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CHOREOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 26.95On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking" On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis" A Choreographer?s Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes,... more...
Latin and Caribbean Dance
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00The various cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean have produced their own unique forms of dance. Latin and Caribbean Dance highlights dances indigenous to Cuba (mambo and cha-cha-cha), the Dominican Republic (merengue and bachata), Haiti (compas and Vodou ritual dances), Argentina (tango), and Brazil (samba and capoeira). Explore how each dance... more...
Popular Dance
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Popular Dance: From Ballroom to Hip-Hop takes readers on a journey through the trends and developments in popular dancing from European nobles during the Renaissance and early Baroque periods in Europe through 21st-century America. Discover how social and historical elements influenced the development of the waltz, the Charleston, jitterbug, and urban... more...
Temps culture et société
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1983; US$ 3.75Cet ouvrage tente de dire que les sciences du loisir, par-delà leur quête difficile dobjectivité, constituent, pour les sociétés industrielles, au même titre que la sociologie et lanthropologie, par exemple, une nouvelle manière de se comprendre elles-mêmes. Lentement surgies des transformations majeures... more...
Tango der Metropolen
Diplomica Verlag 2007; US$ 41.48Hauptbeschreibung Der Tango entstand am Rio de la Plata als eine kulturspezifische Ausdrucksform einer Gruppe von Menschen. In seinem Ambiente, in dem er gelebt wurde sowie in den Formen, in denen er getanzt wurde, finden sich die Geschichten und Befindlichkeiten derer wieder, die ihn entstehen ließen oder ihn von seinem Entstehungszeitpunkt an bis... more...
Dancing on the Canon
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice. more...
Dance!
Destiny Image, Inc. 2011; US$ 15.99Journey with Ann Stevenson as she leads you step by step through the mysteries of the divine beauty of dance as choreographed by the Creator Himself. Where does dance fit into worship, warfare, and wholeness? Learn the foundational biblical truths vital to the fullness of God's created purpose for dance. A dancer since the age of three,... more...
Next Week, Swan Lake
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 16.99An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance" more...
Tanz als BewegungsText
De Gruyter 1999; US$ 133.00The study is devoted to the problem of motion analysis and centers on 20th century social dancing and dance theatre. The main focus is on the motorics of the body-in-motion. Analytic observation and description (by means of a newly developed system for recording movement) chart the phenomena studied in terms of the way they form 'motion-texts'. The... more...
Starting Your Career as a Dancer
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 29.09In Starting Your Career as a Dancer, author Mande Dagenais explains what it really takes to get into the business, be in the business, and survive in the business. Based on more than twenty-five years of experience in the performing arts as a dancer, teacher, choreographer/director, and producer, Dagenais offers insider advice and shares her vast... more...









