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  • الرقص خطيئة في الشرق، قداسة في الغرب

    by Sara Sami ...
    مر الرقص الشرقي، عبر العصور، بكثير من التقلبات الجذرية سواء تقديساً لحرمته أو تحقيراً منه بواسطة الكثيرين، أما حالياً فيعيش الرقص الشرقي نقطة فاصلة في وجوده أو عدمه، أصبح الشرق يسميه بالدعارة و أصبح الغرب يسميه بالمقدس بل و أضاف عليه الجديد ليصبح بالشكل الحالي غير شرقي.في هذا الكتاب نتحدث عن منشأة، أصله، الرقصات المؤثرة فيه أو من أثر فيها، نتحدث عن وضع الرقص الشرقي داخل الشرق الأوسط، نتحدث عن ... Read more

    5,00 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance

    Edited by Naomi M. Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, Toni Shapiro-Phim ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of communities and the dance world writ large. Focusing on North America, Europe, and Israel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this Handbook highlights the sometimes ... Read more

    154,22 €

  • The Haumana Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance

    A Manual for the Student of Hawaiian Dance

    by Mahealani Uchiyama ...
    A great resource for students of traditional Hawaiian dance, this beautiful handbook filled with archival photographs covers the origins, language, etiquette, ceremonies, and the spiritual culture of hula. Hula, the indigenous dance of Hawai'i, preserves significant aspects of Native Hawaiian culture with strong ties to health and spirituality. Kumu Hula, persons who are culturally recognized hula ... Read more

    11,65 €

  • Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra

    Celebrating Dance in North East India

    Edited by Ralph Buck, Barbara Snook, Debarshi Prasad Nath ...
    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is ... Read more

    46,26 €

  • തെയ്യം

    ദൈവത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം നാടിന്റെ ദൈവങ്ങൾ

    by Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider, EPM Mavericks ...
    ദൈവത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം നാടിന്റെ "ദൈവങ്ങൾ" എന്ന പുസ്തകം കാലം മറന്ന് പോകുന്ന ഒരു സംസ്കാരത്തേയും അതിനെ ചുറ്റിപ്പറ്റി ജീവിക്കുന്ന സമുദായങ്ങളേയും പറ്റിയുള്ള ഒരു ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കലാണ്. കേരളത്തിൽ നിലനിൽക്കുന്ന ഒരു ദ്രാവിഡകലാരൂപമാണ് തെയ്യം. മിഴിവാർന്ന ചിത്രങ്ങളും നൂറോളം കഥകളും മാത്രമല്ല, തെയ്യത്തെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള വിശദവിവരങ്ങളും ഇതിൽ ഉൾക്കൊള്ളിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ജനങ്ങൾക്ക് വേണ്ടി ജനങ്ങളാൽ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ട ജനങ്ങളുടെ സ ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • Lacci Gialli

    by Giuseppe Lotito ...
    Breve racconto del primo tango di uno straniero a Buenos Aires. L'immersione in un mondo che pur essendo reale, conserva le caratteristiche di una favola a lungo sognata. ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One with the Music

    Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission

    by Mats Melin, PhD ...
    Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand. Mats has a vast knowledge of all aspects of the Scottish traditional dance scene, but ... Read more

    12,92 €

  • 50則非知不可的世界民間舞蹈知識

    by 陳蒨蒨, 孫菲 ...
    民間舞是一切舞蹈之母，來自於世世代代文化的累積，不曾離開我們腳下的土地。隨著舞者鮮活美麗的步伐，踏遍山川湖海，感受絢爛的人間煙火。舞蹈是表現人類情感最直接、最形象的方式。在沒有舞者的遙遠年代，舞蹈的發生存在著不同的動機，有為了生活技能的傳承而創造的舞步，有為了呼朋引伴而展現的舞姿，還有為了發洩過剩精力的躍動，與祈求天地庇佑的陣型。民間舞蹈是人們生活的一部分，是當地社會中人們集體創造的結晶，然後被一代代地傳承下來。起源自然大地，真實地反映了舞者的靈感與願望，也是當地文化風俗的直接展現。本書向讀者介紹世界各地中，千姿百態的民間舞─全世界的民間舞有多少種？民間舞與大自然有什麼關係？「離太陽最近的人」說的是誰？英國的民間舞都有哪些？跳民間舞真的可以交到女朋友嗎？所有您想知道的民間舞問題，都可以在其中找到解答。【作者簡介】陳蒨蒨臺灣宜蘭縣人。大學畢業於中國文化大學舞蹈學系，2004年赴北京進修 ... Read more

    12,88 €

  • The Legacy of Stylistic Theatre in the Creation of a Modern Sinhala Drama in Sri Lanka

    by Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era.Bulathsinghala examines the impact of indigenous and imported folk theatrical forms on the work of the most significant postcolonial stylistic dramatists and on key plays that they produced. In the process, the book explores a number of myths and misunderstandings regarding ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Ancient English Morris Dance

    by Archaeopress Publishing ...
    The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became ... Read more

    32,96 €

  • The Italian Dance Quest. Finding Power, Wealth, and Innovation

    by Anna Harsh ...
    Anna Harsh, dancer and Italian American takes a trip to Italy with her mother and brother as a child that sets her on a path which changes her life forever.The Italian Dance Quest is a travel memoir of an adventure that has made a lasting impact on the life of this Italian-American dancer. Be immersed into five different regions through dances that reflect the people, food, and history. Anna ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • Le Divinità THEYYAM del Paese di Dio

    Confessioni di un figliol prodigo intrappolato come una scimmia

    by Saji Madapat, EPM Mavericks, Tiger Rider ...
    Le divinità del Paese di Dio attesta il ricordo di una cultura dimenticata e delle comunità che la circondano. Il Theyyam è una forma d'arte rituale dravidica del Kerala, in India, il Paese di Dio. Questo libro fornisce informazioni dettagliate sul Theyyam, bellissime immagini e centinaia di storie. Dedichiamo questo libro agli artisti che eseguono il Theyyam, veri e propri dei "del popolo, dal ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Step Dancing in Ireland

    Culture and History

    by Catherine E. Foley ...
    For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates that the practice and contexts of step dancing are much more complicated and fluid. Tracing the trajectory of step dancing in Ireland, she tells its ... Read more

    73,05 €

  • Los Dioses Del País Del Dios

    THEYYAM

    by SAJI Madapat, Tiger Rider, EPM Mavericks ...
    Los Dioses del Propio País de Dios es un recordatorio de una cultura olvidada y de las comunidades que la rodean. El Theyyam es una forma de arte ritual dravídica de Kerala, India, el propio país de Dios. Este libro proporciona información detallada sobre el Theyyam, ilustrada con bellas imágenes y cientos de historias. Dedicamos este libro a los artistas del Theyyam, los verdaderos dioses "Del ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • Fraught Balance

    The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

    by Shayna M. Silverstein ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    Winner of The de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize® (2025) from Dance Studies AssociationWinner of the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Kealiinohomoku Award, granted by SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology)Winner of the 2025 AMEWS Book Award, presented by the Association for Middle East Women's StudiesHonorable mention for ICTMD Book Prize, granted by the International Council for Traditions of Music ... ... Read more

    14,51 €

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    by Cynthia Roses-Thema ...
    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

    29,21 €

  • Moving Oceans

    Celebrating Dance in the South Pacific

    Edited by Ralph Buck, Nicholas Rowe ...
    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections. ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Le danze di coppia in Occidente

    Tutto quello che c’è da sapere, dai primi passi alle gare

    by Massimo Mannini, Francesco Galuppo ...
    Series series Iride
    Dalla storia delle danze occidentali all’iscrizione a una scuola di ballo, dall’alimentazione corretta, alla respirazione, dai primi passi da muovere in pista fino alla partecipazione alle gare, questo prezioso manualetto è un compendio fondamentale che spiega con semplicità e approfondimento tutto quel che c’è da sapere su danze standard, danze latine, liscio unificato e ballo da sala, combinata ... Read more

    5,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folk Theatres of North India

    Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference

    by Karan Singh ...
    This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Academic Approach to Arabic Dance

    For Belly Dancers Who Want to Teach!

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Series series Pre-Session
    Middle Eastern Dance also sometimes called Arabic Style/Belly-Danceis a misunderstood for of dance that derervesthe respect, and recognitionequal to that givenother etnic and classicaldance forms. This book is aimedat the instructorsof the danceof the dance as we hopeare educated and knowledgeable enough. It is for those who feel they are ready to teach too. Morwenna is committed to the education ... Read more

    5,34 €

  • 100 motius per estimar la sardana

    by Jordi Saura, Jaume Nonell, Vicenç Villatoro ...
    El llibre explora la sardana des de diferents perspectives. A través dels cinc apartats en què els autors l'han dividit, es poden seguir des dels aspectes més bàsics, com són els coreogràfics i musicals o els instruments de la cobla, amb les seves tipologies i evolucions, fins al vessant social o la presència de la sardana i la cobla en àmbits com la literatura, el cinema o la ràdio. Els autors no ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Dance History

    An Introduction

    Edited by Janet Adshead-Lansdale, June Layson ...
    Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. For the main body of the text which covers historical studies of dance in its traditional and performance contexts, the editors have brought ... Read more

    47,48 €

  • Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician

    Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

    by Jessica Cawley ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research, Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits and challenges associated with each learning practice, outlining the motivations and obstacles learners experience during musical development. By ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • A Treasury of International Folk Dances

    A Step-By-Step Guide

    by Jim Gold ...
    CHOREOGRAPHIES ARE CREATED in the imagination and dreams of choreographers, says Jim Gold, the author of this guide to 125 international folk dances. If steps do not exist or have yet to be created, the choreographer begins to move. Soon a dance appears. A folk dance choreographer is steeped in lore, folk dance music, culture, history, art, steps, and national style. The steps he or she creates ... Read more

    8,91 € or Free with Kobo Plus