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Sexuality, Gender and Identity: Critical Issues in Dance Education
Doug Risner (Wayne State University, USA), Julie Kerr-Berry (Minnesota State University-Mankato, USA)
Dance; Moral & social purpose of education; Teaching of a specific subject
Hardback
Sexuality is a difficult topic for all educators. Dance teachers and educators are not immune to these educational challenges,... [more]
Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on dance, young people and...
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen (Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen), Stephanie Burridge (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Dance; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Physical education (including dance)
Paperback
Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring... [more]
Bulls Before Breakfast
Peter Milligan
Animal spectacles; Memoirs; Cultural studies; Travel writing
Hardback
A wild and insightful guide to the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, by a man who has done it more than 70 times.... [more]
Eurythmy: A Short Introduction to the Art of Movement
Thomas Poplawski
Dance; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)
Paperback
A concise but informative guide to the three main strands of eurythmy: performance, education and therapy. [more]
The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts
Ajay Heble (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada), Rebecca Caines (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Performance art; Acting techniques; Dance; Jazz
Paperback
Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention.... [more]
The Wiggles: Cinderemma!: 25th Anniversary Audiobook
Dance & Performing arts
CD-Extra
After the incredible success of CinderEmma! at The Wiggles BIG Show tour across Australia at the end of 2015, comes the audiobook... [more]
Creative Dance for All Ages
Anne Green Gilbert
Dance; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Physical education (including dance)
Paperback
Provides a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. This book demystifies expectations... [more]
Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance...
Steve Dixon (Brunel University)
Installation art; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Paperback
The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media... [more]
Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on dance, young people and...
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen (Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen), Stephanie Burridge (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Dance; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Physical education (including dance)
Hardback
Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring... [more]
Game of Thrones: In Memoriam
Robb Pearlman
Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Dance & Performing arts
Hardback
Game of Thrones: In Memoriam is a tribute to some of the most memorable characters that have died during the course of the... [more]
Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power
Professor J. R. Mulryne, Maria Ines Aliverti, Anna-Maria Testaverde
Pageants, parades, festivals; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
Hardback
Features essays that concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent... [more]
Dancer Wellness
Mary Virginia Wilmerding, Donna Krasnow, IADMS
Dance
Mixed media product
Dancer Wellness, created by the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, offers guidance on the foundations,... [more]
The Secret History Of Twin Peaks
Mark Frost
Dance & Performing arts
Audio
From the co-creator of the landmark television series Twin Peaks comes a novel that deepens the mysteries of that iconic town... [more]
City of the Dead and Ballade Nocturne
Gao Xingjian
Dance; Opera; Poetry; Plays & playscripts
Hardback
City of the Dead and Ballade Nocturne are two plays by Gao Xingjian, the Nobel laureate, which create new modes of theatrical... [more]
The Choreographic
Jenn Joy
Choreography
Paperback
An investigation of dance and choreography that views them not only as artistic strategies but also as intrinsically theoretical... [more]
Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet...
Janice Ross
Choreography; Biography: arts & entertainment
Hardback
The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism [more]
The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Georgia J. Cowart
Ballet; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Opera
Paperback
Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy... [more]
The Well-Dressed Puppet: A Guide to Creating Puppet Costumes
Cheralyn Lambeth
Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre
Paperback
Costumes are an integral part of any performance, adding believability, conveying setting, or establishing the tone, a fact... [more]
Dance and Fashion
Mary Davis, Colleen Hill, Melissa Marra, Emma McClendon
History of fashion; Theatre Studies; Dance
Hardback
The first book to explore the synergy between dance and fashion, featuring a wide range of dance-fashion collaborations and... [more]
Bodies of Thought: Twelve Australian choreographers
Erin Brannigan, Virginia Baxter
Theatre Studies; Choreography
Paperback
This book features a generation of award-winning, innovative Australian choreographers with international reputations and... [more]
Body and Mind in Motion: Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation
Glenna Batson, Margaret Wilson
Dance; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
Hardback
Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. This book brings... [more]
Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
Victoria Tennant
Ballet; Biography: arts & entertainment
Hardback
Tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet's most glamorous stars,... [more]
The Wiggles: Cinderemma!: 25th Anniversary Audiobook
Dance & Performing arts
Audio
After the incredible success of CinderEmma! at The Wiggles BIG Show tour across Australia at the end of 2015, comes the audiobook... [more]
Burning Man: Art on Fire
Jennifer M. Raiser
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Pageants, parades, festivals
Hardback
Burning Man: Art on Fire is an authorized collection of the best of Burning Man art and photography that captures the amazing... [more]
