Das 1954 erstmals erschienene ›Ballettbuch‹ von Otto Friedrich Regner gibt Auskunft über die Geschichte der Tanzkunst, verschiedene Stilrichtungen innerhalb und außerhalb Deutschlands, über große Tänzerinnen und Tänzer, Komponisten, Librettisten, Choreographen und bildende Künstler, die für das Ballett gearbeitet haben, sowie über Ballett-Regeln und Fachtermini.
This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b - 1977d).
In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory.
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.
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses.
How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials, textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we move and in which we live, work and play?
This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s).
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 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 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 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 investigates how Pragmatist philosophy as a philosophical method contributes to the understanding and practice of interdisciplinary dance research.
This book analyses the world-renowned Belgian choreographer's key approaches and dramaturgical strategies through selected case studies from his oeuvre between 2000 and 2010, from Rien de Rien to Babel(words).
The first monograph on the work of British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, this book examines his artistic practice and poetics as articulated through his choreographic works, his writings and his contributions to current performance debates.
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.
Tranches de vie est constitué d'une part de sketchs que nous avons écrits à quatre mains et qui faisaient partie d'un spectacle intitulé La farce de l'âge, créé au Théâtre du Rideau Vert, en 1990.
Cet ouvrage témoigne d’un désir de comprendre les processus de création, de développement professionnel et de recherche mis en oeuvre lors de la biennale Zones théâtrales 2013.
La façon de concevoir l'espace et les déplacements ne se révèle pas uniquement en scrutant des plans et des cartes : cela exige de saisir l'imaginaire sous-jacent, la représentation de ce qu'est et devrait être la ville, la banlieue ou la campagne, les identités spatiales et l'appropriation de l'espace, dans leur dimension de mémoire et de projet.
