre

    Four Essays on the Dramatic Text

    by David Cole ...
    In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Colepursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.The book’s four essays each offer a dramaturgical perspective on a different aspect of the playwright’s practice: How does the playwright juggle the transcriptive and prescriptive aspects of their activity? Does the ultimate performance of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD