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  • The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance

    by Mary Ellen Snodgrass ...
    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

    by Sukanya Chakrabarti ...
    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 €

  • 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

    48,84 €

  • 中国古典舞蹈的“和”品格

    by 罗斌 ...
    本书分为五章，以“品格”作为基石，多元性、多角度对中国古典舞文化传承中的形态和意识层面进行了深刻论述，尤其重视审美分析背后的哲学研究，为中国古典舞风韵奠定科学性的理论根基，是一部适用于舞蹈专业学生和研究学者参考的理论书籍。 ... Read more

    10,17 €

  • Encountering Disability and Citizenship through Contemporary Dance in Africa

    by Yvette Hutchison, Lliane Loots ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    This book offers a compelling intersectional exploration of how disability is understood in relation to citizenship and global critical disability studies across diverse African cultures.It delves into the transformative power of integrated dance as a medium to challenge and reshape dominant social attitudes toward disability. Through detailed case studies of Dance into Space (Kenya), FLATFOOT and ... Read more

    Free

  • Dancing Out of Bali

    by John Coast ...
    Series series Periplus Classics Series
    "If you know where to look, you can still discover and recognize what it was that intoxicating John Coast fifty years ago." -Sir David AttenboroughThis book is one of the great classics about Bali, now with dozens of illustrations and photographs.Dancing out of Bali is a fascinating personal account of a young Englishman who settled in a small house in Bali in the midst of the political turmoil ... Read more

    7,20 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    51,28 €

  • How To Dance With a Partner

    The Gentle Method of Unambiguously Communicating Every Step in Every Social Dance

    by Andrew Weitzen ...
    The solution to a 1,000-year-old problem. This book solves the biggest problem in social dancing that affects millions of people. The problem is how to communicate unambiguously. Dance teachers have an enormous wealth of knowledge. However, when explaining how to communicate, they are surprisingly vague. This vagueness is not the fault of dance teachers. Men and women have been social dancing ... Read more

    27,29 €

  • Free Up Yuhself

    Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque

    by Nikoli A. Attai, Ms. Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Thomas Haskell0 ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. This book examines how people actively utilize the *carnivalesque—*spaces of festivity and places of excitement, the ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Creativity: Establish Visibility

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #3

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Series Book 3 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    This is the third book in the series Creativity: Power of Commitment. This is a book of daily exercises at an Intermediate 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. Lots of business ideas are here too. Take your business to its fullest and let your passion for the dance shine.This book is written ... Read more

    2,37 €

  • 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

  • De las danzas y andanzas de Enrique el Cojo

    by José Luis Ortiz Nuevo, Ángeles Cruzado Rodríguez ...
    Series Book 5 - Flamenco y cultura popular
    Lo más sorprendente de Enrique el Cojo es su talento para superar las dificultades, lo que le permitió convertirse en maestro del baile flamenco a pesar de su cojera, secuela de una enfermedad infantil. Artista por medio mundo y pícaro, dirigió una academia durante años a la que acudían turistas, personajes relevantes de la sociedad sevillana y profesionales, que ejerció una importante influencia ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salpuri-Chum, A Korean Dance for Expelling Evil Spirits

    A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of its Artistic Characteristics

    by Eun-Joo Lee, Yong-Shin Kim ...
    This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits. The authors explore the origins and practice of Salpuri-Chum. The ancient Korean people viewed their misfortunes as coming from evil spirits; therefore, they wanted to expel the evil spirits to recover their happiness. The music for Salpuri-Chum is called Sinawi rhythm. It has no sheet music and lacks the ... Read more

    25,85 €

  • Zapotecs on the Move

    Cultural, Social, and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective

    by Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs (“Yaláltecos”) in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in order to delineate migration patterns, community formation in Los Angeles, and the emergence of transnational identities of the first and second generations ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Movement of the People

    Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship

    by Mary N. Taylor ...
    Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Romania. This folk tourism and connected everyday practices of folk dance revival take place against the backdrop of an increasingly nationalist political environment in Hungary.In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk ... Read more

    34,33 €

  • 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

  • Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi

    Volume One: From Exorcism to Entertainment

    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.With a view to evaluating the role of temple theatre in the development of xiqu or traditional Chinese theatre and drama from myth to ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • 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

    12,50 €

  • Afro-Mexico

    Dancing between Myth and Reality

    by Anita González ...
    While Africans and their descendants have lived in Mexico for centuries, many Afro-Mexicans do not consider themselves to be either black or African. For almost a century, Mexico has promoted an ideal of its citizens as having a combination of indigenous and European ancestry. This obscures the presence of African, Asian, and other populations that have contributed to the growth of the nation. ... Read more

    22,36 €

  • 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 History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750

    by John Forrest ...
    Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. In The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 John Forrest analyses a wealth of evidence to show that Morris dancing does not, as is often assumed, have pagan or ancient origins. He examines early documentation to draw Morris traditions into the wide area of communal custom and public celebrations, ... Read more

    30,47 €

  • Choreographing the North

    Settler Affinities in Contemporary Dancemaking

    by Bridget Cauthery ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "North."The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined journeys to the North for stage and/or screen. This book examines the ways Indigenous subjects and ... Read more

    58,61 €

  • 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

    53,73 €