This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy.
Drawn from two of the most important ancient texts on the subject, the Natya Shastra and the Abhinaya Darpana, this attractive set of user-friendly cards shows the 52 fundamental hand mudras used in Indian dance and theatre.
Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders is written with an insider's understanding of the unique needs and pressures of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator.
La Rumba est une danse que les artistes, musiciens, mélomanes, musicologues et écrivains du monde appellent différemment : rumba cubaine, rumba classique, rumba congolaise moderne.
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition.
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.
For over two decades Charles Long thrilled opera audiences, performing at some of Americas and the worlds most famous venues, and singing alongside some of its greatest stars.
In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStrictly Come Dancing professional and breast cancer and Crohn's awareness advocate Amy Dowden shares her journey from growing up in the Welsh Valleys to dancing on the glittering stage of prime-time television.
Dance Pedagogy is a comprehensive resource designed for dance students and teaching artists to develop skills and strategies in the multifaceted practice of teaching dance.
This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.
Écrire la danser et danser l’écrit – unter diesem Blickwinkel werden die vielseitigen Berührungspunkte beleuchtet und analysiert, welche die beiden Kunstformen Literatur und Tanz verbinden.
WHEN PAT STEWART POSED ON THE RAILINGS OF BLACKPOOL PROMENADE ON A BLUSTERY DAY, LITTLE DID SHE KNOW THE RESULTING PHOTOGRAPH WOULD BECOME AN ICONIC IMAGE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Across the world, higher education and the actor and performer training sector are undergoing significant changes in response to the creative, economic and social effects of the global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and digital technologies.
Este libro presenta los principales abordajes sobre la danza elaborados en la antropología sociocultural y da cuenta de su fructífera aplicabilidad para el análisis de una amplia variedad de prácticas de movimiento provenientes de diferentes tradiciones culturales, como la danza clásica y contemporánea, las pistas de música electrónica, el butoh, el tai chi, las danzas afro-yorubas, la capoeira, el tango, distintas danzas folclóricas e indígenas.
Los bailarines giran, saltan, hacen piruetas que desafían el equilibrio y la gravedad y, sin saberlo, escriben con sus cuerpos un texto de física en movimiento.
Roni Mahler spent her formative years in a ballet studio under the tutelage of Madame Maria Yurieva Swoboda and at Yankee Stadium, where she cheered for her idol, Mickey Mantle.
This book provides a critical reflection on the ways dance studio teachers recognize, reflect and respond to cultural difference within their dance studio classes, particularly in the rural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Este libro se traza un desafío interdisciplinar: poner en comunión las artes y las ciencias sociales en torno al campo de la danza, aunque con clara distancia frente a los folclorismos.
