Dance list 39

Performing the Remembered Present

The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

by Pil Hansen, Professor John Lutterbie, Prof Nicola Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing...

The Sunnybrook Ballroom

by Thomas Sephakis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007

As one of the last major ballrooms located in this great nation, the Sunnybrook Ballroom is a historical and intricate part of Pennsylvania's past. Since 1926, the Sunnybrook Ballroom has been an established landmark in its community and is recognized nationwide. Opening its doors in 1931, the grand...

The Highland Fling and How to Teach It

by H. N. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013

Excerpt In teaching fancy dances, more rapid progress will be made by forming exercises characteristic of the movements to be executed. This dance comprises a hopping movement and the laws of opposition must be observed with the hands and arms, therefore I will give a few exercises which must be thoroughly...

The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde

Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia

by Irina Sirotkina, Roger Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

The touch and movement senses have a large place in the modern arts. This is widely discussed and celebrated, often enough as if it represents a breakthrough in a primarily visual age. This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism...

Landscape of the Now

A Topography of Movement Improvisation

by Kent De Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014

In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches that are taught around the world - Steve Paxton,...

Ballroom Rhythms for Musicians and Dancers

by Ronald Steriti
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016

Ballroom Rhythms for Musicians and Dancers shows the dance patterns or steps for different styles of dancing with their basic musical rhythm.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Finding the Beat3. Jitterbug4. East Coast Swing5. West Coast Swing6. Lindy Hop7. Jive8. Country Two-Step9. Fox...

Performing Queer Modernism

by Penny Farfan
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

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...

Move

YA Contemporary

by Brina Courtney
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012

Sometimes Dallas gets drunk and doesn’t remember what she did last night. Sometimes she loses friends. Sometimes her mom’s boyfriend beats her until she can’t walk. Sometimes her life sucks, but sometimes it’s beautiful. When Dallas dances her world is her own and...

In Search of Legitimacy

How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

by Lauren Miller Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their...

Global Tarantella

Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances

by Incoronata Inserra
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across the Italian diaspora, even adapted for New Age spiritual practices. The boom in popularity has diversified tarantella in practice while setting it within...

Pedagogy and Human Movement

Theory, Practice, Research

by Richard Tinning
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

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. Pedagogy and Human Movement explores this pedagogy in detail to reveal its applications and meanings...

Choreographies of 21st Century Wars

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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016

Wars in this century are radically different from the major conflicts of the 20th century--more amorphous, asymmetrical, globally connected, and unending. Choreographies of 21st Century Wars is the first book to analyze the interface between choreography and wars in this century, a pertinent inquiry...