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Bottom of the Pyramid

A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life

de Nia Sioux ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Sioux’s harrowing reality TV ordeal cuts deep, and her subsequent self-assurance is endearing and infectious. It adds up to an inspiring account of reclaiming artistic agency.” - Publisher’s WeeklyWhen you’ve been told over and over that you belong at the bottom, how do you come out on top? Dance Moms star and triple threat Nia Sioux shows the way via her story of ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Sioux’s harrowing reality TV ordeal cuts deep, and her subsequent self-assurance is endearing and infectious. It adds up to an inspiring account of reclaiming artistic agency.” - Publisher’s WeeklyWhen you’ve been told over and over that you belong at the bottom, how do you come out on top? Dance Moms star and triple threat Nia Sioux shows the way via her story of
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The Burlesque Handbook

de Jo Weldon ...

“Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she’s my idol.” — Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across AmericaFrom one of the stars of the New Burlesque scene, Jo Weldon, comes a definitive, easy-to-use, and indispensable guide to the art form, with a foreword by superstar comedian and burlesque ... Leer más

$14.49 USD

“Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she’s my idol.” — Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across AmericaFrom one of the stars of the New Burlesque scene, Jo Weldon, comes a definitive, easy-to-use, and indispensable guide to the art form, with a foreword by superstar comedian and burlesque
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Buzz

The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

de Jeffrey Spivak ...

Series series Screen Classics
A biography of the director and choreographer who kept America entertained through the Great Depression: "[A] fascinating read." — PlaybillCharacterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director's chair, Berkeley is ... Leer más

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A biography of the director and choreographer who kept America entertained through the Great Depression: "[A] fascinating read." — PlaybillCharacterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director's chair, Berkeley is
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George Balanchine

The Ballet Maker

de Robert Gottlieb ...

Series Libro 48 - Eminent Lives
"Gottlieb captures both the divine and human, offering an elegant, sharp, and sophisticated take on the choreographer's life." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer and founder of The New York City Ballet.The foremost contemporary ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

"Gottlieb captures both the divine and human, offering an elegant, sharp, and sophisticated take on the choreographer's life." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer and founder of The New York City Ballet.The foremost contemporary
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The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

The Making of Tanztheater

Edición de Royd Climenhaga ...

Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections ... Leer más

$66.59 USD

Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections
... Leer más
Valuing Dance

Commodities and Gifts in Motion

de Susan Leigh Foster ...

Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history ... Leer más

$35.63 USD

Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history
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Illustrated Handbook of Salsa Dance Patterns

de Marisol Enchufa ...

Series Libro 2 - Handbook of Salsa Dance
This Handbook provides a breakdown of common positions, holds, turns, and patterns. It contains 36 dance positions, 51 dance patterns, 184 illustrations, 12 dance pattern combinations, and a curated list of links to 83 free online lessons. Each position is illustrated from multiple angles.Are you a beginner or intermediate level salsa dance enthusiast? Do you want to expand your repertoire of ... Leer más

$5.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This Handbook provides a breakdown of common positions, holds, turns, and patterns. It contains 36 dance positions, 51 dance patterns, 184 illustrations, 12 dance pattern combinations, and a curated list of links to 83 free online lessons. Each position is illustrated from multiple angles.Are you a beginner or intermediate level salsa dance enthusiast? Do you want to expand your repertoire of
... Leer más
Your Move

A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

de Ann Hutchinson Guest ...

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations of movement technique and notation symbols it provides a new way to see, to teach and to choreograph dance. This book gives a list of primary actions upon which all physical ... Leer más

$69.29 USD

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations of movement technique and notation symbols it provides a new way to see, to teach and to choreograph dance. This book gives a list of primary actions upon which all physical
... Leer más
Solo im zeitgenössischen Tanz

Choreographie und Entwicklung und Figurenarbeit

de Konstantin Tsakalidis ...

Wie kann ich ein persönliches Tanzsolo entwickeln? Wie kann ich Repertoire mit einem eigenen Stil kreieren? Wie entwickle ich eine dramaturgische Linie und eine Solo-Struktur? Wie entstehen Ausdruck und Tiefe in meinem Tanz? In diesem Arbeitsbuch findest Du zu all diesen und anderen Fragen Antworten und systematische Anleitungen zur Erarbeitung Deines Solos im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

Wie kann ich ein persönliches Tanzsolo entwickeln? Wie kann ich Repertoire mit einem eigenen Stil kreieren? Wie entwickle ich eine dramaturgische Linie und eine Solo-Struktur? Wie entstehen Ausdruck und Tiefe in meinem Tanz? In diesem Arbeitsbuch findest Du zu all diesen und anderen Fragen Antworten und systematische Anleitungen zur Erarbeitung Deines Solos im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der
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La distancia entre la palabra y el movimiento

de Sabrina Castillo Galluser ...

Esta colección de ensayos presenta un registro de los procesos intelectuales y creativos que han acompañado a la autora a lo largo de su quehacer como coreógrafa, en complemento con su formación en las ciencias naturales y la filosofía. El hilo conductor de los artículos es el cuerpo concebido como lugar de enunciación y preocupación fenomenológica, capturado a través de las fotografías de la ... Leer más

$31.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Esta colección de ensayos presenta un registro de los procesos intelectuales y creativos que han acompañado a la autora a lo largo de su quehacer como coreógrafa, en complemento con su formación en las ciencias naturales y la filosofía. El hilo conductor de los artículos es el cuerpo concebido como lugar de enunciación y preocupación fenomenológica, capturado a través de las fotografías de la
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Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases

de Lucas Condró, Manuel Ignacio Moyano ...

De una palabra puede emerger un cuerpo y, de ahí, muchos más. Si esa palabra es «bailar», su significado parece inmediato. Pero visto más de cerca, se oscurece. Es necesario un gesto de precisión para experimentar qué implica «bailar». En Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases, de Lucas Condró, asistimos a ese gesto, delicado y riguroso. El libro recoge una vida de investigación y enseñanza, donde se concibe ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

De una palabra puede emerger un cuerpo y, de ahí, muchos más. Si esa palabra es «bailar», su significado parece inmediato. Pero visto más de cerca, se oscurece. Es necesario un gesto de precisión para experimentar qué implica «bailar». En Asymmetrical-Motion/Clases, de Lucas Condró, asistimos a ese gesto, delicado y riguroso. El libro recoge una vida de investigación y enseñanza, donde se concibe
... Leer más
Choreography: The Basics

de Jenny Roche, Stephanie Burridge ...

Series series The Basics
This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice.Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts, this resource will enhance ... Leer más

$27.89 USD

This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice.Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts, this resource will enhance
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Floating Bones

A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

de Cynthia Roses-Thema ...

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Leer más

$30.59 USD

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic
... Leer más
Moving Notation

de Jill Beck, Joseph Reiser ...

Designed specifically for university-level study, Moving Notation will benefit students and teachers of both dance and music, offering a complete introduction to the theory and practice of musical rhythm and elementary Labanotation. Performing Arts Studies aims to provide stimulating resource books of both a practical and philosophical nature for teachers and students of the performing arts: music ... Leer más

$69.29 USD

Designed specifically for university-level study, Moving Notation will benefit students and teachers of both dance and music, offering a complete introduction to the theory and practice of musical rhythm and elementary Labanotation. Performing Arts Studies aims to provide stimulating resource books of both a practical and philosophical nature for teachers and students of the performing arts: music
... Leer más
Transmission in Motion

The Technologizing of Dance

Edición de Maaike Bleeker ...

How can various technologies, from the more conventional to the very new, be used to archive, share and understand dance movement? How can they become part of new ways of creating dance? What does this tell us about the ways in which technology is part of how we make sense and think?Well-known choreographers and dance collectives including William Forsythe, Siohban Davis, Merce Cunningham, Anne ... Leer más

$62.09 USD

How can various technologies, from the more conventional to the very new, be used to archive, share and understand dance movement? How can they become part of new ways of creating dance? What does this tell us about the ways in which technology is part of how we make sense and think?Well-known choreographers and dance collectives including William Forsythe, Siohban Davis, Merce Cunningham, Anne
... Leer más
Choreography Invisible

The Disappearing Work of Dance

de Anna Pakes ...

Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their particular acts of dancing. What exactly is that thing? And (how) do dances continue to exist when not performed? Anna Pakes seeks to answer these and ... Leer más

$37.25 USD

Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their particular acts of dancing. What exactly is that thing? And (how) do dances continue to exist when not performed? Anna Pakes seeks to answer these and
... Leer más
Singularities

Dance in the Age of Performance

de Andre Lepecki ...

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, ... Leer más

$53.09 USD

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power,
... Leer más
Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing

Enriched edition. The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures

de Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Victor Ball ...

Traducido por John Weaver ...

In "Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing," Raoul-Auger Feuillet presents a pioneering work that intricately explores the fundamentals of dance in the Baroque era. Blending detailed instructional techniques with elegant illustrations, this treatise not only serves as a manual for dancers but also as a cultural artifact reflecting the social and artistic paradigms of its time. Feuillet's meticulous ... Leer más

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In "Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing," Raoul-Auger Feuillet presents a pioneering work that intricately explores the fundamentals of dance in the Baroque era. Blending detailed instructional techniques with elegant illustrations, this treatise not only serves as a manual for dancers but also as a cultural artifact reflecting the social and artistic paradigms of its time. Feuillet's meticulous
... Leer más
Next Week, Swan Lake

Reflections on Dance and Dances

de Selma Jeanne Cohen ...

An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance" ... Leer más

$11.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance"
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The Grand Union

Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976

de Wendy Perron ...

The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Douglas Dunn. Together they unleashed a range of improvised forms from peaceful movement explorations to wildly imaginative collective fantasies. This book delves into ... Leer más

$11.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Douglas Dunn. Together they unleashed a range of improvised forms from peaceful movement explorations to wildly imaginative collective fantasies. This book delves into
... Leer más
Bharata Natyam Adavus

Fundamental and structural principles.

de Gayathri Keshavan ...

This book, elucidates the basic steps called Adavus of Bharata Natyam in the traditional Pandanallur style, as taught by the revered Gurus Sri Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and Sri Muthukumara Pillai, to Sri T.K Narayan and Smt. Jayalakshmi Narayan, parents of the author. It is an honest attempt to explain the various steps with unerring and accurate execution technique. The book offers a visual ... Leer más

$8.10 USD

This book, elucidates the basic steps called Adavus of Bharata Natyam in the traditional Pandanallur style, as taught by the revered Gurus Sri Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and Sri Muthukumara Pillai, to Sri T.K Narayan and Smt. Jayalakshmi Narayan, parents of the author. It is an honest attempt to explain the various steps with unerring and accurate execution technique. The book offers a visual
... Leer más
Leader of the Dance

How to Lead the Dances of Universal Peace

de Dede Callichy ...

Leader of the Dance is a treasure chest for everyone who loves the Dances of Universal Peace and general circle/folk dancing! The book unfolds a map of the journey of becoming a dances leader. As you explore its delightfully illustrated pages, you enrich your own understanding of the dances culture and you learn powerful skills for spreading the cherished values of love, joy and peace through ... Leer más

$3.59 USD

Leader of the Dance is a treasure chest for everyone who loves the Dances of Universal Peace and general circle/folk dancing! The book unfolds a map of the journey of becoming a dances leader. As you explore its delightfully illustrated pages, you enrich your own understanding of the dances culture and you learn powerful skills for spreading the cherished values of love, joy and peace through
... Leer más
Ser danza

Burbujas y esferas en la isla del ballet

de Sarahí Lay Trigo ...

¿Cómo convertirse en primera figura de una compañía internacional de ballet? Con una mirada que trasciende lo técnico y se adentra en lo poético, Sarahí Lay Trigo nos invita a reflexionar sobre las profundidades y los secretos del mundo profesional del ballet. Lejos de un manual o tratado sobre formación dancística, Ser danza es un viaje hacia el corazón del ser que danza. A través de una ... Leer más

$14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

¿Cómo convertirse en primera figura de una compañía internacional de ballet? Con una mirada que trasciende lo técnico y se adentra en lo poético, Sarahí Lay Trigo nos invita a reflexionar sobre las profundidades y los secretos del mundo profesional del ballet. Lejos de un manual o tratado sobre formación dancística, Ser danza es un viaje hacia el corazón del ser que danza. A través de una
... Leer más
Corpo do Mundo

Criações, raízes e caminhos improváveis na poética do movimento

de Lina do Carmo ...

"O corpo é onde a nossa mais profunda verdade é vivida e compartilhada" Lina do Carmo Essencial para todos que praticam ou apreciam a arte da dança e o teatro Corpo do Mundo é o aguardado livro de Lina do Carmo. Aautora aproveita sua autobiografia para transmitir didaticamente, ao mesmo tempo que informalmente, história, filosofia e prática sobre a dança e a expressão teatral do movimento. Lina ... Leer más

$10.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"O corpo é onde a nossa mais profunda verdade é vivida e compartilhada" Lina do Carmo Essencial para todos que praticam ou apreciam a arte da dança e o teatro Corpo do Mundo é o aguardado livro de Lina do Carmo. Aautora aproveita sua autobiografia para transmitir didaticamente, ao mesmo tempo que informalmente, história, filosofia e prática sobre a dança e a expressão teatral do movimento. Lina
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