Contemporary dance books

535 books were found.

European Dance since 1989: Communitas and the Other

European Dance since 1989: Communitas and the Other...

Author: Joanna Szymajda
ISBN: 9780415832120
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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European Dance since 1989: Communitas and the Other

European Dance since 1989: Communitas and the Other...

Author: Joanna Szymajda
ISBN: 9780415832137
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This edited collection charts the development of contemporary dance in Central and Eastern Europe since the literal...  Read More >>

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage

Author: Sally Banes (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) ,  Raghupathy Sarma
ISBN: 9781306116084
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical...  Read More >>

Ballet, Why and How?

Ballet, Why and How?

Author:
ISBN: 9789491444081
Format: Paperback
$58.22

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Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives: Identity, Embodiment and Culture

Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives: Identity,...

Author: L. Dankworth ,  A. David
ISBN: 9781137009432
Format: Hardback
$171.95

Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans...  Read More >>

Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy

Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy

Author: Bojana Cvejic
ISBN: 9782840667025
Format: Paperback
$50.46

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Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance

Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre,...

Author: Benita Brown ,  Dannabang Kuwabong
ISBN: 9780810892798
Format: Hardback
$100.95

This book examines the concept and practice of myth performance in African Diaspora dramas and dances. These six...  Read More >>

Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and...

Author: Assistant Professor Department of Theater and Dance Rebecca Rossen (University of Texas at Austin)
ISBN: 9781306797603
Format: Electronic book text
$369.47

While Jews are commonly referred to as the people of the book, American Jewish choreographers have consistently...  Read More >>

Beginning Modern Dance

Beginning Modern Dance

Author: Miriam Giguere
ISBN: 9781450405171
Format: Paperback
$55.80

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Torah in Motion: Creating Dance Midrash

Torah in Motion: Creating Dance Midrash

Author: JoAnne Tucker ,  Susan Freeman
ISBN: 9781306856836
Format: Electronic book text
$52.77

Explore new ways of prayer and storytelling through TORAH IN MOTION. JoAnne Tucker and Susan Freeman, both experienced...  Read More >>

European Dance Since 1989: Communitas and the Other

European Dance Since 1989: Communitas and the Other...

Author: Joanna Szymajda (Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781306904810
Format: Electronic book text
$303.60

This edited collection charts the development of contemporary dance in Central and Eastern Europe since the literal...  Read More >>

Cuban Women and Salsa

Cuban Women and Salsa

Author: Delia Poey
ISBN: 9781322402192
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Martha Graham: Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer

Martha Graham: Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer...

Author: Victoria Thoms
ISBN: 9781841505084
Format: Hardback
$106.95

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Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s

Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and...

Author: Kimberley Monteyne
ISBN: 9781617039225
Format: Hardback
$184.80

A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history  Read More >>

Feelings Are Facts: A Life

Feelings Are Facts: A Life

Author: Yvonne Rainer ,  Roger Conover
ISBN: 9780262525107
Format: Paperback
$95.00

Memoir by the avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker recounting her childhood years, sexual misadventures,...  Read More >>

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional...

Author: D. Varney ,  P. Eckersall
ISBN: 9780230366480
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within...  Read More >>

Facts and Fancies

Facts and Fancies

Author: Paul Taylor
ISBN: 9781883285555
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"Musings from Paul Taylor, one of the foremost American Choreographers of the 20th century. From ""one of the...  Read More >>

Performance Through The Dance Technique Of Lester Horton

Performance Through The Dance Technique Of Lester Horton...

Author: Ana-Marie Forsythe ,  Bradley B Shelver
ISBN: 9781482392784
Format: Paperback
$79.20

A Performance link between the Biography of Lester Horton and his Dance Technique. Bradley Shelver explores the...  Read More >>

Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves

Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves

Author: A. McGrath
ISBN: 9781137035479
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political...  Read More >>

Frontiers: American Modern Dancer and Dance Educator

Frontiers: American Modern Dancer and Dance Educator...

Author: Karen Bell-Kanner
ISBN: 9781299868007
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American...

Author: Lecturer in Womens Studies and Film & Media Studies Mary Simonson (Colgate University)
ISBN: 9781299879737
Format: Electronic book text
$352.84

While female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses,...  Read More >>

French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop

French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop

Author: Professor of French Felicia McCarren (Tulane Univesity)
ISBN: 9781299879911
Format: Electronic book text
$352.84

For more than two decades, le hip hop has shown another face of France: danced by minorities associated with immigration...  Read More >>

Myth Performance in the African Diasporas

Myth Performance in the African Diasporas

Author: Benita Brown ,  Dannabang Kuwabong
ISBN: 9781306282352
Format: Electronic book text
$171.57

Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques...  Read More >>

The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus

The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus

Author: Peggy Schwartz ,  Murray Schwartz
ISBN: 9780300187939
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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