Dance category: 839 books
Ideokinesis
A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance...
39 Steps to Better Screenwriting
A Practical Guide to Improving Your Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This is not a beginner’s book on screenplay writing, though a beginner could read it and learn. This is a writer’s consigliere. It’s a book of advice and reflection that will kick ass against just about any screenwriting problem. It’s a series of essays on film and television writing, a deep...
Like a Bomb Going Off
Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of...
Never Far from Dancing
Ballet artists in new roles
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Barbara Newman has expertly edited each of her interviews to read as a monologue, addressing every aspect...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Jill Beck, Joseph Reiser
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Gaolbird to Lyrebird
A life in Australian Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Barry Kitcher’s delightful memoir tells the improbable story of a boy from the Australian bush who fell under the spell of ballet and found himself in the midst of some of the most exciting developments in Australian ballet history. He danced with the Borovansky Ballet, Australia’s most important...
Acting and Being
Explorations in Embodied Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints) Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini...
El Mamifero Tanguero
Antropologia del Tango secondo il Prof. Pedro Pugliese
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Antropologia del Tango secondo il Prof. Pedro Pugliese.
Del professore Pedro Pugliese si hanno le prime notizie "storiche" nel 2001. Da allora i suoi dotti articoli di antropologia del tango, "tradotti in italiano" da Leli, hanno informato gli iscritti alla mailing list...
Gesture of Awareness
A Radical Approach to Time, Space, and Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner.
Gesture of Awareness involves a fascinating philosophical exploration of...
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific
Regional Modernities in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
by Roger Dean, Hazel Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by James Pond
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Intresting games for the teenagers. A chance to enjoy and know people.
by Yolanda C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
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