Dance category: 839 books
by Jan Deans, Susan Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Investigating children’s learning through dance and drawing-telling, Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children’s Learning provides a unique insight into how these activities can help children to critically reflect on their own learning. Promoting the concept of dance...
Attending to Movement
Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.
Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains...
Dame Maggie Scott
A Life in Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Foreword by Graeme Murphy.
It is impossible to tell the story of dance in Australia without focusing on Dame Margaret Scott. The fiftieth anniversary of The Australian Ballet School is a fitting time to launch her biography - she was the first Director of the School and a dancer and teacher...
Dance Matters
Performing India on Local and Global Stages
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Teaching Dance Studies is a practical guide, written by college professors and dancers/choreographers active in the field, introducing key issues in dance pedagogy. Many young people graduating from universities with degrees – either PhDs or MFAs – desire to teach dance, either in college settings...
Rethinking Dance History
Issues and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The need to ‘rethink’ and question the nature of dance history has not diminished since the first edition of Rethinking Dance History. This revised second edition addresses the needs of an ever-evolving field, with new contributions considering the role of digital media in dance practice; the...
Choreography
A Basic Approach Using Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation has long been a recognized standard in the field of dance education, and its fourth edition is replete with new and updated material and tools that will help students develop their skills in each step of the choreographic experience, from finding...
Poetics of Dance
Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical...
Handbook of Dance Terminology
Dictionary of Vocabulary for Middle Eastern Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Middle Eastern Dance is also known as Belly Dance in the USA. It is a misunderstood dance form that deserves respect and recognition equal to that of of other etnic dance forms like Flamenco, Indian and Polynesian. This book helps "raise the barre" by educatingMiddle Eastern dancers and...
by Anne Green Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Anne Green Gilbert’s Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Second Edition, strikes the perfect balance between hard science and practicality, making it an ideal resource for dance educators working with dancers of all ages and abilities.
Gilbert presents the latest brain research and its implications...
by Shahab Nahvi
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
After more than twenty years as a professional ballet and modern dancer and teacher, Shahab Nahvi blends his life-lessons with his dance training to create The Truth About Dance. This engaging, no-nonsense look at all aspects of dance encompasses technique, philosophy, and history.
Nahvi studied...
Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance
Conversations with Alastair Macaulay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance is an intimate and in-depth conversation between the prize-winning pioneer of ballet and contemporary dance Matthew Bourne and the New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.In 1987, a small, aspirant dance group with a striking name made its debut...
Consuming Dance
Choreography and Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product. But as author Colleen T. Dunagan shows in Consuming Dance, the advertising industry...
Dance Masters
Interviews with Legends of Dance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these intimate interviews, dance critic Janet Lynn Roseman probes the heart of dance:
* The creative process
* The role of dream and rituals
* The interplay between dancer and audience
* The spiritual...