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Martha Graham in Love and War: The Life in the Work

Martha Graham in Love and War: The Life in the Work

Mark Franko

Theatre Studies; Choreography; Ballet; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages... [more]

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Still Got it, Never Lost it: My Story

Still Got it, Never Lost it: My Story

Louie Spence

Television; Dance & Performing arts; Choreography; Biography: general; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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'I did everything my sisters did, that's how my dancing days started - they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on... [more]

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Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe

Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe

Rosa Frank

Dance; Choreography

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Dedicated to the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe, this book operates as a collage, drawing together a variety of international... [more]

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Martha Graham: Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer

Martha Graham: Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer

Victoria Thoms

Dance; Choreography; Contemporary dance; Gender studies: women

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In her heyday, Martha Graham's name was internationally recognized within the modern dance world. This book explores the cult... [more]

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The Music of Arbeau's Orchesographie

The Music of Arbeau's Orchesographie

Gustavia Yvonne Kendall

Choreography; Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles

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Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

SanSan Kwan

Dance; Choreography; World music; Cultural studies; Urban communities

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Kinesthetic City uses choreography as subject and method to explore how movement through particular spaces at precise moments... [more]

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A Choreographer's Score: Fase, Rosas Danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok (with Free DVD)

A Choreographer's Score: Fase, Rosas Danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok (with...

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Bojana Cvejic

Choreography

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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately... [more]

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Merce Cunningham - a Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984

Merce Cunningham - a Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984

Merce Cunningham

Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Photographs: collections; Choreography

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A Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984 is a facsimile edition of a spiralbound notebook filled with choreographic notation... [more]

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Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Joshua Legg

Choreography; Contemporary dance

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A lively portrait of modern dance training that gives today's dancers and students the tools to compare the great classical... [more]

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Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image

Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image

Erin Brannigan

Film theory & criticism; Choreography; Theory of music & musicology

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Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform... [more]

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George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker

George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker

Robert Gottlieb

Choreography; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Part of the Eminent Lives Series , this biography describes the life of the dynamic George Balanchine, the foremost contemporary... [more]

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Balanchine the Teacher: Fundamentals That Shaped the First Generation of New York City Ballet Dancers

Balanchine the Teacher: Fundamentals That Shaped the First Generation of...

Barbara Walczak, Una Kai

Choreography; Ballet

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Widely regarded as the foremost choreographer of contemporary ballet, George Balanchine was a major inspiration in the world... [more]

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Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

SanSan Kwan

Dance; Choreography; World music; Cultural studies; Urban communities

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Moving without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts

Moving without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts

Stamatia Portanova

Electronic, holographic & video art; Choreography

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Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body... [more]

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Bruno My Story

Bruno My Story

Bruno Tonioli

Television; Dance; Choreography; Ballroom dancing; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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The eagerly anticipated and highly entertaining memoirs of Strictly Come Dancing's most popular judge. [more]

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Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy

Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy

Erin Manning

Individual photographers; Dance; Choreography; Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Popular philosophy; Media studies; Advertising & society

Paperback

A new philosophy of movement that explores the active relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance,... [more]

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Dance

Dance

Andre Lepecki

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Dance; Choreography

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<p>This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines... [more]

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Bruno My Story

Bruno My Story

Bruno Tonioli

Television; Dance; Choreography; Ballroom dancing; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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The eagerly anticipated and highly entertaining memoirs of Strictly Come Dancing's most popular judge. [more]

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The Pina Bausch Sourcebook: The Making of Tanztheater

The Pina Bausch Sourcebook: The Making of Tanztheater

Royd Climenhaga

Dance; Choreography; Biography: arts & entertainment

Hardback

Pina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to... [more]

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Still Got it, Never Lost it: The Hilarious Autobiography from the Star of TV's Pineapple Dance Studios and Dancing on Ice

Still Got it, Never Lost it: The Hilarious Autobiography from the Star of...

Louie Spence

Television; Choreography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing... [more]

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The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717)

The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener...

Gottfried Taubert

Theatre: technical & background skills; Dance; Choreography; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Educational strategies & policy; Teacher training

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Provides an overview of the author's magnum opus and a master key to some of his most important themes and ideas. This book... [more]

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Advanced Labanotation, Issue 2: Shape, Design, Trace Patterns

Advanced Labanotation, Issue 2: Shape, Design, Trace Patterns

Ann Hutchinson Guest, Rob van Haarst

Choreography

Paperback

This is the first source text on this issue of Labanotation since it was introduced into the system in 1979. It shows the... [more]

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Advanced Labanotation, Volume 1, Part 3: Kneeling, Sitting, Lying

Advanced Labanotation, Volume 1, Part 3: Kneeling, Sitting, Lying

Ann Hutchinson Guest, Rob van Haarst

Choreography

Paperback

A comprehensive manual for writing movement in Labanotation when the body is not supported on the feet. Not only does it analyse... [more]

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Choreutics

Choreutics

Rudolf Laban

Dance; Choreography; Reference works

Paperback

Choreutics gives a cogent account of the basis of Laban's Space Harmony. [more]

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Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces

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