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  • Mosaic of Music

    Mystery of Percussion and Dance

    by Morwenna Assaf, Walid Assaf ...
    This book is not just for the student, teaher or performer of belly-dance. It is also for the stuednt, teacher or performer of Middle Eastern drum. The DERBECKI, TAR, TAMBOURINE, KATAM, and TUBL BELEDI! You ,ay be the hysband, partner of a belly dancer that wants to be part of the scene.It is about what each other needs to know about the rhythm and musuc and how they relate to belly dancing and ... Read more

    PHP430.57

  • Creativity: Find Your Stride

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #2

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Series Book 2 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    This is the second 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 overwhelmed with the belly dance scene. Lots of business ideas are here too. Take your business to its fullest and let your passion for the dance shine.This book is written ... Read more

    PHP184.18

  • The Experience of Theater Dance for Belly Dancers

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    The Experience of Theater Dance The Experience of Theater Dance for Middle Eastern Dance Studies *Belly Dance*The experience of dance in theaters for Middle Eastern dance studies. Learn the right things to know. A great study for ethnic dancers who want to perform in theaters and small stage productions. ... Read more

    PHP368.97

  • Funny Moves

    Dance Humor Politics

    Edited by Marta E. Savigliano, Hannah Schwadron ...
    Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or ... Read more

    PHP2,272.49

  • Ancient English Morris Dance

    by Archaeopress Publishing ...
    The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became ... Read more

    PHP2,231.89

  • Lengua y producción dancística valenciana

    by Isabel Aznar Collado ...
    En este libro se muestra el lenguaje del movimiento en las danzas folklóricas valencianas: Les Danses y la Dansà. Se profundiza en la importancia de transmitir este discurso dancístico a las futuras generaciones para que sea entendido en su contexto concreto. En esta publicación se realiza un análisis descriptivo de estas danzas y se reflexiona sobre los elementos básicos que componen la ... Read more

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  • Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician

    Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

    by Jessica Cawley ...
    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

  • 100 motius per estimar la sardana

    by Jordi Saura, Jaume Nonell, Vicenç Villatoro ...
    El llibre explora la sardana des de diferents perspectives. A través dels cinc apartats en què els autors l'han dividit, es poden seguir des dels aspectes més bàsics, com són els coreogràfics i musicals o els instruments de la cobla, amb les seves tipologies i evolucions, fins al vessant social o la presència de la sardana i la cobla en àmbits com la literatura, el cinema o la ràdio. Els autors no ... Read more

    PHP639.00

  • Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture

    by Natália Pikli ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and ... Read more

    PHP3,756.88

  • The Celestial Dancers

    Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage

    by Amit Sarwal ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia.Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance and music blessed among them as a God’s gift. The intricately symbolic Hindu dances of Manipur in their original religious ... Read more

    PHP1,785.74

  • Folk-dancing as a Popular Recreation: A Handbook

    by Elizabeth Burchenal ...
    "Miss Burchenal is the best-known American exponent and teacher of the folk-dance." -The Survey"Elizabeth Burchenal has won wide recognition for her celebration of folk dancing." -The Little PaperAs Elizabeth Burchenal notes in her 1922 book "Folk Dancing As A Popular Recreation," folk dancing has great and worthy purposes to serve; it is a pure and fundamental art form, and as such should be ... Read more

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  • El Tango Milonguero,un abrazo kinestesico

    by Sergio López ...
    ¿Qué sucede realmente en la profundidad de un abrazo milonguero? Más allá de los pasos y la música, existe un código invisible que permite que dos cuerpos se conviertan en una sola unidad de movimiento.En esta obra, Sergio López —milonguero,abogado e investigador del tango— propone un enfoque revolucionario sobre la danza social del Río de la Plata. Despojado de artificios escénicos, el autor se ... Read more

    PHP615.37 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Highland Fling and How to Teach It

    by H. N. Grant ...
    ExcerptIn teaching fancy dances, more rapid progress will be made by forming exercises characteristic of the movements to be executed.This dance comprises a hopping movement and the laws of opposition must be observed with the hands and arms, therefore I will give a few exercises which must be thoroughly practised.In describing, the letter R denotes right foot, L, the left.EXERCISE NO. IHop four ... Read more

    PHP245.78

  • Mujeres danzantes en la fiesta de La Tirana

    by Bernardo Guerrero, Francisca Basaure ...
    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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  • Shiny Beads and Shimmies

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Shiny Beads & Shimmies: Do you love to dance? Interested in Belly-Dance? Do you not know where to turn ? Are you unsure as to what is acceptable and what is not? How do you know if a teacher is good or not? This book will answer these questions and more, then guide you in the right direction. It will tell you what you need to know and more before you make a mistake and waste money. Badly ... Read more

    PHP214.98

  • Dancing the New World

    Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest

    by Paul A. Scolieri ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014de la Torre Bueno® Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and ... Read more

    PHP3,373.79

  • The Dance Historic Illustrations of Dancing

    by An Antiquary ...
    CHAPTER I Egyptian, Assyrian, Hebrew and Phoenician Dancing. CHAPTER II Dancing with the Greeks. CHAPTER III Etruscan-South Italian, Roman Dancing, etc. CHAPTER IV The "Early English" and "Mediaeval" dance to the fourteenth century.CHAPTER V Society dancing from the fifteenth century. CHAPTER VI The Modern Theatre Dance.In this work it is not necessary to worry the reader with speculations as to ... 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

    PHP1,342.99

  • In Search of Legitimacy

    How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

    by Lauren Miller Griffith ...
    Series Book 7 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and ... Read more

    PHP1,460.09

  • 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

    PHP3,264.10

  • The Dancer's Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Reimagining Dance, Body, and Society by OFEN Co-Arts

    by Gala Moody, Michael Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    The Dancer’s Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities.This comprehensive resource tackles themes like power dynamics, hierarchical structures, and the pervasive influences of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy as the “status quo” in the arts. This book delves into dismantling the status quo, ... Read more

    PHP3,387.29

  • 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

    PHP3,756.88

  • கடவுளின் சொந்த தேசத்தின் கடவுள்கள்

    by Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider, EPM Mavericks ...
    'கடவுளின் சொந்த தேசத்தின் கடவுள்கள்' மறக்கப்பட்ட கலாச்சாரத்தையும் அதைச் சுற்றியுள்ள சமூகங்களையும் நினைவூட்டுகிறது. தெய்யம் என்பது இந்திய மாநிலமான, கடவுளின் சொந்த தேசம் எனப்போற்றப்படும் கேரளாவின் திராவிட சடங்குடன் இணைந்த கலை வடிவம். அழகிய படங்களோடும் , நூற்றுக்கணக்கான கதைகளோடும் தெய்யம் பற்றிய விரிவான தகவல்களை இந்நூல் வழங்குகிறது. "மக்களின், மக்களால், மக்களுக்காக" என்பதற்கேற்ப, உண்மையான கடவுள்களான ... Read more

    PHP307.38

  • A Treasury of International Folk Dances

    A Step-By-Step Guide

    by Jim Gold ...
    CHOREOGRAPHIES ARE CREATED in the imagination and dreams of choreographers, says Jim Gold, the author of this guide to 125 international folk dances. If steps do not exist or have yet to be created, the choreographer begins to move. Soon a dance appears. A folk dance choreographer is steeped in lore, folk dance music, culture, history, art, steps, and national style. The steps he or she creates ... Read more

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