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Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Scarecrow Press 2008; US$ 74.99This contributed volume is a collection of international writings on dance, human rights, and social justice in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book illuminates and analyzes dance in contexts of oppression and its subversion, as well as in situations promoting access to dance, and those encouraging healing from human rights abuses through movement. more...
DK Readers: My First Ballet Recital
DK Publishing 2008; US$ 3.99Encourage your child to read and learn all about ballet. Join Jamie and her class as they get ready for their first ballet show. Watch them learn new steps and meet some surprise guests! more...
Apollo's Angels
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 20.00NATIONAL BESTSELLER For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo?s Angels ?the first cultural history of ballet ever written?is a groundbreaking work. From ballet?s origins in the Renaissance and... more...
Asian Dance
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Asian Dance, Second Edition introduces readers to the rich variety of dance traditions of India, Thailand, Java, Bali, China, and Japan. From the profound impact Hindu deities had on dance in India and later in Southeast Asia thousands of years ago to the 20th-century development of Butoh in Japan, dance has been a means for people to express themselves... more...
African Dance
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies and activities, such as rites of passage and the harvest, and it is also an important form of recreation, religious expression, and storytelling. In African Dance, Second Edition, the varied cultures of Africa and... more...
Ballet
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 35.00One of the most formal and demanding genres of dance, ballet has enthralled audiences with its grace, precision, and remarkable feats of dexterity. Its early roots can be traced back to the 16th century, when court dances were performed for Italian and French royalty. After spreading throughout Europe, ballet flourished in 19th-century Russia, the... more...
Dance As the Spirit Moves
Destiny Image Publishers 2009; US$ 15.99From victory dances to healing and wall breaking dances, you will discover how exciting and enjoyable biblical dance is, and how it can be part of your Christian life. This book also provides practical steps to building a dance ministry, It focuses on dancers, worship leaders, and church leaders revealing ways all three groups can work together... more...
I Was a Dancer
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 35.00?Who am I? I?m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.? In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d?Amboise, one of America?s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for... more...
European Dance
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Long before people learned to write or build cities, they danced to communicate with their gods, bring luck, banish evil, and mark life's passages. Today's well-known folk dances have developed over centuries of struggle and celebration. This new edition of European Dance: Ireland, Poland, Spain, and Greece looks at the folk dances of four... more...
The Neurocognition of Dance
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 90.00Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. This book discusses the wide range of interrelations between body postures and body movements as conceptualised in dance... more...









