Dance category: 839 books
It Takes Two
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Francesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life. Stuck in a stale marriage with grown children who have long since fled the coop, and desperate to escape the endless cycle of Upper East Side dinner parties and charity luncheons, she jumps at the chance to write an article about...
American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet officials resolved to utilize the Bolshoi Ballet’s...
Inside Tango Argentino
The Story of the Most Important Tango Show of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Tango Argentino was the groundbreaking show that led to the renaissance of interest in Argentine Tango. It premiered in Paris, then conquered Broadway and, later, toured the whole world. It had enormous cultural influence on the understanding of tango history, music and dance, fashion, hair and makeup.
After...
by Zachary Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Waltz is a smooth progressive dance characterized by long, flowing movements, continuous turns, and rise...
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Choreographics
A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Legions of Boom
Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture...
Christensen Brothers
An American Dance Epic
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Summerspace (chorégraphie Merce Cunningham - 1958)
Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Une fiche de référence sur Summerspace, un spectacle chorégraphié par Merce Cunningham.
Dans un décor pointilliste et solaire de Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) crée Summerspace le 17 août 1958, sur une musique de Morton Feldman, dans le cadre de l'American Dance...
Dancing with Cats
From the Creators of the International Best Seller Why Cats Paint
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The cult classic is back! This 15th anniversary edition keeps all the original mystery and magic of cat dancing delightfully intact. Perpetually ahead of its time, Dancing with Cats presents scores of delightful and inspiring photographs of people and cats engaging in their favorite dance routines...
by Janet Sassoon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The book tells the tale of a seven-year-old girl who starts to study ballet and dreams of reaching her goal as prima ballerina. She studied at the San Francisco Ballet and is encouraged to dance. She started in the opera when they needed a small elf to go on stage where Salvatore Baccaloni was sleeping...
Bhangra and Asian Underground
South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Asian Underground music—a fusion of South Asian genres with western breakbeats created for the dance club scene by DJs and musicians of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent—went mainstream in the U.K. in the late 1990s. Its success was unprecedented: British bhangra, a blend of Punjabi folk...
Drumming Asian America
Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan. Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic largesse and buoyant energy challenged stereotypical images of Asians in America as either model minorities...
Sonidos Negros
On the Blackness of Flamenco
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized...
Dust of the Zulu
Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV...