Dance category: 839 books
Line Dance Essentials
A must have guide to Line Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book describes the terminology, dancing and teaching techniques used for modern line dancing. It describes the skills and competencies required for participants in all facets of the line dance industry, from dancer and instructor, through to choreographer, event coordinator, DJ and stage performer.
For...
Romance is a Dance
Romance, Relationships, Attraction and the Connection to Ballroom and Social Partner Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
What if you could feel like a masterful lover and a beautiful dancer in less than 50 pages?
Follow author and salsa dance instructor Kris Stinson as he presents a clever new way to understand romance and partner dancing in his book Romance is a Dance.
Written in a unique mirrored format...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Are you a dance lover? Do you like to tone your body with dancing? Are you planning to learn any particular dance form? If the answer to all these questions is yes... then you can go for jazz dancing.
Jazz dancing is one of the most exhilarating and fashionable forms of modern dance.
It is...
Ballroom Dancing
America's #1 Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing, Ballroom Dance Lessons, Ballroom Dance Costumes, Ballroom Dancing Shoes, Ballroom Dance Studio and Ballroom Dancing for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Learn to ace your wedding dance and keep cool at a formal and in dance classes with this knock-out book that teaches you all about ballroom dancing, ballroom dance lessons ballroom dance costumes, ballroom dancing shoes, ballroom dance studio, ballroom dancing for kids and more.
Unworking Choreography
The Notion of the Work in Dance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers...
Everynight Life
Culture and Dance in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1997
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist...
How to Run a Preschool Dance Studio
The 7 Step System to Create, Grow and Expand Your Preschool Dance Classes
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Whether you are an experienced, established teacher who has been running a studio for a decade or a new teacher embarking on your first dance studio, this practical, helpful and insightful book is for you. Jam-packed with tips, tools, strategies and solutions, How to Run a Preschool Dance Studio reveals...
Exhausting Dance
Performance and the Politics of Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.
Through their...
Site Dance
Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In recent years, site-specific dance has grown in popularity. In the wake of groundbreaking work by choreographers who left traditional performance spaces for other venues, more and more performances are cropping up on skyscrapers, in alleyways, on trains, on the decks of aircraft carriers, and in...
Belly Dance Around the World
New Communities, Performance and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice. They explore the differences between the solo improvisational forms of North Africa and the Middle...
Democracy's Body
Judson Dance Theatre, 1962–1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. JDT started when Robert Dunn, a student of John...
Modern Bodies
Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued...
Weird Dance
Curious and Captivating Dance Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Attend a grand ball of the bizarre and never look at dance the same way again!
Weird Dance processes through the odd, grim, and unintentionally humorous history of dance, uncovering strange stories and weird facts.
These dark tales of murder, rivalry, insanity, and more reveal all sorts...
Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
A Practitioner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy is the first book of its kind to explore the supervisory process in the psychotherapeutic practice of movement and dance. Helen Payne brings together international contributors to discuss how the language of the body plays an important part in the supervisory...