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  • The Male Dancer

    Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    This revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography.In this authoritative and lively study, Ramsay Burt presents close readings of dance works from key moments of social and political change in the norms around gender and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alien Bodies

    Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American, and white American artists.Among the artists who feature are:* Josephine Baker* Jean Borlin* George Balanchine* Jean Cocteau* Valeska Gert* ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Ungoverning Dance

    Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within the context of neoliberalism and austerity, the book argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies, and that their works attest to the persistence of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

    by Ramsay Burt, Michael Huxley ...
    This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    by Daria Klimentova ...
    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

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  • Social Choreography

    Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement

    by Andrew Hewitt, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Through the concept of “social choreography” Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract form of ... Read more

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  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    by Robert Farris Thompson ...
    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dance Gods

    A New York Memoir

    by Kenny Pearl ...
    When Kenny Pearl arrived in New York City, determined to succeed as a dancer, he was penniless, friendless and jobless. His memories shine against the backdrop of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, including Vietnam War protests, the military draft and the rampant crime that once plagued the city. From humble beginnings in the hippie-populated Lower East Side, to performing with the greats of the New ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography

    It Starts From Any Point

    by Steven Spier ...
    William Forsythe’s reinvigoration of classical ballet during his 20-year tenure at the Ballett Frankfurt saw him lauded as one of the greatest choreographers of the postwar era. His current work with The Forsythe Company has gone even further to challenge and investigate fundamental assumptions about choreography itself.William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography presents a diverse range of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Engaging Bodies

    The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality

    by Ann Cooper Albright ...
    Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2014)For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

    Edited by Marion Kant ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD