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  • 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

    13,13 €

  • Fire Under My Feet

    History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

    Edited by Ofosuwa M. Abiola ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora.In the book, written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original perspectives, ... Read more

    Was 53,73 € Now 47,62 €

  • 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 €

  • Balinese Dance, Drama & Music

    A Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali

    by I Wayan Dibia, Rucina Ballinger ...
    Bali has long been known for its deep spirituality and extraordinary artistic heritage.The dances, dramas, puppetry and music of Bali are more than icons for the island; they are part and parcel of life—as expressions of devotion to the gods, as entertainment, and as a way of instilling cultural values on each generation. Balinese Dance, Drama & Music is a lavishly illustrated introduction to Bali ... Read more

    12,50 €

  • The Greatest Maestros of All Time: Top 100

    by alex trostanetskiy ...
    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Maestros 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 Maestros of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and ... Read more

    3,00 €

  • The Greatest Female Drummers of All Time: Top 100

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

    3,00 €

  • 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

    5,45 €

  • Popular Culture in South Asian Context

    Edited by Akshaya Kumar, Raj Thakur ...
    The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry and critical social-political issues in South Asia. It highlights the interface between cultural studies and its popular-political standpoints and interrogates the kaleidoscope of popular imaginary as well as its conceptual problematics through distinct case studies from the region. It ... Read more

    72,05 €

  • The Gods of The God's Own Country

    THEYYAM

    by Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider, EPM Mavericks ...
    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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    157,29 €

  • The Physically Disabled Dancer and the Affirmative Model of Disability

    by Lawrence Shapiro ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning‑disabled performer.This is the first book ever written by a physically disabled dancer on the subject of physically disabled dancers. Inherent in ... Read more

    Was 53,73 € Now 47,62 €

  • In Search of Legitimacy

    How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

    by Lauren Miller Griffith ...
    Series Book 7 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and ... Read more

    20,45 €

  • أرْبابُ بلاد الآلهة :الثيام

    ابن "بلد الآلهة" الضالّ

    by Saji Madapat ...
    Translated by Dr. Marwen Ben Alkilani ...
    Series series The Gods of The God's Own Country
    يُذكّر كتاب "أرباب بلاد الآلهة: الثيام" بثقافة منسيّة ومجتمعات كانت محيطة بها. والثيام هو شكل من أشكال الطقوس الدرافيديّة لولاية كيرالا، الهنديّة - البلد الخاصّ بالإله.ويحتوي هذا الكتاب على معلومات مُفصّلة عن الثيام وصور جميلة ومئات القصص عنهم. إذْ خصّصنا هذا العمل لفنّاني "الثيام"، الآلهة الحقيقيّة "للشعب، من الشعب، وإليه".كان لمؤلّف الكتاب نعمة مُذهلة تتمثّل في مُطاردة أنوار وصُورٍ بكاميراه ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

    Edited by Peter Harrop, Steve Roud ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times ... Read more

    57,39 €

  • Creativity: Find Your Stride POWER OF COMMITMENT 2

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Series series Creativity: POWER OF COMMITMENT
    This is the second book in the series Creativity: Power of Commitment. This is a book of daily exercises at an Elementary level that takes 3 months. Be as creative as you can. Ideas for that creativity and also how to not get overwhelmed with the belly dance scene. Lot's of business ideas too. Take your business to its fullest and let your passion for the dance shine. ... Read more

    2,72 €

  • El Tango Milonguero,un abrazo kinestesico

    by Sergio López ...
    ¿Qué sucede realmente en la profundidad de un abrazo milonguero? Más allá de los pasos y la música, existe un código invisible que permite que dos cuerpos se conviertan en una sola unidad de movimiento.En esta obra, Sergio López —milonguero,abogado e investigador del tango— propone un enfoque revolucionario sobre la danza social del Río de la Plata. Despojado de artificios escénicos, el autor se ... Read more

    8,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Desenjaular el Juego 2

    by Sonia Brounstein, Cristina Kirianovicz ...
    Series Book 2 - A Desenjaular el Juego
    "A desenjaular el Juego 2", al igual que el primer "Desenjaular", contiene una recopilación de juegos y canciones de América Latina. La particularidad de estos juegos es que son todos musicales y de carácter tradicional. Aportan sonidos y modismos empapados del folklore de cada región, con la intención de enriquecer el repertorio musical para las infancias y proporcionar a los docentes nuevos ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Shiny Beads and Shimmies

    Welcome to Belly-Dance. Ask Before You Undulate!

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    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 €

  • Dancing the New World

    Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest

    by Paul A. Scolieri ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014de la Torre Bueno® Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and ... Read more

    49,92 €

  • Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi

    Volume Two: From Storytelling to Story-acting

    by Xiaohuan Zhao ...
    Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi is the first book in any language entirely devoted to a historical inquiry into Chinese theatre through Nuoxi and Mulianxi, the two most representative and predominant forms of Chinese temple theatre.Volume Two is a continuation of the historical inquiry into Chinese theatre with focus shifted from Mulian storytelling to Mulian ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • 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

    48,84 €

  • 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

    48,84 €

  • Unwritten Literature of Hawaii

    The Sacred Songs of the Hula

    by Nathaniel Bright Emerson ...
    Nathaniel Bright Emerson's 'Unwritten Literature of Hawaii' delves into the rich oral traditions and storytelling techniques of Hawaiian culture. Through meticulous research and firsthand accounts, Emerson explores how Hawaiian tales were passed down through generations without the need for a written language, highlighting the importance of orality in preserving cultural heritage. Drawing on a mix ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus