Dance

Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

A professional dancer's career, like a professional athlete's, lasts an average of 10 to 15 years.

The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden have experienced immense social and political change, from the territorial maneuverings of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, the reunification of Germany, to more recent moves towards independence of Eastern Bloc countries as the Soviet Union crumbled.

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and more.

Originally published in 1932, this is a wonderfully detailed guide to ballroom dancing by the then reigning world champion dancer.

Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text.

Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected.

While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible as in dance.

Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product.

Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators.

Predominantly white casting in ballet has led many to wonder, "e;Where are all the black swans?

Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy contributes to the global interest in embodiment approaches to psychotherapy and to the field of dance movement psychotherapy specifically.

This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to handle bookings, write effective grants, handle crowds of children, keep their interest high and deal with the unexpected--backstage, or onstage or costume!

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art.

Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology.

The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism Everyone has heard of George Balanchine, but few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary and arguably his equal, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin.

Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author's theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique.

In examining ideokinesis and its application to the teaching and practice of dancing, Drid Williams introduces readers to the work of Dr.

This book analyzes and theorizes the e?

'How I wish this book had been available to me when I started my voiceover career!

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another.

Unlike a studio production, many factors can adversely affect your television sports shoot including weather, lighting, and natural sound.

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration.

'There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.

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.

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 is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance.

This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices.

Get the strong, toned and graceful figure of a dancer without the rigorous training!

After more than twenty years as a professional ballet and modern dancer and teacher, Shahab Nahvi blends his life-lessons with his dance training to create The Truth About Dance.

Both a biography and a history, this book explores the significant role that Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) played in bringing Indian dance to international audiences from the 1930s to the late 1960s.

Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy.

She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance.

This guide covers assessing the potential auditioner's skills,analysing their voice, choosing and preparing appropriate songs,learning material in a hurry, and identifying their role within anaudition.

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This book is an advanced discussion forum for contemporary topics in the field of movement arts.

This volume gives an overview of cutting-edge research on mindfulness and its practical applications for maximizing performance and personal well-being.

Praise for the Eighth Edition:"e;This small volume is not only an excellent learning tool, but also a "e;must-have"e; handbook for aging professionals in many fields.

The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process.

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance.

This Element explores Walter Mocchi''s revolutionary role in opera and musical theatre in South America in the early twentieth century.

Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history.

This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found in every culture.

In Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, considering their implications for students and teachers, and proposing processes by which readers can enact humanizing, equitable approaches.

Essays by prominent scholars examining film distribution in the early years of cinema.

An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre.

Donald Margulies offers up a vivid new adaptation of Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish melodrama, reset on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the century.

How do women set up institutions?

Using storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continentsThrough a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge,Situated Narratives and Sacred Danceexplores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arar of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the transatlantic slave trade.

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 Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdogan.