Dance category: 839 books
Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities
Out Of The Shadows, Into The Light
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
This book provides an overview of dance movement psychotherapy for young people and adults with learning disabilities. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds examine their work with clients from across the disabilities spectrum, ranging from mild to complex needs. The book chapters present theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
*British Dance, Black Routes *is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context.
Until now discussion of choreography by Black dance practitioners has been dominated...
Traversing Tradition
Celebrating Dance in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, it includes...
Dance was her Religion
The Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Three dancers who changed the face of Modern Dance and liberated dancers from ballet’s rigidity to glorify the human body as a scared vessel: Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927, Ruth St. Denis, 1879-1968, and Martha Graham, 1894-1991. From youth, each recognized an organic urge for ecstatic human expression....
by Barbara Sellers-Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place within the global flow of sojourners, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and tourists from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In some cases,...
Dance Matters Too
Markets, Memories, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009), which mapped the...
World Dance Cultures
From Ritual to Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
From healing, fertility and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms practiced around the world.
This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation...
by Morwenna Assaf
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The Experience of Theater Dance The Experience of Theater Dance for Middle Eastern Dance Studies *Belly Dance*The experience of dance in theaters for Middle Eastern dance studies. Learn the right things to know. A great study for ethnic dancers who want to perform in theaters and small stage productions.
Europe Dancing
Perspectives on Theatre, Dance, and Cultural Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Europe Dancing examines the dance cultures and movements which have developed in Europe since the Second World War. Nine countries are represented in this unique collaboration between European dance scholars. The contributors chart the art form, and discuss the outside influences which have shaped...
by Ken Browar
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A stunning celebration of movement and dance in hundreds of breathtaking photographs of more than 70 dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and many more.
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Narratives in Black British Dance
Embodied Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives. Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, it looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance,...
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance
Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. As an African American...
Your Move
A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations of movement technique and notation symbols it provides a new way to see, to teach...
Dance’s Duet with the Camera
Motion Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by various authors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover a range of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film on stage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images...