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Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the soc……続きを見る

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances. Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance m……続きを見る

Let’s go down the memory lane to see and appreciate the changes that have transpired since the start of this millennium. You will find that this is a powerful read as it details the progress in soci……続きを見る

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999. It is a remarkable period because of the medical, social, international and technological innovations. But along with these, there were also……続きを見る

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models……続きを見る

There are many skills one needs to produce a piece of dance. Bruce describes the basic foundation or ingredients of his version of Dance Theatre as: Movement, Drama, Sound and Vision. A choreographe……続きを見る

From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used ……続きを見る

Em A escuta do corpo – Sistematização da Técnica Klauss Vianna, Jussara Miller enfrenta o desafio de transformar em texto as vivências cinestésicas e apresenta, de forma organizada e inédita, a prát……続きを見る

Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tri……続きを見る

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field o……続きを見る

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performa……続きを見る

When World War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versa……続きを見る

Kahliamoci è un omaggio a Frida Kahlo, ai suoi dipinti, alle sue parole, alla sua poesia. Frida come simbolo di forza, stile e bellezza, ma anche di tormenti e sofferenze che l’artista è riuscita a ……続きを見る

This study focuses on dance as an activist practice in and of itself, across geographical locations and over the course of a century, from 1920 to 2020. Through doing so, it considers how dance has ……続きを見る

Smack That (a conversation) documents a participatory performance created with and performed by survivors of domestic abuse. Endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith shines a light on this c……続きを見る

Nesta obra, Jussara Miller apresenta com propriedade sua pesquisa de dança e educação partindo de sua ampla experiência como bailarina, professora e pesquisadora. Dirigido a educadores e profissiona……続きを見る

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

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

Baring Unbearable Sensualities brings together a bold methodology, an interdisciplinary perspective and a rich array of primary sources to deepen and complicate mainstream understandings of Hip Hop ……続きを見る

«Le autobiografie della maggior parte delle donne celebri sono una serie di narrazioni sulla loro esistenza esteriore, piene di particolari e di aneddoti futili. Sui grandi momenti di gioia o di ang……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