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  • 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

  • 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

  • The Development of a Teleconferencing Game of Word Alchemy: Telesymbol Movement for Peace

    by Loanda Cullen ...
    Now perhaps, the world is ready for Telesymbols. With a perpetual state of no-win war, even the corporate executives realize that our losses in war are too great. So many people and countries now want to mediate this peace, which looks so impossibly far away, it just might happen. Telesymbols can be an intrinsic part, helping to create a new culture of peace-making, where communicating is a ... Read more

    $19.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martha Graham

    Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer

    Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this book, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing through a critical lens that exposes the gendered meaning behind much of her ... Read more

    $51.99 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

  • 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

  • Gesto orientado

    Reeducação do movimento

    Series series Método Bertazzo
    Gesto Orientado completa a trilogia do método Reeducação do Movimento, composta pelos livros Corpo vivo (2010) e Cérebro ativo (2012). Com fotografias e ilustrações, a obra discute o papel da pele nas funções de sustentação do esqueleto e organização muscular. Para isso, aborda-se a importância da pele para a reeducação motora enquanto mensageira do sistema locomotor, explorando questões estéticas ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Corpo do Mundo

    Criações, raízes e caminhos improváveis na poética do movimento

    by Lina do Carmo ...
    "O corpo é onde a nossa mais profunda verdade é vivida e compartilhada" Lina do Carmo Essencial para todos que praticam ou apreciam a arte da dança e o teatro Corpo do Mundo é o aguardado livro de Lina do Carmo. Aautora aproveita sua autobiografia para transmitir didaticamente, ao mesmo tempo que informalmente, história, filosofia e prática sobre a dança e a expressão teatral do movimento. Lina ... Read more

    $6.99 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

  • Agnes de Mille

    Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

    Series series Broadway Legacies
    This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de Mille's most influential and lucrative Broadway works. The other three shows exemplify aspects of her legacy that have not been fully ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Trisha Brown

    Choreography as Visual Art

    Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown's deliberate evolutionary trajectory through the first half of her decades-long career. Brown has created over 100 dances, six operas, one ballet, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Playable Bodies

    Dance Games and Intimate Media

    by Kiri Miller ...
    What happens when machines teach humans to dance? Dance video games transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography. Drawing on five years of research with players, game designers, and choreographers for the Just Dance and Dance Central games, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Unworking Choreography

    The Notion of the Work in Dance

    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers to a space other than art, considered both more frivolous and more fundamental than the artwork ... Read more

    $52.99 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

  • Line Dance Essentials

    A must have guide to Line Dancing

    by Peter Heath ...
    This book describes the terminology, dancing and teaching techniques used for modern line dancing. It describes the skills and competencies required for participants in all facets of the line dance industry, from dancer and instructor, through to choreographer, event coordinator, DJ and stage performer.For anyone writing up a line dance dance sheet, this book should be essential reading. Way too ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Laban plural

    Arte do movimento, pesquisa e genealogia da práxis de Rudolf Laban no Brasil

    Este livro é uma combinação de movimentos diversos – dança, pesquisa, passado e presente – que envolvem a vida e obra de Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) e da reverberação de seu pensamento artístico, filosófico e científico no Brasil. Embora seja considerado um dos grandes teóricos da dança do século XX, Laban baseia-se na observação, na prática e na experiência do corpo em movimento. Neste livro, Melina ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tap Dancing at a Glance

    by Jimmy Ormonde ...
    You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

    Edited by Mark Franko ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Dança Cristal

    da arte do movimento à abordagem somático-performativa

    Series series Pesquisa em Artes
    O livro traça o desenvolvimento da Abordagem Somático-Performativa de pesquisa em artes cênicas, a partir de uma perspectiva autobiográfica, simultaneamente acadêmica e poética, analítica e criativa. A abordagem inédita no país, faz parte do terceiro paradigma metodológico, integrando o arcabouço da Prática Artística como Pesquisa, que vem sendo desenvolvido principalmente na Austrália, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Choreography and Making Dance Theatre

    by Mark Bruce ...
    There are many skills one needs to produce a piece of dance. Bruce describes the basic foundation or ingredients of his version of Dance Theatre as: Movement, Drama, Sound and Vision. A choreographer has to study all of them to the best of their ability and learn how to combine them.There is no definitive method of choreography. Any choreographer who has a voice has learnt and executed it in their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Smack That (a conversation)

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Smack That (a conversation) documents a participatory performance created with and performed by survivors of domestic abuse. Endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith shines a light on this complex subject in an empowering performance highlighting human resilience.Beverly is having a party and you are one of her guests. There are games, drinks, shared conversation, energetic dance and ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Секреты Танго

    by Elena Pankey ...
    Секреты Аргентинского Танго (Secrets of Tango),его история, психология танца, техника его исполнения. Увлекательные рассказы о мастерах танца. Рассказы о тех, кто использует любовь людей к этому танцу для манипулирования студентами. для своих денежных обогащений. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leader of the Dance

    How to Lead the Dances of Universal Peace

    by Dede Callichy ...
    Leader of the Dance is a treasure chest for everyone who loves the Dances of Universal Peace and general circle/folk dancing! The book unfolds a map of the journey of becoming a dances leader. As you explore its delightfully illustrated pages, you enrich your own understanding of the dances culture and you learn powerful skills for spreading the cherished values of love, joy and peace through ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $3.99 USD