This book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia.
This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core.
This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn.
This book investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective.
This book examines men, masculinities and sexualities in Western theatrical dance, offering insights into the processes, actions and interactions that occur in dance institutions around gender-transgressive acts, and the factors that set limits to transgression.
Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces.
Dès le début du X Xe siècle aux États-Unis, le rejet de l’art académique classique en faveur d’une danse expressive et expressionniste est à l’origine d’une révolution esthétique.
In den 1920er-Jahren gerät nicht nur die Welt, sondern auch die Musik und das Musikleben ins Taumeln: zwischen Krise und Aufbruch, Abschottung und Austausch, dem sehnsüchtigen Blick zurück und neuer Dynamik.
Dancing Mind, Minding Dance encompasses a collection of pivotal texts published by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose work over the past three decades has emphasized the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education.
The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment Through the Skeletal System is an unprecedented exploration of the anatomy of the bones of the body, and a unique set of reflections on the role each individual bone plays in our lives, looking at both its physical and energetic contributions.
This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on 'intangible cultural heritage' - determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission - by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance.
This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the dancer's first lesson to their final performance.
This book offers an inside view of ballet as the art form we see on stages today, detailing how expressive movement is initiated and controlled, and discussing the importance of embedding creativity and expressivity within ballet technique from the dancer's first lesson to their final performance.
This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on 'intangible cultural heritage' - determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission - by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance.
À travers l'amitié de deux hommes, Philippe, instituteur de village et Éloi, jeune maçon, se raconte la recherche de ce que pourrait être une vie qui vaille la peine d'être vécue.
Ce récit exigeant et poignant rend compte de la merveilleuse aventure qu'est la vie lorsqu'on accepte le cadeau de la création artistique, en particulier de la danse, dans un contexte qui tient la jeune protagoniste et narratrice éloignée de son pays, de sa famille et de sa langue.
Cet ouvrage a pour but d'étudier les formes de la découverte de l'altérité musicale qui s'est développé au XIX° siècle, la circulation sociale et culturelle des matériaux musicaux qu'elle engendra, la naissance de nouveaux imaginaires auxquels elle donna lieu.
Dans la première partie de cet ouvrage, Eric Humbertclaude se demande si tout compositeur ne devrait pas vaciller dans sa propre identité afin de la transformer et de proposer de l'inouï à nos oreilles d'albâtre ?
La présente compilation fait appel aux meilleurs spécialistes mondiaux des danses traditionnelles de l'ancien Yiddishland (Europe de l'est) pour décrire et caractériser cet aspect emblématique de la culture populaire juive ashkénaze.
