Dance

This book is filled with dance games that the whole classroom or family can play and learn from.

This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America.

Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance.

In Inner Rhythm, Naomi Benari provides exciting new ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf by showing: methods and games she devised with children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement; how the knowledge of music is the basis for dance teaching and how this knowledge can enhance the raining of hearing dancers; opportunities for children to express their unarticulated feelings and thoughts; how children can learn to socialize and to explore the world in which they live; and how to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a vareity of schools and settings.

First Published in 2002.

This vintage book is a comprehensive guide to learning the foxtrot, complete with step-by-step instructions, simple diagrams, helpful tips, and more.

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

The union of the two royal houses - the Habsburgs and the Bourbons - in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and festivals a manifestation of power and cultural superiority.

Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention.

A pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life.

Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines, established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re)produce valued knowledge about human movement.

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body?

Donald Margulies offers up a vivid new adaptation of Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish melodrama, reset on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the century.

Using the guiding principle of balance, Working in Groups provides students with practical strategies, built on theory and research, for communicating and working successfully in groups.

This guidebook is designed to facilitate the use of "e;Beyond Words"e; materials.

Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist.

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.

This book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance, then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art.

This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James.

Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective.

Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define.

From the vaudeville gyrations of New York Giants star pitchers Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, to Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as hoofing infielders in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, to the stage and screen versions of Damn Yankees, the connection between baseball and dance is an intimate, perhaps surprising one.

Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations.

This collection presents a selection of essays written from a point of view that has dance, movement, or performance at its centre, and examines the intellectual and material relationship to the art form from which they are conceived.

Anne Bean: Self Etc.

This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits.

American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In Inner Rhythm, Naomi Benari provides exciting new ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf by showing: methods and games she devised with children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement; how the knowledge of music is the basis for dance teaching and how this knowledge can enhance the raining of hearing dancers; opportunities for children to express their unarticulated feelings and thoughts; how children can learn to socialize and to explore the world in which they live; and how to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a vareity of schools and settings.

To perform well in today's highly competitive world where technical skills have been advanced to an unprecedented degree, a singer must be able to handle incredible pressure within the performing arena; his or her ability to deal with this stress will often determine whether he or she will succeed.

Equality Dancesport uses a queer feminist lens to examine the materialisation of gender and sexuality through moving and dancing bodies, by taking readers through the initiation journey of becoming an equality dancesport competitor.

Emily is sixteen.

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the HumanitiesHow collaborations between dancers and painters shaped cultural identity in MexicoA Revolution in Movementis the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexicos postrevolutionary cultural identity.

Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights?

A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a 'learned pig' - all of these offered an evening's entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada.

Wie das Leben mit seinen Höhen und Tiefen, so versetzt auch die Erfahrung von Verlust den Menschen ungewollt und meist sehr schmerzlich in Bewegung – oder aus der Bewegung heraus in die Erstarrung.

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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.

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand's dance cultures and their place in today's world.

This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today's globalized world.

Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music TheoryThe DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances.

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia.