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Teaching Dance Studies

Edición de Judith Chazin-Bennahum ...

Teaching Dance Studies is a practical guide, written by college professors and dancers/choreographers active in the field, introducing key issues in dance pedagogy. Many young people graduating from universities with degrees – either PhDs or MFAs – desire to teach dance, either in college settings or at local dance schools.This collection covers all areas of dance education, including ... Leer más

$60.99 USD

Teaching Dance Studies is a practical guide, written by college professors and dancers/choreographers active in the field, introducing key issues in dance pedagogy. Many young people graduating from universities with degrees – either PhDs or MFAs – desire to teach dance, either in college settings or at local dance schools.This collection covers all areas of dance education, including
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A Jew in Ramallah and Other Essays

de Carla Blank ...

Series series Baraka Nonfiction
This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various milestones and landmarks of American music, theatre, dance--and life in general. From Elvis Presley to Kabuki, from dance to destruction, Blank dissects how culture, society and politics have intersected--sometimes for the better, often not. The title essay, written after the events of October 7, 2023, looks back on a three-month residency in ... Leer más

$17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various milestones and landmarks of American music, theatre, dance--and life in general. From Elvis Presley to Kabuki, from dance to destruction, Blank dissects how culture, society and politics have intersected--sometimes for the better, often not. The title essay, written after the events of October 7, 2023, looks back on a three-month residency in
... Leer más
Butoh Dance Training

Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method

de Juju Alishina ...

Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

$36.99 USD

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
... Leer más
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre

Movement, memory and metaphor

de Libby Worth, Jasmin Vardimon ...

Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the working processes of Vardimon and her company, chronicling the development of specific productions rather than offering a single choreographic ... Leer más

$58.99 USD

Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the working processes of Vardimon and her company, chronicling the development of specific productions rather than offering a single choreographic
... Leer más
Waltzing Through Europe

Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

de Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Anne von Bibra Wharton, Helena Saarikoski ...

From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards.A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of ... Leer más

$7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards.A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of
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Du bist die beste Tanzlehrerin der Welt

de Jana Leske ...

Erfolgreich das Hobby Tanzen zum Beruf machen, das ist der Traum vieler tanzbegabter Quereinsteiger. Dieses Buch vermittelt dir das nötige Wissen, wie du erfolgreich deine Tanzschule aufbaust, auch wenn du keine berufliche Ausbildung in diesem Bereich hast. Es enthält viele praktische Tipps zur Unterrichtsgestaltung, Motivierung deiner Schüler, Entspannungs-, Aufwärm- und Spieleanregungen sowie ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

Erfolgreich das Hobby Tanzen zum Beruf machen, das ist der Traum vieler tanzbegabter Quereinsteiger. Dieses Buch vermittelt dir das nötige Wissen, wie du erfolgreich deine Tanzschule aufbaust, auch wenn du keine berufliche Ausbildung in diesem Bereich hast. Es enthält viele praktische Tipps zur Unterrichtsgestaltung, Motivierung deiner Schüler, Entspannungs-, Aufwärm- und Spieleanregungen sowie
... Leer más
Understand K-pop: Deconstructing the Obsession and Toxicity in K-pop Stan Culture

Kiss, Kill, K-pop, #1

de Arushi Raj ...

Series Libro 1 - Kiss, Kill, K-pop
Though K-pop has spread globally, a lot of English language discussion about it is dominated by American media. This led me to write this book to add the South Asian perspective in the discourse on this global music phenomenon.What's in the book?Delineation of all kinds of K-pop fans; from the creative ones to the crazies.Analysis of K-pop Stan culture vis-a-vis Korean Idol industries' marketing ... Leer más

$2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Though K-pop has spread globally, a lot of English language discussion about it is dominated by American media. This led me to write this book to add the South Asian perspective in the discourse on this global music phenomenon.What's in the book?Delineation of all kinds of K-pop fans; from the creative ones to the crazies.Analysis of K-pop Stan culture vis-a-vis Korean Idol industries' marketing
... Leer más
Salsa - Grundlagen - Teil 1

de Beatrice Kobras ...

Series Libro 1 - Salsa
Salsa ist ein beliebter Tanz und es gibt ihn in unendlich vielen Styles. In diesem Band möchte ich Sie mit den Grundlagen der Salsa mit seinen Grundschritten und den ersten Grundfiguren vertraut machen. Sie werden überrascht sein, was Sie hiermit schon für anspruchsvolle Folgen tanzen können. ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

Salsa ist ein beliebter Tanz und es gibt ihn in unendlich vielen Styles. In diesem Band möchte ich Sie mit den Grundlagen der Salsa mit seinen Grundschritten und den ersten Grundfiguren vertraut machen. Sie werden überrascht sein, was Sie hiermit schon für anspruchsvolle Folgen tanzen können.
... Leer más
Dance and Silence

In Conversation

de Vipavinee Artpradid, Dr Petra Johnson ...

Series series Dance in Dialogue
The age of humans has gotten increasingly loud in terms of literal sound and environmental impact. Recognising silence as a disappearing ontological value, there is grief around our loss, but there is also a greater desire for opportunities to experience silence in its various diverse forms.This book explores the critical dynamics of silence within choreography, performance and composition, ... Leer más

$93.19 USD

The age of humans has gotten increasingly loud in terms of literal sound and environmental impact. Recognising silence as a disappearing ontological value, there is grief around our loss, but there is also a greater desire for opportunities to experience silence in its various diverse forms.This book explores the critical dynamics of silence within choreography, performance and composition,
... Leer más
Smack That (a conversation)

de Rhiannon Faith ...

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 ... Leer más

$13.69 USD

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
... Leer más
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

Edición de 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 ... Leer más

$46.79 USD

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
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Tap Dancing at a Glance

de 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 ... Leer más

$6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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
... Leer más
Leaping into Dance Literacy through the Language of Dance®

de Teresa Heiland ...

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 ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

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
... Leer más
Shape and Momentum

An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion

de Liz Lerman ...

A sequel to Hiking the Horizontal, Liz Lerman's Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion is a choreographic manifesto for living in motion—part memoir, part creative toolkit, part philosophical inquiry. Written in a series of essays, from single-paragraph meditations to expansive chapters, the book weaves together personal anecdotes, creative theory, and movement ... Leer más

$16.59 USD

A sequel to Hiking the Horizontal, Liz Lerman's Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion is a choreographic manifesto for living in motion—part memoir, part creative toolkit, part philosophical inquiry. Written in a series of essays, from single-paragraph meditations to expansive chapters, the book weaves together personal anecdotes, creative theory, and movement
... Leer más
Anarchic Dance

Edición de Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ...

Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and downloadable resources, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. The downloadable ... Leer más

$66.99 USD

Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and downloadable resources, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. The downloadable
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Kinetic Atmospheres

Performance and Immersion

de Johannes Birringer ...

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, ... Leer más

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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,
... Leer más
Costume in Motion

A Guide to Collaboration for Costume Design and Choreography

de E. Shura Pollatsek ...

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 ... Leer más

$64.99 USD

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
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Playable Bodies

Dance Games and Intimate Media

de Kiri Miller ...

What happens when machines teach humans to dance? Dance video games transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography. Drawing on five years of research with players, game designers, and choreographers for the Just Dance and Dance Central games, ... Leer más

$27.89 USD

What happens when machines teach humans to dance? Dance video games transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography. Drawing on five years of research with players, game designers, and choreographers for the Just Dance and Dance Central games,
... Leer más
The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's les ballets C de la B

Emotions, Gestures, Politics

Edición de Professor Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools, Hildegard De Vuyst ...

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 ... Leer más

$29.19 USD

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
... Leer más
Martha Graham

Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer

de Victoria Thoms ...

Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this book, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing through a critical lens that exposes the gendered meaning behind much of her ... Leer más

$51.29 USD

Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this book, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing through a critical lens that exposes the gendered meaning behind much of her
... Leer más
Lighting Dance

A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows

de Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio ...

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as ... Leer más

$58.99 USD

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as
... Leer más
The History of Hip-Hop: The Rise of a Cultural Revolution

de Ellis Aldermont ...

Discover the roots of a global movement — Trace hip-hop's journey from its humble beginnings in the Bronx to becoming a worldwide cultural force. Meet the legends who shaped the genre — Explore the stories of pioneering DJs, MCs, dancers, and artists who transformed music, fashion, and art forever. See how hip-hop broke boundaries — Learn how the culture expanded beyond borders, influencing ... Leer más

$5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Discover the roots of a global movement — Trace hip-hop's journey from its humble beginnings in the Bronx to becoming a worldwide cultural force. Meet the legends who shaped the genre — Explore the stories of pioneering DJs, MCs, dancers, and artists who transformed music, fashion, and art forever. See how hip-hop broke boundaries — Learn how the culture expanded beyond borders, influencing
... Leer más
Anna Halprin

de Libby Worth, Helen Poynor ...

Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Now revised and reissued, this book:sketches the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, exploring Halprin's connections with the avant-garde theatre, ... Leer más

$58.99 USD

Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Now revised and reissued, this book:sketches the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, exploring Halprin's connections with the avant-garde theatre,
... Leer más
Louise Lecavalier

Dance, Labor, Culture

de MJ Thompson ...

As principal dancer with Montréal-based company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was among the most iconic dancers of her generation: strong, muscled, androgynous, punk. Moving with spectacular speed, precision and an athletic physicality, her commitment to dancing would ultimately transform the potential of what bodies within Western concert dance could do.Drawing on extensive oral history ... Leer más

$32.39 USD

As principal dancer with Montréal-based company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was among the most iconic dancers of her generation: strong, muscled, androgynous, punk. Moving with spectacular speed, precision and an athletic physicality, her commitment to dancing would ultimately transform the potential of what bodies within Western concert dance could do.Drawing on extensive oral history
... Leer más

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