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  • Embodied Nostalgia

    Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre

    by Phoebe Rumsey ...
    Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Cómo aprender a bailar

    Aprenda y domine los diferentes bailes europeos (vals, mazurca, polca, pasodoble, etc.), latinoamericanos (tango, samba, merengue, etc.) y norteamericanos (fox trot, twist, rock’n’roll, etc), mediante un fácil y cómodo método que le permitirá aprender sin maestro. El objetivo esencial de este libro es enseñarle los pasos fundamentales de los estilos de baile más conocidos y practicados, para que ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Your Move

    This second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis and choreography as well as the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Functional Awareness

    Anatomy in Action for Dancers

    Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance training can unwittingly compromise the diligent efforts during classwork and rehearsals. The book goes beyond descriptions of the musculoskeletal system to improve performance. The reflective practice of Functional Awareness? teaches strategies to ... Read more

    $27.99 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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  • 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

  • Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

    In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20****th century.A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics features a foreword by Juan Ignacio Vallejos on Franko's career, a new preface, a new chapter on Yvonne Rainer, and an ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Tango Argentino in Buenos Aires - 36 Hinweise

    Strategien, Übungen und Ratschlage um immer glücklich Tango zu tanzen. egal ob in Buenos Aires oder anderswo. Dieses Buch ist eine Liebeserklärung an den Tango, speziell an jene Traditionen, die bald verschwinden, wenn wir sie nicht lebendig halten. Patricia Müller stellt uns den Tango vor, in dem sie über seine historische Entwicklung, Persönlichkeiten und wichtigen Plätzen in Buenos Aires ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improvised Dance

    (In)Corporeal Knowledges

    by Nalina Wait ...
    This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice.Mobilising the languages and conceptual frameworks of theories of affect, embodied cognition, somatics, and dance, this book ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Dance Research Methodologies

    Ethics, Orientations, and Practices

    Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from around the world writing about a variety of dance forms and practices.This book makes explicit the implicit skills and experiences at work in the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • When Words Are Inadequate

    Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China

    by Nan Ma ...
    Series series OXFORD STUDIES IN DANCE THEORY SERIES
    When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu Rongling, Wu ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • El Mamífero Tanguero Antropología del Tango, por el Profesor Pedro Pugliese

    Del professore Pedro Pugliese si hanno le prime notizie "storiche" nel 2001. Da allora i suoi dotti articoli di antropologia del tango, "tradotti in italiano" da Leli, hanno informato gli iscritti alla mailing list Tangueros. Almeno fino al 2010.Altri lavori di antropologia del tango sono stati prodotti: vedi le pubblicazioni in castigliano di Susana Azzi. Altri articoli di tango humor sono stati ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro del show Tango argentino La historia de los más importantes show de tango de todos los tiempos

    Dentro del showTango argentinoLa historia de los más importantesshow de tango de todos los tiemposAntón GazenbeekDurante los oscuros años de la dictadura militar, el tango había caído en el olvido en todo el mundo, incluso en Argentina.El espectáculo "Tango Argentino" reavivó el interés por el tango en todo el mundo.Debutó en París, luego conquistó Broadway y, más tarde, el mundo entero.El libro, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dentro Lo Show Tango Argentino

    Dentro lo ShowTango ArgentinoLa Storia del più ImportanteTango Show di Tutti i TempiAntón GazenbeekTango Argentino è stato lo spettacolo innovativo che ha portato alla rinascita di interesse per il Tango Argentino. Ha debuttato a Parigi, poi ha conquistato Broadway e, in seguito, ha girato il mondo intero. Ha avuto un'enorme influenza culturale sulla comprensione della storia del tango, della sua ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 薪傳.薪傳(雲門經典全紀錄,特別收錄林懷民專文〈吶喊與突圍〉)

    by 古碧玲 ...
    雲門舞劇《薪傳》45年,不能遺忘的史詩經典第一部臺灣史舞劇創作演出跨世代全紀錄雙面書衣,六十五幀唯美攝影照片,完整收藏紙上《薪傳》,凝結感動瞬間【特別收錄】.林懷民新撰萬字專序〈吶喊與突圍〉.十三位跨世代菁英名家專文推薦據說,雲門經典《薪傳》是一齣「跳一次死一次」的舞作。薪傳《薪傳》的通關密語是:免驚,袂死,再來一次!一九七八年,雲門舞作《薪傳》首演當天,美國宣布將與臺灣斷交。燃燒靈魂的編舞家,和看不到前程的舞者,在混亂的時局裡,用青春的毅力與能量,演出「柴船渡黑水,唐山過臺灣」的史詩舞劇,鼓舞了萬千觀眾。《薪傳》是臺灣集體記憶裡最重要的一支舞。古碧玲生動記下首演季幕後的奮鬥與突圍,以及四十五年來,八代舞者突破自我限制,重現這齣把舞者力氣榨光、讓舞者跳到虛脫,觀眾感動沸騰的舞作的故事。每一代年輕人都可以創造傳奇。每一天都是突圍的好日子。<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dancing Indigenous Worlds

    Choreographies of Relation

    The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoplesIn Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the spotlight, putting critical dance studies and Indigenous studies in conversation with one another in fresh and exciting new ways. Exploring Indigenous dance from North America and Aotearoa (New Zealand), she ... Read more

    $25.99 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

  • Post-scriptum

    Dans ce texte très personnel, à la fois ludique et poétique, Georges Appaix parle de son travail, tel qu'il l'a vécu et pensé tout au long de ses quarante années de carrière où, pièce après pièce, il s'est agi pour lui de construire des spectacles, avec des danseurs, en partant – dit-il volontiers – le plus souvent « de bien peu de choses ». Ce post-scriptum vient saluer et ponctuer sa vie d ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date. Filling a lacuna in both Hip Hop and dance studies, the Handbook places practitioners' voices at the forefront and in dialogue with theoretical insights, rooted in critical race theory, anticolonialism, intersectional feminism ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Nostalgia, Betrayal, Love

    by Rosa Ucci ...
    The Tango phenomenon today is a reality for the whole world, involving people from all walks of life on three continents: Asia, America, and Africa.The author has asked herself the reason for this 'retrieval' of the Tango, in particular, the dance. Why are people from all over the world going to the 'milongas'? A question that leads her into an interior journey, an experience of awareness, in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tango Argentino Kleines Brevier fur seine Tanzer

    n diesem Buch Entdecken wir sie gemeinsam auf den Spuren des weisen Lao Tse und der Viejos Milongueros..Sie sind nicht durch Tango-Tourismus kontaminiert worden. Ihr Alter beträgt etwa 70-80 Jahre.Ihr Verhalten spiegelt die Konzepte wider, über die bereits im alten China gesprochen wurde.Entdecken wir sie gemeinsam auf den Spuren des weisen Laotse und des alten Milongueros. Sie werden sicherlich ... Read more

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  • I wanted to dance

    CARLOS EDUARDO GAVITO (4/27/1943 – 7/1/2005) was born in La Plata, Argentina. He spent his youth in the barrio of Avellaneda (to the south of Greater Buenos Aires) and the rest of his life circling the globe.He traveled for more than forty years and visited more than ninety countries. He spoke English, Italian, French and Portuguese fluently and could make himself understood in German, Russian and ... Read more

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