Contemporary dance books

546 books were found.

Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop

Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop

Author: D. Pardue
ISBN: 9780230604650
Format: Hardback
$126.00

Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class,...  Read More >>

The Dance Teacher's Survival Guide: Teaching Dance in Schools from Key Stage 1-key Stage 3

The Dance Teacher's Survival Guide: Teaching Dance in...

Author: Kathryn Sexton ,  Mark Palmer
ISBN: 9781852731021
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Dance lessons have the potential to be exciting, creative and fun. They can be a time for children to explore ideas...  Read More >>

Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution

Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution

Author: Eve Golden
ISBN: 9780813124599
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable...  Read More >>

Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star

Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and...

Author: Camille Forbes
ISBN: 9780465024797
Format: Hardback
$72.60

From the traveling troupes of the Wild West all the way to the...  Read More >>

Divenire Solo Piano

Divenire Solo Piano

Author: Ludovico Einaudi
ISBN: 9781846098420
Format: Book
$51.72

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From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture

From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American...

Author: Sydney Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780816526321
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Salsa and merengue are now so popular that they are household words for Americans of all ethnic backgrounds. Recent...  Read More >>

Dancing The Rainbow: Holistic Well-Being Through Movement

Dancing The Rainbow: Holistic Well-Being Through Movement...

Author: Ms Lani O'Hanlon
ISBN: 9781856355469
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Inside everyone there is a dancer waiting to break free. This book asks if dance, voice and movement could be more...  Read More >>

FROM QUEBRADITA TO DURANGUENSE

FROM QUEBRADITA TO DURANGUENSE

Author: Sydney Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780816525362
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Salsa and merengue are now so popular that they are household words for Americans of all ethnic backgrounds. Recent...  Read More >>

Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop

Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop

Author: Frankie Manning ,  Cynthia Millman
ISBN: 9781592135639
Format: Hardback
$167.64

An autobiography of Frankie Manning that recalls how his first years of dancing as a teenager at Harlem's Savoy...  Read More >>

The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

Author: Ramsay Burt
ISBN: 9780415975766
Format: Paperback
$94.91

In this challenging and lively book, Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance....  Read More >>

The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

Author: Ramsay Burt
ISBN: 9780415975759
Format: Hardback
$290.40

In this challenging and lively book, Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance....  Read More >>

Robert Redford & the American West

Robert Redford & the American West

Author: Elisa Leonelli
ISBN: 9781425753887
Format: Paperback
$55.41

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Robert Redford & the American West

Robert Redford & the American West

Author: Elisa Leonelli
ISBN: 9781425753924
Format: Hardback
$81.81

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Gypsy Moon

Gypsy Moon

Author: Deva Privo
ISBN: 9781591795759
Format: Audio
$32.99

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Multicultural Folk Dance

Multicultural Folk Dance

Author: Christy Lane
ISBN: 9780736071468
Format: DVD Audio
$100.19

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Dream: Dance

Dream: Dance

Author: Shaman's Dream
ISBN: 9781591795339
Format: Audio
$26.99

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People Have Never Stopped Dancing, The: Native American Modern Dance Histories

People Have Never Stopped Dancing, The: Native American...

Author: Jacqueline Shea Murphy ,  Murphy Shea, Jacqueline
ISBN: 9781299911369
Format: Undefined
$198.00

During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout...  Read More >>

Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City

Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection...

Author: J. Hamera
ISBN: 9780230302334
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals...  Read More >>

Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City

Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection...

Author: J. Hamera
ISBN: 9780230000032
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals...  Read More >>

Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in the Global City. Studies in International Performance.

Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection...

Author: Judith Hamera
ISBN: 9786610824748
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals...  Read More >>

Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form

Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing...

Author: Cheryl Pallant
ISBN: 9780786426478
Format: Paperback
$49.50

In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each...  Read More >>

Feelings Are Facts: A Life

Feelings Are Facts: A Life

Author: Yvonne Rainer ,  Roger Conover
ISBN: 9780262182515
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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

How To Draw Hip Hop

How To Draw Hip Hop

Author: Damion Scott ,  Kris Ex
ISBN: 9780823014460
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Includes drawing basics and construction of the hop-hop look; ways to capture the mannerisms and spirit of the young...  Read More >>

Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance

Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention...

Author: Marcia B Siegel
ISBN: 9780312232948
Format: Hardback
$68.51

For more than four decades, Twyla Tharp has been a phenomenon in American dance, a choreographer who not only broke...  Read More >>

Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revalution of Christian Values

Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham,...

Author: Kimerer L Lamothe (Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9786611363635
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

When the American modern dancers Isadora Duncan (1877-1928) and Martha Graham (1894-1991) read Nietzsche, they were...  Read More >>

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