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  • (Re)Positioning Site Dance

    Local Acts, Global Perspectives

    Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment. This book aims to articulate international approaches to the making, performing and theorising of site-based dance. Drawing on perspectives from three practitioner-academics based in three distinct world regions ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Body in Fukushima

    On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in a triple disaster known as 3.11. On five separate journeys, Japanese-born performer and dancer Eiko Otake and historian and photographer William Johnston visited multiple locations ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Book of Small Stories

    by Dena Madole ...
    Dena Madole always knew her path would be different. From an early age, she understood that she harbored an insatiable creative drive. This, coupled with a deep fascination for the natural world, kept her mind filled with ideas. While others were experiencing more traditional childhoods, she busied herself developing her abilities of observation and imagination. Years later, that same curiosity ... Read more

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  • A Brief Unofficial Biography of Justin Timberlake

    by Emma Scott ...
    Step into the dynamic world of music and entertainment with "A Brief Unofficial Biography of Justin Timberlake." Journey through the extraordinary life of a true pop sensation who seamlessly transitioned from boy band heartthrob to a solo artist, actor, and cultural phenomenon.From his early days on the Mickey Mouse Club to his meteoric rise with *NSYNC and subsequent solo career, Timberlake's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guide to a Somatic Movement Practice

    The Anatomy of Center

    by Nancy Topf ...
    An introduction to embodied movement through the work of a dance education pioneerIn this introduction to the work of somatic dance education pioneer Nancy Topf (1942–1998), readers are ushered on a journey to explore the movement of the body through a close awareness of anatomical form and function. Making available the full text of Topf’s The Anatomy of Center for the first time in print, this ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Anna Halprin

    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Now revised and reissued, this book:sketches the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, exploring Halprin's connections with the avant-garde theatre, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Anna Halprin

    Dance - Process - Form

    Anna Halprin is a world-famous theatre artist and early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement. This book explores her personal growth as a dancer and choreographer and the development of her therapeutic and pedagogical approach.The authors, who each trained with Halprin, introduce her creative work and the 'Life/Art Process®' she developed, an approach that takes life experiences as a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Attending to Movement

    Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World

    This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to ... Read more

    $32.86 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballroom Dance Wedding

    The Complete Book of Ballroom Dance Wedding, Ballroom Dancing for Kids, Ballroom Dancing Classes, Parties, Fitness and Fun

    The ultimate guide about ballroom dancing, ballroom dance wedding, ballroom dancing for kids, ballroom dancing classes, ballroom dance studio and more. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Baring Unbearable Sensualities

    Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power

    Baring Unbearable Sensualities brings together a bold methodology, an interdisciplinary perspective and a rich array of primary sources to deepen and complicate mainstream understandings of Hip Hop dance, an Afro-diasporic dance form, which have generally reduced the style to a set of techniques divorced from social contexts. Drawing on close observation and interviews with Hip Hop pioneers and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Birthday gift

    Gift presentation

    by Sunday John ...
    This is actually where you get to understand how ? Where ? Who ? Do we present a birthday gift for. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Body of a Dancer

    by Renee D'Aoust ...
    "A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York's surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd."-Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche's KissesThe award-winning writer Renée E. D'Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York during the nineties. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Trained ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • BodyStories

    A Guide to Experiential Anatomy

    by Andrea Olsen ...
    BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body system and provide self-guided studies. The book draws on Ms. Olsen's thirty years as a dancer and teacher of anatomy to show how our attitudes and approaches to our body affect us day to day. Amusing and insightful ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Breakin' Grooves The Art and Culture of Breakdance

    by Thalassa Veil ...
    Unearth the captivating world of breakdancing, where the rhythmic pulse of the streets meets the power of movement and the universal language of dance. "Breakin' Grooves" takes you on a journey from the heart of the South Bronx to dance floors around the world, celebrating the enduring spirit of this electrifying art form.In this book, you'll:Explore the roots of breakdancing in African and Latin ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen

    Expressive Movement for Performers

    by Annette Lust ...
    As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and physical acting. Stage and screen artists must now call upon physical presence, movement on stage, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Brotherhood in Rhythm

    The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

    When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of American theatrical dance--a melding of jazz, tap, acrobatics, black vernacular dance, and witty repartee--was dazzling. Though ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Buenos Aires Tango Queer

    A handful of people in Buenos Aires pioneered Queer Tango – an evolved version of the traditional tango dance that challenges stereotyped gender roles. We asked two of the city's foremost Queer Tango instructors to show us their inclusive and loveable Buenos Aires. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Butoh Dance Training

    Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method

    by Juju Alishina ...
    Translated by Corinna Torregiani ...
    Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the first time in its history. With practical instruction and fully illustrated exercises, this book teaches readers:· basic body training and expression exercises· exercises to cultivate Qi (energy) and to aid improvisation· about katas (forms) and how to ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Chance and Circumstance

    Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham

    by Carolyn Brown ...
    The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage.From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly

    A Memoir

    Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly. The memoir traces how his choreographic aesthetic, based on the fluency of dance and the visual arts, was informed by his early years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This insightful ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Choreographies of the Living

    Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance

    by Carrie Rohman ...
    Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our received wisdom about the value and functions of artistic capacities. Countering the long history ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Choreographing Discourses

    A Mark Franko Reader

    by Mark Franko ...
    Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies.What makes this volume ... Read more

    $49.99 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