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  • The History Of Dance - Ritual Dance

    by Lilly Grove ...
    This vintage book is a treatise on ritualistic dancing. It delves into the fascinating history of dancing in ancient societies and explores its development within religions ceremonies throughout the ages from the ancient Egyptians to modern Christianity. “The History Of Dance - Ritual Dance” is highly recommended for those with an interest in the relationship between dance and religion and would ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance and Authoritarianism

    These Boots Are Made for Dancing

    by Anthony Shay ...
    Everyone who viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can understand the power of dance and mass movement in the service of politics. While examples of such public performances and huge festivals are familiar in Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union and today's North Korea, this new book addresses the lesser known examples of Spain under Franco, the Dominican Republic, Iran, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Experience of Theater Dance for Belly Dancers

    The Experience of Theater for Middle Eastern Dance Studies

    Have you always wanted to do or be involved in a theater production? Want to know the ins and outs? Want to know what to ask without appearing uninformed. Well! Now you can. This book will answer all the questions that involve the tasks at hand.  Know the terminology being used. Know how to deal with the different aspects of theater. Know how to deal with the different workersin a theater without ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021

    Landmarks of South African Theatre History

    Edited by Phyllis Klotz, Smal Ndaba ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations.Sibikwa provides arts centres across the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • I wanted to dance

    CARLOS EDUARDO GAVITO (4/27/1943 – 7/1/2005) was born in La Plata, Argentina. He spent his youth in the barrio of Avellaneda (to the south of Greater Buenos Aires) and the rest of his life circling the globe.He traveled for more than forty years and visited more than ninety countries. He spoke English, Italian, French and Portuguese fluently and could make himself understood in German, Russian and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fire Knife Dance

    The Story Behind the Flames Ta'alolo to Nifo'oti

    The book expresses the history of the Samoan fire knife dance (Samoan Ailao), from the time it was a victory ceremony of war to its modern day form. The explanation of the weapon nifooti (the deadly tooth or cutting tooth) is defined. The book elaborates the various stages of the dance from traditional to creative or a modern style, it also define how to build the actual knife itself. It also ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Everynight Life

    Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

    Series series Latin America otherwise
    The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Buenos Aires Tango Queer

    A handful of people in Buenos Aires pioneered Queer Tango – an evolved version of the traditional tango dance that challenges stereotyped gender roles. We asked two of the city's foremost Queer Tango instructors to show us their inclusive and loveable Buenos Aires. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro del show Tango argentino La historia de los más importantes show de tango de todos los tiempos

    Dentro del showTango argentinoLa historia de los más importantesshow de tango de todos los tiemposAntón GazenbeekDurante los oscuros años de la dictadura militar, el tango había caído en el olvido en todo el mundo, incluso en Argentina.El espectáculo "Tango Argentino" reavivó el interés por el tango en todo el mundo.Debutó en París, luego conquistó Broadway y, más tarde, el mundo entero.El libro, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro Lo Show Tango Argentino

    Durante gli anni bui della dittatura militare, il Tango era caduto nell'oblio in tutto il mondo, anche in Argentina.Lo spettacolo "Tango Argentino" ha rilanciato a livello mondiale l'interesse per il Tango.Ha fatto il suo debutto a Parigi, poi ha conquistato Broadway ed, in seguito, il mondo intero.Nel libro, per il quale Antón ha fatto ricerche per 17 anni a Buenos Aires e in tutto il mondo, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creativity: Establish Visibility

    Power of Commitment

    A book for anyone who earns a living or wants to earn a living as an artist, especially dance. Written in particular with ethnic dnce in mind and primarlily Arabic dance. This is the third book in the series Creativity: Power of Commitment. This is a book of daily exercises at an Intermediate level that takes 3 months. Be as creative as you can. Ideas for that creativity and also how to not get ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia

    Mirroring the Master

    by Arjun Raina ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia. A rigorous analysis and detailed documentation of the teaching of multiple learners in Melbourne, both in the group workshop mode and one-on-one, combined with the author’s ethnographic research in India, leads to a unique insight into what the author argues ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Danças Circulares

    Uma viagem sagrada

    ..."Durante dois anos, ininterruptamente, por mais difícil que fosse minha vida, participei de todos os encontros de Meditação na Dança em Nazaré. Jane, David e Evelyn residentes daquela comunidade, foram meus primeiros professores.Lá eu conheci, também, Sara Marriot, que havia vivido alguns anos na Comunidade de Findhorn, na Escócia, e que trouxe para Nazaré as Danças Circulares.Em algumas ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Mamífero Tanguero Antropología del Tango, por el Profesor Pedro Pugliese

    Del professore Pedro Pugliese si hanno le prime notizie "storiche" nel 2001. Da allora i suoi dotti articoli di antropologia del tango, "tradotti in italiano" da Leli, hanno informato gli iscritti alla mailing list Tangueros. Almeno fino al 2010.Altri lavori di antropologia del tango sono stati prodotti: vedi le pubblicazioni in castigliano di Susana Azzi. Altri articoli di tango humor sono stati ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • “Tango Argentin Un « bréviaire » de poche pour ses danseurs”

    Dans ce livre, nous découvrons le code d'honneur des danseurs "portenos" du Tango Milonguero, qui sont restés "non contaminés" par le tourisme autour du Tango, et dont la plupart ont plus ou moins 70-80 ans. Leur comportement reflète des concepts dont on parlait déjà dans la Chine ancienne ! Découvrons-les ensemble en marchant sur les traces du philosophe chinois Lao Tse et de los Viejos ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milestones in Dance History

    Edited by Dana Tai Soon Burgess ...
    Series series Milestones
    This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest indigenous rituals and the dance crazes of Eastern trade routes, to the social ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra

    Celebrating Dance in North East India

    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Rechoreographing Learning

    Dance As a Way to Bridge the Mind-Body Divide in Education

    This book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance.This book includes a description of the often-forgotten kinesthetic sense, body awareness, somatic practices, body-based way of thinking, mental imagery, nonverbal communication, human empathy, and symbol systems, what occurs in the brain during learning, and why and how movement and dance should be part of school curricula. This ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Shiny Beads and Shimmies

    Welcome to Belly-Dance. Ask Before You Undulate!

    Series series Studies of Middle Eastern Dance
    Do you love to dance? Interested in Belly Dance? Do you not know where to turn? Are you unsure about what is acceptableand what is not? How do you know if a teacher is good or not? This book will answer these questions and more, then guide you in the right dirrection. It will tell you what you need to know and more, before you make a mistake and waste your money. Badly uneducated teacherscan harm ... Read more

    $3.49 USD

  • Academic Approach to Arabic Dance

    Academic Approach to Arabic Dance, #1

    Series Book 1 - Academic Approach to Arabic Dance
    For belly dancers who want to teach. Academic Approach to Arabic Dance: Middle Eastern also called Arabic Style/Belly Dance is a misunderstood form that deserves the respect recognition equal to that given to that given other ethnic and classical dance forms. This book is aimed at the instructors of the dance as we hope the teachers are educated and knowledgeable enough. It is for those who feel ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 交际舞入门学习指南

    舞蹈是艺术之母。自有人类以来,舞蹈就在原始社会的人类生活里产生了,氏族成员在祭祀、耕耘或时都离不开舞蹈活动。在原始部落的生活中,没有文字和完善的语言,沟通就需要通过肢体动作来完成,其动作和节奏与劳动是密切相关的。在各种劳动中,人的手脚总是要活动的,用手拍打、以脚踩踏,在某种动作连续重复过程中,就产生有规律的节奏,再伴以各种呼喊声或打击石块和木棍的声音,就形成了原始的舞蹈。舞蹈充当原始人类交流思想和表达感情的主要形式。 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Movement of the People

    Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship

    Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Romania. This folk tourism and connected everyday practices of folk dance revival take place against the backdrop of an increasingly nationalist political environment in Hungary.In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • La Danza

    by Anna Harsh ...
    Imagine an assignment in college as a dance major opening a door and leading you to a life-long mission after just one performance.Anna Harsh made a vision board in 6th grade about dancing professionally, traveling to Italy, and meeting the Pope. Fast forward to her senior thesis project that catapulted her journey fulfilling that vision and so much more.Her quest to find traditional Italian ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Church of Tango

    by Cherie Magnus ...
    The Church of Tango is a passionate memoir of tragedy and adventure, lust and music, romance and tango, and above all, survival. A dancer all her life, she'd had to put it on hold while raising her artistic sons and caring for her dying husband. Now, as she set her suitcase down on the ancient cobblestones of a Paris courtyard, she wondered—48 years old, 6,000 miles away from home, knowing no one ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus