Dance category: 839 books
Butoh Dance Training
Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
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...
by Shovana Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Indias rich cultural legacy has been founded on the abiding faith of the Indians in the divine power, whose worship had found expression through dance. Bhakti or devotion was the underlying essence of the various dance forms that developed in India. Indian Classical Dances is a unique presentation of...
Dancing Women
Female Bodies Onstage
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that...
Lady of the Dance
The Choreographer Who Helped Michael Flatley Conquer the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
“Marie Duffy is one of the best choreographers in the world. She has been my dance master and right-hand person since 1996. She is like my twin sister. I will love her forever.”
– Michael Flatley
Marie Duffy is the undisputed queen of Irish dancing: she has trained more world champions...
Rudolf Laban
The Dancer of the Crystal
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter, sculptor, and architect, and allowed those skills to influence his innovative choreographic techniques. His important works and his creation of one of the most significant forms of...
Hip Hop Dance
Meanings and Messages
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as...
To Be Like Gods
Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance...
Yes? No! Maybe…
Seductive Ambiguity in Dance
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance.
Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic...
Dance Theatre in Ireland
Revolutionary Moves
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCéim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.
Dance Composition
A practical guide to creative success in dance making
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Dance composition - the discipline that translates ideas into dances - is an important part of dance education. This book, a bestseller for over twenty years, is a practical guide to creative success in dance making and is invaluable for all those who are interested in dance composition, from secondary...
by C. Walter
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumption. Walter marries the cultural studies of dance and the religious aspects of dance in an exploration of consumption rituals, including rituals of being persuaded to buy products that include dance.
Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World
Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures through something other than heterosexuality...
Etiquette within the Social Dance
The world's smallest encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Etiquette within the Social Dance teaches you how to reasonably behave on the dance floor. It tells you everything you need to know about the most beautiful unspoken language: the Social Dance. This book is the first step to a more pleasant dance space, for a friendlier and larger community, for...