Dance Books

Cette version est publiée en espagnol (argentin) dans une traduction de Daniela Alejandra Aguilar. Le texte français a été publié chez BOD en septembre 2011 sous le titre "Et si c'était nous" - Petit éloge d'un tango des sens (ISBN 9782810621668)"Le...

This research into the tempos of Bach's dance music answers the age-old question, "How fast should this piece be?" Because Bach's tempo often differs from current performance practice, this research transforms our understanding of his music.Bach's...

A Dancer's Pocket Guide to Embodied Performance takes an inside, experiential view of the art of dance performance. It encourages dancers to reach through and beyond technique into the rich landscape of expression that sensory...

This book is a pretty simple exceptional book for Christmas. This book is the perfect gift for you if you think you are a creative artist. Check out this book if you want to work with food pictures. This book is arranged with 35 perfect and clear...

When Elizabeth announced she wanted to produce "The Nutcracker," her family members nodded their heads.Her mother, the author of this book, was excited about what such a production would entail: choreography, lighting, costumes, and of course, other...

Caroline Steele, intrepid amateur sleuth, starts graduate school at the University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance.  Caro finds herself in a notbed of academic intrigue and clashing artistic egos.  A disdinguished professor is...

Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of theatrical expression. This collection of 15 interviews includes some of the country's most prolific creative minds--Ze Celso (Teatro Oficina), Antunes Filho,...

Dance music has seen an unprecedented explosion in the 21st century as a stampede of subgenres, such as dance pop and EDM (electronic dance music), have come to define the pop music scene worldwide. In this collection of original interviews, 33...

The 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the decade was among the genre's most successful in terms of energy, sales and global popularity. In this retrospective, 29 singers, songwriters, producers, DJs and...

This vintage book is a comprehensive guide to teaching ballroom dancing, with information on different teaching methods, hints on teaching one-to-one and in groups, detailed diagrams, handy tips for teachers, and much more. This volume will be of...

This vintage book is a comprehensive guide to learning ballroom dancing, with step-by-step instructions, simple diagrams, helpful hints and tips, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in learning a variety...

This vintage book is a detailed guide to learning a variety of ballroom dances, with step-by-step instructions, simple diagrams, tips on etiquette, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in learning a range...

This vintage book is a concise but comprehensive guide to ballroom dancing. It includes directions for learning the quickstep, waltz, slow foxtrot, tango, rhythm dancing, etc, with variations and hints on deportment, ballroom etiquette, and more. This...

This vintage book is a brief outline of the basic figures of the waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, tango, rumba, and samba. It was originally intended to aid those wishing to pass the Official Board of Ballroom Dancing test to achieve a bronze medal. "Ballroom...

This concise early work was compiled to give female beginners an outline of the basic steps of Ballroom Dancing, contains much information that is still useful to today's dancer. Illustrated with step diagrams. Many of the earliest books, particularly...

This early work is a comprehensive study of the history of dance thoroughly recommended for the bookshelf of the dance enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Its 160 pages are divided into five thorough sections: Basic...

This early work on dance steps is a fascinating read for any dance enthusiast. It provides the means of obtaining a working knowledge of the simple fundamentals necessary in becoming proficient in the social dances. Contents Include: Explanation of Terms...

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The Ballet Dancer's Husband is a play written by Ernest Feydeau in 1880. The play revolves around the character of Monsieur Pontagnac, a married man who becomes enamored with a beautiful ballet dancer named Lucienne. Despite being married himself,...

Vivian Ladoe is a liar.Professional dance careers start early-very early. At twenty-four, she should have already established herself in a company, but she is still hoping for her big break. When Ellapond Dance Company casts her as their new principal...

With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANNY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the nation. From LPs...

With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANNY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the nation. From LPs...

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission,...

This book is about dance's relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language's affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompany one...

This book takes choreographer William Forsythe's choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it...

To any lover of the dance the exotic rhythms of the Portuguese folk dances must have an irresistible fascination. Mrs. Armstrong, who has lived in Portugal for many years and made a special study of Portuguese dancing, gives in this book a...

Laban's The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard work on his conception of human move­ment. When he died, Laban was in the process of preparing a new edition of the book, and so for some...

When towards the end of the last century Rudolf Laban began to take an interest in all forms of dance, it was with an en­thusiastically searching mind, looking for the very roots of active living. He believed the key for the unfolding of human capacities...

This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare's works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: "How can Shakespeare be danced?", and "How...

I must have gone plumb mad in my late forties. I was living a luxurious life on a modest income in paradise, watching the whales blow by, when I felt my life was being wasted, so I decided to get rid of my possessions and move to New York City to become...

This volume aims to investigate various aspects of the musical world around surrounding Tartini. It primarily focuses on the analysis of the evidence on related to instrument making and sound research relating toassociated with Tartini and his circle.

This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. Thirty-one chapters illuminate dance in relation to singular and overlapping themes of nature, philosophy, spirituality, religion, life span, learning, love, family, teaching,...

This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland. Bringing together key voices from a new wave of scholarship to examine recent practice and research in the field of contemporary dance, it examines the...

This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture. To do so, it interlinks a broad range of disciplines, revealing their (at times vastly) differing standpoints on the same subject. Scholars from such diverse...

Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the less known and most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice.On one side (the left brain, as it were), neuroscience in all its forms is constantly shedding new light on...

First published in 1944, this classic book remains the definitive work on the masterpiece of the Romantic Ballet, Giselle.The book is in two parts, the first dealing with the original 1841 production, the second with technical and critical aspects of the...

How to write a successive movement in Labanotation, a movement that flows from one part of the body to another in succession, passing from joint to joint or vertebra to vertebra. It analyzes different forms of sequential movements, including the body...

Questo manuale sulla tecnica di Sbarra a Terra, creata da Alex d'Orsay e scritto da lei stessa, è stato adottato come libro di testo dall'Accademia di Danza Teatro alla Scala per il Corso Insegnanti di Danza Accademica.E' dedicato ai danzatori...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 2,3, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Kulturwissenschaften und ästhetische Praxis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Wirkungen des Tanzes, wie auch die Tatsache,...

This work presents a detailed study of the five key ballet organisations that operated in Ireland between 1927 and 1963: the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet, the Abbey School of Ballet, the Sara Payne School and Company, the Irish Ballet Club and the...

This reading is designed to educate Ministry Leaders and Dancers about the true purpose of serving God through dance and understanding the differences between dance ministry and dance class. This reading will highlight the bible context of dance starting...

Tired of self-promoting gurus touting easy "secrets"? In On Script seasoned scriptwriter, author, and educator Zachary Michael Jack explains step-by-step how successful Creatives write, edit, pitch, polish, and produce dramatic work. Packed with...

Месячный календар на 2022 год. Красочные фотографии и картины Уругвайских художников отражающих  танцоров в танго позициях. Книга кратко рассказывающая об искусстве овладения мастерством Аргентинского танго. История танца, особенности музыки, первых...