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  • The Burlesque Handbook

    by Jo Weldon ...
    “Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she’s my idol.” — Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across AmericaFrom one of the stars of the New Burlesque scene, Jo Weldon, comes a definitive, easy-to-use, and indispensable guide to the art form, with a foreword by superstar comedian and burlesque ... Read more

    $94.79 HKD

  • Talking Tap

    A Discussion

    by Terry Dill ...
    An introduction to tap dancing through the language of the subject: what it is, why it is, how to use it. Terminology is organized and described by technique categories and listed by increasing difficulty. The common dance notation format used gradually builds the user's ability to read and write performance routines. Discussions include developing tap skills, use of dance notes, and rhythm ... Read more

    $74.19 HKD

  • The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's les ballets C de la B

    Emotions, Gestures, Politics

    Edited by Professor Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools, Hildegard De Vuyst ...
    Series series Dance in Dialogue
    Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment.Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this book ... Read more

    $227.69 HKD

  • Merce Cunningham

    The Modernizing of Modern Dance

    by Roger Copeland ...
    Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance is a complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. More than just a biography, Copeland explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art. Copeland traces his own experience of Cunningham's dances-from the turbulent late '60s through the experimental works of the ... Read more

    $468.99 HKD

  • Judson Dance Theater

    Performative Traces

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    "The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainier, and others--created what came to be ... Read more

    $437.72 HKD

  • Anna Halprin

    by Libby Worth, Helen Poynor ...
    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Now revised and reissued, this book:sketches the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, exploring Halprin's connections with the avant-garde theatre, ... Read more

    $437.72 HKD

  • Understand K-pop: Deconstructing the Obsession and Toxicity in K-pop Stan Culture

    Kiss, Kill, K-pop, #1

    by Arushi Raj ...
    Series Book 1 - Kiss, Kill, K-pop
    Though K-pop has spread globally, a lot of English language discussion about it is dominated by American media. This led me to write this book to add the South Asian perspective in the discourse on this global music phenomenon.What's in the book?Delineation of all kinds of K-pop fans; from the creative ones to the crazies.Analysis of K-pop Stan culture vis-a-vis Korean Idol industries' marketing ... Read more

    $24.99 HKD

  • HowExpert Guide to Dance and Choreography

    101 Tips to Learn How to Dance, Improve Your Choreography Skills, and Become a Better Performer

    by HowExpert, Sydney Skipper ...
    If you want to learn how to dance, improve your choreography skills, and become a better performer, then check out HowExpert Guide to Dance and Choreography.This book goes into detail about where to start as a beginner dancer, what you need to know going into dance, and step-by-step guides to help you become a better dancer. For those also interested in choreography, this book shares some tips on ... Read more

    $77.99 HKD

  • Fifty Contemporary Choreographers

    Edited by Jo Butterworth, Lorna Sanders ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field of choreography.Representing a wide range of dance genres and styles, each entry locates the individual in the context of contemporary dance and explores their impact. Those studied include:Kyle Abraham ... Read more

    $336.09 HKD

  • The Moving Researcher

    Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in Performing Arts Education and Creative Arts Therapies

    by Julio Mota, Jackie Hand, Melina Scialom, Susanne Schlicher, Rosel Grassmann, Ciane Fernandes ...
    This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices.Following extensive research on the method developed by Rudolf von Laban and his disciples, this book explains movement principles, exercises, and motif symbols in detail. Organized according to the four categories of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis ... Read more

    $323.69 HKD

  • Flowers Cracking Concrete

    Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies

    by Rosemary Candelario ...
    Winner of the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research (2018)Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Koma—two artists from Japan who have lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1970s, establishing themselves as innovative and influential modern and postmodern dancers. They continue to choreograph, perform, and give workshops across ... Read more

    $123.79 HKD

  • Coreografías animales

    by Núria Solsona ...
    ¡Descubre seis sorprendentes formas en que los animales danzan para sobrevivir! En la naturaleza, muchos animales se mueven en grupo como si siguieran una coreografía secreta. En el aire, en el agua o sobre la tierra, sus movimientos son tan precisos como sorprendentes. Desde la formación en «V» de los gansos para ahorrar energía hasta las cadenas de pingüinos para conservar el calor, pasando por ... Read more

    $93.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $77.99 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Video Dance

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen (2nd ed)

    by Katrina McPherson ...
    Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing for the screen, filming and editing, and distribution. In doing so, it explores and analyses the creative, practical, technical, and aesthetic issues that arise when making screen dance.This rigorously ... Read more

    $414.27 HKD

  • Dance Studies: The Basics

    by Jo Butterworth ...
    Series series The Basics
    A concise introduction to the study of dance ranging from the practical aspects such as technique and choreography to more theoretical considerations such as aesthetic appreciation and the place of dance in different cultures. This book answers questions such as:Exactly how do we define dance?What kinds of people dance and what kind of training is necessary?How are dances made?What do we know ... Read more

    $250.09 HKD

  • The Journey to Associate Director and Choreographer… and Beyond

    An Industry Guide for Practitioners and Creatives

    by Richard J. Hinds ...
    For every West End and Broadway musical that's running in London and New York, as well as shows across the world and on tour, a team of associate creatives is behind the scenes keeping them alive. But how does someone become this multi-faceted role, and what skills do they need in order to succeed?Being an Associate Director or Choreographer is an all-encompassing role that requires diplomacy, ... Read more

    $200.19 HKD

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  • Dance and Silence

    In Conversation

    by Vipavinee Artpradid, Dr Petra Johnson ...
    Series series Dance in Dialogue
    The age of humans has gotten increasingly loud in terms of literal sound and environmental impact. Recognising silence as a disappearing ontological value, there is grief around our loss, but there is also a greater desire for opportunities to experience silence in its various diverse forms.This book explores the critical dynamics of silence within choreography, performance and composition, ... Read more

    $728.29 HKD

  • Your Move

    by Ann Hutchinson Guest, Tina Curran ...
    This second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis and choreography as well as the ... Read more

    $578.44 HKD

  • Choreomata

    Performance and Performativity after AI

    Edited by Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks ...
    Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures from computation? What does it mean to perform oneself through AI, or to construct one’s subjectivity through AI? How does AI continue to complicate what it means to have a body? Has the golden age of AI, especially with regards to creative applications, already ended?Choreomata ... Read more

    $500.26 HKD

  • Balanchine Finds His America

    A Tale of Love Lost and Ballet Reborn

    by Elizabeth Kendall ...
    In 1933, George Balanchine arrived in the United States, brought by even younger sponsors who had dreamed of inventing an American ballet. He came with extraordinary skills: he had trained as a child in Russia's imperial dance academy, he had absorbed the utopian ideals of the Russian revolution, and he had spent nine years in a culturally volatile interwar Europe. But on a new continent, his ... Read more

    $200.49 HKD

  • Through the Prism of the Senses

    Mediation and New Realities of the Body in Contemporary Performance. Technology, Cognition and Emergent Research-Creation Methodologies

    by Isabelle Choinière, Enrico Pitozzi, Andrea Davidson, Derrick de Kerckhove ...
    Translated by Andrea Davidson ...
    Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies. Mediation has challenged both spectators’ and performers’ conventions of corporeality, embodiment, cognition and perception. Centring on contemporary synaesthetic and multimodal works, Through the Prism of the Senses examines ... Read more

    $506.59 HKD

  • Prze-pisać taneczny modernizm: sieci. Re-writing Dance Modernism: Networks

    Edited by Julia Hoczyk, Wojciech Klimczyk ...
    Dance modernism is not only a part of cultural history. It is also, perhaps above all, a multicolored reference for thinking about the dancing body’s past and presence as well as its many practices. Finally, dance modernism is a story of modern longings and anxieties. The story has been constantly re-written, with a growing awareness of its global and collective character. An outcome of a meeting ... Read more

    $219.49 HKD

  • 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

    $406.45 HKD

  • Louise Lecavalier

    Dance, Labor, Culture

    by MJ Thompson ...
    As principal dancer with Montréal-based company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was among the most iconic dancers of her generation: strong, muscled, androgynous, punk. Moving with spectacular speed, precision and an athletic physicality, her commitment to dancing would ultimately transform the potential of what bodies within Western concert dance could do.Drawing on extensive oral history ... Read more

    $696.59 HKD