Dance category: 839 books
Dancing Revelations
Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil...
by Ricardo Plazaola
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
CARLOS EDUARDO GAVITO (4/27/1943 – 7/1/2005) was born in La Plata, Argentina. He spent his youth in the barrio of Avellaneda (to the south of Greater Buenos Aires) and the rest of his life circling the globe.
He traveled for more than forty years and visited more than ninety countries. He...
Looking at Contemporary Dance
A Guide for the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
With a focus on dance innovation from the late 19th century to the present, this history provides dance students with accessible information on the major contributors to the art. Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or dance organizations were founded, the study shows...
Ballet Music
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s...
Geographies of Dance
Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book portrays a multitude of ways in which public and...
The Bennington School of the Dance
A History in Writings and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The story of this groundbreaking summer dance program is told through the voices of staff, faculty, and students. Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly’s previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions. The Bennington School of the Dance held classes...
by Carolyn Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
The Argentine tango is one of the world’s best-known partner dances. Though tango is much admired and discussed, very little has been written on its ongoing evolution. In this innovative work, Carolyn Merritt surveys tango history while focusing on the most recent iteration of the dance, tango Nuevo,...
by Kendra Meade
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The Essential Guide To Ballroom Dancing For Beginners
This book covers several different topics including:
Chapter 1: Where To Learn Ballroom Dancing Chapter 2: Ballroom Dancing - The Handicapped And The Disabled Chapter 3: Ballroom Dance Competitions Chapter 4: Ballroom Dancing...
Contact Improvisation
An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. Dancer Steve Paxton in the 1970s considered this distance a territory for investigation. His study of intentional contact resulted in a public performance in 1972 in a Soho gallery,...
Torah in Motion
Creating Dance Midrash
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Explore new ways of prayer and storytelling through Torah in Motion. JoAnne Tucker and Susan Freeman, both experienced in dance and Judaic studies, tell the famous stories of the Torah through modern dance. In this book, they explain how they use dance to interpret Torah and creative ideas to consider...
Beyond the Dance Floor
Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The Beyond the Dance Floor book is a path breaking study about the women who DJ electronic dance music. In this study, the main focus is given on the largely neglected relationship between women and the hegemonic conceptions of gender and technology that continue to inform this male dominated music...
by Denise Warner Limoli
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Known to aspiring dancers and ballet enthusiasts worldwide, Saratoga Springs is much more than the home of the National Museum of Dance. The arts have always been nurtured in the Spa City, and in 1964, the world-famous founder of the New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, decided to make the new Saratoga...
Step Dancing in Ireland
Culture and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates that the practice and contexts of step dancing...
Dancing for Health
Conquering and Preventing Stress
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006
Throughout history and in contemporary times, people worldwide have danced to cope with the stresses of life. But how has dance helped people resist, reduce, and escape stress? What is it about dance that makes it a healing art? What insights can we gain from learning about others' use of dance across...