Contemporary dance books

533 books were found.

The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970-76

The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance,...

Author: Wendy Perron
ISBN: 9780819579324
Format: Hardback
$224.40

The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of...  Read More >>

Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange

Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange

Author: Anne Searcy (Assistant Professor of Music History, Assistant Professor of Music History, University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780190945107
Format: Hardback
$70.95

In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was...  Read More >>

Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the...

Author: J. Lorenzo Perillo (Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa)
ISBN: 9780190054281
Format: Paperback
$62.95

In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo draws on nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis,...  Read More >>

Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the...

Author: J. Lorenzo Perillo (Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa)
ISBN: 9780190054274
Format: Hardback
$228.95

In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo draws on nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis,...  Read More >>

Look Before You Leap: Steps to Your Child's Greatest Success in Dance. Pulling Back the Curtain on the Dance Industry

Look Before You Leap: Steps to Your Child's Greatest...

Author: Dianne Leathem
ISBN: 9780648949206
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Whether a child learns dancing as a fun, recreational hobby or dreams of a professional career in dance or the performing...  Read More >>

Seelensplitter: Gedichteband

Seelensplitter: Gedichteband

Author: Jolene Schneeweiss
ISBN: 9798673900208
Format: Paperback
$29.04

⭐ Gefühle wollen gefühlt werden! ⭐ Eine poetische Heldenreise vom Schatten ins Licht ♥Gedichte die Trost, Hoffnung,...  Read More >>

Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation: Philosophy, Pedagogy, Practice

Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation:...

Author: Malaika Sarco-Thomas
ISBN: 9781527553637
Format: Hardback
$168.16

What happens when artists take touch as a starting point for embodied research? This collection of essays offers...  Read More >>

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance...

Author: Julia M Ritter (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780190051341
Format: Undefined
$92.40

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames...  Read More >>

Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960, Second Edition

Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and...

Author: Deborah J. Johnson ,  Wendy Oliver
ISBN: 9781433153907
Format: Paperback
$139.26

This book examines the work of 14 female artists since 1960 with a particular focus on how the artist incorporated...  Read More >>

Dance Like There's No Tomorrow: Dance Lesson Moves Journal - Performing Arts - Musical Genres - Popular - For Beginners

Dance Like There's No Tomorrow: Dance Lesson Moves Journal...

Author: Patricia Larson
ISBN: 9781649304674
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This useful dance lesson log book is a must-have for anyone that loves the art of dance! You will love this easy...  Read More >>

Rollerdanceman: The Biography of Richard Humphrey

Rollerdanceman: The Biography of Richard Humphrey

Author: Carla Dometrius
ISBN: 9781735563503
Format: Paperback
$15.50

This easy-to-read biography tells the story of Richard Humphrey. Learn about his life, contributions to the world...  Read More >>

The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970-76

The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance,...

Author: Wendy Perron
ISBN: 9780819579669
Format: Paperback
$73.79

The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

Author: Vicky Karkou (Chair of Dance, Arts and Wellbeing, Chair of Dance, Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University) ,  Sue Oliver
ISBN: 9780197526330
Format: Paperback
$97.95

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the...  Read More >>

The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique): Teaching Creative Theatre

The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique): Teaching Creative...

Author: Jacques Lecoq ,  David Bradby
ISBN: 9781474244763
Format: Paperback
$39.99

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one...  Read More >>

The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique): Teaching Creative Theatre

The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique): Teaching Creative...

Author: Jacques Lecoq ,  David Bradby
ISBN: 9781474244770
Format: Hardback
$130.00

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one...  Read More >>

Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema

Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting,...

Author: Nell Andrew (Associate Professor of Art History, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780190057282
Format: Paperback
$73.95

"In early twentieth-century Europe, the watershed developments of pictorial abstraction, modern dance, and cinema...  Read More >>

Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema

Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting,...

Author: Nell Andrew (Associate Professor of Art History, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780190057275
Format: Hardback
$370.00

"In early twentieth-century Europe, the watershed developments of pictorial abstraction, modern dance, and cinema...  Read More >>

Perspectives on American Dance: The New Millennium

Perspectives on American Dance: The New Millennium

Author: Jennifer Atkins ,  Sally R. Sommer
ISBN: 9780813068299
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span...  Read More >>

Charlestonercise 1 & 2

Charlestonercise 1 & 2

Author: Anthony Padgett
ISBN: 9781447826255
Format: Hardback
$58.69

"CHARLESTONERCISE The Home Exercise Dance Workout Booklet (12 great, fun 1920's style Charleston Dance routines)...  Read More >>

Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73

Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73

Author: Yvonne Rainer
ISBN: 9781732098633
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"""It goes without saying that a dance is a dance and a book about dance is a book. Though they may meet at the...  Read More >>

Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common

Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common...

Author: Harmony Bench
ISBN: 9781517900533
Format: Paperback
$63.95

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Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common

Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common...

Author: Harmony Bench
ISBN: 9781517900526
Format: Hardback
$255.79

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Eurythmy: A Short Introduction to Educational, Therapeutic and Performance Eurythmy

Eurythmy: A Short Introduction to Educational, Therapeutic...

Author: Thomas Poplawski
ISBN: 9781782506577
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A concise but informative guide to the three main strands of eurythmy: performance, education and therapy.  Read More >>

The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques

The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques...

Author: Melanie Clarke
ISBN: 9781785006999
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical...

Author: Kevin Winkler
ISBN: 9780190086336
Format: Paperback
$48.95

Bob Fosse is one of the most significant figures in the post-World War II American musical theater. Big Deal: Bob...  Read More >>

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