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  • Dance in US Popular Culture

    Edited by Jennifer Atkins ...
    This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in—and through—culture.By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ex-corpo

    Dans une langue poétique et polyphonique, c'est le trajet d'un artiste en recherche que retrace ce livre. Analysant son propre travail mais aussi les œuvres emblématiques des artistes brésiliens Luiz de Abreu, Micheline Torres et Marcelo Evelin, le danseur et chorégraphe Volmir Cordeiro invente ici, à travers l'écriture, une forme sensible où la création est inextricablement liée à sa position de ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 假如我是一隻海燕: 從日治到解嚴,臺灣現代舞的故事

    by 林巧棠 ...
    Series series Belong
    從日治到當代,一百多年來,臺灣人始終在追尋自由,政治的自由、思想的自由、文化的自由;而臺灣現代舞發展的歷史,就是臺灣人追尋「身體的自由」的歷史。  假如我是一隻海燕  永遠也不會害怕  也不會憂愁  我愛在暴風雨中翱翔  剪破一個又一個巨浪  ──雷石榆,〈假如我是一隻海燕〉  我們對於自己的身體,看似有權自主,實際上卻受到許多禮俗、傳統觀念,或是法律等無形的規範,限制著我們的自由。另一方面,舞蹈這項藝術的核心,則是以身體為語言,用最直接的肢體運動,表達出人最真實的內在感受。在這層意義上,現代舞走得相當遠,因為它的出現,就是為了打破古典芭蕾日益僵固的審美標準,讓身體能夠盡情揮灑,更貼近奔放的心靈與思想。而這源於反叛、追求自由的現代舞,雖誕生於二○世紀的歐美,卻引起了普世的心靈共鳴並傳入亞洲,先是日本,而後朝鮮,最後輾轉進入臺灣,落地生根。    《假如我是一隻海燕:從日治到解嚴 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nostalgia, Betrayal, Love

    by Rosa Ucci ...
    The Tango phenomenon today is a reality for the whole world, involving people from all walks of life on three continents: Asia, America, and Africa.The author has asked herself the reason for this 'retrieval' of the Tango, in particular, the dance. Why are people from all over the world going to the 'milongas'? A question that leads her into an interior journey, an experience of awareness, in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest DJ's in the United States of All Time: Top 100

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest DJ's in United States 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 United States of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Qual é o corpo que dança?

    Dança e educação somática para adultos e crianças

    Nesta obra, Jussara Miller apresenta com propriedade sua pesquisa de dança e educação partindo de sua ampla experiência como bailarina, professora e pesquisadora. Dirigido a educadores e profissionais de dança, teatro, educação física, educação infantil, fisioterapia e terapias corporais – e a estudantes das artes cênicas em geral –, o livro também atende aos interessados em conhecer e vivenciar a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Caminhos cruzados

    Teatro de Dança Galpão 1974-1981

    by Inês Bogéa ...
    O Teatro de Dança Galpão, primeiro espaço inaugurado em São Paulo, voltado exclusivamente à dança com subsídio governamental, teve papel significativo na formação de uma nova safra de profissionais nos anos 1970. Buscava-se encontrar a identidade brasileira na criação artística e a autonomia em relação ao padrão tradicional europeu, vinculado à técnica clássica. Seus trabalhos caracterizavam-se ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dance Research Methodologies

    Ethics, Orientations, and Practices

    Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from around the world writing about a variety of dance forms and practices.This book makes explicit the implicit skills and experiences at work in the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Milestones in Dance in the USA

    Edited by Elizabeth McPherson ...
    Series series Milestones
    Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rhythms of the Rainbow Nation

    Echoes from Johannesburg to Pretoria

    In the heart of South Africa, "Rhythms of the Rainbow Nation: Echoes from Johannesburg to Pretoria" tells the inspiring story of four individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.First, there's the Xhosa music producer, a self-taught artist who crafts beats with Cubase and Fruity Loops, driven by his undying love for music. Then, there's the Zulu dancer, who captures the hearts of onlookers on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 水面上與水面下:用戲劇轉化人生

    by 張嘉容 ...
    Series Book 203 - 心靈拓展系列
    不管幾歲,你都擁有改變命運的可能。戲劇是你我都可以用來轉化自己人生的便利技術,用戲劇成為更好的自己,克服人生的種種挑戰,脫穎而出!作者張嘉容集跨界編導與戲劇療癒工作於一身,致力於探討文化/個人生命課題的複雜度與多義性。本書集結她多年的工作關懷,分享將戲劇與日常生活結合,運用在個人身心強韌、劇場、創作、療癒、社區、弱勢服務、文化推動的方法。書中既有抒情靈動的散文、翔實描述的戲劇田野與心理學工作誌,也有舉重若輕的闡述、創作和成長回顧。追求身心靈成長的讀者不可錯過本書。你可藉由書中的個案歷程描述和介紹的各種方法,多角度地反思成長,並將方法運用在生活中、療癒內在小孩、自我培力、突破問題,獲得平衡與整合。從事教育諮商輔導、應用劇場、戲劇創作的讀者更不能錯過本書,書中對療癒技術的陳述及個人故事,可使專業人員有所成長,運用在工作和教學中。 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jerome Robbins

    A Life in Dance

    by Wendy Lesser ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage directorJerome Robbins (1918–1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joining the family business. In 1936 he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On Choreography and Making Dance Theatre

    by Mark Bruce ...
    There are many skills one needs to produce a piece of dance. Bruce describes the basic foundation or ingredients of his version of Dance Theatre as: Movement, Drama, Sound and Vision. A choreographer has to study all of them to the best of their ability and learn how to combine them.There is no definitive method of choreography. Any choreographer who has a voice has learnt and executed it in their ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • Les inconsolables

    Quand la parole est bannie, les mots se manifestent en silence... Et malgré tout, la jeune fille s'efforce d'y croire. Emprisonnée par les ténèbres de son père, un homme qui a anéanti son esprit et brisé son corps. À travers de courts récits, des fragments d'écriture éparpillés, elle cherche à se libérer. Elle esquisse des cœurs sur l'inimaginable. Mais surtout, elle conserve toujours la foi, ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

    In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20****th century.A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics features a foreword by Juan Ignacio Vallejos on Franko's career, a new preface, a new chapter on Yvonne Rainer, and an ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdoğan.In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a dance that appears to publicly represent an erotic relationship finds space to expand and increase dramatically ... Read more

    $52.99 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

  • Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins

    by James Moreno ...
    Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, José Limón (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book analyzes Limón and Hawkins’ work during a time when modern dance was forming new relationships to academic and governmental institutions, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Modern Bodies

    Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey

    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning.Their innovations, however, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 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

  • Martha Graham

    Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer

    Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this book, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing through a critical lens that exposes the gendered meaning behind much of her ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen

    Expressive Movement for Performers

    by Annette Lust ...
    As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and physical acting. Stage and screen artists must now call upon physical presence, movement on stage, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD