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  • Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly

    A Memoir

    Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly. The memoir traces how his choreographic aesthetic, based on the fluency of dance and the visual arts, was informed by his early years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This insightful ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La etiqueta del baile de salón social

    la más pequeña enciclopedia

    La etiqueta del baile de salón social te enseña un comportamiento razonable en el espacio de baile. Te dice todo del más hermoso idioma - el baile de salón social.Este libro representa el primer paso hacia un espacio de baile mas agradable, hacia una comunidad más amigable y más grande, hacia un mayor respecto para el bailarin cerca de ti. El libro electrónico iBookstore contiene 15 videos hechos ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • I Want to Be Ready

    Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

    "Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Symphonie pour un homme seul (chorégraphie Maurice Béjart - 1955)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Symphonie pour un homme seul, un spectacle chorégraphié par Maurice Béjart.Lorsqu'il crée, le 26 juillet 1955, Symphonie pour un homme seul, Maurice Béjart, chorégraphe né à Marseille en 1927, n'est pas encore célèbre. Pourtant, sa pièce fera scandale au théâtre de l'Étoile, à Paris. Le sujet certes est dans l'air du temps, marqué par l'existentialisme et l'ex...Un ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Post-scriptum

    Dans ce texte très personnel, à la fois ludique et poétique, Georges Appaix parle de son travail, tel qu'il l'a vécu et pensé tout au long de ses quarante années de carrière où, pièce après pièce, il s'est agi pour lui de construire des spectacles, avec des danseurs, en partant – dit-il volontiers – le plus souvent « de bien peu de choses ». Ce post-scriptum vient saluer et ponctuer sa vie d ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • La Danse profonde

    De la carcasse à l'extase

    « La danse au plus profond de moi, ma danse profonde, cette nécessité personnelle, d’où vient-elle ? Et votre danse, celle qui est au plus profond de vous, d’où vient-elle ? Dans le dictionnaire, il est dit que les danses sont des pas rythmés. La danse profonde, c’est autre chose. Il y a des gens qui n’ont jamais appris des pas de danse et qui se sont éveillés du moment qu’ils se sont mis à danser ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inhabiting the Impossible

    Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

    Series series Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices
    This first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the lively field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as Habitar lo Imposible, the translation in English features essays, artist statements, and interviews plus more than 100 photos of productions, programs, posters, and scores. Throughout, Inhabiting the Impossible ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy

    by Werner Barfod ...
    Translated by Sally Lake-Edwards ...
    Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible. By incorporating zodiac gestures into their art, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner, eurythmists can draw on a deep connection between the earth and the cosmos.The zodiac, as representative of the whole cosmos, is a vital part of human spirituality, acting as the backdrop to human life. But it can be hard to fathom the zodiac's secrets, even through ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arbeitsbuch Judith Kuckart

    Erzaehlen – Theater – Tanz

    Series Book 9 - Literarisches Leben heute
    In diesem Arbeitsbuch werden die Wege der 1959 in Westfalen geborenen und heute v.a. in Berlin lebenden Judith Kuckart zurückverfolgt – und zwar in den Gattungen Prosa, Theater, Hör-Feature und Film sowie im Bereich Tanz: In all diesen Gattungen hat die Künstlerin seit den 1980er Jahren ein umfassendes OEuvre entwickelt. Im vorliegenden Band werden erstmals alle ihre Schaffensbereiche thematisiert ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Everything is Choreography

    The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune

    by Kevin Winkler ...
    Series series Broadway Legacies
    Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the tradition of complete musical staging by a director-choreographer into a new era defined by spectacle and technology. He was last in a grand ... Read more

    $24.99 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

  • Moving Sites

    Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance

    Edited by Victoria Hunter ...
    Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Dancing the World Smaller

    Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America

    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century ... Read more

    $27.99 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

  • Pilobolus

    A Story of Dance and Life

    The dynamic history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company, with revelatory behind-the-scenes details of its creators and significant worksThe ingeniously innovative and enduringly popular American dance theatre company Pilobolus has helped redefine, remix, and rejuvenate the essence of dance with its eclectic sensibility and daring athleticism. Now, for the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Learn the Language of Dance That Ladies Love

    by Paul Zaidman ...
    When you dance, it doesn't matter whether you'rea man or woman, you cannot hide your true self,dancing is simply a window into your soul. It is amirror to your own reality. Dancing literally says tothe onlooker,"This is who I truly am" ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choreographing Discourses

    A Mark Franko Reader

    by Mark Franko ...
    Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies.What makes this volume ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Dancing Indigenous Worlds

    Choreographies of Relation

    The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoplesIn Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the spotlight, putting critical dance studies and Indigenous studies in conversation with one another in fresh and exciting new ways. Exploring Indigenous dance from North America and Aotearoa (New Zealand), she ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Tango Argentino Kleines Brevier fur seine Tanzer

    n diesem Buch Entdecken wir sie gemeinsam auf den Spuren des weisen Lao Tse und der Viejos Milongueros..Sie sind nicht durch Tango-Tourismus kontaminiert worden. Ihr Alter beträgt etwa 70-80 Jahre.Ihr Verhalten spiegelt die Konzepte wider, über die bereits im alten China gesprochen wurde.Entdecken wir sie gemeinsam auf den Spuren des weisen Laotse und des alten Milongueros. Sie werden sicherlich ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improvised Dance

    (In)Corporeal Knowledges

    by Nalina Wait ...
    This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice.Mobilising the languages and conceptual frameworks of theories of affect, embodied cognition, somatics, and dance, this book ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dance Composition

    A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making

    Dance composition - the discipline that translates ideas into dances - is an important part of dance education. For over twenty years, Dance Composition has been the leading guide to creative success in dance making, useful to everyone interested in dance composition, at both high school and college levels. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter exploring creative processes in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • From Beginner to Pro Your Guide to Creating Epic TikTok Dance Videos

    "Dive into the vibrant world of TikTok with our comprehensive e-book, 'From Beginner to Pro: 30 Chapters on Creating Epic TikTok Dance Videos.' Whether you're a dance enthusiast or a complete novice, this guide is your roadmap to mastering the art of creating show-stopping dance content on the world's favorite short-form video platform. With these in-depth chapters, we take you on a journey from ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Honest Bodies

    Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow

    Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Drawing the Surface of Dance

    A Biography in Charts

    Soloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made. These drawings serve as both maps of her pieces in the aftermath of performance, and a consideration of the elements of dance itself. Divided into three chapters, the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD