Dance category: 839 books
Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, "dancing at the...
The Meaning Of Tango
The Story of the Argentinian Dance
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance. The Tango was the cornerstone of Argentine culture, and has lasted for more than a hundred years, popular...
Invisible Connections
Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
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.Drawing
The Green Table
The Labanotation Score, Text, Photographs, and Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
* Score, photographs, and production details of one of this century's best-loved ballets * Includes rare archival material * Packaged with audio CD This work brings together the complete dance score of The Green Table--one of the most famous ballets of the 20th century--in Labanotation, along with...
Contemporary Choreography
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
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.
Contributions from a global range of practitioners...
Anna Sokolow
The Rebellious Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life. Her meticulous biographer Larry Warren once looked up Anna Sokolow in a few reference books and found that she was born in three different years and that her parents were from Poland except...
Mosaic of Music
Mystery of Percussion and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book is not just for the student, teaher or performer of belly-dance. It is also for the stuednt, teacher or performer of Middle Eastern drum. The DERBECKI, TAR, TAMBOURINE, KATAM, and TUBL BELEDI! You ,ay be the hysband, partner of a belly dancer that wants to be part of the scene.It is about...
The Tango in the United States
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Murray, and Xavier Cugat popularized it in the...
Dance Dramaturgy
Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating artists, embedded in improvisation tasks, or weaved through audience engagement, and the dramaturg becomes a facilitator of dramaturgical awareness.
Further Steps 2
Fourteen Choreographers on What's the R.A.G.E. in Modern Dance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Further Steps 2 brings together New York’s foremost choreographers – among them MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winners Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones – to discuss the past, present and future of dance in the US. In a series of exclusive and enlightening interviews, this diverse selection of artists...
The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique
A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Michael Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This companion volume to The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe surveys an area of music neglected by modern scholars: the consort suites and dance music by musicians working in the seventeenth-century German towns. Conditions of work in the German towns are examined in detail, as are...
Dancing Tango
Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Argentinean
tango
is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of
Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so
many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more
than a...
by Jennifer C. Kronenberg, Carlos M. Guerra
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
"An insightful read from one of the ballet world’s most beloved married couples!"--Melinda Roy, former principal dancer, New York City Ballet "Wonderfully complete and instructive, written by two artists who have lived what they write about and are sharing their life experience from...