Contemporary dance books

546 books were found.

Tap Dance Fundamentals

Tap Dance Fundamentals

Author: Colleen N West
ISBN: 9780757522307
Format: Spiral bound
$112.20

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Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making

Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success...

Author: Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard
ISBN: 9780878301973
Format: Paperback
$77.95

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Dancing Identity: Metaphysics In Motion

Dancing Identity: Metaphysics In Motion

Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh
ISBN: 9780822963004
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected...  Read More >>

Liebe Hanya

Liebe Hanya

Author: Mary Wigman ,  Claudia Gitelman
ISBN: 9780299190743
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Documents the lives of two remarkable women artists who were at the center of 20th century dance modernism. Written...  Read More >>

Dance 2wice

Dance 2wice

Author: 2wice Arts Foundation ,  Nancy Dalva
ISBN: 9780714843650
Format: Hardback
$105.47

A collection of striking photographic essays dedicated to contemporary dance.  Read More >>

Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich

Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third...

Author: Lilian Karina ,  Marion Kant
ISBN: 9781571816887
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Karina, a professional dancer who fled wartime Germany, and dance historian Kant (U. of Pennsylvania) counter revisionist...  Read More >>

Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance

Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance

Author: Roger Copeland
ISBN: 9780415965743
Format: Hardback
$144.00

This iconoclastic analysis explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments...  Read More >>

Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance

Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance

Author: Roger Copeland
ISBN: 9780415965750
Format: Paperback
$59.00

This iconoclastic analysis explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments...  Read More >>

Jazzism

Jazzism

Author: Keith N Ferreira
ISBN: 9780595292011
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Jazzism is another name for Neoliberal Arts. Neoliberal Arts is about the interpretation and critique of all branches...  Read More >>

Critical Gestures

Critical Gestures

Author: Ann Daly
ISBN: 9780819565662
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Collects the far-reaching and influential work of an eminent dance critic and scholar.  Read More >>

Dances that Describe Themselves

Dances that Describe Themselves

Author: Susan Leigh Foster
ISBN: 9780819565518
Format: Paperback
$73.79

An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.  Read More >>

Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey

Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha...

Author: Julia L. Foulkes
ISBN: 9780807853672
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved dance to the edges of society. Through...  Read More >>

Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey

Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha...

Author: Julia L. Foulkes
ISBN: 9780807826980
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved dance to the edges of society. Through...  Read More >>

The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss

The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban,...

Author: Isa Partsch-Bergsohn ,  Harold Bergsohn
ISBN: 9780871272508
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This is the story of three passionate choreographers and their colleagues who created European modern dance in the...  Read More >>

Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training

Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and...

Author: Marian Horosko
ISBN: 9780813024738
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"A compilation of interviews with Martha Graham's """"family"""" of dancers, teachers, choreographers and actors,...  Read More >>

Ode Au Corps: Une Histoire de Danse

Ode Au Corps: Une Histoire de Danse

Author: Brian Webb
ISBN: 9780920159989
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Choreographer, teacher and former artistic producer of the Canada Dance Festival Brian Webb encourages everyone...  Read More >>

Labanotation: The Archie Gemmill Goal

Labanotation: The Archie Gemmill Goal

Author: Alec Finlay ,  Robin Gillanders
ISBN: 9780748663255
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Taking the greatest World Cup goal and transforming it into dance, this book records the goal's notation and three...  Read More >>

The New Dance Group: Movement for a Change

The New Dance Group: Movement for a Change

Author: Bernice Rosen
ISBN: 9789057551406
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This is a chronicle of The New Dance Group (NDG), the radical dance group formed in New York City in 1932 in the...  Read More >>

Ballet and Modern Dance

Ballet and Modern Dance

Author: Susan Au ,  Selma Jeanne Cohen
ISBN: 9780500203521
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A illustrated guide ranging from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap...  Read More >>

Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and...

Author: Ramsay Burt
ISBN: 9781283712316
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

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My Body, The Buddhist

My Body, The Buddhist

Author: Deborah Hay ,  Susan Foster
ISBN: 9780819563286
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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Barton Mumaw, Dancer

Barton Mumaw, Dancer

Author: Jane Sherman ,  Barton Mumaw
ISBN: 9780819564535
Format: Paperback
$71.15

An intimate portrait of American modern dance and gay life in the 1930s.  Read More >>

The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique

The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique

Author: Renata Celichowska ,  Leon Belokon
ISBN: 9780871272133
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The Hawkins dance technique embodies the philosophy that dance should integrate the body, mind, and soul while always...  Read More >>

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