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Choreographer Alex Romero created Jailhouse Rock, the iconic Elvis Presley production number, but never received screen credit for his contribution.

This is the story of a young boy who wants to be a professional dancer.

Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio.

Prisées par le grand public, les séries télé sont devenues, au fil du temps, les objets d’un véritable culte.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS David Davies s Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited.

Teaching What You Want to Learn distills the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today's dance instructor.

The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable.

Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations.

More than twenty universities and twenty other colleges in North America (USA and Canada) offer performance courses on West African ethnic dance drumming.

This text provides prospective and current teachers with the skills and knowledge to understand and improve their own and their students' communication behaviour.

This book is an exploration into the history, aesthetics, social reality, regulation, and transformation of dance and dance music in Egypt.

An examination of the art of stand-up comedy, its constituent parts and how they workConsidering stand-up comedy to be an art-form deserving greater attention and analysis, Getting the Joke provides an exploration of the work of the stand-up comedian.

This book centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change.

Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city, one that historically has been structured by changing fashions and fashionable appearances.

In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage.

This early work on dance steps is a fascinating read for any dance enthusiast.

In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan.

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For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme.

Part artistic study, part intimate memoir, this book illuminates the technique and repertory of American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) and her enduring legacy from the perspective of an artist and scholar who has reconstructed and performed her work for 35 years.

Nutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition.

Dancers are top performance athletes on stage - to keep fit andhealthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dancetraining.

The author of the acclaimed Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) brings ';her singular sensibility, her genius for language, her love of our deeply imperfect world' (Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women) to this insightful exploration of reality TV and the shifting definitions of truth in America.

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body?

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

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.

Dance and Organisation is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods into the study of management, which have developed an interest in the arts and the humanities.

An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience.

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated.

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager's Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.

Is there too much violence in hip-hop music?

It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present.

Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving voice to those who are historically considered to be on the margins of musical theatre history.

Pina Bausch hat mit ihrem Tanztheater Wuppertal den Bühnentanz revolutioniert.

Ever since George Balanchine arrived on the American dance scene in 1933, his revolutionary, fleet-footed repertoire has been immortalized in the ballet canon.

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.

'ASHE: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners.

This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography.

This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying.

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.

Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance is an intimate and in-depth conversation between the prize-winning pioneer of ballet and contemporary dance Matthew Bourne and the New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration.

What does a musical theatre choreographer actually do?

This collection presents a selection of essays written from a point of view that has dance, movement, or performance at its centre, and examines the intellectual and material relationship to the art form from which they are conceived.