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  • Choreographing Copyright

    Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance

    by Anthea Kraut ...
    Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.S. dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their raced and gendered politics, showing how dancers have embraced intellectual property rights as a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Body and Earth

    An Experiential Guide

    by Andrea Olsen ...
    "Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Don't Think, Dear

    On Loving and Leaving Ballet

    by Alice Robb ...
    "Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas deserve, and all feminists should note." -Oprah DailyAn incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet.Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Historia del baile y la rueda del casino-salsa

    Bailes como las contradanzas y danzas españolas, las fiestas de Quinces, los bailes populares y de salón en la década del 50 y los juegos en los bailes, fueron probables antecedentes que influyeran en el origen del casino y su rueda. Los posibles movimientos o pasillos que surgieron pudieron delimitar la estructura y los pasillos de un baile tan cubano como el casino, que también para otros es ... Read more

    $3.54 USD

  • Save Me The Waltz

    Series Book 4 - Handheld Defiants
    Written in six weeks and drawing from the life she shared with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz is a classic novel of one woman’s experience in a fast-moving Jazz Age society.Alabama Beggs is a Southern belle who makes her début into adulthood with wild parties, dancing and drinking, and flirting with the young officers posted to her hometown during World War I. When Lieutenant David Knight ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dancing Man

    A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

    by Bob Avian ...
    Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway’s legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $62.99 USD

  • Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker

    An Arlene Croce Reader

    by Arlene Croce ...
    The best of America's best writer on dance"Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything-once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love."From 1973 until 1996 Arlene Croce was The New Yorker's dance critic, a post created for her. Her entertaining, forthright, passionate reviews and essays have revealed the logic and history of ballet, modern dance, and their postmodern variants ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • José Limón and La Malinche

    The Dancer and the Dance

    Edited by Patricia Seed ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    José Limón (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by the New York Times as "the finest male dancer of his time" when the José Limón Dance Company debuted in 1947, Limón was also a renowned choreographer who won two Dance Magazine Awards and a Capezio Dance Award, two of dance's highest honors. In addition to directing his own dance company, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Puttin' On the Ritz

    Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache, A Biography

    Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. With white tie, tails and a succession of elegant partners - Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland and others - he created an indelible image of the Anglo bon vivant. His origins, though, were far more humble: Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Fred Astaire came from Midwestern stock that partially had its origin in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Errand into the Maze

    The Life and Works of Martha Graham

    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Month“Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend.” —Mikhail Baryshnikov“A study in balance and grace.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the legendary dance critic Deborah Jowitt, Erra... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dancing Women

    Female Bodies Onstage

    by Sally Banes ...
    Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Ballet & Modern Dance

    A Concise History. Third Edition

    by Jack Anderson ...
    A complete history of Ballet and Modern Dance ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creative Dance for All Ages

    Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, has had a long history of providing a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. Author Anne Gilbert demystifies expectations when teaching creative dance and provides the theory, methods, and lesson ideas for success in a variety of settings and with students of all ages. This one-stop resource offers dance teachers ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Hollywood and the Mob

    Movies, Mafia, Sex and Death

    by Tim Adler ...
    From its earliest days, the Mafia has sought to make a fast buck from the American film industry. Stories of intimidation, threats and violence mingle with those of glamour and excess. In this stunning story of infamy and ballsy enterprise, Tim Adler tells the secret history of Al Capone, Sam Giancana and John Gotti's attempts to infiltrate the studio lots. However, although they have controlled ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies

    Contemporary Applications

    by Colleen Wahl ...
    In this engaging and practical text, author Colleen Wahl presents a detailed and clear discussion on how to best use Laban/Bartenieff movement analysis (L/BMA), a system for observing, teaching, and analyzing human movement.Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications offers a framework for understanding movement as it influences our perceptions of ourselves and others. In moving ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Paper Tangos

    by Julie Taylor ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation’s sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerizes dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. In Paper Tangos, Julie Taylor—a classically trained dancer and anthropologist—examines the poetics of the tango while describing her own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Black Performance Theory

    Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Weird Dance

    Curious and Captivating Dance Trivia

    Attend a grand ball of the bizarre and never look at dance the same way again!Weird Dance processes through the odd, grim, and unintentionally humorous history of dance, uncovering strange stories and weird facts.These dark tales of murder, rivalry, insanity, and more reveal all sorts of grim goings-on, proving that—for dancers—life was not just one grand plié. Stories include:An elderly woman who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Solace + Yearning – Poetry of Dance and Belonging

    A Community Arts Project from Denmark, Western Australia

    ‘Solace + Yearning’ layers landscape, poetry, eco-art and contemporary dance to create an immersive space for many voices: yearning to connect to country, grief for what is absent, and reaching towards an understanding of indigenous language and culture.“Along the edges, voices call softly, softly… the past speaking to the present.”'This multi-arts collaboration explores ‘settler guilt’ and ... Read more

    Free

  • Dancing in Blackness

    A Memoir

    American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Saint of Petersburg (Dancing Dream #3)

    by Leslie DuBois ...
    Series Book 3 - Dancing Dream
    After being raised in poverty, Sonya Garrison has a dream career and the love of not one, but two gorgeous men. But when she notices how fame and fortune are turning her into the type of person she doesn't want to be, will she be strong enough to change? Can she give up everything she ever wanted, in order to go after what she really needs? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing

    A guide to mastering the basic steps for absolute beginners

    Is this the right book for me?Whether you are an absolute beginner, a Strictly Come Dancing wannabe or simply want a fun way to get fit, Craig Revel Horwood's guide to ballroom dancing offers something for everyone. Learn how to become a ballroom babe or a Latin lover as Craig shows you all the basic moves in a fun, lively and straightforward way. Easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations will ... Read more

    $4.99 USD