Dance

Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as "e;belly dance.

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!

As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago's soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television.

American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television.

What does it mean to give life to movement?

Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment.

Dance music has seen an unprecedented explosion in the 21st century as a stampede of subgenres, such as dance pop and EDM (electronic dance music), have come to define the pop music scene worldwide.

The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s.

Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest.

Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "e;talking records"e; and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works.

The fully updated new edition of this indispensable guide.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

Foremost stage directors describe their working process: JoAnne Akalaitis, Arvin Brown, Ren Buch, Martha Clarke, Gordon Davidson, Robert Falls, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Adrian Hall, John Hirsch, Mark Lamos, Marshall W.

The Bright Way is an interactive handbook for mastering Diana Rowans proven system for freeing your innate creativity.

';Directors today are equipped with a larger toolbox than their forerunners, standing on their shoulders as well as those of pioneers in non-Western theater, experimental visual art, community-based theater, and the ever-evolving commercial theater scene.

As a therapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has worked with thousands of creative people.

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

Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection the feminine ideal.

Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars-nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs.

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective.

This interdisciplinary book brings together essays that consider how the body enacts social and cultural rituals in relation to objects, spaces, and the everyday, and how these are questioned, explored, and problematised through, and translated into dance, art, and performance.

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture.

This volume explores the history of dance on the historically black college and university (HBCU) campus, casting a first light on the historical practices and current state of college dance program practice in HBCUs.

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.

In Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrovic Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance.

This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance.

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process.

This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance.

This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives.

This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland.

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.

This book sheds light on the purpose of Hindu dance as devotional.

This is a book about collaboration in the arts, which explores how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts.

How might spoken words be translated into choreography?

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.

This pivot offers an innovative approach to dance education, bringing a creative and inclusive dance education pedagogy into Chinese dance classrooms.

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe.

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe.

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.

While it is widely recognized that music contributes to the health and well-being of societies, the reverse is not necessarily true.

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.