Dance Books
Lit Verlag Lieder in Erzahlunen Der Bulsa
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£19.76
Alexander Verlag Berlin Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political
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£13.39
Transcript Verlag Dancing Postcolonialism – The National Dance
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.
£26.34
Transcript Verlag Knowledge in Motion – Perspectives of Artistic
Book SynopsisIn a globalised society, dance is gaining in importance as a means of conveying body knowledge: It is perceived as an art form in itself, is fostered and cultivated within the bounds of cultural and educational policy, and is increasingly becoming the subject of research. Dance is in motion all over the world, and with it the knowledge that it holds. But what does body knowledge in motion constitute, how is it produced, how can it be researched and conveyed? Renowned choreographers, dancers, theorists and pedagogues describe the unique potential of dance as an archive and medium as well as its significance at the interface between art and science. Contributors are, among others, Gabriele Brandstetter, Dieter Heitkamp, Royston Maldoom and Meg Stuart.
£16.14
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Lachende Körper – Komikerinnen im Kino der 1910er
Book SynopsisClaudia Preschl's study focusses on female performers in comedies between 1910 and 1918. The book is a contribution to the rediscovery of this early "other" cinema in which comediennes such as "Rosalie", "Léa" or Asta Nielsen played a decisive part. Lachende Körper describes the variety of preposterous body-language and shows how anarchistic body-politics and rebellious strategies of Gender in Early Cinema can be decoded for today.Trade ReviewA book for all those who love cinema. * literaturkritik.de *
£21.25
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Olivier Assayas
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L'Heure d'été and Carlos, he has charted an exciting path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously dealing with the 'fragmentary reality' of life in a global economy. He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics after '68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir A Post-May Adolescence (published as a companion book to this volume) and in his most recent film Après-Mai. This first English-language book about Olivier Assayas includes a major essay by Kent Jones, based on his two decades of correspondence and exchanges of ideas with the filmmaker, as well as contributions from Assayas and his most important artistic collaborators. The central part consists of individual essays on each of his works, written by Chris Chang, Larry Gross, Howard Hampton, Kristin M. Jones, B. Kite, Glenn Kenny, Michael Koresky, Alice Lovejoy, Greil Marcus, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jeff Reichert, Richard Suchenski, and Gina Telaroli.Trade ReviewEnthusiastic, personal, and easy to read.... Recommended. * Choice *The book is really beautiful: the layout is terrific, the illustrations fantastic, well-chosen; it’s truly a wonderful package. -- Some Came RunningA thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir 'A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord', both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...Jones, who writes four of the essays himself, has been in correspondence with Assayas for two decades, and the richness of the book is due not only to his deep affinity for Assayas's work but from the dialogue that has developed between the two of them on the nature of cinema and art. -- Film CommentTable of ContentsPreface, by Kent JonesWestway to the World, by Glenn KennyBlack Boxes. Désordre, by Jeff ReichertCold Comforts. L'Enfant de l'hiver, by Alice LovejoyWhen You Leave, You Want Time to Stand Still. Paris s'éveille, by Michael KoreskyMoving On. Une nouvelle vie, by Kent JonesRevival. L'Eau froide, by Howard HamptonThe Strange Case of Irma Vep. Irma Vep, by Larry GrossAfter Art Cinema. HHH—Portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien, by Kristin M. JonesThe Soul in Times of Danger. Fin août, début septembre, by Richard Suchenski"How Futile Work Is." Les Destinées sentimentales, by B. KiteStop Stop Start Again. Demonlover, by Nick PinkertonBetter to Fade Away. Clean, by Chris ChangThe Doctor Is In. Noise, by Gina TelaroliAnywhere and Everywhere. Boarding Gate, by Kent JonesCosmic Pulses. Eldorado, by Geoffrey O'brienThe Secret Life of Objects. L'Heure d'été, by Greil MarcusWhat the Film Wants. Carlos, by Kent JonesLost Companions and Fleeing Ghosts. Après-Mai, by David Phelps, Kent JonesEarly and In-Between. Short Films, by CollaboratorsDenis Lenoir, Éric Gautier, Sylvie Barthet, and Luc Barnier in conversation with Kent Jones, by Olivier AssayasTen FilmsTimelineFilmographyBibliographyContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments
£21.25
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien A Post–May Adolescence – Letter to Alice Debord
Book SynopsisOlivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, L'Eau froide. The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely personal way of making films. A Post-May Adolescence was first published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on Assayas' body of work, Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones, also published by the Austrian Film Museum.Trade ReviewA thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord, both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...The slim memoir, packaged with two additional essays by Assayas on Debord, is a valuable companion to the Jones collection, which is often in explicit dialogue with Assayas's analysis of his own work. -- Film CommentAssayas' voice is clear, urgent, and persuasive. For him the matter at hand, the subject that keeps slipping away, is the story of how he came to know the work of Guy Debord. This is nothing less that the story of his life. -- Film Quarterly
£13.49
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien The Real Eighties (German–language Edition) –
Book SynopsisA transformative decade that witnessed the U.S. film industry's restructuring under the pressures of neoliberal globalization, the 1980s swept away the last remnants of Old and New Hollywood alike while preparing the ground for today's High Concept wasteland – thus goes an all too familiar tale of decline. The texts assembled in this volume tell a different, altogether more fitful and complex story about Reagan-era Hollywood, attuned to the struggles that went on behind and in front of the camera: interrupted careers, defiant last stands, paths not taken.The book places particular emphasis on modes of realism from within the mainstream of U.S. popular cinema that resisted the tide of the times. The lexicon format, allowing for many perspectives and constellations while imposing none, encourages the reader to make their own connections, drawing out parallel histories that restore a sense of possibility to the canonical course of film history. From forgotten masters to minor works of the greats, from the defining actors of the decade to its definitive genres, from resistant independents to the resistible rise of the multinational corporation: the Real Eighties await rediscovery.
£21.25
ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.(UK)LTD BODY PERCUSSION SOUNDS AND RHYTHMS
Book SynopsisBody percussion is for anybody who is looking for appropriate practice material to start playing sounds and rhythms on her/his own body, even for beginners, for drumming enthusiasts who have some playing experience as well as for professionals. Comes with an accompanying DVD.
£21.56
Archive Books Body Luggage: Migration of Gestures. Migration
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£19.00
Spector Books Ten Cities: Clubbing in Africa and Europe, 1960 -
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£38.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert Tanztherapie - Theorie Und Praxis: Ein Handbuch
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£50.35
Dr Ludwig Reichert Leben Ist Bewegung Ist Musik: Entwicklungen Und
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£42.75
Dr Ludwig Reichert Dance in Iran: Past and Present
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£57.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert Tanztherapie: Theoretische Kontexte Und
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£50.35
Alphascript Publishing Dance
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£16.40
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Theatre Theory Reader
Book SynopsisThe Theatre Theory Reader provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School or Prague Linguistic Circle beginning with early twentieth-century composer and aesthetician Otakar Zich. The majority of the thirty-eight texts date from the 1930s and early 1940s, the period when the Prague Linguistic Circle was most active as both a theoretical laboratory and a focal point for scholars, artists, and intellectuals. A substantial afterword places these writings in context, describing the emergence of the Prague School in an effort to promote a deeper understanding of its texts. Organized thematically and structurally rather than chronologically, the Theatre Theory Reader explores issues and themes in the study of the theater as an art form and as artistic practice. Just as the Prague School theorists viewed theory as a toolbox of approaches to theater analysis, this anthology should be considered a toolbox
£23.75
Abhinav Publications India's Dances
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£20.24
Sandeep Prakashan Documentation of Performing Arts
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£25.49
Shubhi Publications Performing Arts of India: Development and Spread
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£35.62
Roli Books Pvt Ltd Dancing With The Gods
Book SynopsisThis book is an ode to the mythological heritage of Bharatanatyam. The visual narrative captures the rich heritage of this temple dance and its original exponents, the Devadasis or ‘handmaidens of the deity’. Its repertoire of movements and moods bring alive the fascinating stories of Hindu gods and goddesses and their kaleidoscopic lives. In the following pages, the authors have traced the myths and legends that are cherished in our performing arts, to delight the culture-curious reader. And what is interesting is that in these stories, the reader will discover the inter-connectedness of ancient mythologies around the world. Perhaps such discoveries go a long way in validating the role that art plays in connecting civilisations. The book is designed to engage the reader without pedagogy or scholastic strictures, but with a lightness of touch, that entertains while it informs. Because the vision here is to weave information, anecdotes and trivia, together in the spirit of a popular cultural ranconteur. Replete with rare photographs curated from the Sohinimoksha World Dance and Communications archives, complemented by a lucid narrative that wraps facts in the language of romance and adventure, this book promises to be a collector’s item for those who value the legacy of India’s most celebrated dance form. For glimpses of some live performances by Sohini Roychowdhury, and her Sohinimoksha World Dance troupe, celebrating the music, dance, mythology of India and the World, go on-line to ‘Dancing With The God.... with Sohinimoksha World Dance’ at https://youtu.be/naR7p6SKiko
£22.46
Editorial Almuzara Botn de guerra
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£24.21
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. La Ribot. Distinguished anyways
Book SynopsisIn 2021, La Ribot presented Distinguished Anyways at the Spanish Academy in Rome, four pieces that played with sunlight and paint, as part of her project, Distinguished Pieces, developed since 1993. One of these was created specifically for the occasion, creating a dialogue with a specific place. If these pieces were previously presented in theatrical or museum spaces, now they approach architecture, history and even astronomy to create an ephemeral space for representation within a place as peculiar as the Academy.Distinguished Anyways is not only a reflection on the career of an unclassifiable artist at her best, but it is the first book to celebrate one hundred and fifty years of the Spanish Academy in Rome.Text in English, Spanish and Italian.
£28.50
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial ADN Madrid Madrid DNA
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£21.03
Fundamentos Editorial Metodo del Actor's Studio
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£14.79
Ediciones Istmo, S.A. Teora y prctica del canto coral
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£9.74
GEDISA Didctica de la dramatizacin El nio sabe lo que su
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£20.95
Lengua de Trapo Omega
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£15.99
Carena Las mudanzas del cante en tiempos de Silverio
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£36.03
Almuzara La Tauromaquia y el afán totalitario de su
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£15.76
Libargo Gnero e inclusin social actas del III Congreso
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£20.32
Milenio Historias excesos y tribulaciones de la mal
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£17.19
Burning. Veneno del rock
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£21.97
Doce Calles Historia taurina del Real Sitio de Aranjuez.
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£27.98
Museum Tusculanum Press Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory,
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£36.54
Museum Tusculanum Press Chain & Round Dance Patterns: A Method for
Book SynopsisThe object of the present work is to develop a method for a structural analysis of European chain and round dance patterns with a view to establishing a categorisation of these dances according to their basic step patterns. This attempt has never been made before as surprisingly few works have been published on this subject. The first of the three volumes contains an introduction to chain and round dances in Europe and describes the collected data used for the analysis. The second volume explains how to read the catalogues and presents the groupings of the material. The third volume contains the complete material as tables and examples. The study concludes that a series of main categories can be established on the basis of the theoretical models suggested here.
£51.84
University Press of Southern Denmark Dance Spaces: Practices of Movement
Book SynopsisThis book takes as its point of departure diverse conventions of and perspectives on practices and discourses in dance. The anthology is strongly motivated by the fact that space continues to be explored and debated within dance practices and studies as well as the human sciences more generally. Yet, there are still only few publications offering a contemporary view on how the relation between movement and space can be tied to the descriptions and analyses of actual movement practice. Already owing to its embodied nature, dance is essentially spatial. It forms, produces, and takes place in space. It is thus no coincidence that dance studies have increasingly begun to address the complex issue of movement and space. This anthology aims to link conceptual descriptions that concern space as process and in process to the undertakings of specific movement practices in dance. The articles in the anthology address how historical and geopolitical influences impact our understanding and practice of dance art. In them, the kinds of spaces and interrelationships, which different forms of dancing generate, are considered. Aspects of embodied space that dancing relies upon are likewise discussed. Through case examples, the articles take a closer look on how recent artistic practice in dance utilises given environments and constructs space.
£20.70
NIAS Press Performing the Arts of Indonesia: Malay Identity
Book SynopsisThe 2,408 islands of Indonesia's Kepri (Kepulauan Riau or Riau Islands) province are said to be `sprinkled like a shake of pepper' across the Straits of Melaka and South China Sea. For two millennia until colonial times, they were part of the `maritime silk road' between China and Southeast, South and West Asia. Kepri's two million inhabitants thus share a seafaring worldview that is reflected in their traditions and daily life, and is expressed most commonly in the performing arts of its largest and smallest population groups, the Kepri Malays and the formerly nomadic Orang Suku Laut (People of the Sea) respectively. In recent decades, Kepri also has become home to large numbers of immigrants from other parts of Indonesia, some of whom practise the Malay as well as their own ethnic arts. Despite its close proximity to Singapore, this is a little-known world, one brought to life in a fascinating and innovative study. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the volume explores not only the islands' iconic Malay (Melayu) performing arts - music, poetry, dance, martial arts, bardic arts, theatre and ritual - but also issues of space and place, local identity and popular memory. Generously illustrated and with a companion website presenting related audio-visual material, Performing the Arts of Indonesia will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating region.
£77.00
NIAS Press Performing the Arts of Indonesia: Malay Identity
Book SynopsisThe 2,408 islands of Indonesia's Kepri (Kepulauan Riau or Riau Islands) province are said to be `sprinkled like a shake of pepper' across the Straits of Melaka and South China Sea. For two millennia until colonial times, they were part of the `maritime silk road' between China and Southeast, South and West Asia. Kepri's two million inhabitants thus share a seafaring worldview that is reflected in their traditions and daily life, and is expressed most commonly in the performing arts of its largest and smallest population groups, the Kepri Malays and the formerly nomadic Orang Suku Laut (People of the Sea) respectively. In recent decades, Kepri also has become home to large numbers of immigrants from other parts of Indonesia, some of whom practise the Malay as well as their own ethnic arts. Despite its close proximity to Singapore, this is a little-known world, one brought to life in a fascinating and innovative study. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the volume explores not only the islands' iconic Malay (Melayu) performing arts - music, poetry, dance, martial arts, bardic arts, theatre and ritual - but also issues of space and place, local identity and popular memory. Generously illustrated and with a companion website presenting related audio-visual material, Performing the Arts of Indonesia will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating region.Trade ReviewInternationally recognised for her pioneering research into the arts and music of Indonesia, Margaret Kartomi brings together leading scholars of the Malayo-Indonesian world to analyse the relationship between the arts and Malay concepts of identity, place and space. The strategic importance of the islands in the Melaka Straits and the South China Sea is undeniable but this volume is the first in-depth study of how the local peoples express their interpretation of their past and present. The collection is a model of inter-disciplinary research and will be an essential resource for studies of island Southeast Asia. (Virginia Matheson Hooker, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University)
£33.15
Viella Christiana Choreia: Danza E Cristianesimo Tra
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£64.32
Volonte & Co. Suzuki Violin School 1 ItalianFrenchSpanish
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£26.24
Viella Editrice El Teatre del Cos / Il Teatro del Corpo: Dansa,
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£70.37
Gremese Editore Dance in Cuba: From Classical Ballet and
Book SynopsisIn a single volume, Dance in Cuba is the one and only complete reference. It explores all the currents and genres of Cuban dance, from their beginnings to today: from the Ballet Nacional de Cuba to Danza Contempóranea de Cuba; from the many dance companies – such as the extraordinary Acosta Danza – to entertainment dancing. All the facets of the fascinating universe of rhythms and “born to dance” artists of the Big Island.
£21.24
Five Continents Editions Multiverse: Art, Dance, Design, Technology.
Book SynopsisFeaturing visionary creators from various fields, from art and contemporary dance to architecture and robotics, this lavishly illustrated book reports from the forefront of the crossdisciplinary synthesis that creates new forms of art. The project was initiated by Diana Vishneva, principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater in New York (2005-2017) and the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, and a tireless experimenter known for collaborations that have redefined the future of dance. The book presents interviews with choreographers William Forsythe and Carolyn Carlson; photographer Nick Knight; artists Bill Viola and Olafur Eliasson; architects Toyo Ito and Santiago Calatrava; robotics inventor Raffaello d'Andrea, and other creators who actively stretch the conventional limits of their fields. Included in the volume is a DVD of a film created for this project using state-of-the-art technologies to translate the language of dance into that of cinema.
£37.50
Skira The Magic Nut: A Prologue to the Nutcracker
Book SynopsisMulti-disciplined artist Mihail Chemiakin's exquisitely drawn costume sketches, stage sets and production design come to life in this extraordinary record of the two-act ballet premiered in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 2005. Based on "The Story of a Hard Nut" from the Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann, "The Magic Nut" is a ballet conceived by artist Mihail Chemiakin as a prologue to "The Nutcracker" in which we learn how the Nutcracker comes to be. Here Chemiakin tells the story of The Nutcracker's origins creating a fairy tale with a cast of bird-people, sea monsters, satyrs, cats, jellyfish, and, of course, a whole society of rats. In this phantasmagorical interpretation of Hoffman's tale the audience discovers the kind and heroic qualities of young Drosselmeyer, fated to be turned into a Nutcracker for his virtuous deeds. The story contains many of the elements of the classic fairy tale but the anticipated happy ending is ultimately postponed - until the story continues in the Tchaikovsky ballet. The book leads the reader through the ballet, scene by scene, with detailed sketches of the sets, costumes, masks and props created for the production. A virtuoso of invention, of expression through color and unexpected interpretation, the work of Chemiakin could not be better fitted to fairytales. Humorous and engaging, the colorful drawings featured here will delight ballet fans, costume designers, students of theater and art lovers alike.
£27.20
Brill Albee Abroad
Book SynopsisThe final volume of the New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies series expands the analyses of Edward Albee’s theatre beyond Anglophone countries. Ranging from academic essays, performance reviews, and interviews, the selected contributions examine different socio-political contexts, cultural dynamics, linguistic communities, and aesthetic traditions, from the 1960s to our contemporary days. Albee Abroad gladly brings together varied voices from Czech Republic, People’s Republic of China, Brazil, Iran, Germany, Spain, and Greece, thus enriching Albee scholarship with more plural tones.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Michael Y. Bennett 1 A Constant Struggle for Freedom: Edward Albee in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic Tomáš Kacer 2 I’m Not There: Toward Albee’s Reception in China Eddie Hanchen Feng 3 A Volcanic Contribution: The Zoo Story and the 1960s Brazilian Stages Esther Santana 4 Edward Albee on Iranian Stages: A Critical Ethnography Mohammadali (Al) Dabiri and Deniz Khateri 5 American Absurdism as Philosophy: Edward Albee in Germany Philipp Reisner 6 The Communication Paradigm in Recent German Albee Scholarship: A Review Essay Philipp Reisner 7 Edward Albee’s 21st Century Spanish Canon: Bringing It Up to Speed or Honoring the Tradition? Ramón Espejo Romero 8 Albee’s Greek Legacy in The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? Antonia Tsamouris 9 Interview: Philip Arnoult on Albee’s International Leadership Natka Bianchini Index
£82.84
Brill Butoh and Suzuki Performance in Australia
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£130.64
Brill Karbala in the Taziyeh Episode Shii Devotional
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£111.43
