Dance category: 839 books
Grandmother's Secrets
The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
"Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world."So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother's...
The Fire Knife Dance
The Story Behind the Flames Ta'alolo to Nifo'oti
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The book expresses the history of the Samoan fire knife dance (Samoan Ailao), from the time it was a victory ceremony of war to its modern day form. The explanation of the weapon nifooti (the deadly tooth or cutting tooth) is defined. The book elaborates the various stages of the dance from traditional...
(Re)Positioning Site Dance
Local Acts, Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
This co-authored book aims to articulate international approaches to making, performing and theorizing site-based dance. Intended for artists, scholars, and students, the approaches discussed are informed by interdisciplinary engagements with socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological perspectives....
The Aging Body in Dance
A cross-cultural perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
What does it mean to be able to move?
The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility.
Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards...
Nureyev
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor,...
by Tami White
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This book was designed for use in a one-semester dance appreciation survey class. As such, I have attempted to limit the information provided to that which can be covered comfortably. This means that many noteworthy choreographers and dancers do not appear in this text. Teachers may wish to add other...
by Sue Wybrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Check out tons of amazing tips on how to get massive exposure for your dance classes, parties and workshops.
From the importance of contact information, to having more time for a social life – yes, you can have a social life! – 101 Marketing Tips for Dance Teachers has it all.
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by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Rapping. Breakdancing. MCing. DJing. Beatboxing. Graffiti art. These are just some of the most well-known artistic expressions spawned from hip hop culture, which has grown from being an isolated inner-city subculture in the 1970s to being a truly international and mainstream culture that has taken...
by Alexander Barabanov
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery.
This work has been collected and edited...
The Dancer's Way
The New York City Ballet Guide to Mind, Body, and Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In the current dance scene, performers contend with choreography that involves extreme dance, multiple techniques, and acrobatic moves, exemplified in the popular reality television show, "So You Think You Can Dance." The dilemma for aspiring professionals is that dance class no longer provides...
Speaking of Dance
Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft delves into the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging and revolutionary dancemakers. Based on personal interviews, the book's narratives reveal the methods and quests of, among others, Merce Cunningham, Meredith...
Passion to Dance
The National Ballet of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics.
Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the...
Alien Bodies
Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American, and white American artists.
Among the artists...
Stars of 21st Century Dance Pop and EDM
33 DJs, Producers and Singers Discuss Their Careers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Dance music has seen an unprecedented explosion in the 21st century as a stampede of subgenres, such as dance pop and EDM (electronic dance music), have come to define the pop music scene worldwide. In this collection of original interviews, 33 hitmakers from 11 countries discuss their lives and careers...