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No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer?s Story
HarperCollins Publishers 2008; Not AvailableThe rags-to-riches story of one of the world?s greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his astronomical rise to international stardom. more...
Dance History
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 44.95Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. For the main body of the text which covers historical studies of dance in its traditional and... more...
Anarchic Dance
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 58.95Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance , consisting of a book and DVD-Rom, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering... more...
Grandmother's Secrets
Interlink Publishing 2012; US$ 12.00"Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world." So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother's Secrets always circles back to this grandmother... more...
Choreographing Difference
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 17.99Feminist theory illuminates the radical cultural work of contemporary dance. more...
Embodied Performances
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy. more...
Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing
Penguin Group US 2002; US$ 19.95Ballroom dancing is back! And now anyone can move like a pro. DVD included! In addition to the step-by-step photos, footwork illustrations, and instruction covering all the common ballroom dances, this new edition of the bestselling Complete Idiot?s GuideŽ to Ballroom Dancing includes a 90-minute instructional DVD featuring award-winning dancer and... more...
Dance Anecdotes
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 12.95A collection of stories that aim to capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a tradition, a profession, an obsession, and an ideal. more...
Choreography Observed
University of Iowa Press 1997; US$ 35.00For over twenty years Jack Anderson has been writing about dance performances. His essays and reviews have appeared in daily newspapers, specialist monthlies, and critical quarterlies. For the last ten years he has been a dance critic for the New York Times. In Choreography Observed, Jack Anderson has selected writings that focus most directly... more...
Art without Boundaries
University of Iowa Press 1753; US$ 34.95Out of his long history as dance critic for the New York Times, Jack Anderson gives us this important, comprehensive history of one of the liveliest and most unpredictable of the arts. Treating modern dance as a self-renewing art, Anderson follows its changes over the decades and discusses the visionary choreographers who have devised new modes... more...









