Performing Arts : Dance

Ballroom 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 Guide® to Ballroom Dancing includes a 90-minute instructional DVD featuring award-winning dancer and dance instructor Jeff Allen. It corresponds with the text seamlessly, giving readers the next best thing to one-on-one instruction, at a fraction of the cost. • The #1 selling ballroom dancing book. • Includes a fantastic, new instructional DVD and hundreds of illustrations and instructions. • Allen is a renowned, award-winning ballroom-dance teacher more...

Price: $19.95

This book focuses on Limón's relationships with his dancers, the composer Norman Dello Joio, his wife, costume designer Pauline Lawrence Limón and his mentor and artistic director, Doris Humphrey. Performance and behind-the-scenes photographs of the original cast illustrate the rehearsals and premiere. Intimate reminiscences of Limón recalled by Charles Woodford fully flesh out this revealing portrait. The photographs many never before published depict Limón's personal life and professional career as a dancer. more...

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Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies from the popular dance imagery of music, video and Hollywood, through to experimental art dance. more...

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Kurt Jooss was born shortly after the turn of this century, a time that ushered in the Age of Modernism. His achievement places him in the ranks of those leading artists who have permanently changed our cultural landscape. The significant stages of his career roughly correspond to the major cultural and political events that influenced the lives of his generation. The first and possibly most important period of Jooss’s artistic development spanned the years of the Weimar Republic from 1918 to 1932. His career received a major setback when the Nazi regime drove him from Germany in 1933. He escaped to England, where at Dartington Hall he continued his work by organizing a dance community that included his school and his company. Jooss’s career took its final turn when in 1949 he accepted the invitation to return to his homeland. His renewed artistic and pedagogical efforts in postwar West Germany led to the eventual development of the postmodern German Tanztheater. more...

Price: $44.95

This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. more...

Price: $99.55