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  • The Moving Researcher

    Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in Performing Arts Education and Creative Arts Therapies

    This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices.Following extensive research on the method developed by Rudolf von Laban and his disciples, this book explains movement principles, exercises, and motif symbols in detail. Organized according to the four categories of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Illustrated Handbook of Salsa Dance Patterns

    Series Book 2 - Handbook of Salsa Dance
    This Handbook provides a breakdown of common positions, holds, turns, and patterns. It contains 36 dance positions, 51 dance patterns, 184 illustrations, 12 dance pattern combinations, and a curated list of links to 83 free online lessons. Each position is illustrated from multiple angles.Are you a beginner or intermediate level salsa dance enthusiast? Do you want to expand your repertoire of ... 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

  • Daniel Lewis

    A Life in Choreography and the Art of Dance

    Daniel Lewis's legacy as a hugely influential choreographer and teacher of modern dance is celebrated in this biography. It showcases the many roles he played in the dance world by organizing his story around various aspects of his work, including his years at the Juilliard School, dancing and touring with the Jose Limon Company, staging Limon's masterpieces around the world, directing his own ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Oriented Gesture

    The Re-education of Movement

    Series series Reeducação do movimento
    The Oriented Gesture completes the trilogy of the Method of the Reeducation of Movement, by Brazilian choreographer and corporal educator Ivaldo Bertazzo, comprising the books Corpo vivo [The Living Body] (2010) and Cérebro ativo [The Active Brain] (2012). With photographs and illustrations, this volume discusses the role of the skin in the functions of sustaining the skeleton and organizing the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's les ballets C de la B

    Emotions, Gestures, Politics

    Series series Dance in Dialogue
    Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment.Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this book ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Choreography of Everyday Life

    A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the streetIn this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance—time, proximity, space, motion and tone—into text. As we follow Parson through her days—at home, reading, and on her walks down the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • Choreography: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice.Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts,this resource will enhance ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Choreography

    Creating and Developing Dance for Performance

    by Kate Flatt ...
    Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • From Beginner to Pro Your Guide to Creating Epic TikTok Dance Videos

    "Dive into the vibrant world of TikTok with our comprehensive e-book, 'From Beginner to Pro: 30 Chapters on Creating Epic TikTok Dance Videos.' Whether you're a dance enthusiast or a complete novice, this guide is your roadmap to mastering the art of creating show-stopping dance content on the world's favorite short-form video platform. With these in-depth chapters, we take you on a journey from ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Using the Sky

    A Dance

    by Deborah Hay ...
    Deborah Hay is an internationally renowned dance artist whose unique approach to bodily practice has had lasting impact on American choreography. Her commitment to dance as a process is as exquisite as it is provoking. Rooted in NYC's 1960s experimental Judson Dance Theater in New York, Hay's work has evolved through experimentation with a use of language that is unique to dance. This book is an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In distinction to many extant histories of ballet, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet prioritizes connections between ballet communities as it interweaves chapters by scholars, critics, choreographers, and working professional dancers. The book looks at the many ways ballet functions as a global practice in the 21st century, providing new perspectives on ballet's past, present, and future. ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Nahaufnahme Sasha Waltz

    Gespräche mit Michaela Schlagenwerth

    Series series Nahaufnahme
    Sasha Waltz gehört zu den bedeutendsten internationalen Tanztheater-Choreographinnen. In ausführlichen Gesprächen erkundet die Tanzkritikerin Michaela Schlagenwerth die künstlerische Arbeit der Choreographin und Regisseurin. Die Interviews geben dabei einen persönlichen Einblick in das Familienunternehmen Sasha Waltz, in Arbeitsprozesse, Herangehensweisen und Phantasien. Gleichzeitig entspannt ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Balanchine

    A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance

    Edited by Eleni Hofmeister ...
    This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Solo im zeitgenössischen Tanz

    Choreographie und Entwicklung und Figurenarbeit

    Wie kann ich ein persönliches Tanzsolo entwickeln? Wie kann ich Repertoire mit einem eigenen Stil kreieren? Wie entwickle ich eine dramaturgische Linie und eine Solo-Struktur? Wie entstehen Ausdruck und Tiefe in meinem Tanz? In diesem Arbeitsbuch findest Du zu all diesen und anderen Fragen Antworten und systematische Anleitungen zur Erarbeitung Deines Solos im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Kinetic Atmospheres

    Performance and Immersion

    This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dancing Women

    Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema

    by Usha Iyer ...
    Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms cinema and dance historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Laban - Aristotle

    Towards a methodology for movement training for the actor and in acting

    by Kiki Selioni ...
    The focus of this book rests on an investigation into the links between Laban and Aristotle and aims at proposing a new approach to movement training for the actor. In contrast to the standard Platonic reading, Laban’s development is best understood through the conceptual framework of Aristotle. This not only provides a more secure theoretical approach, but a practical one as well, which ... Read more

    $36.99 USD $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Dance

    Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis

    by Eden Davies ...
    Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies to their field, few know the full story of how this ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Dança Cristal

    da arte do movimento à abordagem somático-performativa

    Series series Pesquisa em Artes
    O livro traça o desenvolvimento da Abordagem Somático-Performativa de pesquisa em artes cênicas, a partir de uma perspectiva autobiográfica, simultaneamente acadêmica e poética, analítica e criativa. A abordagem inédita no país, faz parte do terceiro paradigma metodológico, integrando o arcabouço da Prática Artística como Pesquisa, que vem sendo desenvolvido principalmente na Austrália, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Burlesque Handbook

    by Jo Weldon ...
    The Burlesque Handbook is the essential manual to understanding and performing both classic and neo-burlesque. Written by Jo Weldon, award-winning founder of the New York School of Burlesque, this book features easy-to-follow suggestions and exercises for developing stage-worthy confidence, presence, and sexiness. You'll learn about the fabulous makeup, costumes—including pasties!—moves, grooves, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

    Edited by Mark Franko ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses ... Read more

    $47.99 USD