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Seven Guitars

by August Wilson ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there
... Read more
Josephine Baker

by Robert Grey Reynolds ...

Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the delight of French audiences, dancing entirely nude on some occasions. When she toured central Europe ... Read more

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Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the delight of French audiences, dancing entirely nude on some occasions. When she toured central Europe
... Read more
Second Skin

Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

by Anne Anlin Cheng ...

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Read more

$43.19 CAD

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and
... Read more
Rooted Jazz Dance

Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Lindsay Guarino, Wendy Oliver, Carlos R.A. Jones ...

National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practiceAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were ... Read more

$29.59 CAD

National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practiceAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were
... Read more
The Greatest Male Drummers of All Time: Top 100

by alex trostanetskiy ...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Male Drummers 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 Male Drummers of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at ... Read more

$3.96 CAD

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Male Drummers 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 Male Drummers of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at
... Read more
The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance

by Dollie Henry, Paul Jenkins ...

Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and ... Read more

$22.79 CAD

Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and
... Read more
Jazz Dance Today Essentials

The video text dance series

by Lorraine Person-Kriegel, Kimberly Chandler-Vaccaro ...

Series series The video text dance series
Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial levels. It has been used as the primary textbook in the field and has been read worldwide by ... Read more

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Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial levels. It has been used as the primary textbook in the field and has been read worldwide by
... Read more
Becomings

Pregnancy, Phenomenology, and Postmodern Dance

by Johanna Kirk ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their gender and physical abilities while pregnant. Across chapters, the artists discussed include Anna ... Read more

$84.13 CAD

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their gender and physical abilities while pregnant. Across chapters, the artists discussed include Anna
... Read more
Big Deal

Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

by Kevin Winkler ...

Series series Broadway Legacies
Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and ... Read more

$23.19 CAD

Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and
... Read more
Kinetic Atmospheres

Performance and Immersion

by Johannes Birringer ...

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, ... Read more

$74.63 CAD

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture,
... Read more
Jazzed

Jack Cole and Twentieth-Century American Dance

by Debra Levine ...

Series series Screen Classics
Renowned dancer and choreographer Jack Cole (1911–1974), whose birth name was John Ewing Richter, was a one-of-a-kind artist who initiated a gripping style of theatrical jazz dance that forever vanquished the vaudeville kickline. Cole's distinctive four-decade career choreographing for stage, screen, and his iconic nightclub act began during the Great Depression. He transformed early modern dance ... Read more

$43.49 CAD

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Renowned dancer and choreographer Jack Cole (1911–1974), whose birth name was John Ewing Richter, was a one-of-a-kind artist who initiated a gripping style of theatrical jazz dance that forever vanquished the vaudeville kickline. Cole's distinctive four-decade career choreographing for stage, screen, and his iconic nightclub act began during the Great Depression. He transformed early modern dance
... Read more
Class Act

The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

by Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone ...

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties, ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties,
... Read more
Simplified Balboa for Men

Social Dancing for Men, #2

by Gabor Palos ...

Series Book 2 - Social Dancing for Men
For the price of just one group class, this book is a guide for learning the leader's part of the fast and smooth swing dance called Balboa. Includes description of common steps, tips on learning, practicing and social dancing. It will greatly add to your understanding of swing dancing and help you along your learning curve. Read it before you go to your first Balboa class. ... Read more

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For the price of just one group class, this book is a guide for learning the leader's part of the fast and smooth swing dance called Balboa. Includes description of common steps, tips on learning, practicing and social dancing. It will greatly add to your understanding of swing dancing and help you along your learning curve. Read it before you go to your first Balboa class.
... Read more
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

$74.63 CAD

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
Identity and Diversity

Celebrating Dance in Taiwan

Edited by Wang Yunyu, Stephanie Burridge ...

Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with an array of eclectic influences including martial arts and Peking Opera from China, and dance forms such as contemporary, neo-classical, post ... Read more

$105.85 CAD

Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with an array of eclectic influences including martial arts and Peking Opera from China, and dance forms such as contemporary, neo-classical, post
... Read more
Ethical Agility in Dance

Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

Edited by Noyale Colin, Catherine Seago, Kathryn Stamp ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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

$77.35 CAD

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
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

$7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
Jumping the Color Line

Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929–1945

by Susie Trenka ...

From the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in "specialty acts" and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

From the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in "specialty acts" and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal
... Read more
Danses jazz

Une poétique de la relation

by Éliane Seguin ...

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

$18.99 CAD

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
The Dancer's Handbook

A Practical Guide to Reimagining Dance, Body, and Society by OFEN Co-Arts

by Gala Moody, Michael Carter ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
The Dancer’s Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities.This comprehensive resource tackles themes like power dynamics, hierarchical structures, and the pervasive influences of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy as the “status quo” in the arts. This book delves into dismantling the status quo, ... Read more

$70.56 CAD

The Dancer’s Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities.This comprehensive resource tackles themes like power dynamics, hierarchical structures, and the pervasive influences of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy as the “status quo” in the arts. This book delves into dismantling the status quo,
... Read more
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

by Melin Levent Yuna ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdoğan.In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a dance that appears to publicly represent an erotic relationship finds space to expand and increase dramatically ... Read more

$78.71 CAD

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdoğan.In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a dance that appears to publicly represent an erotic relationship finds space to expand and increase dramatically
... Read more
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

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
When Words Are Inadequate

Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China

by Nan Ma ...

Series series OXFORD STUDIES IN DANCE THEORY SERIES
When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu Rongling, Wu ... Read more

$45.59 CAD

When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu Rongling, Wu
... Read more
Tap Dancing at a Glance

by Jimmy Ormonde ...

You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are ... Read more

$8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are
... Read more

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