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  • 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

  • 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

  • A dança

    by Klauss Vianna ...
    Apaixonado pela dança e pelas possibilidades expressivas do movimento, o bailarino, coreógrafo e professor Klauss Vianna apresenta neste livro o resultado de um trabalho de observação, experimentação, estudo e reflexão sobre o corpo humano e suas implicações anatômicas, funcionais psicológicas, efetivas e espirituais. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Functional Awareness

    Anatomy in Action for Dancers

    Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance training can unwittingly compromise the diligent efforts during classwork and rehearsals. The book goes beyond descriptions of the musculoskeletal system to improve performance. The reflective practice of Functional Awareness? teaches strategies to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Corpo, transborda

    Educação somática, consciência corporal e expressividade

    by Marina Caron ...
    Corpo, transborda é um livro sobre o trabalho de expressão corporal para o artista cênico. Resultante de sua pesquisa no mestrado profissional em Artes da Cena da Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena, esta obra de Marina Caron relata sua prática artístico-pedagógica considerando o corpo pela perspectiva da educação somática. A autora compila 20 anos de pesquisa e propõe um olhar profundo sobre o ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique)

    Teaching Creative Theatre

    by Jacques Lecoq ...
    Translated by David Bradby ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture, which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre.Neutral mask, character ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance

    This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice.With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

    This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Martha Graham's Cold War

    The Dance of American Diplomacy

    Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy. Representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, Graham performed politics in the global field for over thirty years. Why did the State Department ... 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

  • (Re)Positioning Site Dance

    Local Acts, Global Perspectives

    Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment. This book aims to articulate international approaches to the making, performing and theorising of site-based dance. Drawing on perspectives from three practitioner-academics based in three distinct world regions ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Dance Improvisations

    Dance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all ages and all levels of experience.The first chapter in Dance Improvisations introduces ways for a group to practice working together and for the dancers ... Read more

    $32.99 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

  • The Male Dancer

    Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    This revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography.In this authoritative and lively study, Ramsay Burt presents close readings of dance works from key moments of social and political change in the norms around gender and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Teaching What You Want to Learn

    A Guidebook for Dance and Movement Teachers

    by Bill Evans ...
    Teaching WhatYou Want to Learn distills the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today’s dance instructor.From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into action, to working with diverse bodies and embracing evolving value systems, Evans has considered every element of the teacher’s role and provided 94 essential ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Fly High Crew: The Green Glow EBOOK

    An action-packed, laugh-out-loud, high-energy story for boys and girls featuring adults taken over by aliens and a brave group of kids who must work together as a team to stop them!From TV personalities and Diversity street dance superstars, brothers Ashley and Jordan Banjo.Brothers Trey and Jax spend after-school hours rehearsing with their street dance collective the Fl... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Body in Fukushima

    On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in a triple disaster known as 3.11. On five separate journeys, Japanese-born performer and dancer Eiko Otake and historian and photographer William Johnston visited multiple locations ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Kahliamoci

    Kahliamoci è un omaggio a Frida Kahlo, ai suoi dipinti, alle sue parole, alla sua poesia. Frida come simbolo di forza, stile e bellezza, ma anche di tormenti e sofferenze che l’artista è riuscita a convogliare e a rappresentare nella sua arte.Kahliamoci è anche un imperativo: caliamoci nel vissuto che non ci appartiene, scendendo giù da dentro di noi, pur rimanendovi ancorati come chi scende da ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspectives on American Dance

    The New Millennium

    Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance carries with it features of the place where it originated. Influenced by different social, political, and environmental circumstances, dances change and adapt. American dance evolved in large part through combinations of multiple styles and forms that arrived with each new group of immigrants. Perspectives on American Dance is the first ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Pina Bausch

    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    This newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bausch’s work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre. This comprehensive overview of her work offers new and exciting insight into the theatrical approach of a singular performance practitioner.This is an essential introduction to the life ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Through the Eyes of a Dancer

    Selected Writings

    by Wendy Perron ...
    Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres, from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the Metropolitan ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fifty Contemporary Choreographers

    Edited by Jo Butterworth, Lorna Sanders ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field of choreography.Representing a wide range of dance genres and styles, each entry locates the individual in the context of contemporary dance and explores their impact. Those studied include:Kyle Abraham ... Read more

    $36.99 USD