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  • Making Ballet American

    Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine

    by Andrea Harris ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first American manifestation of the art form. In Making Ballet American, author Andrea Harris challenges this narrative by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Embodying Hebrew Culture

    Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine

    From their conquest of Palestine in 1917 during World War I, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British controlled the territory by mandate, representing a distinct cultural period in Middle Eastern history. In Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine, author Nina S. Spiegel argues that the Jewish community of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Business of Ballet

    Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde

    by Ira Nadel ...
    The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde explores how a remarkable, internationally recognized ballet company, the Ballets Russes, was able to survive for twenty years without stable funding. Focusing on Ballets Russes’s founder, Serge Diaghilev, and his talent for discovering monies through an uncanny ability to secure funds from aristocrats, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Discovering Dance

    by Gayle Kassing ...
    Discovering Dance is the ideal introductory text for students with little to no dance experience. Teachers can adapt this course to meet students where they are, whether they are new to dance or already have some dance experience.The material helps students consider where movement comes from and why humans are compelled to move, grasp the foundational concepts of dance, and explore movement ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Stravinsky and Balanchine

    A Journey of Invention

    Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces. This engrossing book is the first full-length study of one of the greatest artistic collaborations in history.Drawing on extensive new research, Charles M. Joseph discusses the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballets against a rich ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Acting and Being

    Explorations in Embodied Performance

    In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints) Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini yoga) and related performance disciplines (Mask, Puppetry). Behavioral, physiological and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame

    Celebrating 30 Years

    Series series Excelsior Editions
    The only museum in the United States dedicated entirely to the art form of dance, the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame opened in June 1987, after a short preview season the summer before. This unique and special place celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2017. To commemorate this milestone, Lisa Schlansker Kolosek has created a rich pictorial history tracing not only the museum's ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance

    An Ethnographic History

    by Justine Lemos ...
    Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance: An Ethnographic History demonstrates how Mohiniyattam, a form previously stigmatized, was reinvented as a sign of traditional Keralite womanhood. The book traces how the emergence of Mohiniyattam as a traditional form of dance based on a feminine aesthetic was synchronistic with the outlawing of polyandrous marriage practices and devadasi ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Risk, Failure, Play

    What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training

    by Janet O'Shea ...
    Risk, Failure, Play illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training in a range of martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dancing in the Muddy Temple

    A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body

    by Eline Kieft ...
    Series series Studies in Body and Religion
    Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight, healing, transformation, and direct interaction with source. Dancing in the Muddy Temple takes the reader on a journey through multiple layers of embodied spirituality based in movement and embedded in the land.Addressing existential questions outside of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dance, Place, and Poetics

    Site-specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences
    This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research, particularly within embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry. It explores a theoretical foundation for integration of these areas, primarily to share the lived experiences, poetry and dance which have come out of decades of sharing site-specific ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Experiencing Dance

    From Student to Dance Artist

    Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist, Second Edition, takes off where its previous edition—a best-selling high school text for students enrolled in dance classes—left off. Geared to students in dance II, III, and IV classes, this text places teachers in the role of facilitator and opens up a world of creativity and analytical thinking as students explore the art of dance.Through ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Theatergeschichte

    Eine Einführung

    by Andreas Kotte ...
    Von der antiken Tragödie bis zum "postdramatischen" Theater In sieben klar strukturierten Kapiteln stellt Andreas Kotte die Geschichte des europäischen Theaters von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vor. Dabei geht er Impulsen, Neuerungen und Störfaktoren der Theaterentwicklung ebenso nach wie Veränderungen in den Rahmenbedingungen der Theaterkunst. Worin liegen die Ursprünge von Theater? Gab es ein ... Read more

    $41.20 USD

  • She is Cuba

    A Genealogy of the Mulata Body

    She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis. By focusing on her living and dancing body in order to flesh out the process of identity formation, this book makes a claim ... Read more

    $41.99 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

  • A New Corpus Christi

    Plays for Churches

    In the tradition of the medieval cycle plays performed for education, enrichment, and entertainment, A New Corpus Christi: Plays for Churches presents 25 short plays and skits with one or two scripts for each of 21 events in the church year. The scripts range from celebratory pieces to problem plays to liturgical dramas to plays that call for no worship setting accouterments. The scripts will also ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Modern Moves

    Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras

    Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Dance Movement Therapy

    Theory, Research and Practice

    Edited by Helen Payne ...
    What can dance movement contribute to psychotherapy?This thoroughly updated edition of Dance Movement Therapy echoes the increased world-wide interest in dance movement therapy and makes a strong contribution to the emerging awareness of the nature of embodiment in psychotherapy. Recent research is incorporated, along with developments in theory and practice, to provide a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Living the Dream

    Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts

    Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s arts career as a business. This essential companion to the inner workings of the arts world begins with defining the dream, including how to conceive mission statements, branding and business plans. Part II covers sharing the dream with others through social media, networking, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies

    Contemporary Applications

    by Colleen Wahl ...
    In this engaging and practical text, author Colleen Wahl presents a detailed and clear discussion on how to best use Laban/Bartenieff movement analysis (L/BMA), a system for observing, teaching, and analyzing human movement.Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications offers a framework for understanding movement as it influences our perceptions of ourselves and others. In moving ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Teaching What You Want to Learn

    A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers

    by Bill Evans ...
    Teaching WhatYou Want to Learn distills the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today’s dance instructor.From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into action, to working with diverse bodies and embracing evolving value systems, Evans has considered every element of the teacher’s role and provided 94 essential ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Ballroom

    Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance

    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more.Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Anthropology of the Performing Arts

    Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry, and how artists interplay with audience, aesthetics, and style. To support her case, she examines ... Read more

    $42.99 USD