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  • You Can Dance

    Get This Ultimate Handbook And Learn Dancing By Grabbing The Excellent Ideas About The Importance Of Dance, Belly Dancing Basics And Other Dance Fun Facts!

    There are many things in life we can do to show emotions and let others know how we feel. Some people sing, some people write poetry and prose, some retreat within themselves and hold it all inside. Others dance. Dance has for centuries been a way to express a wide range of emotions. It is an excellent outlet for the emotions that at times our minds simply cannot process. Dancing is a method in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    by Umi Vaughan ...
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. As an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer who lived in Cuba, Vaughan reveals a unique ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Underground Dance Masters

    Final History of a Forgotten Era

    This book is a comprehensive, historical bible on the subject of urban street dance and its influence on modern dance, hip hop, and pop culture.Urban street dance—which is now referred to across the globe as "break dance" or "hip-hop dance"—was born 15 years prior to the hip hop movement. In today's pop culture, the dance innovators from "back in the day" have been forgotten, except when ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Move

    YA Contemporary

    Series series Cape Haven
    Sometimes Dallas gets drunk and doesn’t remember what she did last night. Sometimes she loses friends. Sometimes her mom’s boyfriend beats her until she can’t walk. Sometimes her life sucks, but sometimes it’s beautiful. When Dallas dances her world is her own and she can escape her otherwise horrible life. Dallas now must overcome her past to give herself a future at the Allenwood Academy of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Chaplin's Music Hall

    The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight

    by Barry Anthony ...
    Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Greatest DJ's in Asia of All Time: Top 100

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest DJ's in Asia of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating The Greatest DJ's in Asia of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Revival of Banned Dances

    A Worldwide Study

    Throughout history, humans have used dance as a benefit for mind, body, and soul. In some cases, governments or churches have banned certain dances for a variety of reasons. This work provides an exploration of dances banned around the world, then revived by a handful of brave proponents. The sixteen case studies--ranging from Argentina's Tango and Cambodia's Royal Classical Ballet to Brazil's ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Contest

    A Stepper's Dream or Nightmare

    Gregory B. Dickerson was born in 1960 in West Brighton, a district of New York Citys borough of Staten Island. He is a graduate of Susan E. Wagner High School and the College of Staten Island, majoring in Business Management. An employee of the Mass Transit Authority (MTA) for the past 25 years, he currently resides in Staten Island. The Contest is his second narrative. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ballerina

    Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

    by Deirdre Kelly ...
    Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection- the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century, who often led double lives as concubines, through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800’s and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Saint of Petersburg (Dancing Dream #3)

    by Leslie DuBois ...
    Series Book 3 - Dancing Dream
    After being raised in poverty, Sonya Garrison has a dream career and the love of not one, but two gorgeous men. But when she notices how fame and fortune are turning her into the type of person she doesn't want to be, will she be strong enough to change? Can she give up everything she ever wanted, in order to go after what she really needs? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

    The Making of Tanztheater

    Edited by Royd Climenhaga ...
    Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Dance Matters

    Performing India on Local and Global Stages

    This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • High School Prom

    Marketing, Morals and the American Teen

    by Ann Anderson ...
    The prom has been a fixture in the life of American teenagers for as long as high schools have existed. Both encapsulating and magnifying the drama of adolescence, proms have been transformed from modest tea dances to costly extravaganzas supporting apparel and cosmetic makers, limousine services, hotels, magazine publishers, and hair salons.Focusing on social and economic trends, this volume ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Contemporary Dance in Cuba

    Tecnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

    by Suki John ...
    The lens of dance can provide a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban experience. Cuban contemporary dance, or tecnica cubana as it is known throughout Latin America, is a highly evolved hybrid of ballet, North American modern dance, Afro-Cuban tradition, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. Unlike most dance forms, tecnica was created intentionally with government backing. For Cuba, a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dancing Culture Religion

    Series series Studies in Body and Religion
    In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Beyond the Dance Floor

    Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture

    A pathbreaking study of the women who create electronic dance music, Beyond the Dance Floor focuses on the largely neglected relationship between these women and the conceptions of gender and technology that continue to inform the male-dominated culture surrounding electronic music. In this volume, Rebekah Farrugia explores a number of important issues, including the politics of identity and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Tango. Guida tecnica ai fondamenti e analisi dei comportamenti emotivi nella danza

    Una guida tecnica ai fondamenti del tango argentino, essenziale, ricca di dettagli, suggerimenti e consigli pratici; vere e proprie lezioni private racchiuse in un libro che servono ad avvicinarsi allo studio della danza in maniera corretta, ottimizzando tempi e metodi di apprendimento senza perdersi nei meandri delle connotazioni stilistiche e delle “figure”.E inoltre, una guida alla ricerca del ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuerpos en movimiento

    Antropología de y desde las danzas

    Este libro presenta los principales abordajes sobre la danza elaborados en la antropología sociocultural y da cuenta de su fructífera aplicabilidad para el análisis de una amplia variedad de prácticas de movimiento provenientes de diferentes tradiciones culturales, como la danza clásica y contemporánea, las pistas de música electrónica, el butoh, el tai chi, las danzas afro-yorubas, la capoeira, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking at Contemporary Dance

    A Guide for the Internet Age

    With a focus on dance innovation from the late 19th century to the present, this history provides dance students with accessible information on the major contributors to the art. Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or dance organizations were founded, the study shows the similarities and generational character that arise from shared influence. Rather than ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

    Theory and Technique

    This dance classic presents a complete beginning course in classical ballet. The founder of this method, Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928), performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. By elaborating on a logical progression of exercises, Cecchetti provided dance with an unprecedented unity — balancing the adagio and allegro, re-establishing the notion of "legato," strengthening the ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An English Ballet

    A Tribute to Ninette de Valois

    by David Gayle ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Ninette de Valois was an extraordinary woman. Not only did she create The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and the company that has become Birmingham Royal Ballet – in themselves great achievements – but she was a gifted choreographer, dancer, teacher, administrator, speaker and writer. She also identified and developed so many of the talented dancers, choreographers and teachers who went ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hermes Pan

    The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire

    Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy from Tennessee who became the most prolific, popular, and memorable choreographer of the glory days of the Hollywood musical. While he may be most well-known for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals which he choreographed at RKO film studios, he also created ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Martha Graham in Love and War

    The Life in the Work

    by Mark Franko ...
    Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the World War II era, by restoring their rich historical and personal context. Graham matured as an artist ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • When Will I Be Famous?

    by Martin Kelner ...
    When Will I Be Famous? is about a world of entertainment; a twilight world far from the bright lights of the West End. Among the pages of Showcall, an annual index of artistes and attractions, there is an army of hopefuls waiting for their big break. Some may be on the verge of a big break; for others, the big break came and went years ago. What they all have in common is that they are out there, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD