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  • Samuel Holyoke (1762-1820) and Jacob Kimball (1761-1826)

    Selected Works

    Edited by Harry Eskew, Karl Kroeger ...
    Series series Music of the New American Nation: Sacred Music from 1780 to 1820
    This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music・psalmody, as it was called・in collected critical editions. Each volume has been prepared by a scholar who has studied the musical history of the period and the stylistic qualities of the composer. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American composers in accurate editions for both ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Sarai mia

    by Jillian Moore ...
    Colin ama Jaimie dal primo giorno che lei è entrata a ballare nella crew degli Shade&Fade, ma lei sembra non accorgersi di lui: è il caro amico di suo fratello e niente di più. Le cose però possono cambiare, soprattutto se lungo la strada verso la conquista del cuore di una ragazza si insinuano gelosie, ammiratori segreti, nuove sfide di danza e una buona dose di colpi di scena. Ma la meta non ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Save Me The Waltz

    Series Book 4 - Handheld Defiants
    Written in six weeks and drawing from the life she shared with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz is a classic novel of one woman’s experience in a fast-moving Jazz Age society.Alabama Beggs is a Southern belle who makes her début into adulthood with wild parties, dancing and drinking, and flirting with the young officers posted to her hometown during World War I. When Lieutenant David Knight ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Scottish Dance Beyond 1805

    Reaction and Regulation

    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
    Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. The book explains the major changes in the way that dance was taught and performed by chronicling the shift from individual dancing masters to professional, licensed members of regulatory ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Screendance

    Sperimentazioni visive intorno al corpo tra film, video e computer grafica

    Series series Orizzonti
    L’incontro fra la danza classica, moderna contemporanea e il mondo dell’immagine in movimento produce la nascita di un genere, la Screendance, nella quale i due ambiti sono indissolubilmente legati per sperimentare il rapporto fra corpo, immagine e movimento. In questo libro non si parla di musical, ma di opere realizzate in pellicola, in video, in digitale e in animazione sia tradizionale che ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Screendance from Film to Festival

    Celebration and Curatorial Practice

    by Cara Hagan ...
    Dance and film have shared a dynamic relationship since the advent of cinema--a natural interplay that developed into the genre known as screendance. Charting the history of screendance festivals, this book examines important shifts in practice and theory, distinct festival eras and communities, and the process of selecting and programming works. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Screened Stages

    On Theatre in Film

    by Rachel Joseph ...
    This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages.A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically severed the entwined relationship between film and theatre. The book makes the argument that cinema ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Scroll Paintings of India

    Scroll paintings were once considered visual aids which accompanied story telling by wandering mendicants or bards. Today, the story telling has come down considerably, what remains are the paintings. These are collector's pieces which grace many a wall or home or gallery. The paintings are beautiful, accurate presentation of a story. They stand out for the naive innate charm. The book covers 4 of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scènes baroques d'aujourd'hui

    La mise en scène baroque dans le paysage culturel contemporain

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Théâtre et société
    Tout le monde connaît les pièces de Molière ou de Corneille ; ce sont ces « classiques » et d’autres œuvres moins célèbres des xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles que le mouvement artistique baroque se réapproprie en explorant les codes de jeu, les gestes et les modes de profération des interprètes de l’époque. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de dresser un état des lieux de la mise en scène baroque aujourd ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Se faire contemporain

    Les danseurs africains à l'épreuve de la mondialisation culturelle

    Series series Homme et société
    Longtemps absents de la scène chorégraphique contemporaine, les danseurs africains semblent bien avoir, depuis une vingtaine d’années, le vent en poupe. Ils sont désormais les invités des festivals et des théâtres internationaux les plus prestigieux, et leurs pièces sont saluées tant par le public que par la critique. C'est que, disent les commentateurs, la mondialisation culturelle est passée par ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Se respiri, stai danzando

    L'arte di arrendersi al movimento

    Questo libro è il frutto di un lungo e meticoloso lavoro di raccolta e selezione di scritti e riflessioni che raccontano l’esperienza di danzatrice classica professionista, ricercatrice e monaca zen dell’Autrice; un ricchissimo materiale conservato su quaderni, diari, stralci di riviste e foglietti in un arco di tempo che abbraccia più di quarant’anni. Motivo centrale è la costante attenzione per ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Segui il cuore

    by Jillian Moore ...
    Ian, giovane artista e Penny, aspirante psicologa, sono diversi sotto molti punti di vista, ma l’amore non si cura delle differenze e solo il cuore può davvero misurare le distanze che ci sono tra due persone. Tra un fidanzato indeciso e indolente, una seducente ex modella e una sfida di danza a New York, i nostri protagonisti misureranno le loro forze e le loro debolezze, mettendo a dura prova i ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serenade

    A Balanchine Story

    by Toni Bentley ...
    Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era."Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in love with ballet…. [A] delicate balance of personal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Serge Diaghilev

    by Serge Lifar ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Guitars

    by August Wilson ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sex, Lügen und Tango

    by Zoe Schreiber ...
    Sarah hat alles, was sie braucht: einen guten Job, eine eigensinnige Katze und eine schöne Wohnung mitten in Hamburg. Aber reicht ein Leben ohne Sorgen, um wirklich glücklich zu sein? Als sie zufällig an einem Tango-Studio vorbeikommt, zieht sie die schwärmerische Musik sofort magisch an. Etwas in ihr rührt sich. Und der Tango weckt ihre Leidenschaft: Wenn ein Mann eine Frau mit einem Blick um ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World

    History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge

    by Vanja Hamzic ...
    Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity is forbidden in contemporary international human rights law, yet in many interpretations of Islamic law, this is seen to contradict the tenets of Islam. Vanja Hamzic here offers a path-breaking historical and anthropological analysis of the discourses on sexual and gender diversity in the Muslim world. The first of its kind, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Gender and Identity

    Critical Issues in Dance Education

    Edited by Doug Risner, Julie Kerr-Berry ...
    Sexuality is a difficult topic for all educators. Dance teachers and educators are not immune to these educational challenges, especially given the large number of children, adolescents, and young adults who pursue dance study and performance. Most troubling is the lack of serious discourse in dance education and the development of educative strategies to promote healthy sexuality and empowered ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture

    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • SHAKIRA

    Colombian Singer and Songwriter, Biography, Career, Achievements, Fame, Notable Personalities, Impacts, Transformations, Albums, Quotes, Net worth, and 10 Untold Discovery.

    by JANE SCOTT ...
    Series series Notable Personalities
    I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that. -ShakiraI'm Colombian and nothing will change that.-ShakiraShakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known professionally as Shakira, is a Grammy-award winning Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, music-video director, dancer, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shall We Dance? The True Story of the Couple Who Taught The World to Dance

    On the eve of the Great War, they had the world at - and watching - their feet. If God is in the details, they were divine.Vernon and Irene Castle were the world's first true celebrity couple. He, an Englishman, was tall and slim, as poised as an elegant evening out, a template for the Hollywood idols who would follow. In a staid age, she, a New Yorker, was a glorious, modern beauty, with her ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Shapes of American Ballet

    Teachers and Training before Balanchine

    In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian émigrés had been working for decades to build a national ballet with ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Shaping Dance Canons

    Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity

    Examining a century of dance criticism in the United States and its influence on aesthetics and inclusionDance criticism has long been integral to dance as an art form, serving as documentation and validation of dance performances, yet few studies have taken a close look at the impact of key critics and approaches to criticism over time. The first book to examine dance criticism in the United ... Read more

    $61.99 USD