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  • Encore Performance

    How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

    The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance instructor, but like many baby boomers, she put her passion on hold to focus on starting a family. Only when her marriage ended ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Encore Performance (with embedded videos)

    How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

    To enhance your reading experience, this edition of Encore Performance contains embedded videos of the Tap Pups performing.The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tap Dancing America : A Cultural History

    A Cultural History

    Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • What the Eye Hears

    A History of Tap Dancing

    by Brian Seibert ...
    Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ballroom Dancing

    America's #1 Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing, Ballroom Dance Lessons, Ballroom Dance Costumes, Ballroom Dancing Shoes, Ballroom Dance Studio and Ballroom Dancing for Kids

    Learn to ace your wedding dance and keep cool at a formal and in dance classes with this knock-out book that teaches you all about ballroom dancing, ballroom dance lessons ballroom dance costumes, ballroom dancing shoes, ballroom dance studio, ballroom dancing for kids and more. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    $24.99 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

  • The Essential Guide to Tap Dance

    by Derek Hartley ...
    From the propulsive rhythm of the African dancer, to the swinging ragtime of the American jazz age, tap dancing has evolved into a unique blend of cultural expression, improvisation and creativity, open to all ages and abilities. With clear step-by-step instructions, The Essential Guide to Tap Dance covers basic steps such as the shuffle, pick up and paddle, before building these into traditional ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers

    While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their stories for this book. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers

    The World's Only Completely Nonessential Guide to Tap Dancing

    If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open ... Read more

    $0.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Milestones in Dance History

    Edited by Dana Tai Soon Burgess ...
    Series series Milestones
    This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest indigenous rituals and the dance crazes of Eastern trade routes, to the social ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Le regine della Belle Époque

    Varia - saggio (117 pagine) - Donne, seduttrici e sciantose di fin de siecle. Una galleria delle spregiudicate protagoniste della Belle Époque che hanno lasciato una incisiva impronta nel periodo che dalla fin de siecle termina nel 1915, con la prima guerra mondiale.La Belle Époque: un lasso di tempo frizzante, mondano, modaiolo, in cui le donne manifestano in tutto il mondo reclamando la parità ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Instruments of Embodiment

    Costuming in Contemporary Dance

    by Eric Mullis ...
    Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Eleanor Powell

    Born to Dance

    Series series Screen Classics
    When considering the best dancers in Hollywood's history, some obvious names come to mind—Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Bill Robinson. Yet often overlooked is one of the most gifted and creative dancers of all time, Eleanor Powell. Powell's effervescent style, unmatched technical prowess in tap, and free-flowing musicality led MGM to build top-rate musicals around her unique talents, including ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Story of Maurice Hines

    Rhythms of A Maestro

    by Lara Goldman ...
    "THE STORY OF MAURICE HINES: RHYTHMS OF A MAESTRO" is a celebration of the enduring legacy of a real pioneer, not only a memoir. This book pays tribute to the art of tap dancing and the amazing abilities that paved the way for future generations, providing a unique look into the heyday of entertainment.Why You Should Buy:Inspirational Journey: Trace the incredible journey of Maurice Hines from his ... Read more

    $13.14 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers: The World's Only Completely Nonessential Guide to Tap Dancing

    If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The “Shim Sham”

    National Anthem of Tap

    The authors objective is to capture these steps and unusual musical counts in written Dance Notes format, going to great lengths to break down the steps and insure the dancer has WEIGHT on the correct foot, etc, to accomplish a faithful execution of some tricky foot work complicated by some unusual musical dance counts. A corollary objective is to set the record straight, dispelling ALL variations ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Tap Dance for All

    Adapting Instruction for Disability and Mobility Impairment

    The first of its kind, this book focuses on the value of inclusivity in the tap dance studio, instructing on how to bring the rhythmic world of tap dance into the lives of individuals living with disabilities or mobility issues. No longer should those with mobility challenges be denied the opportunity to enjoy the unique delight, challenge and excitement of tap dancing.Based on the author's ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The “Shim Sham”

    (National Anthem of Tap) 2Nd Edition

    The authors objective is to capture these steps and unusual musical counts in written Dance Notes format, going to great lengths to break down the steps and insure the dancer has WEIGHT on the correct foot, etc, to accomplish a faithful execution of some tricky foot work complicated by some unusual musical dance counts. A corollary objective is to set the record straight, dispelling ALL variations ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • MICHAEL JACKSON

    Early Life, Career, Personal Life & Struggles, Legacy & Impact and All You Need to Know

    by Ember Haven ...
    Series series Music Legends
    To know more about Michael Jackson, get a duplicate of this book by toggling the BUY BUTTON as soon as possible! ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • The Art of TapTease

    by Tammy Taps ...
    This little ebook chronicles some of my time in a community of Tap Shoe Fetishists. For many years I produced amateur tap dance and shoe play videos for a fun community of admirers. If you want to know what TapTease is and how I started it, read on! ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus