Dance category: 839 books
You Can Dance
Get This Ultimate Handbook And Learn Dancing By Grabbing The Excellent Ideas About The Importance Of Dance, Belly Dancing Basics And Other Dance Fun Facts!
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
There are many things in life we can do to show emotions and let others know how we feel. Some people sing, some people write poetry and prose, some retreat within themselves and hold it all inside. Others dance. Dance has for centuries been a way to express a wide range of emotions. It is an excellent...
Spinning Mambo into Salsa
Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Arguably the world's most popular partnered social dance form, salsa's significance extends well beyond the Latino communities which gave birth to it. The growing international and cross-cultural appeal of this Latin dance form, which celebrates its mixed origins in the Caribbean and in Spanish Harlem,...
by Thomas Guzman-Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Urban street dance—which is now referred to across the globe as "break dance" or "hip-hop dance"—was born 15 years prior to the hip hop movement. In today's pop culture, the dance innovators from "back in the day" have been forgotten, except when choreographic echoes of their groundbreaking dance...
Dance Movement Therapy
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What can dance movement contribute to psychotherapy?
This thoroughly updated edition of Dance Movement Therapy echoes the increased world-wide interest in dance movement therapy and makes a strong contribution to the emerging awareness of the nature of embodiment in psychotherapy. Recent research...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important...
Nordic Dance Spaces
Practicing and Imagining a Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Dance has been connected to the practices and ideologies that have shaped notions of a Nordic region for more than a century and it is ingrained into the culture and society of the region. This book investigates different dance phenomena that have either engaged with or dismantled notions of Nordicness....
Meaning in Motion
New Cultural Studies of Dance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions....
Dance and Gender
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses...
by Karen Sue Clippinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Karen Clippinger’s first edition of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology was hailed as the definitive text on the topic. This new edition builds on that success by retaining its scientific perspective while making the material more accessible to students and teachers.
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Undergraduate Research in Dance
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. Dance can be studied as an expressive embodied art form with physical, cognitive, and affective domains, and as an integral part of...
Valuing Dance
Commodities and Gifts in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of...
Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
From ballet and Balanchine to tap and swing, a treasury of unforgettable writing about the beauty and magic of American dance.
From the beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences, with European traditions of ballet and social dancing encountering Native...
Judson Dance Theater
Performative Traces
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
"The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla...
Dance, Access and Inclusion
Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The arts have a crucial role in empowering young people with special needs through diverse dance initiatives. Inclusive pedagogy that integrates all students in rich, equitable and just dance programmes within education frameworks is occurring alongside enabling projects by community groups and in...