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  • Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre

    Movement, memory and metaphor

    by Libby Worth, Jasmin Vardimon ...
    Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the working processes of Vardimon and her company, chronicling the development of specific productions rather than offering a single choreographic ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Using the Sky

    A Dance

    by Deborah Hay ...
    Deborah Hay is an internationally renowned dance artist whose unique approach to bodily practice has had lasting impact on American choreography. Her commitment to dance as a process is as exquisite as it is provoking. Rooted in NYC's 1960s experimental Judson Dance Theater in New York, Hay's work has evolved through experimentation with a use of language that is unique to dance. This book is an ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Next Week, Swan Lake

    Reflections on Dance and Dances

    by Selma Jeanne Cohen ...
    An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance" ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases

    by Lucas Condró, Manuel Ignacio Moyano ...
    De una palabra puede emerger un cuerpo y, de ahí, muchos más. Si esa palabra es «bailar», su significado parece inmediato. Pero visto más de cerca, se oscurece. Es necesario un gesto de precisión para experimentar qué implica «bailar». En Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases, de Lucas Condró, asistimos a ese gesto, delicado y riguroso. El libro recoge una vida de investigación y enseñanza, donde se concibe ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Aerial Dance

    by Jayne C Bernasconi, Nancy Smith ...
    Aerial Dance is the first book to showcase the aerial dance genre. The book traces its historical roots and branches of this ever evolving art form. It also defines its place in the lineage of modern dance and addresses aesthetics, philosophical approaches, and safety.Whether you are a novice or professional practitioner, educator, or presenter, you will learn from those who helped shape aerial ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Nahaufnahme Sasha Waltz

    Gespräche mit Michaela Schlagenwerth

    by Sasha Waltz, Michaela Schlagenwerth ...
    Series series Nahaufnahme
    Sasha Waltz gehört zu den bedeutendsten internationalen Tanztheater-Choreographinnen. In ausführlichen Gesprächen erkundet die Tanzkritikerin Michaela Schlagenwerth die künstlerische Arbeit der Choreographin und Regisseurin. Die Interviews geben dabei einen persönlichen Einblick in das Familienunternehmen Sasha Waltz, in Arbeitsprozesse, Herangehensweisen und Phantasien. Gleichzeitig entspannt ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Choreomata

    Performance and Performativity after AI

    Edited by Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks ...
    Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures from computation? What does it mean to perform oneself through AI, or to construct one’s subjectivity through AI? How does AI continue to complicate what it means to have a body? Has the golden age of AI, especially with regards to creative applications, already ended?Choreomata ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Dances of Shakespeare

    by Jim Hoskins ...
    First Published in 2005. Dances of Shakespeare gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to perform popular dances of Shakespeare's day, including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances, and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Gesto orientado

    Reeducação do movimento

    by Ivaldo Bertazzo ...
    Series series Método Bertazzo
    Gesto Orientado completa a trilogia do método Reeducação do Movimento, composta pelos livros Corpo vivo (2010) e Cérebro ativo (2012). Com fotografias e ilustrações, a obra discute o papel da pele nas funções de sustentação do esqueleto e organização muscular. Para isso, aborda-se a importância da pele para a reeducação motora enquanto mensageira do sistema locomotor, explorando questões estéticas ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Nos Passos da Dança Negra da Civilização BaNtu: Do Tradicional ao Contemporâneo

    by Carlos Kiss ...
    Nos passos da dança negra da civilização BaNtu: do tradicional ao contemporâneo propõe uma imersão nos processos de preservação, transformação e reexistência das danças negras originadas das civilizações BaNtu, com ênfase em seus desdobramentos na contemporaneidade e na diáspora africana, particularmente no contexto brasileiro. A partir de uma abordagem transdisciplinar, que articula os campos da ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

    Exercise Sheets

    by Ann Hutchinson Guest ...
    First published in 1995. A collection of sixty exercise sheets for activities in dance that include such areas as shifting body areas, body direction like tilting, displacement, and destination motion as well as contraction, elongation, folding, rotational twists, and the five forms of aerial steps. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Ser danza

    Burbujas y esferas en la isla del ballet

    by Sarahí Lay Trigo ...
    ¿Cómo convertirse en primera figura de una compañía internacional de ballet? Con una mirada que trasciende lo técnico y se adentra en lo poético, Sarahí Lay Trigo nos invita a reflexionar sobre las profundidades y los secretos del mundo profesional del ballet. Lejos de un manual o tratado sobre formación dancística, Ser danza es un viaje hacia el corazón del ser que danza. A través de una ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La distancia entre la palabra y el movimiento

    by Sabrina Castillo Galluser ...
    Esta colección de ensayos presenta un registro de los procesos intelectuales y creativos que han acompañado a la autora a lo largo de su quehacer como coreógrafa, en complemento con su formación en las ciencias naturales y la filosofía. El hilo conductor de los artículos es el cuerpo concebido como lugar de enunciación y preocupación fenomenológica, capturado a través de las fotografías de la ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robot Theaters

    Collisions in Performance and Social Robotics

    Edited by Hilary Bergen, Eric Mullis, Benny Simon, Sydney Skybetter ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Robot Theaters explores the fascinating theatrical nature of robots and their unique capacity to illuminate human performativity through their own machinic performances.This groundbreaking anthology challenges conventional scientific and commercial approaches to robotics by positioning theater and dance methodologies as essential frameworks for understanding our increasingly automated world. The ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Choreographing Discourses

    A Mark Franko Reader

    by Mark Franko ...
    Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies.What makes this volume ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Choreography Invisible

    The Disappearing Work of Dance

    by Anna Pakes ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their particular acts of dancing. What exactly is that thing? And (how) do dances continue to exist when not performed? Anna Pakes seeks to answer these and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Art and Practice of Musical Theatre Choreography

    by Cassie Abate ...
    What does a musical theatre choreographer actually do? They just 'make up the steps', right?This book firstly debunks the misunderstandings around what musical theatre choreographers actually do, demonstrating their need to have an in-depth understanding of storytelling, music theory, performance practices and plot structure in order to create movement that enhances and enlivens the musical ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Artistry of Merce Cunningham

    Choreography, Technique, Creativity

    by Daniel Roberts, Karen Eliot ...
    Revealing Merce Cunningham’s creative processes as inspiration for today’s dancers and choreographersIn this book, former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company detail the technique classes, rehearsal procedures, and compositional approaches that defined Cunningham’s New York studio for more than sixty years. Through firsthand accounts supported by interviews and secondary sources, the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Louise Lecavalier

    Dance, Labor, Culture

    by MJ Thompson ...
    As principal dancer with Montréal-based company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was among the most iconic dancers of her generation: strong, muscled, androgynous, punk. Moving with spectacular speed, precision and an athletic physicality, her commitment to dancing would ultimately transform the potential of what bodies within Western concert dance could do.Drawing on extensive oral history ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD