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  • Buzz

    The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

    Series series Screen Classics
    A biography of the director and choreographer who kept America entertained through the Great Depression: “[A] fascinating read.” —PlaybillCharacterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley’s unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director’s chair, Berkeley is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 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

  • Critique Is Creative

    The Critical Response Process® in Theory and Action

    Winner of Silver Nautilus for Creativity & Innovation, given by Nautilus Book Award, 2023Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Valuing Dance

    Commodities and Gifts in Motion

    Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dance to the Piper

    Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova’s beauty, in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she faced—the resistance of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ballroom Blitz

    The escapist and romantic novel from the nation’s favourite entertainer

    by Anton Du Beke ...
    The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night.Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Flowers Cracking Concrete

    Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies

    Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Koma—two artists from Japan who have lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1970s, establishing themselves as innovative and influential modern and postmodern dancers. They continue to choreograph, perform, and give workshops across the United States and around the world. Rosemary Candelario argues ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Costume in Motion

    A Guide to Collaboration for Costume Design and Choreography

    Costume in Motion is a guide to all stages of the collaboration process between costume designers and choreographers, documenting a wide range of approaches to the creation of a dance piece.Featuring interviews with a diverse selection of over 40 choreographers and designers, in-depth case studies of works by leading dance companies, and stunning original photography, the book explores the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Finding Shiva

    An Inner journey of the performative experience

    After high school, I was not sure about whether I should pursue dance or a technical subject. Awaiting clarity, I spent many months considering my options.While I was in the midst of this confusion, someone asked me, “What brings you closer to yourself?” I didn’t respond immediately, but in my mind the answer was clear. “Dance brings me closer to myself,” I thought. It was such an odd question, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Smack That (a conversation)

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Smack That (a conversation) documents a participatory performance created with and performed by survivors of domestic abuse. Endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith shines a light on this complex subject in an empowering performance highlighting human resilience.Beverly is having a party and you are one of her guests. There are games, drinks, shared conversation, energetic dance and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • More Dance Improvisations

    by Justine Reeve ...
    More Dance Improvisations builds on the success of its predecessor, Dance Improvisations, and offers 78 brand-new activities that have been tested and refined by author Justine Reeve, a veteran dance instructor and choreographer.This text offers a wealth of creative ideas that instructors can use to help their dancers explore and experience movement. The 78 improvisation tasks and exercises ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Musical Theatre Choreography

    Reflections of My Artistic Process for Staging Musicals

    by Linda Sabo ...
    Musical theatre choreography has indisputably evolved over the years and choreographers develop methods of working and philosophical approaches that should be documented but rarely are. Textual information is limited, and what has been written is generally more practical than theoretical, and is minimal compared to those books written for choreographers of modern and contemporary dance. By ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Wedding Dance

    STEP BY STEP GUIDE Everything You Need To Know About Your First Dance

    by Daniel Buhala ...
    The Ultimate Wedding Dance is the first book ever written about a Wedding Dance. This "How To" book will make you aware of the challenges and preparation needed for your First Dance and help you avoid the many mistakes made by thousands of wedding couples around the world.Buy this book and get the answers to:Everything you need to know before you start.What is important to create an exceptional ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leader of the Dance

    How to Lead the Dances of Universal Peace

    by Dede Callichy ...
    Leader of the Dance is a treasure chest for everyone who loves the Dances of Universal Peace and general circle/folk dancing! The book unfolds a map of the journey of becoming a dances leader. As you explore its delightfully illustrated pages, you enrich your own understanding of the dances culture and you learn powerful skills for spreading the cherished values of love, joy and peace through ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Prze-pisać taneczny modernizm: sieci. Re-writing Dance Modernism: Networks

    Dance modernism is not only a part of cultural history. It is also, perhaps above all, a multicolored reference for thinking about the dancing body’s past and presence as well as its many practices. Finally, dance modernism is a story of modern longings and anxieties. The story has been constantly re-written, with a growing awareness of its global and collective character. An outcome of a meeting ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Tap Dancing at a Glance

    by Jimmy Ormonde ...
    You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art and Practice of Musical Theatre Choreography

    by Cassie Abate ...
    What does a musical theatre choreographer actually do? They just 'make up the steps', right?This book firstly debunks the misunderstandings around what musical theatre choreographers actually do, demonstrating their need to have an in-depth understanding of storytelling, music theory, performance practices and plot structure in order to create movement that enhances and enlivens the musical ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Leaping into Dance Literacy through the Language of Dance®

    The main aim of this book is to present the theory and purpose underpinning the approaches to dance literacy as explored by the Language of Dance® community in the USA and UK. Through their teacher training programs, they are changing the face of dance-based dance literacy using motif notation.Through their teacher training programs, they are changing the face of dance-based dance literacy using ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Instruments of Embodiment

    Costuming in Contemporary Dance

    by Eric Mullis ...
    Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of ... Read more

    $54.99 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