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  • Dancing with Cats

    The cult classic is back! This 15th anniversary edition keeps all the original mystery and magic of cat dancing delightfully intact. Perpetually ahead of its time, Dancing with Cats presents scores of delightful and inspiring photographs of people and cats engaging in their favorite dance routines as well as moving testimonies of the personal transformations brought about through this uniquely ... Read more

    RM 38.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 25 Tango Lessons

    Some of the things tango taught me about life and vice versa

    Andrea discovered Argentine tango in her 20s. Over the next decades it gradually changed - and in many ways became - her life. Just about everything in tango is a microcosm of life at large, and just about everything learned on the dance floor is a life lesson as well. This book is a collection of some of the most interesting and valuable things this passionate and complex dance has taught Andrea ... Read more

    RM 35.25

  • Cuerpo y Visualidad

    Reflexiones en torno al archivo

    Edited by Jennifer McColl Crozier ...
    Los textos que componen este libro proponen reflexiones abiertas a partir de una materialidad específica: el Archivo Carmen Beuchat (carmenbeuchat.org). Esta serie de documentos exponen gestos de insistencia y resistencia en torno a las huellas y residuos visuales, abriendo relaciones entre las imágenes y el registro de obras ya inexistentes, apelando a la efimeridad del tiempo performático, a la ... Read more

    RM 35.25 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    RM 215.59

  • Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space

    (in)dependent Scenes

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional project ‘Nomad Dance Academy’ (NDA), and highlights collective approaches to sustain a theorisation of festivals using the concepts of dissensus and imperceptible politics. Drawing from ... Read more

    RM 227.36

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Read more

    RM 223.44

  • The Art of Making Dances

    Written just before the author's death in 1958, this book is an autobiography in art, a gathering of experiences in performance, and a lucid and practical source book on choreography. ... Read more

    Was RM 80.19 Now RM 64.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practitioner Perspectives on Dance Research

    Edited by Gemma Harman ...
    Practitioner Perspectives on Dance Research is a collection of accounts from scholars, educators, practitioners and makers that present an overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to their individual research.Built upon conversations recorded as ResDance™ podcast episodes, this edited collection presents both theoretical discussions and first-hand insights into various research ... Read more

    RM 239.12

  • Always More Than One

    Individuation's Dance

    by Erin Manning ...
    In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whitehead's process philosophy and Simondon's theory of individuation, she extends the concepts of movement and relation developed in her earlier work toward the notion of "choreographic thinking." Here, ... Read more

    RM 81.79

  • Teaching Ballroom Dancing - The Class Method

    by Various ...
    This vintage book is a comprehensive guide to teaching ballroom dancing, with information on different teaching methods, hints on teaching one-to-one and in groups, detailed diagrams, handy tips for teachers, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in teaching or learning a variety of ballroom dances from the waltz to the tango. Contents include: ... Read more

    RM 39.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essentials of Dance Psychology

    The topic of sport psychology is hardly new—but Essentials of Dance Psychology applies it to dance in a way that sets it apart from all other sport psychology texts available to dance students, instructors, and professionals.Through Essentials of Dance Psychology, readers will come to understand why dancers think and behave as they do and how to design healthy, creative dance environments that ... Read more

    RM 254.09

  • Essays on Classical Indian Dance

    The book is a wide-ranging collection of essays on Indian classical dance, which include writings on dance appreciation, the criticism, theory and philosophy of dance, as well as some historical and light controversial articles. Also included is a seminal and unique monograph on the contribution of Sanjukta Panigrahi to the development of Odissi. The book approaches the subject from an ... Read more

    RM 195.83

  • Tango. Technical Guide to Fundamentals and analysis of emotional behaviors in dance

    A technical guide to the fundamentals of argentine tango, essential, rich in details, tips, and practical advice; true private lessons enclosed in a book that you can use to approach the study of dance in a correct way, optimizing times and methods of learning without getting lost in the meanders of stylistic connotations and ‘figures’. And also, a guide to the exploration of one’s inner world to ... Read more

    RM 55.90

  • How To Be a Professional Dancer

    This book is a general How-to about becoming a professional dancer. The term “Professional Dancer” is an all-encompassing term, used to describe individuals who are currently using dance training and dance performance to make a living. Professional dancers perform in Musical theater, on television shows, on cruise ships, in ballet companies, and many other venues of performing arts! The dance ... Read more

    RM 39.17

  • Ensino de dança hoje

    textos e contextos

    Na LDB no 9394/96, a Arte é reconhecida como disciplina escolar obrigatória no currículo. Nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, a Arte é uma das áreas curriculares e a dança é indicada como linguagem artística diferenciada a ser trabalhada pelas escolas. Agora, a atarefados educadores artísticos é colocar essas conquistas em prática, nas escolas, de maneira crítica, fundamentada e significativa. ... Read more

    RM 35.25

  • Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps

    Going West to Find East Going East to Find West

    by Henry Daniel ...
    A transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research, complete with its own elaborate theory of practice and a set of four multi-year-performance research projects through which the theory plays out. Its methodology is at times ethnographic as Henry Daniel deftly inserts himself and his Caribbean West African ancestry into a series of complex cortical and geographic maps, which become ... Read more

    RM 335.29

  • Ballroom Dancing Techniques - The One Step

    by Anon ...
    This vintage book is a concise guide to learning the ballroom dancing technique called “the one step”. With simple, step-by-step instructions and many useful diagrams and photographs, this volume is ideal for beginners with an interest in learning ballroom dancing. Contents include: “The Castle Walk”, “The Dip”, “The Grape-Vine”, “The One-Step Eight”, “The Square”, “The Murray Anderson Turn”, “A ... Read more

    RM 27.41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

    Edited by Vida L. Midgelow ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a ... Read more

    RM 649.29

  • The Art of Dance Composition

    Writing the Body

    The Art of Dance Composition: Writing the Body is an introduction to modern dance composition, providing clear and structured approaches to designing and defining movement that demystify the creative process.The book introduces the concepts of creating authentic movement, processes for gathering and ordering compositional elements, and the ways in which theme, story, and design relate to bodies ... Read more

    RM 231.28

  • 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

    RM 239.12

  • The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance

    While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance.The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance ... Read more

    RM 379.29

  • Dance and Activism

    A Century of Radical Dance Across the World

    by Dana Mills ...
    This study focuses on dance as an activist practice in and of itself, across geographical locations and over the course of a century, from 1920 to 2020. Through doing so, it considers how dance has been an empowering agent for political action throughout civilisation.Dance and Activism offers a glimpse of different strategies of mobilizing the human body for good and justice for all, and captures ... Read more

    RM 110.49

  • Unwritten Literature of Hawaii

    The Sacred Songs of the Hula

    Nathaniel Bright Emerson's 'Unwritten Literature of Hawaii' delves into the rich oral traditions and storytelling techniques of Hawaiian culture. Through meticulous research and firsthand accounts, Emerson explores how Hawaiian tales were passed down through generations without the need for a written language, highlighting the importance of orality in preserving cultural heritage. Drawing on a mix ... Read more

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shape and Momentum

    An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion

    by Liz Lerman ...
    A sequel to Hiking the Horizontal, Liz Lerman's Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion is a choreographic manifesto for living in motion—part memoir, part creative toolkit, part philosophical inquiry. Written in a series of essays, from single-paragraph meditations to expansive chapters, the book weaves together personal anecdotes, creative theory, and movement ... Read more

    RM 64.89