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  • Look Before You Leap

    par Dianne Leathem ...
    Look Before You Leap guides parents towards helping their children to achieve their greatest success in dance. As we pull back the curtain on the dance industry, it has never been more important for parents and students to become as informed as possible to avoid the damage that is being done to children through the world-wide epidemics of extreme training, over-training, unqualified teachers and ... En savoir plus

    8,23 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Seven Guitars

    par August Wilson ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there ... En savoir plus

    5,65 €

  • Embodied Nostalgia

    Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre

    par Phoebe Rumsey ...
    Collection series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910 ... En savoir plus

    49,68 €

  • The Great Depression Wasn't Always Sad! Entertainment and Jazz Music Book for Kids | Children's Arts, Music & Photography Books

    par Baby Professor ...
    Yes, you got it right! The Great Depression Wasn’t Always Sad! There were forms of entertainment that flourished during the era and we still see (and hear) their influence until today! Jazz was invented during those difficult times. If you listen to jazz now, you will notice how light and soothing it is. Maybe that’s the secret for its survival today! ... En savoir plus

    3,46 €

  • Anti-Music

    Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

    Collection series SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
    Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between left-wing and right-wing ... En savoir plus

    29,55 €

  • 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 ... En savoir plus

    48,50 €

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... En savoir plus

    28,39 €

  • Il Novecento, arti visive e musica

    par Umberto Eco ...
    Avanguardia, moderno, postmoderno, caso; fruizione, produzione/riproduzione, serialità, elettronica: sono parole-chiave comuni alle arti visive e alla musica del Novecento. Parole che indicano percorsi, la cui ricchezza è qui raccontata tenendo conto sia dell’enormità sperimentale dei singoli artisti – da Duchamp a John Cage, da Stravinskij a Picasso, da Boulez e Paul Klee – sia dei processi più ... En savoir plus

    24,99 €

  • Dance Education around the World

    Perspectives on dance, young people and change

    Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education ... En savoir plus

    61,52 €

  • A lifetime of Jazz

    par Tony Carter ...
    Tony Carter, a retired college professor and project manager, has spent a lifetime immersed in the world of Jazz. His passion for the genre began in his teenage years, sparked by the discovery of Kid Ory's "Muskrat Ramble." This ignited a lifelong love for Traditional Jazz, which expanded as he explored the vibrant Jazz scene in the USA.Even during his time in 1960s Liverpool, amidst the height of ... En savoir plus

    8,23 €

  • The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation

    An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

    Modifié par Dominic Broomfield-McHugh ...
    Collection series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, ... En savoir plus

    27,39 €

  • Twigg Redemption

    By Ty Branch

    par Allen Smith ...
    Twigg Redemption by Ty Branch is a smooth jazz tenor saxophone track from the EP, "Twigg Redemption". ... En savoir plus

    2,57 €

  • Jazz Dance Today Essentials

    The video text dance series

    Collection series The video text dance series
    Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial levels. It has been used as the primary textbook in the field and has been read worldwide by ... En savoir plus

    5,49 €

  • Dance Pedagogy

    par Amanda Clark ...
    Dance Pedagogy is a comprehensive resource designed for dance students and teaching artists to develop skills and strategies in the multifaceted practice of teaching dance.This invaluable resource features essential components and considerations necessary for the dance teacher in any setting, including the private and community sector, university setting, and professional venues. Five distinct ... En savoir plus

    47,32 €

  • The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance

    Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and ... En savoir plus

    18,53 €

  • Rooted Jazz Dance

    Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

    National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practiceAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were ... En savoir plus

    21,93 €

  • Josephine Baker

    Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the delight of French audiences, dancing entirely nude on some occasions. When she toured central Europe ... En savoir plus

    3,99 €

  • Becomings

    Pregnancy, Phenomenology, and Postmodern Dance

    par Johanna Kirk ...
    Collection series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their gender and physical abilities while pregnant. Across chapters, the artists discussed include Anna ... En savoir plus

    54,42 €

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... En savoir plus

    33,57 €

  • The Greatest Maestros of All Time: Top 100

    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 ... En savoir plus

    3,00 €

  • The Winner: A Ballroom Dance Novel

    par Erin Bomboy ...
    The most prestigious ballroom dance competition in the United States.Two dancers need to win.Only one can.Nina Fortunova wasn't supposed to end up almost thirty, divorced, with her dreams of winning shattered. She teams up with Jorge Gonzalez, a hunky and hard-working Latin dancer, to reinvent the flashy Smooth style.When the Chairman of the Judges offers to throw the competition in their favor, ... En savoir plus

    5,49 €

  • Jumping the Color Line

    Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929–1945

    par Susie Trenka ...
    From the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in "specialty acts" and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal ... En savoir plus

    32,43 €

  • When Words Are Inadequate

    Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China

    par Nan Ma ...
    Collection series OXFORD STUDIES IN DANCE THEORY SERIES
    When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu Rongling, Wu ... En savoir plus

    29,65 €

  • Danses jazz

    Une poétique de la relation

    par Éliane Seguin ...
    Apparues aux États-Unis, ouvertes à toutes les influences, les danses jazz portent depuis toujours les traits de la mixité. Se pencher sur le jazz, c'est observer un art du présent, ouvert à tous les mouvements possibles, hybride dans ses techniques, éclectique dans son inspiration, mélangeant les temps, les lieux, les espaces.Sous-tendu par la question des échanges interculturels et du métissage, ... En savoir plus

    12,99 €