Dance category: 839 books

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First Ladies of Disco

32 Stars Discuss the Era and Their Singing Careers

by James Arena
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the ’70s and early ’80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of these women tell their stories, explaining how...
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by Zoë Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011

This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet. In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness...
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The Moving Researcher

Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in Performing Arts Education and Creative Arts Therapies

by Julio Mota, Jackie Hand, Melina Scialom
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014

This comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices. Following extensive research on the method developed by Rudolf von Laban and his disciples, this book explains movement principles, exercises, and...
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by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015

Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the...
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Dancing Through It

My Journey in the Ballet

by Jenifer Ringer
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014

“A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.” —The Washington Post Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and...
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Balanchine & the Lost Muse

Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

by Elizabeth Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917...
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Alla Osipenko

Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet

by Joel Lobenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015

Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky...
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Better Late Than Never

From Barrow Boy to Ballroom

by Len Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame, his experiences on Strictly Come Dancing,...
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Two Decades Naked

A true story of dancing, dreams and desire

by Leigh Hopkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

For fans of Hooked by Samantha X and In My Skin by Kate Holden. Leigh Hopkinson was the least likely person to become a stripper but after spending two decades naked, she realised it was her career - and her life. When Leigh Hopkinson was a university student in Christchurch she worked at a...
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The Case of the Sexy Jewess

Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture

by Hannah Schwadron
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017

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. A social phantasm with real legs, she moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive...
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Inner Rhythm

Dance Training for the Deaf

by Naomi Benari
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Merce Cunningham

The Modernizing of Modern Dance

by Roger Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth...
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