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  • Temas para a dança brasileira

    Edited by Sigrid Nora ...
    Reflexões de críticos, curadores e pesquisadores renomados, nacional e internacionalmente, sobre importantes e urgentes questões relacionadas à dança contemporânea no Brasil. O livro compila artigos sobre os seguintes temas: A crítica de dança e o jornalismo cultural no Brasil, Produção em dança: especificidades de um ofício, Estratégias de colaboração para a dança no Brasil e Dramaturgia e dança: ... Read more

    $3.99 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

  • Eurythmy

    A Short Introduction to Educational, Therapeutic and Performance Eurythmy

    Rudolf Steiner initiated a new art of movement, which can be characterised as speech and music made visible. This concise but informative guide to eurythmy includes a brief survey of dance, from its origin in the ancient mysteries to its contemporary forms, placing Steiner's ideas in their historical context.It then goes on to explore the three main strands of eurythmy: as stage performance, in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • O Segredo de Uma Stripper

    Aprenda o Poder da Sedução

    by Chris Lima ...
    Series series 1
    Aqui neste ebook, você vai aprender como turbinar a sua autoestima e seu relacionamento através de cursos personalizados e do strip-tease.Qual mulher não tem aquela vontade de fazer uma dança bem sensual para seu homem? Porém, para a maioria das mulheres existem vários bloqueios que as impedem de colocar em prática esse desejo. Esses bloqueios surgem pelo simples fato da mulher ter o pensamento ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Le dernier chaperon rouge

    Löwen est l’héritier d’une lignée matriarcale de chasseuses de Loup noir, un descendant du tout premier Petit Chaperon Rouge. Le titre de Chaperon et la cape rouge se transmettent habituellement de mère en fille, mais à la mort de sa sœur, Löwen devient le dernier espoir de sa famille. Il est ainsi le premier homme à revêtir la légendaire cape rouge. Cependant, le village de Rotholzdorf reste en ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Researching Dance

    Evolving Modes of Inquiry

    In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolutional, defining it in view of its intrinsic participatory values, its developmental aspects, and its purposes from art to ritual, and they examine the role of theory in research. The editors have also included essays by nine dancer-scholars who examine ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 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

  • Attending to Movement

    Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World

    This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to ... Read more

    $32.86 USD or Free with Kobo Plus