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Performance Philosophy eBook Series

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  • Choreographing Problems

    Expressive Concepts in Contemporary Dance and Performance

    by Bojana Cvejic ...
    Series series Performance Philosophy
    This book illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers. A discussion of key issues in contemporary performance from the viewpoint of Deleuze, Spinoza and Bergson is accompanied by intricate analyses of seven groundbreaking dance performances. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Wrights & Wrongs

    My Life in Dance

    by Peter Wright ...
    Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television.Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Modern Dance

    Seven Statements of Belief

    by José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins ...
    CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Island Possessed

    by Katherine Dunham ...
    Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances

    Outrage at Couple Dancing in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

    by Mark Knowles ...
    The waltz, perhaps the most beloved social dance of the 19th and early 20th centuries, once provoked outrage from religious leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of social morality. Decrying the corrupting influence of social dancing, they failed to suppress the popularity of the waltz or other dance crazes of the period, including the Charleston, the tango, and "animal dances" such as the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Beyond the Dance Floor

    Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture

    by Rebekah Farrugia ...
    A pathbreaking study of the women who create electronic dance music, Beyond the Dance Floor focuses on the largely neglected relationship between these women and the conceptions of gender and technology that continue to inform the male-dominated culture surrounding electronic music. In this volume, Rebekah Farrugia explores a number of important issues, including the politics of identity and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • How To Become A Good Dancer

    by Arthur Murray ...
    This early work by Arthur Murray is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Its 250 pages contain a wealth of information on how to learn the art of dancing and include chapters on the Fox Trot, the Rumba the Mambo, all accompanied by instructional diagrams. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in ballroom dancing and a willingness to learn. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rudolf Laban

    The Dancer of the Crystal

    by Evelyn Doerr ...
    Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter, sculptor, and architect, and allowed those skills to influence his innovative choreographic techniques. His important works and his creation of one of the most significant forms of dance notation make him an essential component of dance history. Rudolf Laban: The Dancer of the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Dancing Tango

    Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World

    by Kathy Davis ...
    Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, ... Read more

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  • From Petipa to Balanchine

    Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet

    by Tim Scholl ...
    In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a thoughtful re-appraisal of dance classicism he locates the roots of modern ballet in the works of Marius Petipa, rather than in the much-celebrated choreographic experiements of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Acting and Being

    Explorations in Embodied Performance

    by Elizabeth Hess ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints) Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini yoga) and related performance disciplines (Mask, Puppetry). Behavioral, physiological and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Performing Religion in Public

    Edited by J. Edelman, C. Chambers, S. du Toit ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD