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"e;The intention of my work is to dislodge assumptions about the fixity of the three-dimensional body.

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Written by: Americans, American/Mexicans and People who know Americans, Mexicans and Mexican Americans AKA: Chicanos, Coconuts, Hispanics, Democrats, Right Wing Mexicans, Conservative Mexicans, Mexican Republicans, Uncle Thomas The book that nobody wants you to read.

Foundations for Performance Training: Skills for the Actor-Dancer explores the physical, emotional, theoretical, and practical components of performance training in order to equip readers with the tools needed to successfully advance in their development as artists and entertainers.

Magic moments and memories from the world capital of dance Ask a Strictly star at the start of their journey what their goal is and the chances are they'll say 'Getting to Blackpool.

The first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat's fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating and performing work, and how opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration are available on a scale never before imaginable.

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Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage.

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This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally.

Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.

Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "e;Love Saves the Day"e; Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s-from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America's suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami.

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.

La Guía Legal y Práctica para Coreógrafos y sus Compañías de Danza se dirige a aquellos que quieren ser coreógrafos y crear su propia compañía de danza o que, ya siéndolo, necesitan una orientación clara sobre los aspectos profesionales esenciales para el desarrollo exitoso de su profesión.

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship.

This newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bausch's work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre.

How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process?

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire.

This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings.

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media.

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

Thalia Mara's story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi.

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Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands.

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.

This book is a comprehensive critical history of women artistes in Indian theatre and dance of the colonial and post-colonial periods.

Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance develops a new framework to understand how temporality is performed in contemporary dance.

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Perfect for The Nutcracker holiday market and fans of work/life balance books, this memoir of a ballet dancerturnedliterary curator shares the real-life journey of a dancer, wife, and mother.

Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers.

A ground-breaking collection of essays that bring dance into the cultural studies mainstream, exploring the many ways we use our bodies as substantial, vital constituents of cultural reality.

Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracian, Quevedo, Calderon, Saavedra Fajardo, Lopez de Vega, and Sor Juana.

A profound inside experience of the transformative potential of the Discipline of Authentic Movement*; Offers insights from the author's 50-year study of the inner witness developing toward compassionate presence, intuitive knowing, and direct experience of the divine*; Illuminates how commitment to this mystical practice supports participation in evolving consciousness within groups, grounded in personal healingThe Discipline of Authentic Movement, grounded in the relationship between a mover and a witness, connects us directly with the inner wisdom of the body.

In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres.

An accessible survey of the development of naturalism and its effects on modern-day theatre.

Alice Marshall explores the question 'What do you think entertainment is?

Dance and film have shared a dynamic relationship since the advent of cinema--a natural interplay that developed into the genre known as screendance.

This book examines the performance of Bauls, 'folk' performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.

This book argues that today's professoriate has become increasingly theatrical, largely as a result of neoliberal policies in higher education, but also in response to an anti-intellectual scrutiny that has become pervasive throughout the Western world.

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon.

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Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history.

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African dance is discussed here in its global as well as local contexts as a powerful vehicle of aesthetic and cultural exchange and influence.

Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company.

Pole Dance Fitness is a guide to performing the best pole dance exercises to create one intense workout.