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  • 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

  • What's So Funny?

    Sketches from My Life

    by Lotte Goslar ...
    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures (Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD $36.99 USD

  • A linguagem do movimento corporal

    by Lola Brikman ...
    Pioneira no campo da expressão corporal, Lola Brikman comemora quase três décadas do lançamento de sua obra-prima com uma edição revista e atualizada. Aqui, ela revê alguns conceitos e acrescenta novas experiências adquiridas em décadas de docência. Sempre baseada na ideia de que o movimento pode expressar a personalidade dos seres humanos, ela produz um trabalho original, socialmente relevante e ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Choreographics

    A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present

    Here for the first time is an account of how each of thirteen historical as well as present-day systems cope with indicating body movement, time, space (direction and level) and other basic movement aspects of paper. A one-to-one comparison is made of how the same simple patterns, such as walking, jumping, turning, etc. are notated in each system. ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Dancing Female

    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance? These are some of the questions addressed through interviews and researched by the educators and dancers Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer in Dancing Female . In dealing with some of the tensions, joys, frustrations, and fears women experience at various points of their creative lives, ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Christensen Brothers

    An American Dance Epic

    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties. Their story sheds light on the history of ballet in twentieth-century America, both through their accomplishments as dancers, teachers, and company directors, and through their association with some of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Great Choreographers-Interviews

    In this book, the reader will find some of the most important choreographers, artists who helped to shape the dance scene as it is today, from icon Pina Bausch to still-thriving figures such as Xavier Le Roy, Sasha Waltz, and more. Through this compilation of interviews conducted over the course of twenty years, Natasha Hassiotis aims to show on the one hand the choices made by the audience, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Duke

    The Musical Life of Duke Ellington

    by Bill Gutman ...
    Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was one of jazz’s greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy‑five. Interviewing Duke’s friends, fans, and fellow musicians, Gutman documents the progress of a man who dedicated his life to crafting the ever‑changing sound of jazz. Gutman plunges ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Variaciones Orfeo

    El mito en la filosofía, la literatura, el teatro y la música

    Variaciones Orfeo consituye una reunión de voces que, desde distintos espacios geográficos y textuales, escriben de / para / sobre un posible Orfeo; o acaso sobre su revés: una imposible Eurídice. Se trata del intento de escritura siempre arriesgado a un vacío y expectante ante lo extraño, de una experiencia polifónica atravesada por diversos tonos y matices. Los artículos que conforman este libro ... Read more

    $3.11 USD

  • Constant Lambert

    Beyond The Rio Grande

    by Stephen Lloyd ...
    An indispensable biography for anyone interested in Constant Lambert, ballet and British musical life in the first part of the twentieth century.To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dancing with Cats

    “Marvelously silly photographs . . . in addition to those hilarious images, [there is] much helpful instruction for aspiring dancers with cats.” —The New York TimesDiscover the mystery and magic of cat dancing with this cult classic, filled with scores of delightful and inspiring photographs of people and cats engaging in their favorite dance routines, as well as moving testimonies of the personal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing with Cats

    The cult classic is back! This 15th anniversary edition keeps all the original mystery and magic of cat dancing delightfully intact. Perpetually ahead of its time, Dancing with Cats presents scores of delightful and inspiring photographs of people and cats engaging in their favorite dance routines as well as moving testimonies of the personal transformations brought about through this uniquely ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shawn's Fundamentals of Dance

    Edited by Anne Hutchinson Guest ...
    Series series Language of Dance
    How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $99.99 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

  • Life in Motion

    An Unlikely Ballerina

    A bestselling and prizewinning memoir by African American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre—and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old prodigy.Determination meets dance in this New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ballade by Anna Sokolow

    by Ray Cook ...
    Series series Language of Dance
    This volume publishes Anna Sokolow's Ballade in Labanotation for the first time. It is a dance which explores youth and its discoveries, following the restlessness and inconclusiveness of young love to a final sombre note. The complete score is accompanied by detailed study and performance notes, historical background and photographs. Since moving to New York in 1961, Ray Cook has worked as a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Pinter at 70

    A Casebook

    Edited by Lois Gordon ...
    Series series Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
    This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a substantial introduction, a chronology, and bibliography. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Manuale di danza orientale

    La danza orientale rappresenta, per tutte le donne di ogni età, un'occasione per ritrovare la femminilità e la forma fisica ideale divertendosi. L'atmosfera gioiosa delle lezioni, la bellezza della musica araba, la cura dell'abbigliamento e del trucco coinvolge completamente ogni allieva. Questo manuale, che è frutto di quindici anni di esperienze e di approfondimenti della cultura araba e della ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing Through It

    My Journey in the Ballet

    “A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.” —The Washington PostJenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight.Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mara Terzi

    Quando i sogni dell'anima si son fatti Danza

    by Olga Karasso ...
    È come un dolce pedagogico invito a giovani e non più giovani – essendo musica e danza sin dall'antichità lo specchio dei popoli – a imparare come, canalizzando l'energia, si assuma il controllo sia del corpo sia della mente per una più profonda conoscenza di se stessi apportando nel contempo gioia alla propria esistenza.Ripercorrendo idealmente la storia della Danza dalle sue origini in quanto ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives

    Identity, Embodiment and Culture

    Edited by L. Dankworth, A. David ...
    Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes studies of the dance and movement systems of varied global communities. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Tango Lessons

    Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Marilyn G. Miller ...
    From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 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

  • Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration)

    Series series Nordic Film Classics
    Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (“The Celebration”) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity — no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment — Festen was a commercial and critical success, winning the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998 and garnering worldwide attention ... Read more

    $23.99 USD