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  • Fraught Balance

    The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

    Series series Music / Culture
    Dabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationhood in an authoritarian state. The book situates dabke ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Ancient English Morris Dance

    The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Lives in Motion

    Celebrating Dance in Thailand

    Edited by Pornrat Damrhung, Lowell Skar ...
    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    • Drawing together a range of critical voices in the field, this book re-examine technical training in British dance in response to the impact of some of the issues pertaining to shifting politics of education.• Would be recommended reading for students of dance and dance professionals. There are over 60 dance courses offered in the UK.• The closest competitors focus more on a more general ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Flamenco Music

    History, Forms, Culture

    by Peter Manuel ...
    An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art formAn iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and on to the vibrant ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • المسرح النثري

    حتى منتصف القرن التاسع عشر, لم تكن الثقافة العربية تعرف فن المسرح, الذي كان سائدًا في أوروبا والذي انطلق من مسرح الأساطير الوثنية في زمن الحضارة اليونانية القديمة, وتطور في المسرح الديني في العهود المسيحية, وشهد تطورًا كبيرًا في عصور النهضة والتنوير الأوروبيين حتى أصبح فنًا ناضجًا. بينما واجه المسرح العربي العديد من المشكلات والتحديات التي أبطأت من مسيرته وتأخره كفن مستقل. اعتبره البعض دخيلًا على ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 千年舞藝:舞龍舞獅

    《千年舞藝:舞龍舞獅》是一本關於中國文化的書籍,詳細介紹了舞龍舞獅這一千年傳統的民俗活動。這本書分為多個章節,從舞龍舞獅的起源和歷史背景講起,深入介紹了不同地方的龍獅舞型式、演出技巧和製作過程。第一章介紹了中國傳統文化中對龍形圖騰之崇拜及其象徵,第二章後開始介紹起舞龍之傳說、演變、製作過程、文化功能及表演形式,其中也會特別介紹少數民族舞龍舞獅的特殊表演。第六章起則介紹了舞獅的起源、文化流變,章節中也會提及不同地域的師舞風格,最終也會討論舞龍舞獅的傳承與未來發展。《千年舞藝:舞龍舞獅》透過深入挖掘舞龍舞獅的歷史和技術,帶領讀者一同探索這項傳統藝術的魅力和魔力。無論是對於對中國文化感興趣的讀者,還是對於舞蹈和戲劇藝術有濃厚興趣的人來說,這本書都將是一本寶貴的數據和啟發。 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Desenjaular el Juego 2

    Series Book 2 - A Desenjaular el Juego
    "A desenjaular el Juego 2", al igual que el primer "Desenjaular", contiene una recopilación de juegos y canciones de América Latina. La particularidad de estos juegos es que son todos musicales y de carácter tradicional. Aportan sonidos y modismos empapados del folklore de cada región, con la intención de enriquecer el repertorio musical para las infancias y proporcionar a los docentes nuevos ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Inter-Asia in Motion

    Dance as Method

    Edited by Emily Wilcox, Soo Ryon Yoon ...
    This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the ... Read more

    $64.99 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

  • Afrikinesis

    A Paradigm for Research on African and African Diaspora Dance

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements.This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on Africana dance. It exposes the value of utilizing an appropriate research paradigm that offers ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Dancing in the World

    Revealing Cultural Confluences

    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance?This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in diverse dance cultures to navigate academia and the professional dance field. The framework is based on the idea of "cultural confluences," conjuring up an image of bodies of water meeting and flowing into and past one another, migrating through what the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra

    Celebrating Dance in North East India

    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Desenjaular el Juego 1

    Juegos y Canciones Tradicionales de Latinoamérica

    Series Book 1 - A Desenjaular el Juego
    Este libro presenta una recopilación de rondas, juegos y canciones Latinoamericanas, empapadas de lo popular, la tradición y el folklore de cada país. Contiene los audios de las canciones de los juegos, con arreglos musicales que utilizan múltiples recursos creativos; pudiendo acceder a ellos a través de un código QR. A esto se suman las voces de los niños, los sonidos y modismos propios de cada ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wheelchair Dancer : Dancing in the Face of Adversity

    by aarat ...
    This book is dedicated to all the individuals who dance with their hearts, no matter the challenges they face. It is for those who have transformed their wheelchairs into graceful extensions of their bodies, defying expectations and inspiring us all with their talent, resilience, and unwavering spirit.To the wheelchair dancers who have shown us the power of movement, expression, and the beauty ... Read more

    $3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graceful Resistance

    How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement

    Series series Interp Culture New Millennium
    Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation—and leads many participants into activism.Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs her ethnography of capoeiristas--both individuals and groups--in the United States. Griffith follows ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space

    (in)dependent Scenes

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional project ‘Nomad Dance Academy’ (NDA), and highlights collective approaches to sustain a theorisation of festivals using the concepts of dissensus and imperceptible politics. Drawing from ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • How To Dance With a Partner

    The Gentle Method of Unambiguously Communicating Every Step in Every Social Dance

    The solution to a 1,000-year-old problem. This book solves the biggest problem in social dancing that affects millions of people. The problem is how to communicate unambiguously. Dance teachers have an enormous wealth of knowledge. However, when explaining how to communicate, they are surprisingly vague. This vagueness is not the fault of dance teachers. Men and women have been social dancing ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Tango Argentino in Buenos Aires - 36 Hinweise

    Strategien, Übungen und Ratschlage um immer glücklich Tango zu tanzen. egal ob in Buenos Aires oder anderswo. Dieses Buch ist eine Liebeserklärung an den Tango, speziell an jene Traditionen, die bald verschwinden, wenn wir sie nicht lebendig halten. Patricia Müller stellt uns den Tango vor, in dem sie über seine historische Entwicklung, Persönlichkeiten und wichtigen Plätzen in Buenos Aires ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Mamífero Tanguero Antropología del Tango, por el Profesor Pedro Pugliese

    Del professore Pedro Pugliese si hanno le prime notizie "storiche" nel 2001. Da allora i suoi dotti articoli di antropologia del tango, "tradotti in italiano" da Leli, hanno informato gli iscritti alla mailing list Tangueros. Almeno fino al 2010.Altri lavori di antropologia del tango sono stati prodotti: vedi le pubblicazioni in castigliano di Susana Azzi. Altri articoli di tango humor sono stati ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro Lo Show Tango Argentino

    Dentro lo ShowTango ArgentinoLa Storia del più ImportanteTango Show di Tutti i TempiAntón GazenbeekTango Argentino è stato lo spettacolo innovativo che ha portato alla rinascita di interesse per il Tango Argentino. Ha debuttato a Parigi, poi ha conquistato Broadway e, in seguito, ha girato il mondo intero. Ha avuto un'enorme influenza culturale sulla comprensione della storia del tango, della sua ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro del show Tango argentino La historia de los más importantes show de tango de todos los tiempos

    Dentro del showTango argentinoLa historia de los más importantesshow de tango de todos los tiemposAntón GazenbeekDurante los oscuros años de la dictadura militar, el tango había caído en el olvido en todo el mundo, incluso en Argentina.El espectáculo "Tango Argentino" reavivó el interés por el tango en todo el mundo.Debutó en París, luego conquistó Broadway y, más tarde, el mundo entero.El libro, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus