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The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History
Timothy Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Dance & Performing arts
Paperback
A challenging range of films is covered offering the readers ways of understanding why, whatever the controversies surrounding... [more]
Merce Cunningham: Creative Elements
David Vaughan
Theatre Studies; Dance
Hardback
Merce Cunningham reached the age of 75 in 1994, an age at which many creative artists are content to rest on their laurels,... [more]
The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance and Exercise
Andrew Hill
Dance; Psychology; Sports psychology
Paperback
Perfectionism has been found to play an important yet complex role in sport,... [more]
Odori: Japanese Dance
Kasyo Matida
Dance
Paperback
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. [more]
Performance and Professional Wrestling
Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, Claire Warden
Other performing arts; Wrestling
Hardback
The first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies.... [more]
The Art of Crime: The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet
Leslie Kane
Dance & Performing arts
Paperback
This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness... [more]
Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain
Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dance; Music: styles & genres
Hardback
Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain explores the relationship between regional identity politics... [more]
Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D...
Mary McClung (Professor of Costume Design, West Virginia University.)
Art techniques & principles; Theatre: technical & background skills; Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre
Paperback
Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D Shapes explains how to create your theatrical prop,... [more]
Martha Graham: A special issue of the journal Choreography and Dance
Alice Helpern
Theatre Studies; Dance
Hardback
This publication examines Martha Graham's radical period , the body of work from the 1930s and 40s which culminated in the... [more]
A Strange Proximity: Stage Presence, Failure, and the Ethics of Attention...
Jon Foley Sherman (Franklin & Marshall College, USA), Jon Foley Sherman
Theatre Studies; Dance & Performing arts
Paperback
What happens in the relationship between audience and performer? What choices are made in the space of performance about... [more]
Performing for the Camera
Simon Baker
Photography & photographs; Dance & Performing arts
Paperback
Performing for the Camera examines how the photograph has both documented and developed our understanding of performance since... [more]
The Decroux Sourcebook
Thomas Leabhart (Pomona College, California, USA), Franc Chamberlain (University College, Cork, Ireland)
Individual actors & performers; Mime
Hardback
Suitable as a companion to Etienne Decroux in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series, this work illustrates Etienne... [more]
Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music: Choreomusicological Perspectives on...
Mohd Anis Md Nor, Kendra Stepputat
Dance; Music: styles & genres
Hardback
Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity, where music and dance, sound and movement,... [more]
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader
Katie Lavers, Peta Tait
Circus
Paperback
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings... [more]
Victorian Magic
Geoffrey Lamb
Conjuring & magic; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history
Hardback
First published in 1976. This title brings the Victorian era to life with stories of its spectacular leading magicians, conjurers,... [more]
Improvisation Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945
Roger Dean, Hazel Smith
Dance & Performing arts
Paperback
In presenting their definition of improvisation, the authors consider developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945... [more]
101 Magic Tricks: Any Time. Any Place. - Step by step instructions to engage,...
Bryan Miles
Conjuring & magic
Paperback
Now is your chance to learn 101 magic tricks, specially selected for the amateur, which don't require any equipment, and are... [more]
Metaphor and Musical Thought
Michael Spitzer
Dance & Performing arts; Music; History
Paperback
Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, this book offers an evaluation and an original theory of... [more]
The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance and Exercise
Andrew Hill
Dance; Psychology; Sports psychology
Hardback
Perfectionism has been found to play an important yet complex role in sport,... [more]
The Royal Ballet Yearbook: 2015/16
Royal Ballet
Ballet; Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs
Paperback
Refreshed and redesigned new installment in the Royal Ballet Yearbook series. [more]
Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D...
Mary McClung (Professor of Costume Design, West Virginia University.)
Art techniques & principles; Theatre: technical & background skills; Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre
Hardback
Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D Shapes explains how to create your theatrical prop,... [more]
Dance As Education: Towards A National Dance Culture
Peter Brinson
Dance; Teaching of a specific subject; Sports & outdoor recreation (Children's&YA)
Hardback
In this volume the author examines the place of dance in contemporary Britain. Doing so, he sets out to provide the historical,... [more]
A Strange Proximity: Stage Presence, Failure, and the Ethics of Attention...
Jon Foley Sherman (Franklin & Marshall College, USA)
Theatre Studies; Dance & Performing arts
Hardback
What happens in the relationship between audience and performer? What choices are made in the space of performance about... [more]
Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course
Anna Paskevska
Ballet
Hardback
Designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training, this book introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique,... [more]
William Forsythe
Senta Driver
Dance; Ballet
Hardback
A study of the American classical ballet choreographer William Forsythe. It contains primary source material as well as the... [more]
