Dance category: 839 books
Aerial Dance
A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging, equipment, advice on optimal conditioning, and a step-by-step guide to technique, including anatomical references, space and time considerations, and elements of force when...
Hip Hop on Film
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascinating...
by Miriam Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Learning how to swing dance will introduce you to one of the most popular forms of social dance in the United States. Swing dancing is fun and easy to learn, and with a little practice, you will be able to swing dance.
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Myth Performance in the African Diasporas
Ritual, Theatre, and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques of myth creation in dance performance, history as performance, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals in the field. Similarly, research in postcoloniality, gender/sexuality, intercultural,...
Jazz Dance Today Essentials
The video text dance series
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial...
Dancing for Young Audiences
A Practical Guide to Creating, Managing and Marketing a Performance Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to handle bookings, write effective grants, handle crowds of children, keep their interest high and deal with the unexpected—backstage, or onstage or costume! Important also: how to maintain the...
by Janel Tony
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Learn More About The Wedding Dance, Irish Step Dancing, Learning How To Line Dance, Ballroom Dancing and Jazz as Dance Plus Much More!
Balinese Dance, Drama & Music
A Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Bali has long been known for its deep spirituality and extraordinary artistic heritage.
The dances, dramas, puppetry and music of Bali are more than icons for the island; they are part and parcel of life—as expressions of devotion to the gods, as entertainment, and as a way of instilling...
Global Movements
Dance, Place, and Hybridity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from...
Embodied Philosophy in Dance
Gaga and Ohad Naharin's Movement Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company. Considering the body as a means of expression, Embodied Philosophy in Dance deciphers...
The Dance That Makes You Vanish
Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large...
Dancing Deeper Still
The Practice of Contact Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
You went to your first Contact Improvisation (C.I.) class, or a friend invited you to the weekly jam, and you’re captivated. Or perhaps, you’ve been dancing and investigating for years. What’s next? What discoveries await you in your dance?
In 1972, Steve Paxton convened a group of athletes...
by Agrippina Vaganova
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Although the stars of Russian ballet Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina possessed a national manner of dancing, there was no truly Russian school of dancing until the 1930s. The development of this school was largely due to Mme. Vaganova (1879–1951), not only a great dancer but also the teacher of...
Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences
Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural sciences. This is the first book to focus on the application of mixed methods research in the movement sciences, specifically in sport,...