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  • Mujeres danzantes en la fiesta de La Tirana

    Diez historias de vida de mujeres que le danzan y cantan a la virgen del Carmen en el pueblo de La Tirana. Continuidades y transformaciones de una práctica religiosa mariana que se vive desde los cuerpos y experiencias de estas mujeres de diversos bailes, diferentes edades y variados contextos. ... Read more

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  • Dance Theory

    Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance

    Edited by Tilden Russell ...
    The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory. Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millenia of Western Dance revives and reintegrates dance theory as a field of historical dance studies, presenting a ... Read more

    PHP1,773.49

  • In-Between Worlds

    Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues ... Read more

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  • Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician

    Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research, Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits and challenges associated with each learning practice, outlining the motivations and obstacles learners experience during musical development. By ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • Gods of God's Own Country - Theyyam Stories

    Confessions of a Monkey-Trapped Prodigal Son of The God's Own Country

    Series Book 2 - The Gods of The God's Own Country
    This storybook is the second part of the book: "The Gods of The God's Own Country: THEYYAM Publishing published it as volume II because of Amazon's file size limit (650MB). The royalties from this book will be donated to those destitute Gods of the God’s Own Country for a Greater Purpose.The Gods of God's Own Country is a reminder of a forgotten culture and the communities surrounding it. Theyyam ... Read more

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  • European and Middle Eastern Folk Dance

    by Andrew Carnie ...
    European and Middle Eastern Folk Dance is an accessible and engaging guide to one of the world's most vibrant forms of cultural expression. Designed for university students, community dancers, and anyone curious about traditional dance, this textbook provides a broad survey of the folk dance traditions of Europe, Western Asia (the Middle East), and neighboring regions, while also introducing the ... Read more

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  • World Dance Cultures

    From Ritual to Spectacle

    From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures, which are practiced around the world.This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts ... Read more

    PHP4,249.67

  • Creativity: Establish Visibility

    Power of Commitment

    A book for anyone who earns a living or wants to earn a living as an artist, especially dance. Written in particular with ethnic dnce in mind and primarlily Arabic dance. This is the third book in the series Creativity: Power of Commitment. This is a book of daily exercises at an Intermediate level that takes 3 months. Be as creative as you can. Ideas for that creativity and also how to not get ... Read more

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  • 千年舞藝:舞龍舞獅

    《千年舞藝:舞龍舞獅》是一本關於中國文化的書籍,詳細介紹了舞龍舞獅這一千年傳統的民俗活動。這本書分為多個章節,從舞龍舞獅的起源和歷史背景講起,深入介紹了不同地方的龍獅舞型式、演出技巧和製作過程。第一章介紹了中國傳統文化中對龍形圖騰之崇拜及其象徵,第二章後開始介紹起舞龍之傳說、演變、製作過程、文化功能及表演形式,其中也會特別介紹少數民族舞龍舞獅的特殊表演。第六章起則介紹了舞獅的起源、文化流變,章節中也會提及不同地域的師舞風格,最終也會討論舞龍舞獅的傳承與未來發展。《千年舞藝:舞龍舞獅》透過深入挖掘舞龍舞獅的歷史和技術,帶領讀者一同探索這項傳統藝術的魅力和魔力。無論是對於對中國文化感興趣的讀者,還是對於舞蹈和戲劇藝術有濃厚興趣的人來說,這本書都將是一本寶貴的數據和啟發。 ... Read more

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  • 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 ... Read more

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  • De las danzas y andanzas de Enrique el Cojo

    Series Book 5 - Flamenco y cultura popular
    Lo más sorprendente de Enrique el Cojo es su talento para superar las dificultades, lo que le permitió convertirse en maestro del baile flamenco a pesar de su cojera, secuela de una enfermedad infantil. Artista por medio mundo y pícaro, dirigió una academia durante años a la que acudían turistas, personajes relevantes de la sociedad sevillana y profesionales, que ejerció una importante influencia ... Read more

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  • Folk Theatres of North India

    Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference

    by Karan Singh ...
    This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki ... Read more

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  • The Dancing Goddesses

    Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

    A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist, linguist, and lifelong folkdancer Elizabeth ... Read more

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  • 50則非知不可的世界民間舞蹈知識

    by 陳蒨蒨, 孫菲 ...
    民間舞是一切舞蹈之母,來自於世世代代文化的累積,不曾離開我們腳下的土地。隨著舞者鮮活美麗的步伐,踏遍山川湖海,感受絢爛的人間煙火。舞蹈是表現人類情感最直接、最形象的方式。在沒有舞者的遙遠年代,舞蹈的發生存在著不同的動機,有為了生活技能的傳承而創造的舞步,有為了呼朋引伴而展現的舞姿,還有為了發洩過剩精力的躍動,與祈求天地庇佑的陣型。民間舞蹈是人們生活的一部分,是當地社會中人們集體創造的結晶,然後被一代代地傳承下來。起源自然大地,真實地反映了舞者的靈感與願望,也是當地文化風俗的直接展現。本書向讀者介紹世界各地中,千姿百態的民間舞─全世界的民間舞有多少種?民間舞與大自然有什麼關係?「離太陽最近的人」說的是誰?英國的民間舞都有哪些?跳民間舞真的可以交到女朋友嗎?所有您想知道的民間舞問題,都可以在其中找到解答。【作者簡介】陳蒨蒨臺灣宜蘭縣人。大學畢業於中國文化大學舞蹈學系,2004年赴北京進修 ... Read more

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  • Their Majesty

    Drag Performance and Queer Communities in London

    by Joe Parslow ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    This book explores drag performance in London since 2009 via the pubs, bars and clubs that make LGBTQ+ communities thrive.It studies the complex relationship between drag performance, LGBTQ+ venues and queer communities. In exploring drag performance, the book develops a greater understanding of the connection between drag performance and queer communities, in particular exploring how drag might ... Read more

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  • Dancing At the Crossroads

    Memory and Mobility in Ireland

    by Helena Wulff ...
    Series Book 1 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, "dancing at the crossroads" also crystallizes the argument of this book: Irish dance, from Riverdance (the commercial ... Read more

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  • Ballroom Dancing

    America's #1 Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing, Ballroom Dance Lessons, Ballroom Dance Costumes, Ballroom Dancing Shoes, Ballroom Dance Studio and Ballroom Dancing for Kids

    Learn to ace your wedding dance and keep cool at a formal and in dance classes with this knock-out book that teaches you all about ballroom dancing, ballroom dance lessons ballroom dance costumes, ballroom dancing shoes, ballroom dance studio, ballroom dancing for kids and more. ... Read more

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  • Raising Dust

    A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine

    by Nicholas Rowe ...
    Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, or rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century, dance in Palestine has a rich and elusive story that remains to be told. 'Raising Dust' ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • A History of Butô

    by Bruce Baird ...
    Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Butô a new account of a crucial and influential performance art of the latter half of the 20th century. Tracing the performances and techniques of ten of the most ... Read more

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  • Everynight Life

    Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

    Series series Latin America otherwise
    The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in ... Read more

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  • Milestones in Dance History

    Edited by Dana Tai Soon Burgess ...
    Series series Milestones
    This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest indigenous rituals and the dance crazes of Eastern trade routes, to the social ... Read more

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  • Salpuri-Chum, A Korean Dance for Expelling Evil Spirits

    A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of its Artistic Characteristics

    This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits. The authors explore the origins and practice of Salpuri-Chum. The ancient Korean people viewed their misfortunes as coming from evil spirits; therefore, they wanted to expel the evil spirits to recover their happiness. The music for Salpuri-Chum is called Sinawi rhythm. It has no sheet music and lacks the ... Read more

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  • How To Dance With a Partner

    The Gentle Method of Unambiguously Communicating Every Step in Every Social Dance

    The solution to a 1,000-year-old problem. This book solves the biggest problem in social dancing that affects millions of people. The problem is how to communicate unambiguously. Dance teachers have an enormous wealth of knowledge. However, when explaining how to communicate, they are surprisingly vague. This vagueness is not the fault of dance teachers. Men and women have been social dancing ... Read more

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