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  • 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

  • The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dance Education around the World

    Perspectives on dance, young people and change

    Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Dancing Out of Bali

    by John Coast ...
    Series series Periplus Classics Series
    "If you know where to look, you can still discover and recognize what it was that intoxicating John Coast fifty years ago." -Sir David AttenboroughThis book is one of the great classics about Bali, now with dozens of illustrations and photographs.Dancing out of Bali is a fascinating personal account of a young Englishman who settled in a small house in Bali in the midst of the political turmoil ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Creativity: Find Your Stride

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #2

    Series Book 2 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    This is the second 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

  • 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

  • Folk Theatres of North India

    Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference

    by Karan Singh ...
    This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Fire Under My Feet

    History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

    Edited by Ofosuwa M. Abiola ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora.In the book, written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original perspectives, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Finger Cymbals: Play Them Correctly

    Finger Cymbals: Discover how easy it is to play Finger Cymbals. This book helps raise the "barre" by educating Middle Eastern dancers and students on the playing of zills correctly. Play exactly what the body is accenting when dancing. Play exactly what the drummer is playing, live or on CD. Never get off rhythm again. You will understand the rhythms used for the belly dancer. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Matachines Dance

    A Ritual Dance of the Indian Pueblos and Mexicano/Hispano Communities

    The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Río Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. It derives from a genre of medieval European folk dramas symbolizing conflict between Christians and Moors. Spaniards brought it to the Americas as a vehicle for Christianizing the Indians ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

    Edited by Peter Harrop, Steve Roud ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Life of a Don

    life's stages from a male perspective

    Life of a Don, life's stages from a male perspective.We begin life dependent upon caretakers for nourishment, learning language, and instilling customs. We also inherit a perplexing array of genetically determined capabilities-and limits. The interactions between nurture and nature never stop changing throughout life's stages. We each make contributions to and demands upon human society. Then, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Italian Dance Quest. Finding Power, Wealth, and Innovation

    by Anna Harsh ...
    Anna Harsh, dancer and Italian American takes a trip to Italy with her mother and brother as a child that sets her on a path which changes her life forever.The Italian Dance Quest is a travel memoir of an adventure that has made a lasting impact on the life of this Italian-American dancer. Be immersed into five different regions through dances that reflect the people, food, and history. Anna ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creativity: Success! Finish Line Ahead.

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #4

    Series Book 4 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    This is the fourth 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

  • A History of But?

    by Bruce Baird ...
    But? is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of But? a new account of a crucial and influential performance art of the latter half of the 20th century. Tracing the performances and techniques of ten of the most ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Step Dancing in Ireland

    Culture and History

    For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates that the practice and contexts of step dancing are much more complicated and fluid. Tracing the trajectory of step dancing in Ireland, she tells its ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi

    Volume One: From Exorcism to Entertainment

    by Xiaohuan Zhao ...
    Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi is the first book in any language entirely devoted to a historical inquiry into Chinese theatre through Nuoxi and Mulianxi, the two most representative and predominant forms of Chinese temple theatre.With a view to evaluating the role of temple theatre in the development of xiqu or traditional Chinese theatre and drama from myth to ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Tango Queer Buenos Aires

    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

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Shiny Beads and Shimmies

    Welcome to Belly-Dance. Ask Before You Undulate!

    Series series Studies of Middle Eastern Dance
    Do you love to dance? Interested in Belly Dance? Do you not know where to turn? Are you unsure about what is acceptableand what is not? How do you know if a teacher is good or not? This book will answer these questions and more, then guide you in the right dirrection. It will tell you what you need to know and more, before you make a mistake and waste your money. Badly uneducated teacherscan harm ... Read more

    $3.49 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

  • 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