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Dance and authenticity in Israel and Palestine
BRILL 2003; US$ 188.00In this ethnographic study, Kaschl examines the history of two related and competing Palestinian and Israeli folk dance forms. The focus is on how these forms known as dabkeh and debkah , respectively represent a contested cultural essence of both Palestinian and Israeli nationalism. The performances of three dance troupes (one Israeli and two Pale more...
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 27.95A unique guide to todays most important dance-makers. Each entry includes a biographical section, a chronological list of works, a detailed bibliography and a critical essay, while the range of dance styles covered is usefully broad. more...
Alien Bodies
Taylor & Francis 1998; US$ 135.00Looks at dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and the 1930s, including ballet, modern dance and dance in the cinema and Revue. Artists examined include Josephine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Valeska Gert, and George Balanchine. 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...
Yes? No! Maybe?
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 45.95Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance. Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach... more...
Dancing Revelations
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 22.99Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) is arguably the most important black American choreographer in the short history of modern dance. This study presents an examination of Ailey's range of choreography, considers its cultural sources, theories of African American Performance, and the ways in which Ailey shaped African American participation in modern dance. more...
Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields. While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies... more...
Reworking the Ballet
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 33.95Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets. In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these contemporary reworkings destroy and recreate their... more...
The Ballet Companion
Touchstone 2005; US$ 29.95A New Classic for Today's Dancer The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs,... more...
Quick, Before the Music Stops
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 19.95?I?ve been dancing steadily since that Valentine?s Day. I have taken countless lessons and classes, passed a professional certification exam, done several shows and a competition?yes, dressed in those outrageous gowns and false eyelashes?and then gone back home to the kids, the soccer, the housework, and to work the next day. It hasn?t been easy to... more...









