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  • Bottom of the Pyramid

    A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life

    by Nia Sioux ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Sioux’s harrowing reality TV ordeal cuts deep, and her subsequent self-assurance is endearing and infectious. It adds up to an inspiring account of reclaiming artistic agency.” - Publisher’s WeeklyWhen you’ve been told over and over that you belong at the bottom, how do you come out on top? Dance Moms star and triple threat Nia Sioux shows the way via her story of ... Read more

    €13.99

  • The Ballroom Blitz

    The escapist and romantic novel from the nation’s favourite entertainer

    by Anton Du Beke ...
    Series series Buckingham
    The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night.Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, ... Read more

    €4.49

  • 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

    €8.25

  • Hip-Hop Dance for All Ages Unlock the Flow: LOCK IN

    THE PLATINUM EXPERIENCE

    by Jermaine Melvin ...
    "Lock In: The Platinum Experience" is more than a guide to hip-hop dance it's a blueprint for personal growth, confidence, and community. Drawing from over 15 years of experience, Platinum J shares his teaching philosophy, practical techniques, and inspiring stories that have transformed students of all ages. From building a positive classroom culture to overcoming challenges and preparing for ... Read more

    €0.99

  • 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

    €46.08

  • Instruments of Embodiment

    Costuming in Contemporary Dance

    by Eric Mullis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of ... Read more

    €50.68

  • The Choreography of Everyday Life

    by Annie-B Parson ...
    In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance-time, proximity, space, motion and tone- into text. As we follow Parson through her days-at home, reading, and on her walks down the street-and in and out of conversations on everything from Homer's Odyssey to feminist art to social protest, she helps us see how ... Read more

    €9.79

  • Costume in Motion

    A Guide to Collaboration for Costume Design and Choreography

    by E. Shura Pollatsek ...
    Costume in Motion is a guide to all stages of the collaboration process between costume designers and choreographers, documenting a wide range of approaches to the creation of a dance piece.Featuring interviews with a diverse selection of over 40 choreographers and designers, in-depth case studies of works by leading dance companies, and stunning original photography, the book explores the ... Read more

    €55.29

  • Laban plural

    Arte do movimento, pesquisa e genealogia da práxis de Rudolf Laban no Brasil

    by Melina Scialom ...
    Este livro é uma combinação de movimentos diversos – dança, pesquisa, passado e presente – que envolvem a vida e obra de Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) e da reverberação de seu pensamento artístico, filosófico e científico no Brasil. Embora seja considerado um dos grandes teóricos da dança do século XX, Laban baseia-se na observação, na prática e na experiência do corpo em movimento. Neste livro, Melina ... Read more

    €6.99

  • Die Philosophie des Tanzens

    by Leona Stahlmann, René*e Reith, Sebastian Matthias, Iris Därmann, Luise Meier, Linda Hayford, Robert Matthies, Oliver Marchart, Natalia Wilk, Greta Taubert, Bertha Bermudez, Orly Almi, Lea Pischke ...
    Wir tanzen im Club, bei Hochzeiten, auf WG-Partys; gehen ins Ballett, in die Oper, zum Modernen Tanz. Tanzen in all seiner Vielfältigkeit ist immer verbunden mit Lebendigkeit, manchmal sogar mit Ekstase und dem Dionysischem. Die Herausgeber*innen Maximilian Probst und Ursina Tossi nähern sich zusammen mit den 14 Autor*innen einer Philosophie des Tanzens an. Sie erkunden das Politische des Tanzens ... Read more

    €19.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eurythmy Forms for Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul

    CW A 23/2

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    These eurythmy forms and indications (CW A 23/2), published here for the first time in English, were given by Rudolf Steiner for the weekly verses of The Calendar of the Soul. The wealth of forms and metamorphoses in the cycle of the year is study material for all students of eurythmy. The forms can also be stimulating for those who are not practicing eurythmists but are interested in deepening ... Read more

    €16.30

  • Unmaking Contact

    Choreographing South Asian Touch

    by Royona Mitra ...
    Unmaking Contact interrogates “contact”, understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by attending to power asymmetries that are foundational to this practice. By placing South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and ... Read more

    €27.46

  • Movement Directors in Contemporary Theatre

    Conversations on Craft

    by Ms Ayse Tashkiran ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    'When directors understand the value of a movement director they remove any sense of hierarchy within the room and place movement directors firmly by their side for they are and should be their co-pilot, navigating and creating the world of the play.'- Joan IyiolaMovement directors work with the physical, living bodies at the heart of theatre productions, creating movement languages with actors ... Read more

    €27.88

  • Spiritual Herstories

    Call of the Soul in Dance Research

    Edited by Amanda Williamson, Barbara Sellers-Young ...
    This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research into spirituality, dance, gender, religion, somatics and women-centred dance research. Written by women dance scholars in higher education, ... Read more

    €115.95

  • The Oriented Gesture

    The Re-education of Movement

    by Ivaldo Bertazzo ...
    Series series Reeducação do movimento
    The Oriented Gesture completes the trilogy of the Method of the Reeducation of Movement, by Brazilian choreographer and corporal educator Ivaldo Bertazzo, comprising the books Corpo vivo [The Living Body] (2010) and Cérebro ativo [The Active Brain] (2012). With photographs and illustrations, this volume discusses the role of the skin in the functions of sustaining the skeleton and organizing the ... Read more

    €5.99

  • Nicolai Serguéeff and The Sleeping Beauty

    A Living Ballet Tradition

    by Maureen Gupta ...
    Tracing the legacy of the man who preserved The Sleeping Beauty’s choreography, through the classic ballet’s evolution from the nineteenth century to the presentNicolai Serguéeff and “The Sleeping Beauty” explores the legacy of a former Russian imperial rehearsal director who fled postrevolutionary Russia with the most complete choreographic records of Marius Petipa’s ballet masterpiece, set to ... Read more

    €77.25

  • Ce que la Danse m'a dit ...

    Volume 2

    by Jean-François Vazelle ...
    Le parcours d'un spectateur "fou" de Danse, devenu agent d'artistes, directeur artistique et maintenant dramaturge... En collaboration avec Manuel Legris, directeur du Ballet de La Scala de Milan et Patrick De Bana, ancien soliste du Lausanne-Béjart Ballet. Dramaturgies : Cléopâtre-Ida Rubinstein (2013) Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris. Apollon (2014) Spring Festival Tokyo. Sacre du Printemps ... Read more

    €9.99

  • Moving Notation

    by Jill Beck, Joseph Reiser ...
    Designed specifically for university-level study, Moving Notation will benefit students and teachers of both dance and music, offering a complete introduction to the theory and practice of musical rhythm and elementary Labanotation. Performing Arts Studies aims to provide stimulating resource books of both a practical and philosophical nature for teachers and students of the performing arts: music ... Read more

    €63.36

  • Laban - Aristotle

    Towards a methodology for movement training for the actor and in acting

    by Kiki Selioni ...
    The focus of this book rests on an investigation into the links between Laban and Aristotle and aims at proposing a new approach to movement training for the actor. In contrast to the standard Platonic reading, Laban’s development is best understood through the conceptual framework of Aristotle. This not only provides a more secure theoretical approach, but a practical one as well, which ... Read more

    €29.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unworking Choreography

    The Notion of the Work in Dance

    by Frédéric Pouillaude ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers to a space other than art, considered both more frivolous and more fundamental than the artwork ... Read more

    €49.77

  • Butoh Dance Training

    Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method

    by Juju Alishina ...
    Translated by Corinna Torregiani ...
    Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the first time in its history. With practical instruction and fully illustrated exercises, this book teaches readers:· basic body training and expression exercises· exercises to cultivate Qi (energy) and to aid improvisation· about katas (forms) and how to ... Read more

    €30.49

  • Dance Words

    Edited by Valerie Preston-Dunlop ...
    Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
    In her unique collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers, Valerie Preston-Dunlop presents a comprehensive view of people in dance: what they do, their movement, their sound, and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of the performers, choreographers, audiences, administrators, and teachers. The words and phrases of their technical and vernacular languages ... Read more

    €47.23

  • The Dance Theatre of Kurt Jooss

    by Suzanne Walther ...
    First Published in 1997. This is Volume 3, Part 2 in the Choreography and Dance journal and looks at the dance and the theatre of Kurt Jooss, in context of his times of birth, his evolution of as an artist, Jooss as a teacher and his ballets. ... Read more

    €49.53

  • Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre

    Movement, memory and metaphor

    by Libby Worth, Jasmin Vardimon ...
    Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the working processes of Vardimon and her company, chronicling the development of specific productions rather than offering a single choreographic ... Read more

    €49.53