Dance category: 839 books

Dancers After Dark is an amazing celebration of the human body and the human spirit, as dancers, photographed nude and at night, strike poses of fearless beauty. Without a permit or a plan, Jordan Matter led hundreds of the most exciting dancers in the world out of their comfort zones—not...

Professional ballerina and Le Cordon Bleu chef Linda Hymes marries the culinary and performing arts with over 100 easy to prepare recipes. Clear and concise step-by-step instructions create casual yet elegant meals that rely on healthy ingredients and vibrant spices. This unique book is a must for every cookbook lover!

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

“…il mio sguardo si apriva a nuove trasformazioni, attraverso il tempo diventa uno scambio di passi di danza tra l’oggi e il domani”. Una vita intrecciata dai fili della danza, in ogni sua forma e manifestazione. Una vita periodicamente reinventata, affrontando con l’armonia i cambi...

Una guida tecnica ai fondamenti del tango argentino, essenziale, ricca di dettagli, suggerimenti e consigli pratici; vere e proprie lezioni private racchiuse in un libro che servono ad avvicinarsi allo studio della danza in maniera corretta, ottimizzando tempi e metodi di apprendimento senza perdersi...

Jane Avril è stata la più celebre ballerina della Belle Époque, la musa di Toulouse-Lautrec, un’interprete ideale dell’euforia del suo tempo. Figlia illegittima di un nobile italiano e di una cortigiana, comincia queste memorie raccontando l’adolescenza guastata dalle crudeltà della madre,...

Partez à la découverte de la danse avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Dans son acception la plus générale, la danse est l'art de mouvoir le corps humain selon un certain accord entre l'espace et le temps, accord rendu perceptible grâce au rythme et à la composition chorégraphique. Un...

Who are you when you no longer do what youve been doing for years? It is the big question facing anyone who retires. It is something any retiree can relate to, and any retiree could have a story here. However, Im going to limit my stories to those of ballet dancerstop ballet dancersbecause their situation...

Hopefully, some of these concerts are as memorable to others as they are to me. Just to jog a memory of good times is a relief. Though not all pictures are as good as others, I hope to remind you that music makes the world go round and a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Antropologia del Tango secondo il Prof. 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....

Die Doppelausgabe 34/35 des Schweizer Jahrbuchs für Musikwissenschaft versammelt Studien und Forschungen aus unterschiedlichen internationalen Zusammenhängen des Fachs. Zugleich will es aber auch der Forschung, die von Schweizer Wissenschaftlern und Institutionen betrieben wird, ein Forum geben. In...

Die «Musica» ist in Weltvorstellungen des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit oft nicht nur ein Bestandteil des Wissens neben vielen anderen, sondern stellt ein übergeordnetes Ordnungsprinzip dar. Erstmals untersucht dieses Buch die genaue Stellung von Musik innerhalb der universalen Ordnung der...

Die Autorin schlägt anhand der Figur des Cherubino einen Bogen von der Komödienvorlage Beaumarchais über Da Pontes Libretto und Mozarts Partitur bis hin zum Vergleich von Tonaufnahmen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Im Bereich der Interpretationsforschung besteht die methodische Herausforderung in...