Dance category: 839 books
The Modern Bachateros
27 Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the U.S. by Dominican migrants, it has continually developed to reflect the changing tastes of fans and musicians. Bachata became increasingly popular among younger Dominican Americans in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere.
Economies of Collaboration in Performance
More than the Sum of the Parts
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This is a book about collaboration in the arts, which explores how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts. It introduces ideas from economics to conceptualize notions of externalities, complementarity, and emergence, and playfully explores collaborative structures such as...
Musica Mathematica
Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The concept of «musica mathematica*»* seeks to accurately examine the intersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans...
Gabustle Make My Body Hustle
And Assorted Silliness for Natural Born Movers
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Gabustle is about funny words and funny dancing, letting loose, and getting some movement in your day. Its a celebration of natural-born movers and the freedom to create.
by Novello & Co Ltd.
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Swan Lake: Music from the Ballet Arranged for Piano presents excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, arranged for solo piano.
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Art - Pédagogie - Sensible
Language: French
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Ce livre confronte les points de vue de créateurs, penseurs et pédagogues du domaine artistique et de l’enseignement général. Il aborde les questions de création, de recherche, de transmission de l’art et de pédagogie. Il interroge la présence des artistes à l’école, de la maternelle...
Funk!
Il ritmo, la musica e i protagonisti
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Il funk è l’unico genere musicale che sia riuscito a trasformare una nazione in un martellante esercito di guerrieri della pista da ballo, in un vortice di pantaloni a zampa di elefante, grandi orecchini rotondi e teste afro multicolori. Il suo ritmo e i suoi temi hanno stravolto completamente...
What's So Funny?
Sketches from My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Das Melodramatische als Vertonungsstrategie
Robert Schumanns Balladen op. 106 und op. 122
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Wie der Erstdruck vermerkt, vertonte Robert Schumann im Jahr 1849 die Ballade „Schön Hedwig" op. 106 „für Declamation mit Begleitung des Pianoforte". Unter derselben Besetzungsangabe wurden drei Jahre später die „Ballade von Haideknaben" und „Die Flüchtlinge" op. 122...
Listening and Understanding
The Language of Music and How to Interpret It Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role – at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and expressions. Following general reflections about...
by Gemma Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
For most dancers, at one stage in your career you will have to attend an audition; whether it is to get into a school or to get that job you've always wanted.Unlike a performance where you've had the opportunity to practice your steps many times before displaying them to an audience, the...
Akram Khan
Dancing New Interculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own position of the Other.
Mastering Movement
The Life and Work of Rudolf Laban
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music, or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879–1958) has been a seminal influence in contemporary arts.
This is the first major study of Laban's movement theories and practice, exploring the ideas on mastering movement and giving the reader a...