Dance category: 839 books
Streb
How to Become an Extreme Action Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
An inspiring memoir and self-help guide to greatness by the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov calls “fearlessness and intelligence combined . . . potent and beautiful.”
Called “the Evel Knievel of Dance,” Elizabeth Streb has been pushing boundaries and testing the potential of the human body...
Dance Composition
A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Katherine Dunham
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people...
Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance
A Teachers Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.
Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series...
Dancing on the Canon
Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice.
by Bill Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
I came to Birmingham with the view to being creative, and today I believe we have not only successfully secured the future of the Company, but the whole dance culture in the city of Birmingham. We are geared for great things.' - David Bintley, BRB Director
Twenty years ago, Birmingham Royal...
Born to Dance
Celebrating the Wonder of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**A New York Times bestseller!
“In Jordan Matter’s photos, dancers make all the world their stage.” —New York Times**
**From Jordan Matter, YouTube star and New York Times–bestselling author of Dancers Among Us, a celebration of what it means to be young and full of possibility,...
Evolving Synergies
Celebrating Dance in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A comprehensive overview of the dance culture of Singapore, this book embodies storytelling, personal reflections, memories, and histories of the artists. The extensive calendar of events encompassing companies and soloists from diverse dance practices, such as Indian, Malay and Chinese and a variety...
Transmissions in Dance
Contemporary Staging Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep...
Every Little Movement
A Book About Delsarte
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The book begins with a discussion of Frncois Delsarte as a scientist whodiscovered how the human body moves under the stimuli of emotions. It proceeds to the laws he developed as a result of his research and continues by discussing the application of the science of Delsarte to the art of the dance....
The Underground Is Massive
How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture—electronic dance music—from the noted authority covering the scene.
It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music “defining youth...
Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop Vol. 2
33 International Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Beginning early in the 1980s, dance-pop music artists in Europe and the UK ignited a high energy firestorm that burned across international borders. As exciting new beats flooded radio airwaves and filled the clubs, a generation of hitmakers got the world on its feet and brought people together as...
Before They Were Belly Dancers
European Accounts of Female Entertainers in Egypt, 1760-1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as “belly dance.” Eyewitness accounts written by European travelers, the major primary...
by Morwenna Assaf
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Mosaic of Music: This book is for all followers and anyone interested in the art of belly dancing, Arabic music or percussion. Learn to understand the music and the rhythms that evolve areound the dance. Play cymbals better and understand the music completely so you can be a vision of the music.