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  • Turning the Tune

    Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

    by Adam Kaul ...
    Series Book 3 - Dance and Performance Studies
    The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind of pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. He begins by tracing its ... Read more

    18,86 €

  • 定县秧歌:从乡村戏到非遗

    by 谷子瑞 ...
    本书立足田野现实和文献资料,以组织形式和演出模式为主线,梳理定县秧歌百年来的发展脉络,探究其传承演变的历史动因。在这起起伏伏的百年历程里,定县秧歌犹如一叶轻舟,在知识分子、管理组织、现代化等力量交织的历史洪流中演进。然而,看似身不由己的秧歌,始终野性难驯、自有方向。源于乡野的它,深深扎根在这片拥有共同文化基因的土地上、人心上,潜藏着无限的生机与可能。 ... Read more

    15,47 €

  • Danças Circulares

    Uma viagem sagrada

    ..."Durante dois anos, ininterruptamente, por mais difícil que fosse minha vida, participei de todos os encontros de Meditação na Dança em Nazaré. Jane, David e Evelyn residentes daquela comunidade, foram meus primeiros professores.Lá eu conheci, também, Sara Marriot, que havia vivido alguns anos na Comunidade de Findhorn, na Escócia, e que trouxe para Nazaré as Danças Circulares.Em algumas ... Read more

    Free

  • Shiny Beads and Shimmies

    Welcome to Belly-Dance. Ask Before You Undulate!

    Series series Studies of Middle Eastern Dance
    Do you love to dance? Interested in Belly Dance? Do you not know where to turn? Are you unsure about what is acceptableand what is not? How do you know if a teacher is good or not? This book will answer these questions and more, then guide you in the right dirrection. It will tell you what you need to know and more, before you make a mistake and waste your money. Badly uneducated teacherscan harm ... Read more

    3,18 €

  • The Mask Dance of the Drums from Drametse

    by Pinky Toky ...
    The Mask Dance of the Drums from Drametse is also known as Drametse Ngacham (also spelled Drametse Ngachham). It is a well-known sacred dance of the Bhutanese, whose cultural heritage has largely remained intact due to isolation from the rest of the world until the early 1960s. ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • The Experience of Theater Dance for Belly Dancers

    The Experience of Theater for Middle Eastern Dance Studies

    Have you always wanted to do or be involved in a theater production? Want to know the ins and outs? Want to know what to ask without appearing uninformed. Well! Now you can. This book will answer all the questions that involve the tasks at hand.  Know the terminology being used. Know how to deal with the different aspects of theater. Know how to deal with the different workersin a theater without ... Read more

    5,45 €

  • Finger Cymbals: Play Them Correctly

    Finger Cymbals: Discover how easy it is to play Finger Cymbals. This book helps raise the "barre" by educating Middle Eastern dancers and students on the playing of zills correctly. Play exactly what the body is accenting when dancing. Play exactly what the drummer is playing, live or on CD. Never get off rhythm again. You will understand the rhythms used for the belly dancer. ... Read more

    3,15 €

  • Raising Dust

    A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine

    by Nicholas Rowe ...
    Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, or rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century, dance in Palestine has a rich and elusive story that remains to be told. 'Raising Dust' ... Read more

    57,55 €

  • The Inherent Potential in Art Performance

    To Critically Challenge Art Traditions in Scenes of Love and Sexual Desire

    by Iris Julian ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research directions to create diverse perspectives on the selected artworks. This book combines historical outlines based ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • Lighting Dance

    A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows

    Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Relatos legüeros

    Aquí hay folclore

    Relatos legüeros es un recorrido por el particularísimo camino de Silvina Heisecke y es también una historia de amor. Una mujer y un bombo legüero que se encuentran en el campo, en el amor, en el duelo, en los intersticios de la experiencia.Silvina mira la propia vida y traza ejes, se lee con curiosidad, con cariño, con el asombro de una niña que descubre un mundo nuevo y el mundo está dentro de ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • Habla!

    Speaking Bodies and Dancing Our América

    Series series Performance and American Cultures
    Under colonial repression and the rationalizing ideals of Enlightenment thought, one practice has long carried the pulse of resistance: dance.Habla! explores how the dancing body speaks—how, through movement, sound, and rhythm, Latinx American communities enact forms of knowing and being that “talk back” to colonial modernity. Centering the traditions of Puerto Rican bomba, Mexican son jarocho, ... Read more

    17,27 €

  • One with the Music

    Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission

    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

    13,13 €

  • The Gods of The God's Own Country

    THEYYAM

    The Gods of God's Own Country is a reminder of a forgotten culture and the communities surrounding it. Theyyam is a Dravidian ritual art form of Kerala, India - God's own country. This book provides detailed information about Theyyam, beautiful images, and hundreds of stories. We dedicate this book to the Theyyam artists, the veritable gods "Of the People, by the People, for the People."The author ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • The Greatest Male Drummers of All Time: Top 100

    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

    3,00 €

  • Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage

    Ritual, Performance, and Belonging in Buryat Communities of Siberia

    In the mid-2000s, the Russian government began to merge Siberia's smallest Indigenous territories into larger administrative regions. Among Buryat Mongols living to the west of Lake Baikal the state promoted a policy of "National Cultural Autonomy," which sought to separate culture from territory amid this consolidation of land and people. Although public performances of Buryat culture were ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • A History of Butô

    by Bruce Baird ...
    Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Butô a new account of a crucial and influential performance art of the latter half of the 20th century. Tracing the performances and techniques of ten of the most ... Read more

    34,44 €

  • Inter-Asia in Motion

    Dance as Method

    Edited by Emily Wilcox, Soo Ryon Yoon ...
    This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the ... Read more

    58,61 €

  • Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021

    Landmarks of South African Theatre History

    Edited by Phyllis Klotz, Smal Ndaba ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations.Sibikwa provides arts centres across the ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Dance Legacies of Scotland

    The True Glen Orchy Kick

    Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices.Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonoverexplore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • 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

    57,39 €

  • The Dancing Goddesses

    Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

    A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist, linguist, and lifelong folkdancer Elizabeth ... Read more

    14,19 €

  • The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance

    While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance.The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance ... Read more

    106,52 €

  • In-Between Worlds

    Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues ... Read more

    53,73 €