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  • Floor Barre

    by Alex d'Orsay ...
    A handbook on the tecnique of floor-barre conceived by Alex d’Orsay and written by the creator.A work on the floor expecially conceived for dance teachers and professional dancerswhich can also be used by amateurs interested in improving any tecnique, be it classical, modern or contemporary dance.The aims of this method are: a perfect alignement, an improvement of the turnout, a postural awareness ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Legitimacy

    How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

    Series Book 7 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Perspectives in Motion

    Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

    Series Book 15 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • José Limón and La Malinche

    The Dancer and the Dance

    Edited by Patricia Seed ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    José Limón (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by the New York Times as "the finest male dancer of his time" when the José Limón Dance Company debuted in 1947, Limón was also a renowned choreographer who won two Dance Magazine Awards and a Capezio Dance Award, two of dance's highest honors. In addition to directing his own dance company, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • (Re:) Claiming Ballet

    Edited by Adesola Akinleye ...
    The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet’s denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance

    Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

    Series Book 10 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dance Circles

    Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal

    Series Book 5 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Functional Awareness

    Anatomy in Action for Dancers

    Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers is where anatomy meets artistry. Each chapter provides explorations in embodied anatomy in an engaging manner with the use of images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. It is an accessible introduction to the relationship between daily movement habits, dance training and anatomy. The information is founded on over 30,000 hours of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Ballet & Modern Dance

    A Concise History. Third Edition

    by Jack Anderson ...
    A complete history of Ballet and Modern Dance ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa

    Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the first full-length monograph on the award-winning choreographer, theater director, curator, and creative artist in contemporary global performance. Working within the contexts of African studies, dance, theater, and performance, Ketu H. Katrak explores the extent of Pather's productive career but also places him and his work in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Honest Bodies

    Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow

    Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dance Science

    Anatomy, Movement Analysis, and Conditioning

    Winner of:Certificate of Merit, Association of Medical IllustratorsRather than focusing on dance injuries, this book takes a positive approach showing what a dancer can do to dance better, which, in turn, will decrease injury rates. It presents human anatomy and motion in a functional, dance-specific way that teaches the readers to appreciate and take ownership of their bodies through a tour of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laban - Aristotle

    Towards a methodology for movement training for the actor and in acting

    by Kiki Selioni ...
    The focus of this book rests on an investigation into the links between Laban and Aristotle and aims at proposing a new approach to movement training for the actor. In contrast to the standard Platonic reading, Laban’s development is best understood through the conceptual framework of Aristotle. This not only provides a more secure theoretical approach, but a practical one as well, which ... Read more

    $36.99 USD $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jungle Rabha Masks and Masked Dance

    An Antropological Documentation

    The book is based on extensive field work among the forest dwelling Rabhas of North Bengal conducted in 1982 and 1983 during the collection of their traditional cultural artifacts (ethnographic object) as the museum specimens. Among the collected specimens, masks are considered as one of the significant cultural elements of the forest dwelling Rabhas. But there is hardly any written record about ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Art of Ballet Accompaniment

    A Comprehensive Guide

    The Art of Ballet Accompaniment: A Comprehensive Guide addresses every imaginable topic and challenge that a ballet accompanist—whether a novice or a more experienced practitioner—might encounter.More than just a facile anthology of accessible music, this inclusive guide details all aspects of playing for ballet, including a complete manual for editing piano literature to accompany ballet ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Ida Rubinstein

    Revolutionary Dancer, Actress, and Impresario

    Ida Rubinstein (1883–1960) captivated Paris's dancers, composers, artists, and audiences from her time in the Ballets Russes in 1909 to her final performances in 1939. Trained in Russia as an actress and a dancer, her life spanned the artistic freedom of the Belle Époque through the ravages of World War I, the Depression, and finally World War II. This critical biography carefully examines aspects ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart

    During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Power in Practice

    The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

    Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Dance Experience

    Insights into History, Culture and Creativity

    Providing an understanding of the history, evolution, and universality of dance as an art form, this guidebook explores the significance of dance in culture, the relationship of dance to other art forms, the contributions of great pioneering choreographers, dancers, and teachers, and the creative process. Highlighting an extensive range of types of dance—including ballet, modern, jazz, tap, folk, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Attending to Movement

    Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World

    This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to ... Read more

    $32.86 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Guide to Primary Dance

    If you think you lack the necessary training for teaching dance in the primary classroom and are searching for resources to support teaching and learning, look no further. Through Complete Guide to Primary Dance, you’ll gain the insight, expertise and confidence to teach dance to children from reception to year 6.Regardless of your experience, this book and accompanying web resource will enable ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Like a Bomb Going Off

    Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

    by Janice Ross ...
    Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Creative Dance for All Ages

    Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, has had a long history of providing a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. Author Anne Gilbert demystifies expectations when teaching creative dance and provides the theory, methods, and lesson ideas for success in a variety of settings and with students of all ages. This one-stop resource offers dance teachers ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Acting: Make It Your Business

    How to Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success as a Working Actor

    by Paul Russell ...
    In ACTING: Make It Your Business, Second Edition,award-winning casting director Paul Russell puts the power to land jobs and thrive in any medium—stage, film, television, or the Internet—directly into the hands of the actor.This blunt and practical guide offers a wealth of advice on auditioning, marketing, and networking, combining traditional techniques with those best suited for the digital age. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD