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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery

by Eric Franklin ...

Eric Franklin’s classic reference is back in a new full-color edition, complete with new material and exercises for instructors to use with their dancers, other performing artists, athletes, and classes.In Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Third Edition, Franklin—an internationally renowned teacher, dancer, and choreographer who has been sharing his imagery techniques for more than 35 years ... Read more

$84.28 NZD

Eric Franklin’s classic reference is back in a new full-color edition, complete with new material and exercises for instructors to use with their dancers, other performing artists, athletes, and classes.In Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Third Edition, Franklin—an internationally renowned teacher, dancer, and choreographer who has been sharing his imagery techniques for more than 35 years
... Read more
Ballroom Dancing

by Alex Moore ...

This early work on dancing is a fascinating read for any dance enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with 72 diagrams and photographs to complement comprehensive step-by-step guides to a variety of dance steps. Contents Include: The Quickstep, The Waltz, The Foxtrot, The Tango, Popular Dances, Old Time Dances, Ballroom Novelty Dances and Games, and The Practical Side of Teaching. Many of the ... Read more

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This early work on dancing is a fascinating read for any dance enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with 72 diagrams and photographs to complement comprehensive step-by-step guides to a variety of dance steps. Contents Include: The Quickstep, The Waltz, The Foxtrot, The Tango, Popular Dances, Old Time Dances, Ballroom Novelty Dances and Games, and The Practical Side of Teaching. Many of the
... Read more
Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts

An Illustrated Guide to Strength, Flexibility, Training, and Injury Prevention

by Emily Scherb ...

An illustrated guide to anatomy and biomechanics for aerialists who want to optimize their performance and train safelySpecifically designed for aerialists—including those who do trapeze, silks, and other aerial arts— Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts is an invaluable resource for those who want to optimize their performance and train safely.Using a biomechanical and movement-based approach, Emily ... Read more

$43.02 NZD

An illustrated guide to anatomy and biomechanics for aerialists who want to optimize their performance and train safelySpecifically designed for aerialists—including those who do trapeze, silks, and other aerial arts— Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts is an invaluable resource for those who want to optimize their performance and train safely.Using a biomechanical and movement-based approach, Emily
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The Ballet Companion

A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet

by Eliza Gaynor Minden ...

A New Classic for Today's DancerThe Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including:Practical advice for getting started, such ... Read more

$39.96 NZD

A New Classic for Today's DancerThe Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including:Practical advice for getting started, such
... Read more
Dance and Ethics

Moving Towards a More Humane Dance Culture

by Naomi M. Jackson ...

Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself, especially as faced by ... Read more

$49.00 NZD

Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself, especially as faced by
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An Aspiring Ballerina's Guide to: Auditions

by Gemma Pearce ...

For most dancers, at one stage in your career you will have to attend an audition; whether it is to get into a school or to get that job you've always wanted.Unlike a performance where you've had the opportunity to practice your steps many times before displaying them to an audience, the audition process can be a completely unfamiliar and nerve wracking experience, requiring you to face new ... Read more

$4.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

For most dancers, at one stage in your career you will have to attend an audition; whether it is to get into a school or to get that job you've always wanted.Unlike a performance where you've had the opportunity to practice your steps many times before displaying them to an audience, the audition process can be a completely unfamiliar and nerve wracking experience, requiring you to face new
... Read more
Méthode de création chorégraphique

by Nicolas Zemmour, Marc Zemmour ...

Cet ouvrage explore le processus de création en danse et propose une nouvelle didactique de cet art vivant.Cette méthode théorique et pratique mets en scène trois types de création :la création formelle;la création sensée;la création émotionnelle.Ce livre est un chemin. Vous allez, grâce à lui, affiner votre signature artistique et laisser ainsi libre cours à votre talent. Pour cela, l’ouvrage ... Read more

$21.38 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Cet ouvrage explore le processus de création en danse et propose une nouvelle didactique de cet art vivant.Cette méthode théorique et pratique mets en scène trois types de création :la création formelle;la création sensée;la création émotionnelle.Ce livre est un chemin. Vous allez, grâce à lui, affiner votre signature artistique et laisser ainsi libre cours à votre talent. Pour cela, l’ouvrage
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Talking Tap

A Discussion

by Terry Dill ...

An introduction to tap dancing through the language of the subject: what it is, why it is, how to use it. Terminology is organized and described by technique categories and listed by increasing difficulty. The common dance notation format used gradually builds the user's ability to read and write performance routines. Discussions include developing tap skills, use of dance notes, and rhythm ... Read more

$19.58 NZD

An introduction to tap dancing through the language of the subject: what it is, why it is, how to use it. Terminology is organized and described by technique categories and listed by increasing difficulty. The common dance notation format used gradually builds the user's ability to read and write performance routines. Discussions include developing tap skills, use of dance notes, and rhythm
... Read more
Movement for Actors (Second Edition)

Edited by Nicole Potter, Barbara Adrian, Mary Fleischer ...

In this updated rich resource for actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. Readers will gain remarkable insights into the physical skills and techniques used in a wide variety of performance styles through ready-to-use exercises and approaches. Included in this new edition are chapters covering:Stage combatYoga for ... Read more

$27.40 NZD

In this updated rich resource for actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. Readers will gain remarkable insights into the physical skills and techniques used in a wide variety of performance styles through ready-to-use exercises and approaches. Included in this new edition are chapters covering:Stage combatYoga for
... Read more
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

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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
Danse

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Partez à la découverte de la danse avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Dans son acception la plus générale, la danse est l'art de mouvoir le corps humain selon un certain accord entre l'espace et le temps, accord rendu perceptible grâce au rythme et à la composition chorégraphique.Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d’en savoir plus sur la danseÀ PROPOS DES GRANDS ARTICLES D ... Read more

$14.99 NZD

Partez à la découverte de la danse avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Dans son acception la plus générale, la danse est l'art de mouvoir le corps humain selon un certain accord entre l'espace et le temps, accord rendu perceptible grâce au rythme et à la composition chorégraphique.Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d’en savoir plus sur la danseÀ PROPOS DES GRANDS ARTICLES D
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British Dance: Black Routes

Edited by Christy Adair, Ramsay Burt ...

British Dance, Black Routes is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context.Until now discussion of choreography by Black dance practitioners has been dominated by the work of African-American artists, facilitated by the civil rights movement. But the work produced by ... Read more

$119.54 NZD

British Dance, Black Routes is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context.Until now discussion of choreography by Black dance practitioners has been dominated by the work of African-American artists, facilitated by the civil rights movement. But the work produced by
... Read more
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

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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
Dance Cultures Around the World

Edited by Lynn E. Frederiksen, Shih-Ming Li Chang ...

Written by a diverse group of authors from across the globe, Dance Cultures Around the World offers students a rich and in-depth look at 25 different cultures of dance. Through a dynamic collaboration with the chapter authors, editors Lynn E. Frederiksen and Shih-Ming Li Chang have carefully created a unique multimedia resource that includes vetted links to dance videos, images, and other ... Read more

$172.49 NZD

Written by a diverse group of authors from across the globe, Dance Cultures Around the World offers students a rich and in-depth look at 25 different cultures of dance. Through a dynamic collaboration with the chapter authors, editors Lynn E. Frederiksen and Shih-Ming Li Chang have carefully created a unique multimedia resource that includes vetted links to dance videos, images, and other
... Read more
Dancing Mind, Minding Dance

Socially Relevant and Personally Resonant Dance Education

Edited by Doug Risner, Jennifer McNamara ...

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance encompasses a collection of pivotal texts published by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose work over the past three decades has emphasized the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education. Drawing upon Risner’s breakthrough research and visionary scholarship, the book contextualizes critical issues of dance making in the rehearsal ... Read more

$119.54 NZD

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance encompasses a collection of pivotal texts published by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose work over the past three decades has emphasized the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education. Drawing upon Risner’s breakthrough research and visionary scholarship, the book contextualizes critical issues of dance making in the rehearsal
... Read more
Mosaic of Music: Mystery of Percussion and Dance

by Morwenna Assaf ...

Mosaic of Music: This book is for all followers and anyone interested in the art of belly dancing, Arabic music or percussion. Learn to understand the music and the rhythms that evolve areound the dance. Play cymbals better and understand the music completely so you can be a vision of the music. ... Read more

$8.91 NZD

Mosaic of Music: This book is for all followers and anyone interested in the art of belly dancing, Arabic music or percussion. Learn to understand the music and the rhythms that evolve areound the dance. Play cymbals better and understand the music completely so you can be a vision of the music.
... Read more
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

A Corpus Based Approach

by Fabio Ciambella ...

Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most reﬁned Renaissance dance aﬁcionados), the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure.As far as methods of analysis are ... Read more

$54.86 NZD

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most reﬁned Renaissance dance aﬁcionados), the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure.As far as methods of analysis are
... Read more
Ideokinesis

A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment

by Andre Bernard, Wolfgang Steinmuller, Ursula Stricker ...

Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance artists, thanks largely to one of its most important teachers, André Bernard (1924-2003). ... Read more

$41.06 NZD

Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance artists, thanks largely to one of its most important teachers, André Bernard (1924-2003).
... Read more
Research Methods in the Dance Sciences

Edited by Tom Welsh, Jatin P. Ambegaonkar, Lynda Mainwaring ...

A comprehensive guide to conducting empirical research in danceResearch Methods in the Dance Sciences introduces concepts and practices that support effective, empirical research in the dance sciences, including medical science. A valuable new resource for this growing field, this book provides foundational knowledge for anyone who wants to understand, apply, and conduct research with dancers and ... Read more

$176.41 NZD

A comprehensive guide to conducting empirical research in danceResearch Methods in the Dance Sciences introduces concepts and practices that support effective, empirical research in the dance sciences, including medical science. A valuable new resource for this growing field, this book provides foundational knowledge for anyone who wants to understand, apply, and conduct research with dancers and
... Read more
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

$109.74 NZD

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
Breaking méthode

Maîtrisez les power moves

by Mined ...

Avec la méthode « Determined » de Adam Yahiaoui, alias Mined, les b-boys et b-girls pourront atteindre leur plus haut niveau d’excellence ! Fort d’une expérience de plus de vingt ans dans le breakdance, Mined vous livre un ouvrage complet pour découvrir le breakdance ou vous perfectionner si vous êtes déjà pratiquant. À l’aide d’exercices d’agilité, pour appréhender et contrôler son corps, et de ... Read more

$16.99 NZD

Avec la méthode « Determined » de Adam Yahiaoui, alias Mined, les b-boys et b-girls pourront atteindre leur plus haut niveau d’excellence ! Fort d’une expérience de plus de vingt ans dans le breakdance, Mined vous livre un ouvrage complet pour découvrir le breakdance ou vous perfectionner si vous êtes déjà pratiquant. À l’aide d’exercices d’agilité, pour appréhender et contrôler son corps, et de
... Read more
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

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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
Physics and Dance

by Emily Coates ...

A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer—and an engaging introduction to both disciplinesFrom stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides—a former member ... Read more

$25.63 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer—and an engaging introduction to both disciplinesFrom stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides—a former member
... Read more
Ballroom Dancing to Bronze Medal Standard

by Anon ...

This vintage book is a brief outline of the basic figures of the waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, tango, rumba, and samba. It was originally intended to aid those wishing to pass the Official Board of Ballroom Dancing test to achieve a bronze medal. “Ballroom Dancing To Bronze Medal Standard” is ideal for beginners and would make for a useful addition to collections of related literature. Contents ... Read more

$17.24 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

This vintage book is a brief outline of the basic figures of the waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, tango, rumba, and samba. It was originally intended to aid those wishing to pass the Official Board of Ballroom Dancing test to achieve a bronze medal. “Ballroom Dancing To Bronze Medal Standard” is ideal for beginners and would make for a useful addition to collections of related literature. Contents
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