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  • Ballade by Anna Sokolow

    by Ray Cook ...
    Series series Language of Dance
    This volume publishes Anna Sokolow's Ballade in Labanotation for the first time. It is a dance which explores youth and its discoveries, following the restlessness and inconclusiveness of young love to a final sombre note. The complete score is accompanied by detailed study and performance notes, historical background and photographs. Since moving to New York in 1961, Ray Cook has worked as a ... Read more

    RM 318.16

  • 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

    RM 41.69

  • 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

    RM 212.09

  • 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

    RM 187.62

  • Dança Cristal

    da arte do movimento à abordagem somático-performativa

    by Ciane Fernandes ...
    Series series Pesquisa em Artes
    O livro traça o desenvolvimento da Abordagem Somático-Performativa de pesquisa em artes cênicas, a partir de uma perspectiva autobiográfica, simultaneamente acadêmica e poética, analítica e criativa. A abordagem inédita no país, faz parte do terceiro paradigma metodológico, integrando o arcabouço da Prática Artística como Pesquisa, que vem sendo desenvolvido principalmente na Austrália, ... Read more

    RM 18.85

  • Dancing Women

    Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema

    by Usha Iyer ...
    Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms — cinema and dance — historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s ... Read more

    RM 135.89

  • Tap Dancing at a Glance

    by Jimmy Ormonde ...
    You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are ... Read more

    RM 28.52 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frederick Ashton's Ballets

    Style, Performance, Choreography, Second Edition

    by Geraldine Morris ...
    The second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but also presents a detailed account of Ashton's work and dances, demonstrating his remarkable choreographic and artistic talent. Having ... Read more

    RM 326.79

  • Salsa - Tanzen ohne Partner - Teil 1

    by Beatrice Kobras ...
    Series Book 1 - Salsa - Tanzen ohne Partner
    Es gibt viele Frauen, die gerne Salsa tanzen möchten, doch leider sind es meist mehr Damen als Herren, die sich dem Tanz widmen möchten. Doch auch ohne Tanzpartner müssen die Damen auf die Salsa keinesfalls verzichten. Und sollte sich doch einmal ein Herr zum Paartanz finden, ist die Frau von heute aus der Salsa-Singletanzgruppe bereits bestens vorbereitet und kennt bereits die Schritte und ... Read more

    RM 89.71

  • The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

    The Making of Tanztheater

    Edited by Royd Climenhaga ...
    Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections ... Read more

    RM 301.84

  • Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

    by Mark Franko, Juan Ignacio Vallejos ...
    In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20****th century.A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics features a foreword by Juan Ignacio Vallejos on Franko's career, a new preface, a new chapter on Yvonne Rainer, and an ... Read more

    RM 96.89

  • Speaking of Dance

    Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft

    by Joyce Morgenroth ...
    Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on**Their Craft delves into the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging and revolutionary dancemakers. Based on personal interviews, the book's narratives reveal the methods and quests of, among others, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Mark Morris. Morgenroth shows how the ideas, craft, and ... Read more

    RM 236.57

  • George Balanchine

    The Ballet Maker

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Series Book 48 - Eminent Lives
    "Gottlieb captures both the divine and human, offering an elegant, sharp, and sophisticated take on the choreographer's life." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer and founder of The New York City Ballet.The foremost contemporary ... Read more

    RM 44.29

  • 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

    RM 146.29

  • Producing Dance

    A Collaborative Art

    by Robin Kish, Wilson Mendieta, Jennifer Backhaus, Marc Jordan Ameel, Samantha Waugh, Kerri Canedy, Todd Canedy ...
    Most dance production books are written from the perspective of a production manager or designer, focusing on the technical aspects of a traditional dance production.Producing Dance takes a unique path—one that includes the voice of the choreographer and dancer in the journey to performance.In doing so, the authors support the process of the entire creative team and cover all aspects of a ... Read more

    RM 271.69

  • Moving Sites

    Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance

    Edited by Victoria Hunter ...
    Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on ... Read more

    RM 358.96

  • 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

    RM 117.49

  • Hiking the Horizontal

    Field Notes from a Choreographer

    by Liz Lerman ...
    The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has been described by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution ... Read more

    RM 58.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    RM 118.79

  • Staging Dance

    by Susan Cooper ...
    Staging Dance is a practical handbook that covers all aspects of putting on a dance production. It highlights the current diversity of dance activities, choosing examples from working dance groups and from individual dancers.The book includes sections on choreography, music and sound, designing and making sets and costumes, lighting design and technical implementation and stage management. Funding ... Read more

    RM 281.45

  • Dancing Freedom

    Modern Dance in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union

    by Irina Sirotkina ...
    For a long time, dance scholars and the public were hardly aware that modern dance existed in Russia. This book, however, delves into its presence, significance and survival in the late Tsarist and Soviet era, showing the large and significant positive contribution this made to the history of modern dance.A creation of liberal body politics, 'free' or 'modern' dance flourished in late Imperial ... Read more

    RM 380.09

  • 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

    RM 143.19

  • Meditative Dance Theatre in Contemporary Taiwan

    U-Theatre, Legend Lin Dance Theatre, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and the Eastern Body Aesthetics

    by Izabella Łabędzka ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    This book explores the most unique contemporary forms of Taiwanese dance theatre and the theatre of movement created by renowned choreographers whose productions are committed to the Eastern body aesthetics (dongfang shentiguan).By examining the shared backgrounds of the creators of these forms of contemporary dance theatre, the book reveals how native traditions have inspired the formation of ... Read more

    RM 265.13

  • South Asian Dance

    The British Experience

    Edited by Alessandra Iyer ...
    Indian Dance is not what it was. The classical dances of the subcontinent have undergone fission, have been deconstructed and have become part of a contemporary dance idiom. Some of the most innovative work has taken place because of interaction with Western dancers or because it was conceived in a Western and/or global context. Thus the British experience-the work and contribution of Indian dance ... Read more

    RM 265.13