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  • 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

  • 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

  • Dancing Into Darkness

    Butoh, Zen, and Japan

    Dancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student. As a student of Zen and butoh, Fraleigh witnesses her own artistic and personal transformation through essays, poems, interviews, and reflections ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Dancing Mestizo Modernisms

    Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico

    This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchies stemming from colonial Mexico (1521-1821). Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an analytical methodology, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 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

  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dancing Revelations

    Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

    In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a ... Read more

    $44.99 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

  • Dancing to Transform

    How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity

    by Emily Wright ...
    In response to a scarcity of writings on the intersections between dance and Christianity, Dancing to Transform examines the religious lives of American Christians who, despite the historically tenuous place of dance within Christianity, are also professional dancers. Emily Wright details how these dancing Christians transform what they perceive as secular professional by transforming concert ... Read more

    $71.99 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

  • Danser l'imprévu

    Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski

    Au travers d'une nouvelle lecture minutieuse des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski, qu'on qualifia de « fou », et en les sortant de la réduction au diagnostic psychiatrique dont ils sont encore l'objet, Madeleine Abassade fait apparaître la révolte du danseur contre un ordre établi dont il fut l'instrument et dont il cherchera à s'émanciper en créant ses propres chorégraphies.Hiver 1919. Le célèbre ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Danser pop

    Une figure de la création contemporaine

    Dans la langue française, les termes danser et danse font référence à deux pratiques aux fonctions et enjeux très différents. Ils désignent à la fois la danse de scène, destinée à être regardée, et les danses festives ou récréatives, celles que l'on pratique tous. Mais s'il est vrai que la danse de scène s'est toujours inspirée des danses de bal, il est frappant de voir aujourd'hui se multiplier, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Danses jazz

    Une poétique de la relation

    Apparues aux États-Unis, ouvertes à toutes les influences, les danses jazz portent depuis toujours les traits de la mixité. Se pencher sur le jazz, c'est observer un art du présent, ouvert à tous les mouvements possibles, hybride dans ses techniques, éclectique dans son inspiration, mélangeant les temps, les lieux, les espaces.Sous-tendu par la question des échanges interculturels et du métissage, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Danza e Spazio

    La metamorfosi dell'esperienza artistica contemporanea

    Series Book 5 - CapitoloUnico
    Che cosa s’intende per spazio e per luogo della danza? Che rapporto intrattiene il corpo con questi due termini? E in che maniera lo spazio contribuisce, poi, alla creazione coreografica? Che ruolo occupa a livello drammaturgico e nella relazione con il pubblico?Con un excursus che attraversa la danza postmoderna americana, il teatro-danza tedesco, la non danza europea, la danza urbana e la danza ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dança Contempop

    Corpos, afetos e imagens (mo)vendo-se

    Das descrições realizadas, emerge a dança contempop, um entrecruzamento de dança contemporânea e cultura pop que enfatiza relações de afeto e prazer com diferentes artefatos culturais e articula procedimentos pedagógicos e criativos a partir da relação corpo–imagem. Ao narrar trechos de sua trajetória, o autor evidencia suas afeições por imagens de Frida Kahlo, Pina Bausch e Madonna, relacionando ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers

    The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop

    The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundationsevident in expressive qualities like call and response, the aural kinesthetic, the imperative to be original, and moreare essential to cyphering's enduring presence on the global stage. What ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Days on Earth

    The Dance of Doris Humphrey

    Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • 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

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro Lo Show Tango Argentino

    Dentro lo ShowTango ArgentinoLa Storia del più ImportanteTango Show di Tutti i TempiAntón GazenbeekTango Argentino è stato lo spettacolo innovativo che ha portato alla rinascita di interesse per il Tango Argentino. Ha debuttato a Parigi, poi ha conquistato Broadway e, in seguito, ha girato il mondo intero. Ha avuto un'enorme influenza culturale sulla comprensione della storia del tango, della sua ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die Schönheit einer Steptanzmelodie unterrichten

    Praktische Anleitungen und Anregungen für den Steptanzunterricht

    by Birgit Brade ...
    "Die Schönheit einer Steptanzmeldodie unterrichten" ist ein Handbuch für den Steptanzunterricht. SteptanzlehrerInnen finden hier praktische Anleitungen, Übungen und Überlegungen zu den unterschiedlichen Bereichen, die den Steptanzunterricht betreffen. ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • 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

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