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  • The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies

    Edited by Douglas Rosenberg ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

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  • William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography

    It Starts From Any Point

    by Steven Spier ...
    William Forsythe’s reinvigoration of classical ballet during his 20-year tenure at the Ballett Frankfurt saw him lauded as one of the greatest choreographers of the postwar era. His current work with The Forsythe Company has gone even further to challenge and investigate fundamental assumptions about choreography itself.William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography presents a diverse range of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

    Edited by Marion Kant ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Speaking of Dance

    Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft

    by Joyce Morgenroth ...
    Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on**Their Craft delves into the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging and revolutionary dancemakers. Based on personal interviews, the book's narratives reveal the methods and quests of, among others, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Mark Morris. Morgenroth shows how the ideas, craft, and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Beyond Dance

    Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis

    by Eden Davies ...
    Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies to their field, few know the full story of how this ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Rudolf Laban

    The Dancer of the Crystal

    by Evelyn Doerr ...
    Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter, sculptor, and architect, and allowed those skills to influence his innovative choreographic techniques. His important works and his creation of one of the most significant forms of dance notation make him an essential component of dance history. Rudolf Laban: The Dancer of the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • History of dancing ring and Casino-Salsa

    by Alan Silvano Borges; Alicia J. ...
    The experiences we describe in this book are part of our lives; we intend to offer an image of the surging of casino dancing and ring (Rueda) in Cuba. To do so, we have requested the experiences and anecdotes of the dancers who participated from the very prodigious beginning of a dance that is as Cuban as the palms, the sugar cane, the rum and the tobacco... ...We dedicate this book to ah the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shapes of American Ballet

    Teachers and Training before Balanchine

    by Jessica Zeller ...
    In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian émigrés had been working for decades to build a national ballet with ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Functional Awareness

    Anatomy in Action for Dancers

    by Nancy Romita, Allegra Romita ...
    Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers is where anatomy meets artistry. Each chapter provides explorations in embodied anatomy in an engaging manner with the use of images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. It is an accessible introduction to the relationship between daily movement habits, dance training and anatomy. The information is founded on over 30,000 hours of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ungoverning Dance

    Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons

    by Ramsay Burt ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within the context of neoliberalism and austerity, the book argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies, and that their works attest to the persistence of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Making Ballet American

    Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine

    by Andrea Harris ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first American manifestation of the art form. In Making Ballet American, author Andrea Harris challenges this narrative by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Historic Dance Halls of East Central Texas

    by Stephen Dean ...
    Series series Images of America
    Texas dance halls are iconic structures that have played a prominent role in the state�s culture from its earliest stages. They became central institutions in the earliest European settlements and provided these immigrant communities with a common, central space in which to build new ways of life in a new land. The settlement patterns of the mostly German, Czech, Polish, and other central European ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus