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  • 定县秧歌:从乡村戏到非遗

    by 谷子瑞 ...
    本书立足田野现实和文献资料,以组织形式和演出模式为主线,梳理定县秧歌百年来的发展脉络,探究其传承演变的历史动因。在这起起伏伏的百年历程里,定县秧歌犹如一叶轻舟,在知识分子、管理组织、现代化等力量交织的历史洪流中演进。然而,看似身不由己的秧歌,始终野性难驯、自有方向。源于乡野的它,深深扎根在这片拥有共同文化基因的土地上、人心上,潜藏着无限的生机与可能。 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Le danze di coppia in Occidente

    Tutto quello che c’è da sapere, dai primi passi alle gare

    Series series Iride
    Dalla storia delle danze occidentali all’iscrizione a una scuola di ballo, dall’alimentazione corretta, alla respirazione, dai primi passi da muovere in pista fino alla partecipazione alle gare, questo prezioso manualetto è un compendio fondamentale che spiega con semplicità e approfondimento tutto quel che c’è da sapere su danze standard, danze latine, liscio unificato e ballo da sala, combinata ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro Lo Show Tango Argentino

    Durante gli anni bui della dittatura militare, il Tango era caduto nell'oblio in tutto il mondo, anche in Argentina.Lo spettacolo "Tango Argentino" ha rilanciato a livello mondiale l'interesse per il Tango.Ha fatto il suo debutto a Parigi, poi ha conquistato Broadway ed, in seguito, il mondo intero.Nel libro, per il quale Antón ha fatto ricerche per 17 anni a Buenos Aires e in tutto il mondo, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creativity: Establish Visibility

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #3

    Series Book 3 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    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 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

    $2.99 USD

  • Moving Oceans

    Celebrating Dance in the South Pacific

    Edited by Ralph Buck, Nicholas Rowe ...
    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Ancient English Morris Dance

    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

    $35.99 USD

  • Afrikinesis

    A Paradigm for Research on African and African Diaspora Dance

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements.This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on Africana dance. It exposes the value of utilizing an appropriate research paradigm that offers ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Academic Approach to Arabic Dance

    Academic Approach to Arabic Dance, #1

    Series Book 1 - Academic Approach to Arabic Dance
    For belly dancers who want to teach. Academic Approach to Arabic Dance: Middle Eastern also called Arabic Style/Belly Dance is a misunderstood form that deserves the respect recognition equal to that given to that given other ethnic and classical dance forms. This book is aimed at the instructors of the dance as we hope the teachers are educated and knowledgeable enough. It is for those who feel ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 交际舞入门学习指南

    舞蹈是艺术之母。自有人类以来,舞蹈就在原始社会的人类生活里产生了,氏族成员在祭祀、耕耘或时都离不开舞蹈活动。在原始部落的生活中,没有文字和完善的语言,沟通就需要通过肢体动作来完成,其动作和节奏与劳动是密切相关的。在各种劳动中,人的手脚总是要活动的,用手拍打、以脚踩踏,在某种动作连续重复过程中,就产生有规律的节奏,再伴以各种呼喊声或打击石块和木棍的声音,就形成了原始的舞蹈。舞蹈充当原始人类交流思想和表达感情的主要形式。 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Movement of the People

    Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship

    Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Romania. This folk tourism and connected everyday practices of folk dance revival take place against the backdrop of an increasingly nationalist political environment in Hungary.In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • La Danza

    by Anna Harsh ...
    Imagine an assignment in college as a dance major opening a door and leading you to a life-long mission after just one performance.Anna Harsh made a vision board in 6th grade about dancing professionally, traveling to Italy, and meeting the Pope. Fast forward to her senior thesis project that catapulted her journey fulfilling that vision and so much more.Her quest to find traditional Italian ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graceful Resistance

    How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement

    Series series Interp Culture New Millennium
    Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation—and leads many participants into activism.Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs her ethnography of capoeiristas--both individuals and groups--in the United States. Griffith follows ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $52.99 USD

  • Restaging the Past

    Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain

    Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day.Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • ZILLS-ZAGAT Teaching Syllabus

    A teaching syllabus for teachers of Middle Eastern dance to allow students to play correctly to Arabic music. Inspired and dedicated to the teachings of the late Ibrahim Farrah. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $27.99 USD

  • 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

    $59.99 USD

  • Tango Argentino Pequeno Breviario Para Sus Bailarines

    En este libro, descubrimos el código de honor de los bailarines "porteños" del Tango Milonguero, que han permanecido "incontaminados" por el turismo del Tango, y que en su mayoría rondan los 70-80 años. Su comportamiento refleja conceptos de los que ya se hablaba en la antigua China. Descubrámoslos juntos caminando sobre las huellas del filósofo chino Lao Tse y de los Viejos Milongueros. Seguro ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021

    Landmarks of South African Theatre History

    Edited by Phyllis Klotz, Smal Ndaba ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations.Sibikwa provides arts centres across the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Tango Grande Musica per Un Grande Ballo

    Questo libro prende in esame i modi migliori di proporre la musica, tratti dall’esperienza dei più rinomati musicalizadores (d.j. di tango) di Buenos Aires, e i “codici” di comportamento nelle milongas (luoghi dove si balla il tango), che a quei modi sono strettamente legati.Utilissimo per ballerini di tango e Maestri, musicisti, D.J. di tango e organizzatori di serate di ballo, contiene una guida ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tango Argentino a Buenos Aires - 36 consigli

    Patricia Müller ci fa conoscere, indagando sulle situazioni storiche, sui personaggi e sui luoghi importanti di Buenos Aires, come gli indios, gli schiavi africani, i coloni spagnoli e gli immigranti europei hanno plasmato il tango e sviluppato il suo ballo. Attraverso esercizi pratici e semplici impariamo a tonificare e rilassare il corpo, a ballare facendo un tutt'uno con il partner e ad ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 西北地区信奉伊斯兰教民族婚俗舞蹈研究

    by 马盛德著 ...
    在中国甘、青、宁的撒拉族、回族聚居区和新疆地区的维吾尔族聚居区,在民间婚礼中,曾经活跃着三种婚俗性的民间舞蹈表演。然而,随着历史的推进,有的舞种经久不衰,有的舞种悄然消失。这是一个令人感兴趣的舞蹈历史现象。舞蹈历史兴衰的“谜底”是什么?本书以生活在中国西北地区的撒拉族、回族、维吾尔族婚礼中的民间舞蹈为研究对象,在大量第一手调查资料、文献资料的基础上,试图分析撒拉族的《堆依奥依纳》、回族的《宴席舞》和维吾尔族的《纳孜尔库姆》这三种婚俗舞蹈各自兴衰的过程。 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ancient Egyptian Dances

    by Irena Lexová ...
    Series series Egypt
    Dancing was important to the ancient Egyptians. One of the few books available in English on this topic, this carefully researched, profusely illustrated work investigates the origins, nature and role of dance in Egyptian culture. Features 80 figure drawings and illustrations adapted from tomb paintings, reliefs, other authentic sources. New introduction. Bibliography. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus