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  • Anna Halprin

    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Now revised and reissued, this book:sketches the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, exploring Halprin's connections with the avant-garde theatre, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Smack That (a conversation)

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Smack That (a conversation) documents a participatory performance created with and performed by survivors of domestic abuse. Endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith shines a light on this complex subject in an empowering performance highlighting human resilience.Beverly is having a party and you are one of her guests. There are games, drinks, shared conversation, energetic dance and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dance, Disability and Law

    InVisible difference

    This edited collection is the first book to that focus on the intersection between dance, disability and law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, this volume considers the question of how we value, validate and speak about diversity in performance practice with a specific focus on the experience of differently-abled dance artists within the changing world of the arts ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Enseigner la danse jazz

    Cet ouvrage est né d'un travail de réflexion mené par des professionnels de la danse jazz (professeurs et artistes créateurs) avec le CND. Outil indispensable pour les enseignants et les praticiens de cette discipline, il en aborde avec simplicité et précision les différentes facettes.Il fixe les objectifs et les compétences techniques à atteindre au fil de l'apprentissage de l'élève. Mine d ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Corps (in)croyables

    Pratiques amateur en danse contemporaine

    by Collectif ...
    La figure de l'« amateur » est multiple, voire contradictoire. Elle intensifie et trouble les notions de travail, de création et de transmission, d'expertise et d'expérience. Elle déplace et transforme les normes et les catégories esthétiques, éthiques, politiques, qui sont à l'œuvre dans le spectacle et dans la pratique de la danse contemporaine. Des chœurs de mouvement aux expérimentations les ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Les danses du temps

    Recherches sur la notion de temps en danse contemporaine

    Les temporalités créées par la danse sont-elles différentes de celles des autres arts ? Quelles expériences du temps la danse contemporaine nous invite-t-elle à vivre ? Quelle est la force du corps provisoire ? À travers l'analyse des « stratégies temporelles » adoptées par huit chorégraphes contemporains (Merce Cunningham, Jérôme Bel, Xavier Le Roy, Myriam Gourfink, Hideyuki Yano, Anne Teresa de ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Choreographies of the Living

    Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance

    by Carrie Rohman ...
    Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our received wisdom about the value and functions of artistic capacities. Countering the long history ... Read more

    $35.99 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

  • Mary Wigman

    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    This book considers dancer, teacher, and choreographer Mary Wigman, a leading innovator in Expressionist dance whose radical explorations of movement and dance theory are credited with expanding the scope of dance as a theatrical art. Now reissued, this book combines:a full account of Wigman’s life and workan analysis of her key ideasdetailed discussion of her aesthetic theories, including the use ... Read more

    $49.99 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

  • Pole Dance Stretching - Super Flessibilità e Forza per la Massima Performance

    La Pole Dance, nata come attività di spettacolo ed intrattenimento in ogni angolo del mondo, sta sempre più diventando un vero e proprio sport ed attività fisica per il benessere del proprio fisico.Una delle caratteristiche principali è di richiedere al praticante amatoriale o professionista doti e qualità fisiche molto spiccate, in quanto i movimenti al palo richiedono una grossa dose di capacità ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • Performing Queer Modernism

    by Penny Farfan ...
    Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated, and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Laban plural

    Arte do movimento, pesquisa e genealogia da práxis de Rudolf Laban no Brasil

    Este livro é uma combinação de movimentos diversos – dança, pesquisa, passado e presente – que envolvem a vida e obra de Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) e da reverberação de seu pensamento artístico, filosófico e científico no Brasil. Embora seja considerado um dos grandes teóricos da dança do século XX, Laban baseia-se na observação, na prática e na experiência do corpo em movimento. Neste livro, Melina ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Katherine Dunham

    Dance and the African Diaspora

    One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over. As an African American woman, she broke barriers of race and gender, most notably as the founder of an important dance company that toured the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for several decades. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Queer Dance

    Edited by Clare Croft ...
    If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures through something other than heterosexuality and reproduction? How does challenging gender binaries always mean thinking about race, thinking ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • This Millennium so Far | Children's Modern History

    Let’s go down the memory lane to see and appreciate the changes that have transpired since the start of this millennium. You will find that this is a powerful read as it details the progress in societies, trends and technology. This book will surely open your child’s eyes to the many changes that have been made possible by great minds. Grab a copy now. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The 20th Century through Children's Eyes | Children's Modern History

    The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999. It is a remarkable period because of the medical, social, international and technological innovations. But along with these, there were also genocides and wars that happened during this period. This educational book will make a great resource when it comes to opening your child’s eyes to a past that you have lived. Get a copy now. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre

    Movement, memory and metaphor

    Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the working processes of Vardimon and her company, chronicling the development of specific productions rather than offering a single choreographic ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Winner: A Ballroom Dance Novel

    by Erin Bomboy ...
    The most prestigious ballroom dance competition in the United States.Two dancers need to win.Only one can.Nina Fortunova wasn't supposed to end up almost thirty, divorced, with her dreams of winning shattered. She teams up with Jorge Gonzalez, a hunky and hard-working Latin dancer, to reinvent the flashy Smooth style.When the Chairman of the Judges offers to throw the competition in their favor, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Appalachian Spring (chorégraphie Martha Graham - 1944)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Appalachian Spring, un spectacle chorégraphié par Martha Graham.Formée à la Denishawn School, l'école de Ruth Saint-Denis et de Ted Shawn, Martha Graham (1894-1991) est considérée comme la plus grande personnalité de la danse moderne américaine. Fille d'un médecin aliéniste, elle explore plusieurs thèmes dans une œuvre colossale, étalée sur près d'un siècle ...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Sakountala (chorégraphie Marie-Claude Pietragalla - 2000)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Sakountala, un spectacle chorégraphié par Marie-Claude Pietragalla.Sakountala, spectacle créé en 2000 par Marie-Claude Pietragalla pour le Ballet national de Marseille, évoque, dans une grande fresque spectaculaire, la vie et l'œuvre de Camille Claudel (1864-1943). Associant la danse, les arts du cirque et le théâtre, cette création s'inscrit dans une d...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    $4.49 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