Dance

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.

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

In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States.

There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form.

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.

This book examines three years of Beyonce's career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology.

 This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts.

An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture.

This publication titled international Encyclopaedia of Dance and Music gives a detailed introduction to dance and music.

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In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia.

What are the characteristics of contemporary circus?

Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing.

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.

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was one of jazz’s greatest innovators.

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing.

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.

This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice.

Characterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's (1895-1976) unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever.

This book takes an in-depth look at the relationships exotic dancers have with their regular customers, and explores the limits of using feminist theory to discuss sex work.

Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery.

As an introduction to ballet's history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a dance form that has risen to global ubiquity and benefited from many diverse influences along the way.

Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display.

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

This new edition of Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction continues to provide an unparalleled overview of non-text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime.

From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to educate dancers.

This collection examines enduring and topical questions in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary Asian cultures.

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh.

Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins as neo-spiritual aesthetics.

From the graceful flutter of Princess Florine at Sleeping Beauty's wedding to the playful jetes in the first act of Giselle, the variation - or short solo work - is one of the key elements of classical ballet.

Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.

Readers theatre is a powerful tool for building language skills and involving young readers with literature.

This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice.

From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere.

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.

Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "e;North.

This book is about dance's relationship to language.

If you were born to dance, but are having difficulty with the first steps to stardom, this is the book for you.

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities.

The great Russian choreographer Leonide Massine was the most important figure in modernist ballet in the 1930s, known for works such as Gaite Parisienne and The Three-Cornered Hat.

Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery.

This popular core textbook offers a clear introduction to community dance practice today, preparing students for the realities of employment in this dynamic and widely studied field.

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.