The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women's dance Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore rootsto contemporary stage dance.
While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "e;Bojangles"e; Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition.
An introduction to embodied movement through the workof a dance education pioneerIn thisintroduction to the work of somatic dance education pioneer Nancy Topf (19421998),readers are ushered on a journey to explore the movement of the body through aclose awareness of anatomical form and function.
Korper - Kunst - Performance - Philosophie Diese Anthologie ist dem Themenkomplex Korper gewidmet - Korper, an den Ubergangen, Schwellen und Randern des Lebens, werden in ihrer kunstlerischen, politischen und existenziellen Dimension diskutiert.
Martha Graham's name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures.
A Black dancer chronicles her career as a scholar writingthe stories of global hip-hop and Black culture Dancing theAfrofutureis the story of a dancer with a long career of artistry and activism who transitionedfrom performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar.
ROBERT REDFORD has played many Westerners on the big screen: a romantic outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman, a sheriff in Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (1968), a mountain man in Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a rodeo cowboy in The Electric Horseman (1979) with Jane Fonda, a Montana rancher in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed.
Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly.
The authors objective is to capture these steps and unusual musical counts in written Dance Notes format, going to great lengths to break down the steps and insure the dancer has WEIGHT on the correct foot, etc, to accomplish a faithful execution of some tricky foot work complicated by some unusual musical dance counts.
Mary Wigman (1896-1973), die Tänzerin, die «den Expressionismus in Bewegung umgesetzt hat», wie Oskar Kokoschka schreibt, gehört zu den interessantesten Persönlichkeiten des 20.
Los ensayos agrupados en este libro se proponen contribuir a una revisión de la historia de la danza moderna estadounidense en su relación con el modernismo estético.
The authors objective is to capture these steps and unusual musical counts in written Dance Notes format, going to great lengths to break down the steps and insure the dancer has WEIGHT on the correct foot, etc, to accomplish a faithful execution of some tricky foot work complicated by some unusual musical dance counts.
