Dance

He sang and danced in the rain, proclaimed New York to be a wonderful town, and convinced a group of Parisian children that they had rhythm.

While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "e;Bojangles"e; Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition.

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India.

An introduction to embodied movement through the workof a dance education pioneerIn thisintroduction to the work of somatic dance education pioneer Nancy Topf (19421998),readers are ushered on a journey to explore the movement of the body through aclose awareness of anatomical form and function.

Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers.

The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845.

The main aim of this book is to present the theory and purpose underpinning the approaches to dance literacy as explored by the Language of Dance(R) community in the USA and UK.

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance.

Focusing specifically on solo making and performing, this unique and exciting text allows the experts to speak for themselves.

Focusing on examples of live performance in drama, dance, opera and light entertainment, Jane Goodall explores a characteristic as compelling and enigmatic as the performers who demonstrate it.

This book offers a series of compelling responses to the Jasmin Vardimon Company's production of Justitia, a multilayered, multimedia dance theatre piece.

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century.

A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English.

This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans-and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production.

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles, nightlife, and, above all, popular music.

Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is commonly known as ginga .

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that characterized this rich period.

Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures.

This book explores the process of improvisation and outlines the ideal conditions for an inspirational creative state.

In honour of Doris Humphrey's centennial, which was celebrated worldwide in 1995, this issue explores her legacy to the world of dance and her place in history.

What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn?

Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features.

Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.

In examining the relationship between the spectacular, iconic and vibrant New York of the musical and the off-screen history and geography of the real city-this book explores how the city shaped the genre and equally how the genre shaped representations of the city.

This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today.

For decades, eighteenth-century Paris had been declining into a baroque backwater.

An essential introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the key processes involved in developing and managing a theatre in the 21st century.

The recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first time since 1984, as once again it becomes a priority - not only for lesser developed countries but also for the international community.

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.

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?

Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool with The Pigeon Wars of Damascus.

Ukrainian dance is remarkably enduring in its popularity and still performed in numerous cultural contexts.

Many film fans consider Humphrey Bogart the ultimate star of Hollywood's golden era.

This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine.

From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures, which are practiced around the world.

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa.

While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn't a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe.

This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers.

Korper - Kunst - Performance - Philosophie Diese Anthologie ist dem Themenkomplex Korper gewidmet - Korper, an den Ubergangen, Schwellen und Randern des Lebens, werden in ihrer kunstlerischen, politischen und existenziellen Dimension diskutiert.

Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colourful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time.

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market.

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.

Dance Studies in China is a collection of articles selected from issues of the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated for an English-speaking audience.

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico.

First Published in 1995.

Seit geraumer Zeit mehren sich die Produktionen im zeitgenössischen Tanz und Theater sowie in der Performancekunst, in denen Kinder und Jugendliche nicht nur auf der Bühne, sondern auch hinter und vor der Bühne neue Rollen und Positionen einnehmen.

Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality.