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How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics,……続きを見る

Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sour……続きを見る

Dalla storia delle danze occidentali all’iscrizione a una scuola di ballo, dall’alimentazione corretta, alla respirazione, dai primi passi da muovere in pista fino alla partecipazione alle gare, que……続きを見る

Nesta obra, Cora Miller Laszlo apresenta com propriedade sua pesquisa de dança e educação somática com adolescentes, partindo tanto de seu processo pessoal como professora de Técnica Klauss Vianna (……続きを見る

Reflexões de críticos, curadores e pesquisadores renomados, nacional e internacionalmente, sobre importantes e urgentes questões relacionadas à dança contemporânea no Brasil. O livro compila artigos……続きを見る

Apaixonado pela dança e pelas possibilidades expressivas do movimento, o bailarino, coreógrafo e professor Klauss Vianna apresenta neste livro o resultado de um trabalho de observação, experimentaçã……続きを見る

O Teatro de Dança Galpão, primeiro espaço inaugurado em São Paulo, voltado exclusivamente à dança com subsídio governamental, teve papel significativo na formação de uma nova safra de profissionais ……続きを見る

Pioneira no campo da expressão corporal, Lola Brikman comemora quase três décadas do lançamento de sua obra-prima com uma edição revista e atualizada. Aqui, ela revê alguns conceitos e acrescenta no……続きを見る

From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches withi……続きを見る

Meet Bruno Tonioli - Strictly Come Dancing judge, wildcat choreographer and stardust magnet. With his irrepressible personality and Italian exuberance, Bruno has become a TV sensation, settling the ……続きを見る

Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience,……続きを見る

Before Mark Morris became "the most successful and influential choreographer alive" ( The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could……続きを見る

Pasha Kovalev has led an extraordinary life. His talent and determination have led him from the stark landscape of his Siberian hometown to dance in Moscow, New York, LA and finally in London, where……続きを見る

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance. By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Fors……続きを見る

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the Worl……続きを見る

Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profe……続きを見る

When quiet Cally, an amateur ballet dancer, is suddenly diagnosed with cancer she runs away from her boyfriend Liam, her job in a call centre and her safe life in Wildham – in order to experience ‘r……続きを見る

Soloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materialit……続きを見る

Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American dem……続きを見る

從日治到當代，一百多年來，臺灣人始終在追尋自由， 政治的自由、思想的自由、文化的自由； 而臺灣現代舞發展的歷史，就是臺灣人追尋「身體的自由」的歷史。 　　假如我是一隻海燕 　　永遠也不會害怕 　　也不會……続きを見る

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham’s work have neglected i……続きを見る

Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron li……続きを見る

Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance carries with it features of the place where it originated. Influenced by different social, political, and environmental circumstances, d……続きを見る

BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body system and provide s……続きを見る

"Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expr……続きを見る

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares……続きを見る

Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, José Limón (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).……続きを見る

Das descrições realizadas, emerge a dança contempop, um entrecruzamento de dança contemporânea e cultura pop que enfatiza relações de afeto e prazer com diferentes artefatos culturais e articula pro……続きを見る

The most prestigious ballroom dance competition in the United States. Two dancers need to win. Only one can. Nina Fortunova wasn't supposed to end up almost thirty, divorced, with her dreams of winn……続きを見る

The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Ba……続きを見る