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  • 16mm and 8mm Filmmaking

    An Essential Guide to Shooting on Celluloid

    by Jacob Dodd ...
    This book is an essential guide to making traditional 16mm and 8mm films, from production to post, using both analog and digital tools.Focusing on low-budget equipment and innovative techniques, this text will provide you with the steps to begin your journey in making lasting work in the legacy medium of great filmmakers from Georges Méliès to Steven Spielberg. The discipline of 16mm or 8mm film ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Agnes de Mille

    Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

    Series series Broadway Legacies
    This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de Mille's most influential and lucrative Broadway works. The other three shows exemplify aspects of her legacy that have not been fully ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases

    De una palabra puede emerger un cuerpo y, de ahí, muchos más. Si esa palabra es «bailar», su significado parece inmediato. Pero visto más de cerca, se oscurece. Es necesario un gesto de precisión para experimentar qué implica «bailar». En Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases, de Lucas Condró, asistimos a ese gesto, delicado y riguroso. El libro recoge una vida de investigación y enseñanza, donde se concibe ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Balanchine

    A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance

    Edited by Eleni Hofmeister ...
    This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Ballet

    The Essential Guide to Technique and Creative Practice

    Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, into the dance studio for practice in class and beyond. With additional insights from highly ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Beyond Dance

    Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis

    by Eden Davies ...
    Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies to their field, few know the full story of how this ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Bharata Natyam Adavus

    Fundamental and structural principles.

    This book, elucidates the basic steps called Adavus of Bharata Natyam in the traditional Pandanallur style, as taught by the revered Gurus Sri Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and Sri Muthukumara Pillai, to Sri T.K Narayan and Smt. Jayalakshmi Narayan, parents of the author. It is an honest attempt to explain the various steps with unerring and accurate execution technique. The book offers a visual ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • Butoh Dance Training

    Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method

    by Juju Alishina ...
    Translated by Corinna Torregiani ...
    Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the first time in its history. With practical instruction and fully illustrated exercises, this book teaches readers:· basic body training and expression exercises· exercises to cultivate Qi (energy) and to aid improvisation· about katas (forms) and how to ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Buzz

    The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

    Series series Screen Classics
    A biography of the director and choreographer who kept America entertained through the Great Depression: “[A] fascinating read.” —PlaybillCharacterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley’s unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director’s chair, Berkeley is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calendar 2021. Tango

    by Elena Pankey, TBD ...
    Month by month calendar 2021 with photos of the beautiful photos of Tango poses, tango dancing art.It starts from January 2021 and it ends in December 2021. It has five lessons, short information about tango Argentine, an interesting quotations about the benefits of dancing and what is Authentic Tango.It is fun for everybody. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ce que la Danse m'a dit ...

    Volume 2

    Le parcours d'un spectateur "fou" de Danse, devenu agent d'artistes, directeur artistique et maintenant dramaturge... En collaboration avec Manuel Legris, directeur du Ballet de La Scala de Milan et Patrick De Bana, ancien soliste du Lausanne-Béjart Ballet. Dramaturgies : Cléopâtre-Ida Rubinstein (2013) Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris. Apollon (2014) Spring Festival Tokyo. Sacre du Printemps ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Choreography

    Creating and Developing Dance for Performance

    by Kate Flatt ...
    Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Choreography craft and vision

    Developing and Structuring Dance for Solo, Duet and Groups

    This book offers a comprehensive toolbox of approaches to analysing and creating contemporary choreography. Are you ready to deepen your understanding of the world of dance and the creative process of choreography? In this book about choreography you will learn how to develop dance and performance. In order for you to truly enjoy the process of choreography, I will offer you tools to help you ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choreography Invisible

    The Disappearing Work of Dance

    by Anna Pakes ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their particular acts of dancing. What exactly is that thing? And (how) do dances continue to exist when not performed? Anna Pakes seeks to answer these and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Choreography: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice.Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts,this resource will enhance ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Corpo do Mundo

    Criações, raízes e caminhos improváveis na poética do movimento

    by Lina do Carmo ...
    "O corpo é onde a nossa mais profunda verdade é vivida e compartilhada" Lina do Carmo Essencial para todos que praticam ou apreciam a arte da dança e o teatro Corpo do Mundo é o aguardado livro de Lina do Carmo. Aautora aproveita sua autobiografia para transmitir didaticamente, ao mesmo tempo que informalmente, história, filosofia e prática sobre a dança e a expressão teatral do movimento. Lina ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Costume in Motion

    A Guide to Collaboration for Costume Design and Choreography

    Costume in Motion is a guide to all stages of the collaboration process between costume designers and choreographers, documenting a wide range of approaches to the creation of a dance piece.Featuring interviews with a diverse selection of over 40 choreographers and designers, in-depth case studies of works by leading dance companies, and stunning original photography, the book explores the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Critique Is Creative

    The Critical Response Process® in Theory and Action

    Winner of Silver Nautilus for Creativity & Innovation, given by Nautilus Book Award, 2023Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dance to the Piper

    Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova’s beauty, in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she faced—the resistance of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dance Works

    Stories of Creative Collaboration

    by Allison Orr ...
    In 2001, Allison Orr made a dance with 13 City of Austin firefighters. Over the next 20 years, her unique practice of collaborating with city employees flowered into civic storytelling through movement at public pools, tableaus of power line workers shimmying up 40' poles in front of 5000 people, and intricate choreography of trash trucks on a misty tarmac. Part memoir, part guide, the artist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dancing Man

    A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

    by Bob Avian ...
    Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway’s legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with ... Read more

    $17.99 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 Women

    Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema

    by Usha Iyer ...
    Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms cinema and dance historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce ... Read more

    $35.99 USD