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  • Just Different

    by Wayne Sleep ...
    Wayne Sleep has lived an action-packed life among the great and the good of his generation. He danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury, performed with Princess Diana, becoming her close friend, and found himself a much-loved household name when he moved into popular dance and took the starring role in the original production of Cats. Dame Ninette ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Strictly Blackpool

    Ask a Strictly star at the start of their journey what their goal is and the chances are they'll say 'Getting to Blackpool.' The iconic Tower Ballroom has been a Mecca to the ballroom dancing world since 1894, and *Strictly'*s annual trip to the bright lights is a highlight of the series for contestants and viewers alike.Strictly Blackpool takes fans on a trip down memory lane, celebrating the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Glamour Addiction

    Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry

    In the wake of the blockbuster television success of "Dancing with the Stars," competitive ballroom dance has become a subject of new fascination—and renewed scrutiny. Known by its practitioners as DanceSport, ballroom is a significant dance form and a fascinating cultural phenomenon. In this first in-depth study of the sport, dancer and dance historian Juliet McMains explores the "Glamour Machine ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fraught Balance

    The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

    Series series Music / Culture
    Dabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationhood in an authoritarian state. The book situates dabke ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • A Sense of Shifting

    Queer Artists Reshaping Dance

    by Coco Romack ...
    Enter the groundbreaking world of queer dance in this gorgeous collection of stories and photographs.Two women hold each other tight as they dance the two-step. A fierce-eyed man in a long red dress performs flamenco. A dancer improvises in a blooming garden, blending diverse influences into a style all their own. This book showcases twelve individual artists and dance companies who are reclaiming ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Swans of Harlem

    Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

    by Karen Valby ...
    **A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.“This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!” —Misty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy“Utterly absorbing, flawlessly-researched…Vibrant, propulsive, and inspiring, The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • LO: TECH: POP: CULT

    Screendance Remixed

    Edited by Priscilla Guy, Alanna Thain ...
    This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • Theatre Responds to Social Trauma

    Chasing the Demons

    Edited by Ellen W. Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.Chapters explore how psychic catastrophes and ruptures are often embedded in social systems of oppression and forged in zones of conflict within and across national borders. Through multiple lenses and diverse approaches, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Living the Dream

    Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts

    Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s arts career as a business. This essential companion to the inner workings of the arts world begins with defining the dream, including how to conceive mission statements, branding and business plans. Part II covers sharing the dream with others through social media, networking, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • To Repair the World

    Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater

    This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country. Dianne Wiest, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, and Jane Alexander, among many others, share their memories of this intrepid pioneering woman during Arena ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Pilobolus

    A Story of Dance and Life

    The dynamic history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company, with revelatory behind-the-scenes details of its creators and significant worksThe ingeniously innovative and enduringly popular American dance theatre company Pilobolus has helped redefine, remix, and rejuvenate the essence of dance with its eclectic sensibility and daring athleticism. Now, for the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Equality Dancesport

    Gender and Sexual Identities Matter

    by Yen Nee Wong ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    Equality Dancesport uses a queer feminist lens to examine the materialisation of gender and sexuality through moving and dancing bodies, by taking readers through the initiation journey of becoming an equality dancesport competitor.A recent shift in the media representation of ballroom dancing on British televised entertainment shows such as Strictly Come Dancing inspired active media discourse ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The American Musical

    Evolution of an Art Form

    by Ben West ...
    The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musical’s artistic evolution over the course of seven distinct, newly defined eras, with a unique perspective gleaned from research at more than twenty different archives across the United States.Individual in both its approach and coverage, The American Musical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Writing Choreography

    Textualities of and beyond Dance

    A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts.Through the contributions of 15 dance–artists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artist–researchers, the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Passion and Elegance

    How Flamenco and Classical Ballet Met at the Ballets Russes

    This book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance, then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco.The book outlines the early roots of flamenco in India, and the journey of the Romani through the Middle East and Europe up to their final destination in Spain. Alongside this, the history of classical ballet is detailed from its ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Tango

    Edited by Kristin Wendland, Kacey Link ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Tango music rapidly became a global phenomenon as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, with about 30% of gramophone records made between 1903 and 1910 devoted to it. Its popularity declined between the 1950s and the 1980s but has since risen to new heights. This Companion offers twenty chapters from varying perspectives around music, dance, poetry, and interdisciplinary studies, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • G-Is for String

    by Tina D'Angelo ...
    G-Is for StringTina D'Angelo tells the story of her first years in the exotic dance/strip business. A college student who had dreamed of dancing all her life entered a dance contest and won a thirteen-year career dancing onstage. It wasn't exactly how she had pictured it, but it was dancing, travel, and excitement! The exotic dance world was viciously competitive and dangerous, especially for a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ballettausbildung nach der Waganowa-Methode

    Das Lehrbuch für den klassischen Tanz. (Band I) Ausbildungsjahre 1 bis 3

    by Judith Frege ...
    ERFOLGREICH UND UMSICHTIG BALLETT UNTERRICHTENBallett ist ein klassischer Tanz, der dem menschlichen Körper äußerste Präzision und jahrelanges Training abverlangt. Der Tanz setzt sich aus vielen einzeln zu erarbeitenden und dabei komplexen Bewegungsabläufen zusammen, die einzig durch ausdauerndes Training zur Perfektion gebracht werden. Dieses Training muss sehr gut aufbereitet sein. Das Ballett ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballettausbildung nach der Waganowa-Methode

    Das Lehrbuch für den klassischen Tanz. (Band II) Ausbildungsjahre 4 bis 8

    by Judith Frege ...
    MIT WAGANOWA ZEITGEMÄSS BALLETT LERNEN Vor knapp 100 Jahren hat die visionäre Ballettpädagogin Agrippina Waganowa ihre Ausbildungsmethode in dem Buch "Grundlagen des Klassischen Tanzes" niedergelegt. Diese Methode ist zum Klassiker geworden und bis heute die Grundlage für eine achtjährige Ballettausbildung an Ballettschulen und Akademien weltweit. Die Autorin und Tanzlehrerin Judith Frege hat die ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • RUPAUL BIOGRAPHY BOOK

    by MARIE PRESS ...
    Series series The Trailblazing Life of RuPaul
    Uncover the Untold Story of an Icon: RuPaulBehind every showstopping entrance and fiercely quotable one-liner lies a journey of perseverance, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to self-expression. In this captivating biography, you'll embark on a mesmerizing exploration of the life and career of RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen.From humble beginnings in San Diego to the bright ... Read more

    $5.25 USD

  • Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan

    Legacy of the Silk Road

    Series series Dance in the 21st Century
    The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women's dance –Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore rootsto contemporary stage dance.The book surveys the remarkable development from the earliest manifestations in ancient civilizationsto a sequestered existence under Islam; from patronage under Soviet power ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Tanz, tanz, Revolution

    Roman

    by Lisa Weeda ...
    Translated by Birgit Erdmann ...
    Das Friedensbuch. Stell dir vor, du könntest mit deinem Tanz den Krieg beenden.Es ist die Nacht, in der das Böse ausgetrieben wird. Mit Leichtigkeit hebt Baba Yara den bleichen Mond aus der Schwärze. Dann fängt sie an zu tanzen. Baba Yara wird uns retten! Mit ihrem Tanz kann sie Menschen zum Leben erwecken. Die schlechten Toten, all jene, die zu früh von uns gegangen sind. Wer würde das nicht ... Read more

    $24.99 USD $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learn the Language of Dance That Ladies Love

    by Paul Zaidman ...
    When you dance, it doesn't matter whether you'rea man or woman, you cannot hide your true self,dancing is simply a window into your soul. It is amirror to your own reality. Dancing literally says tothe onlooker,"This is who I truly am" ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • DEREK HOUGH

    Biography of A Choreographic Genius

    In the world of dance, few names command as much respect and admiration as Derek Hough. A true visionary and creative force, Hough has revolutionized the art form, captivating audiences worldwide with his innovative choreography and unparalleled talent. "DEREK HOUGH: Biography of A Choreographic Genius" is an intimate exploration of the life, passion, and boundless artistry that have propelled ... Read more

    $6.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus