Dance

Understand the business side of your showbiz career We all know acting can be a glittering whirl of glamour plush red carpets, simply divine outfits, huge sums of money, and oh, the parties!

In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States.

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty.

Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic.

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.

Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as "e;belly dance.

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.

The Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies.

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.

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As a therapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has worked with thousands of creative people.

Here for the first time is an account of how each of thirteen historical as well as present-day systems cope with indicating body movement, time, space (direction and level) and other basic movement aspects of paper.

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making.

Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "e;Father of American Dance"e; who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art.

Das Interesse der Opernbühnen an Glucks Œuvre hat in den letzten 15 Jahren kontinuierlich zuge-nommen.

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

This engaging text introduces the burgeoning and interdisciplinary field of cultural performance, offering ethnographic approaches to performance as well as looking at the aesthetics of experience and performance theory.

This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation.

Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain explores the relationship between regional identity politics and flamenco in Andalusia, the southernmost autonomous community of Spain.

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen.

Investigating children's learning through dance and drawing-telling, Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children's Learning provides a unique insight into how these activities can help children to critically reflect on their own learning.

Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre.

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.

Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour.

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture.

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By the 1920s, much of the world was 'dance mad,' as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances.

Dances with Sheep presents the methodology of Felt Thinking in Movement as an eco-somatic practice inspired by re-thinking nature of being human, as well as contextualises it within wider frameworks of cultural, philosophical and therapeutic viewpoints on wellbeing.

Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, Jose Limon (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).

Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated, and was in a sense foundational to, the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies.

As seen on TikTok, from Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of Wardrobe Malfunction and Breaking Hollywood, comes a the first dramatically powerful and passionate novel in the Gods series.

Every week for much of the year, millions of Brits view and vote on Strictly Come Dancing, with the salsa being one of the most popular dances.

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity.

Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance.

The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female.

Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.

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A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.

The United Nations General Assembly is arguably the most important discussion forum in global politics.

Through the concept of "e;social choreography"e; Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Jose Limn is universally recognized as one of the most important modern dancers of the 20th century.

Shows how dance, the highest expression of spirituality in cultures and traditions all over the world, is being integrated into the lives of women today *; The first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance *; Investigates how dance came to be excluded from worship, and reveals how dance is once again being brought into spiritual practices *; Includes resources for further instruction in sacred dance Today we primarily think of dance as a form of entertainment or as a way to exercise or socialize.

This is part IV of "e;The Country Dance Book"e;, a classic guide to country dance containing instructions for 43 different dances.