Dance category: 839 books
by Joyce Morgenroth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1987
Dance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all ages and all levels of experience.
The first...
by Margaret E. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas...
Dance and Somatics
Mind-Body Principles of Teaching and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Training in somatic techniques—holistic body-centered movement that promotes awareness and well-being—provides an effective means of improving dance students’ efficiency and ease of movement. However, dance educators do not always have the resources to incorporate this knowledge into their classes....
Dance Diaries: Learning Ballroom Dance
What I Wish I Had Known
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Why didn't anyone tell me? Ballroom dancing is fun, magical and, most of all, life-changing. When I first started learning ballroom though, I fumbled around awkwardly and sometimes painfully, figuring things out as I went along. Certain things weren't explained or just never came up in conversation....
Dance Diaries: Ballroom Budgeting
How I Afford to Dance
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Anyone who tries ballroom dancing quickly learns how expensive it can be. From private lessons to competition fees, the monetary cost of being a ballroom student can quickly skyrocket. In my experience, the high cost is the most frequently cited reason for quitting dance. It shouldn’t be that way!...
Dance Leadership
Theory Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This “what is”—rather than “how to”— volume proposes a theoretical framework for understanding dance leadership for dancers, leaders, and students of both domains, illustrated by portraits of leaders in action in India, South Africa, UK, US, Brazil and Canada. What is dance leadership?...
Academic Approach to Arabic Dance
For Belly Dancers Who Want to Teach!
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Middle Eastern Dance also sometimes called Arabic Style/Belly-Danceis a misunderstood for of dance that derervesthe respect, and recognitionequal to that givenother etnic and classicaldance forms. This book is aimedat the instructorsof the danceof the dance as we hopeare educated and knowledgeable...
Dancing Boys
High School Males in Dance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The challenges that young women go through in order to be successful in the world of dance are well known. However, little is known about the experiences of young men who choose to take dance classes in non-professional settings.
Dancing Boys is one of the first scholarly works to demystify...
Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit
Staging Popular Dances Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
People all over the world dance traditional and popular dances that have been staged for purposes of representing specific national and ethnic groups. Anthony Shay suggests these staged dance productions be called “ethno identity dances”, especially to replace the term “folk dance,” which...
Dance Matters in Ireland
Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland. Bringing together key voices from a new wave of scholarship to examine recent practice and research in the field of contemporary dance, it examines the excitingly diverse range of choreographers and...
Dance Degree Programs
Career Readiness and Preparation Criteria in Undergraduate
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The purpose of the research study was to examine the history and philosophy of certain very distinct dance degree programs. The dissertation is intended to serve as a resource to benefit faculty and administrators in American undergraduateand graduatelevel dance programs. The primary goal was to recognize...
Dancing with Dharma
Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom, has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance aesthetics and for Buddhist practice to be shaped...
by Scaglioni Claudio, Zanetti Francesca
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2017
"Immaginate che un bel giorno vostra figlia, dieci anni, vi dica: - Papà, mi sono stancata della danza classica, voglio fare la Pole Dance! - . Panico. Ma cosa ne sa lei della Pole Dance?? Ma cosa ne so io?"
... Prende spunto da qui il viaggio di un papà alla scoperta della Pole Dance....
The Ballets Russes and Beyond
Music and Dance in Belle-Époque Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Belle-époque Paris witnessed the emergence of a vibrant and diverse dance scene, one that crystallized around the Ballets Russes, the Russian dance company formed by impresario Sergey Diaghilev. The company has long served as a convenient turning point in the history of dance, celebrated for its...