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On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Pow……続きを見る

In distinction to many extant histories of ballet, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet prioritizes connections between ballet communities as it interweaves chapters by scholars, critics, chor……続きを見る

Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay ……続きを見る

The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary explores ways in which England in the Romantic period conceptualized its relation both to its constituent parts within the United Kingdom and to th……続きを見る

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John ……続きを見る

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko……続きを見る

Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora. In th……続きを見る

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and ……続きを見る

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped……続きを見る

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and trave……続きを見る

What is the legacy of Martha Graham and why does it endure? *How and why did the philosophy and subsequent canon of Martha Graham flood out into an artistic diaspora that is still a wellspring of in……続きを見る

Corpo, transborda é um livro sobre o trabalho de expressão corporal para o artista cênico. Resultante de sua pesquisa no mestrado profissional em Artes da Cena da Escola Superior de Artes Célia Hele……続きを見る

Through in-depth analysis of musical theatre choreography and choreographers, Making Broadway Dance challenges long-held perceptions of Broadway dance as kitsch, disposable, a dance form created wit……続きを見る

Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding ove……続きを見る

I thank my lucky stars that I am a so-called dumb dancer, for I can state unequivocally, without presenting an elaborate argument to prove it, that dance is the foundation of all the arts. This litt……続きを見る

La etiqueta del baile de salón social te enseña un comportamiento razonable en el espacio de baile. Te dice todo del más hermoso idioma - el baile de salón social. Este libro representa el primer pa……続きを見る

This revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century moderni……続きを見る

A major biographyーthe first in three decadesーof one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling th……続きを見る

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day. Ida Rubinstein (1883–1960) captivated Paris's dancers, comp……続きを見る

In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, ……続きを見る

The creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the passion and motivation for the dance arts. This book's focus centers on the power and s……続きを見る

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the perfo……続きを見る

On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplo……続きを見る

Teaching WhatYou Want to Learn distills the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today’s dance instructor. From devising specific pedagog……続きを見る

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 pa……続きを見る

'Ever since I was a child I loved to dance. I had it in me - and when you dance the whole day and you've got music, it doesn't feel like work. It's freedom. It's love. It's therapy.' Before taking S……続きを見る

现代舞的舞蹈特点， 简而言之就是 “反芭蕾” ， 它是 ２０ 世纪初美国女舞蹈家伊莎多拉·邓肯倡导推广的。 当时世界流行的古典芭蕾，主要是以腿部训练为主， 强调优雅、 旋转、 跳跃， 强调克服地心引力， 往往上肢……続きを見る

Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Design……続きを見る

The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those fo……続きを見る

In diesem Arbeitsbuch werden die Wege der 1959 in Westfalen geborenen und heute v.a. in Berlin lebenden Judith Kuckart zurückverfolgt – und zwar in den Gattungen Prosa, Theater, Hör-Feature und Film……続きを見る