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Moves - A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement (Hardcover): Katya Bloom, Rosa Shreeves Moves - A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement (Hardcover)
Katya Bloom, Rosa Shreeves
R4,468 Discovery Miles 44 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The aim of this publication is to deepen awareness of the body and the self through meditative movement and dance, rekindle the imagination by developing greater self-awareness, and to provide starting points to create expressive movement. The book suggests a wealth of exercises which stem from the natural movement of the body.

Rudolf Laban (Hardcover): Franc Chamberlain Rudolf Laban (Hardcover)
Franc Chamberlain; Karen Bradley
R4,455 Discovery Miles 44 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rudolf Laban was one of the leading dance theorists of the twentieth century. His work on dance analysis and notation raised the status of dance as both an art form and a scholarly discipline. This is the first book to combine: an overview of Laban's life, work and influences an exploration of his key ideas, including the revolutionary "Laban Movement Analysis" system analysis of his works Die Grunen Clowns and The Mastery of Movement and their relevance to dance theater from the 1920s onwards a detailed exercise-based breakdown of Laban's key teachings. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

The Dance Theatre of Kurt Jooss (Paperback): Suzanne Walther The Dance Theatre of Kurt Jooss (Paperback)
Suzanne Walther
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Published in 1997. This is Volume 3, Part 2 in the Choreography and Dance journal and looks at the dance and the theatre of Kurt Jooss, in context of his times of birth, his evolution of as an artist, Jooss as a teacher and his ballets.

intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance - race, gender, vulnerability (Hardcover): Sidra Lawrence, Michelle... intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance - race, gender, vulnerability (Hardcover)
Sidra Lawrence, Michelle Kisliuk; Contributions by Tracy McMullen, Steven Cornelius, Mark Lomanno, …
R2,758 Discovery Miles 27 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings. Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political. Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

Making Caribbean Dance - Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures (Hardcover): Susanna Sloat Making Caribbean Dance - Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures (Hardcover)
Susanna Sloat
R1,173 R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Save R219 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Susanna Sloat has done it again. Following on the heels of the success of Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk, Sloat's new interdisciplinary collection extends the reach of dance scholarship to command the attention of all genres of forward-thinking students of the Caribbean."--Joan Frosch, University of Florida "Vivid portraits of important, rarely described corners of the Caribbean, revealed through voices both poetic and analytic."--Catherine Evleshin, Portland State University Caribbean dance is a broad category that can include everything from nightclubs to sacred ritual. Making Caribbean Dance connects the dance of the islands with their rich multicultural histories and complex identities. Delving deep into the many forms of ritual, social, carnival, staged, experimental, and performance dance, the book explores some of the most mysterious and beloved, as well as rare and little-known, dance traditions of the region. From the evolution of Indian dance in Trinidad to the barely known rituals of los misterios in the Dominican Republic, this volume looks closely at the vibrant and varied movement vocabulary of the islands. With distinctive and highly illuminating chapters on such topics as experimental dance makers in Puerto Rico, the government's use of dance in shaping national identity in Barbados, the role of calypso and soca in linking Anglophone islands, and the invented dances of dance-hall kings and queens of Jamaica, this volume is an evocative and enlightening exploration of some of the world's most dynamic dance cultures. Susanna Sloat is a writer, editor, and arts consultant in New York City who has written about many kinds of dance. She is the editor of Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity, winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize.

Moving Words - Re-Writing Dance (Hardcover): Gay Morris Moving Words - Re-Writing Dance (Hardcover)
Gay Morris
R4,481 Discovery Miles 44 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as discussion of the ways in which which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives. The contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examining broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's American Document, and the history of oriental dance. The text should be of interest to historians and critics in a variety of fields. It offers students, scholars and critics of performance and culture an overview of the debates swirling within dance, as well as research articles in dance history, theory and criticism.

Moving Words - Re-Writing Dance (Paperback, New): Gay Morris Moving Words - Re-Writing Dance (Paperback, New)
Gay Morris
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives and represents the debates swirling within dance.
The contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examining broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's 'American Document', and the history of oriental dance.

Dance and Gender - An Evidence-based Approach (Hardcover): Wendy Oliver, Doug Risner Dance and Gender - An Evidence-based Approach (Hardcover)
Wendy Oliver, Doug Risner
R2,259 Discovery Miles 22 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Driven by facts and hard data, this volume reveals how gender dynamics affect the lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, students, educators, and others who are involved in the world of dance. It unpacks real issues that matter-not just to dance communities but also to broader societal trends in the West. In these studies, dancers and dance scholars take readers into classrooms, rehearsals, performances, festivals, competitions, college dance departments, and company administrations. They ask incisive questions and analyze data to learn about the role of gender in attitudes, stereotypes, pedagogy, funding inequities, representation, casting, and body image. Dance is an important part of our larger cultural fabric, and this volume adds powerful findings to today's discussions about living in a gendered society.

Dance, Modernity and Culture (Hardcover): Helen Thomas Dance, Modernity and Culture (Hardcover)
Helen Thomas
R4,471 Discovery Miles 44 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In "Dance, Modernity and Culture," Helen Thomas provides an original, interdisciplinary, approach to the study of dance. By examining the development of modern dance in the US during the inter-war period she develops a framework for analyzing dance from a sociological perspective.
In applying her approach to the works of St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham, amongst others, she relates the emergence of modern dance to contemporaneous artistic developments, and locates dance within a wider social and economic context. Thus, she draws attention to the importance of popular culture in the development of modern dance, music and painting, and the crucial role women played in establishing dance as an art form. By way of exemplification, she looks at the work of Yvonne Rainer in order to demonstrate how this sociological approach might be applied to a post-modern work.
"Dance, Modernity and Culture" explores an area of art practice that has long been marginalized by sociologists of art. As an important contribution to dance scholarship this book will be essential reading for all those interested in the performing arts.

Territories of the Visual in Spain and Spanish America - Visual Studies and UK Hispanism (Paperback): Jo Evans, Julia Biggane,... Territories of the Visual in Spain and Spanish America - Visual Studies and UK Hispanism (Paperback)
Jo Evans, Julia Biggane, Nuria Triana-Toribio
R1,107 Discovery Miles 11 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied' viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years. By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories. Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest, concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The projects variously explore different media - including film, sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba, mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands. Offering a map of current and future research in the field, this book provides the first history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Mary Wigman (Hardcover): Mary Anne Santos Newhall Mary Wigman (Hardcover)
Mary Anne Santos Newhall
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book considers dancer, teacher, and choreographer Mary Wigman, a leading innovator in Expressionist dance whose radical explorations of movement and dance theory are credited with expanding the scope of dance as a theatrical art. Now reissued, this book combines: a full account of Wigman's life and work an analysis of her key ideas detailed discussion of her aesthetic theories, including the use of space as an "invisible partner" and the transcendent nature of performance a commentary on her key works, including Hexentanz and The Seven Dances of Life an extensive collection of practical exercises designed to provide an understanding of Wigman's choreographic principles and her uniquely immersive approach to dance. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

Dance, Modernity and Culture (Paperback): Helen Thomas Dance, Modernity and Culture (Paperback)
Helen Thomas
R1,764 Discovery Miles 17 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days




eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415087937

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance - Exercise Sheets (Paperback): Ann Hutchinson Guest Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance - Exercise Sheets (Paperback)
Ann Hutchinson Guest
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dance Matters Too - Markets, Memories, Identities (Hardcover): Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta Dance Matters Too - Markets, Memories, Identities (Hardcover)
Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta
R4,495 Discovery Miles 44 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009), which mapped the interdisciplinary breadth of the field. The chapters presented here continue to underline the uniqueness of a field that is a blend of critical scholarship on aesthetics and performance with the humanities and social sciences. Including diverse material, analytical approaches and perspectives from scholars and practitioners, this multidimensional volume explores debates on dance preservation and tradition in globalizing India, multimedia choreographies and the circulation of dance via electronic media, embodiment and memory, power, democracy and bourgeoning markets, classification and censorship, and corporatization and Bollywood. This tour de force will appeal to those in dance and performance studies, cultural studies, sociology as well as to readers interested in tradition, modernity, gender and globalization.

Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo (Hardcover): Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo (Hardcover)
Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura
R4,757 Discovery Miles 47 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines: * an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh's international assimilation * an exploration of the impact of the social and political issues of post-World War II Japan on the aesthetic development of butoh * metamorphic dance experiences that students of butoh can explore * a glossary of English and Japanese terms. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

Nutrition for Dancers - Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips (Hardcover): Liane Simmel, Eva-Maria Kraft Nutrition for Dancers - Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips (Hardcover)
Liane Simmel, Eva-Maria Kraft
R4,924 Discovery Miles 49 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dancers are top performance athletes on stage - to keep fit and healthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dance training. Nutrition for Dancers provides the principles of nutrition for dancers of all genres. Authors Liane Simmel and Eva- Maria Kraft clarify widespread nutritional mistakes and give advice on how a healthy diet can be incorporated into the everyday life of dancers.

Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (Hardcover): Alexandra Carter Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (Hardcover)
Alexandra Carter
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling prey principally to the misguided assumption that any ballet not performed at the Opera House or 'legitimate' theatre necessarily meant it was of low cultural and artistic merit. Here Alexandra Carter identifies the traditional marginalization of the working class female participants in ballet historiography, and moves on to reinstate the 'lost' period of the music hall ballet and to apply a critical account of that period. Carter examines the working conditions of the dancers, the identities and professional lives of the ballet girls and the ways in which the ballet of the music hall embodied the sexual psyche of the period, particularly in its representations of the ballet girl and the ballerina. By drawing on newspapers, journals, theatre programmes, contemporary fiction, poetry and autobiography, Carter firmly locates the period in its social, economic and artistic context. The book culminates in the argument that there are direct links between the music hall ballet and what has been termed the 'birth' of British ballet in the 1930s; a link so long ignored by dance historians. This work will appeal not only to those interested in nineteenth century studies, but also to those working in the fields of dance studies, gender studies, cultural studies and the performing arts.

Performance Research: On America (Hardcover): Ric Allsopp, Richard (General Editor) Gough, Guest Editor Nick Kaye, Claire... Performance Research: On America (Hardcover)
Ric Allsopp, Richard (General Editor) Gough, Guest Editor Nick Kaye, Claire Macdonald
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On America will respond to the powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and political strategies derived from North America. Counterpointing Letters from Europe, this book will address the use and abuse of images of and from North America, the deconstruction in performance theory and practice of North American art, film and performance, and the presentation of America as genre and fiction.

Beyond Words: Instructor's Manual - Movement Observation and Analysis Instructor's Guidebook (Hardcover, 3rd... Beyond Words: Instructor's Manual - Movement Observation and Analysis Instructor's Guidebook (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Carol-Lynne Moore, Kaoru Yamamoto
R5,814 Discovery Miles 58 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Staging British South Asian Culture - Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre (Hardcover): Jerri Daboo Staging British South Asian Culture - Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre (Hardcover)
Jerri Daboo
R4,774 Discovery Miles 47 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage. From Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams to the finals of Britain's Got Talent, Jerri Daboo reconsiders the centrality of Bollywood and bhangra to theatre made for or about British South Asian communities. Addressing rarely discussed theatre companies such as Rifco, and phenomena such as the emergence of large- scale Bollywood revue performances, this volume goes some way towards remedying the lack of critical discourse around British South Asian theatre. A timely contribution to this growing field, Staging British South Asian Culture is essential reading for any scholar or student interested in exploring the highly contested questions of identity and representation for British South Asian communities.

Nutrition for Dancers - Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips (Paperback): Liane Simmel, Eva-Maria Kraft Nutrition for Dancers - Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips (Paperback)
Liane Simmel, Eva-Maria Kraft
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dancers are top performance athletes on stage - to keep fit and healthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dance training. Nutrition for Dancers provides the principles of nutrition for dancers of all genres. Authors Liane Simmel and Eva- Maria Kraft clarify widespread nutritional mistakes and give advice on how a healthy diet can be incorporated into the everyday life of dancers.

Dance, Access and Inclusion - Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change (Hardcover): Stephanie Burridge, Charlotte... Dance, Access and Inclusion - Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change (Hardcover)
Stephanie Burridge, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
R4,479 Discovery Miles 44 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The arts have a crucial role in empowering young people with special needs through diverse dance initiatives. Inclusive pedagogy that integrates all students in rich, equitable and just dance programmes within education frameworks is occurring alongside enabling projects by community groups and in the professional dance world where many high-profile choreographers actively seek opportunities to work across diversity to inspire creativity. Access and inclusion is increasingly the essence of projects for disenfranchised and traumatised youth who find creative expression, freedom and hope through dance. This volume foregrounds dance for young people with special needs and presents best practice scenarios in schools, communities and the professional sphere. International perspectives come from Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Timor Leste, the UK and the USA. Sections include: inclusive dance pedagogy equality, advocacy and policy changing practice for dance education community dance initiatives professional integrated collaborations

Upward Panic - The Autobiography of Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (Paperback): John P. Anton Upward Panic - The Autobiography of Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (Paperback)
John P. Anton
R2,353 Discovery Miles 23 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Published in 1993.A complete autobiography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman of immense spiritual strength who fought for the arts against the background of war. She contributed impressively throughout her life to the revival of interest in classical Greece, the theatre and choral dance, and advocated an adherence to mythical authenticity rather than a romanticised view of Greek tragic drama.

Dancing with Devtas: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India (Paperback): Andrew Alter Dancing with Devtas: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India (Paperback)
Andrew Alter
R1,625 Discovery Miles 16 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the Central Himalayan region of Garhwal, the gods (devtas) enjoy dancing. Musicians - whether ritual specialists or musical specialists - are therefore an indispensable part of most entertainment and religious events. In shamanistic ceremonies, their incantations, songs and drumming 'make' the gods possess their mediums. In other contexts, such as dramatic theatrical renditions of stories of specific deities, actors 'dance' the role of their character having become possessed by the spirit of their character. Through the powerful sounds of their drumming, musicians cause the gods to dance. Music, and more particularly musical sound, is perceived in Garhwal as a powerful force. Andrew Alter examines music and musical practice in Garhwal from an analytical perspective that explores the nexus between musical sounds and performance events. He provides insight into performance practice, vocal techniques, notions of repertoire classification, instruments, ensembles, performance venues, and dance practice. However, music is not viewed simply as a system of organized sounds such as drum strokes, pitch iterations or repertoire items. Rather, in Garhwal, the music is viewed as a system of knowledge and as a system of beliefs in which meaning and spirituality become articulated through potent sound iterations. Alter makes a significant contribution to the discipline of ethnomusicology through a detailed documentation of musical practice in the context of ritual events. The book offers a traditionally thorough historical-ethnographic study of a region with the aim of integrating the local field-based case studies of musical practices within the broader Garhwali context. The work contains invaluable oral data, which has been carefully transliterated as well as translated. Alter blends a carefully detailed analysis of drumming in conjunction with the complex ritual and social contexts of this sophisticated and semantically rich musical practice.

Doople - The Eternal Law of African Dance (Paperback): Alphonse Tierou Doople - The Eternal Law of African Dance (Paperback)
Alphonse Tierou
R1,777 Discovery Miles 17 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The African dancer requires complete technical mastery and must respect the precise rules handed down by the society of the Masques de Sagesse. Alphonse Tirou is from the Ouenon people of the Ivory Coast. His major study is the first written record of this oral tradition and it explains the movements, codes and meanings of the traditional African dance. It is extremely valuable reading for all those studying or interested in Africa, as dance is such an essential part of this continent's cultural heritage.A former student of the National Institute of Arts at Abidjan, Alphonse Tirou has been a senior dignitary in the Kman of the Masques de Sagesse for over twenty years. He is currently teaching at the Bloa Nam (Movements) dance school in Nmes, which he founded in 1979 and which is still the only school worldwide to research African dance.

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