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Anni Settanta. Les Ballets Trockadero

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Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections.
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The Bodies of Others

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The Bodies of Others explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, the book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages. Drag dances take us beyond glittery one-liners and into the spaces between gender norms. In these backstage histories, dancers give their bodies over to other selves,
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Like a Bomb Going Off

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Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally ... Read more

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Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally
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The Swans of Harlem

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For fans of Hidden Figures and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'The kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!' MISTY COPELAND'Vibrant, propulsive and inspiring' TIA WILLIAMSHarlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New ... Read more

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In this memoir of a roller-coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet’s greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his world-renowned company during its golden years.Sills recounts her years as a child actor in television and on Broadway, a career choice largely ... Read more

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In this memoir of a roller-coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet’s greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his world-renowned company during its golden years.Sills recounts her years as a child actor in television and on Broadway, a career choice largely
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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography

Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction

by Mark Franko ...

Series series Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau’s definition of dance in his 1589 dance treatise, Orchesographie. The notion of the intertext as elaborated by Michael Riffaterre is used to understand a series of relationships between dance and ... Read more

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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau’s definition of dance in his 1589 dance treatise, Orchesographie. The notion of the intertext as elaborated by Michael Riffaterre is used to understand a series of relationships between dance and
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Christensen Brothers

An American Dance Epic

by Debra Hickenlooper Sowell ...

Series series Choreography and Dance Studies Series
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With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties. Their story sheds light on the history of ballet in twentieth-century America, both through their accomplishments as dancers, teachers, and company directors, and through their association with some of
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Words We Can Dance

Thoughts for dance students, performers and teachers

by Francisco De La Calleja ...

Words We Can Dance is a collection of words of wisdom, inspiration, motivation and wit for dancers of all levels. Dance teacher trainer, author and blogger Francisco De La Calleja, draws on the experience of a 33 year dance performing and teaching career to share his experiences about performinging, learning, teaching and living the dancer's life. 82 memorable and unique thoughts that touch the ... Read more

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Words We Can Dance is a collection of words of wisdom, inspiration, motivation and wit for dancers of all levels. Dance teacher trainer, author and blogger Francisco De La Calleja, draws on the experience of a 33 year dance performing and teaching career to share his experiences about performinging, learning, teaching and living the dancer's life. 82 memorable and unique thoughts that touch the
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Translated by Rebecca Jakobi ...

Series series LUST
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The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today

by Trudy Garfunkel ...

"A lucid and interesting history" of ballet—from sixteenth-century French Royalty to contemporary masters—"that reads like a novel" ( Kirkus Reviews).In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the development of ballet. Beginning with the birth of the art in the sixteenth-century French court of Catherine d' ... Read more

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