Dance Books
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age
Book SynopsisA decorated hero returns home after multiple tours of duty only to find the lives of loved ones threatened. To make his home safe, he does battle one last time - one time too many. This volume presents a translation of Euripides's "Herakles" along with commentary on the play.
£12.59
Interlink Books Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab
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£26.25
Roberts Rinehart Publishers American Icons
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£18.04
Smithsonian Books Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great
Book SynopsisWhere does the impulse to create originate? How does one cope with the highs and lows of the artist's life? What is the choreographer's responsibility to the dancers, the audience, the self? These are just a few of the probing questions that Rose Eichenbaum, a dancer turned photographer, asks 59 of America's most celebrated choreographers in her five-year quest to understand the secrets of creativity.A collection of photographic portraits and vignettes based on intimate conversations, Masters of Movement takes us on a rare journey into the world of dance, from the concert stage and Broadway to feature films and music videos. Whether through her lens or through the revelations emanating from her masterful interviews, Eichenbaum has succeeded in capturing the essential character of her subjects, who confide experiences and emotions that have driven their creativity and defined their styles.Masters of Movement will inform, empower, and inspire anyone on the creative path—and delight lovers of dance everywhere.
£23.76
Insight Editions World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook
Book SynopsisPrepare a feast fit for a warchief with World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook, a delicious compendium of recipes inspired by the hit online game from Blizzard Entertainment. Prepare a feast fit for a warchief with World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook, a compendium of sweet and savory recipes inspired by the hit game from Blizzard Entertainment. Presenting delicacies favored by the Horde and the Alliance alike, this authorized cookbook teaches apprentice chefs how to conjure up a menu of food and drink from across the realm of Azeroth. Featuring food pairings for each dish, ideas for creating your own Azerothian feasts, and tips on adapting meals to specific diets, this otherworldly culinary guide offers something for everyone. The aromatic Spiced Blossom Soup is perfect for plant-loving druids, and orcs will go berserk for the fall-off-the-bone Beer-Basted Boar Ribs. With alternatives to the more obscure ingredients—just in case you don’t have Chimaerok Chops lying around—this comprehensive cookbook will ensure that you have no trouble staying Well Fed. Each chapter features dishes at a variety of skill levels for a total of more than one hundred easy-to-follow recipes for food and brews, including: • Ancient Pandaren Spices • Fel Eggs and Ham • Mulgore Spice Bread • Dragonbreath Chili • Graccu’s Homemade Meat Pie • Bloodberry Tart • Greatfather’s Winter Ale Whether you’re cooking for two or revitalizing your raid group for a late-night dungeon run, World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook brings the flavors of Azeroth to life like never before.
£28.50
History Press Dance in Saratoga Springs
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£999.99
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Willa Cather and the Dance: 'A Most Satisfying
Book SynopsisAnna Pavlova's revolutionary debut in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House captivated the nation and introduced Americans to the charms of modern ballet. Willa Cather was among the first intellectuals to recognize that dance had suddenly been elevated into a new art form, and she quickly trained herself to become one of the leading balletomanes of her era. Willa Cather and the Dance traces the writer's dance education, starting with the ten-page explication she wrote in 1913 for McClure's magazine called "Training for the Ballet." Cather's interest was sustained through her entire canon as she utilized characters, scenes, and images from almost all of the important dance productions that played in New York.
£113.00
Arcadia Publishing The Grande Ballroom Detroits Rock n Roll Palace
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£999.99
University of Akron Press Artists on Creative Administration
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£999.99
Triumph Books Dream Crazy Big: The JoJo Siwa Story
Book SynopsisJoJo Siwa is only 16 years old, but she’s already captured the hearts and imaginations of fans around the world — and she’s not slowing down!Dream Crazy Big traces every step of this young star’s rise to success, from making a splash on shows like Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition and Dance Moms to creating hilarious YouTube videos and releasing hit songs like “Boomerang” and “#1U.” With dozens of full-color photographs plus coverage of 2019’s D.R.E.A.M. The Tour, this dazzling, inspirational book is a must-have for all Siwanatorz!
£999.99
Taylor Trade Publishing So You Want to Be a Dancer: Practical Advice and
Book SynopsisMatthew Shaffer’s more than twenty years as a performer, choreographer, director, Broadway collaborator, writer, and producer has allowed him opportunities to work with celebrities like Megan Mullally, Ben Stiller, and the elite competition team of Dance Moms. So You Want to Be a Dancer is the ultimate book for anyone who has to fight the urge to sashay down grocery store aisles or school hallways. Shaffer discusses everything from how to break into the industry to practical advice—from how to audition and book a job to dealing with movie stars on-set. So You Want To Be A Dancer is a must-read for any creative entrepreneur, aspiring artist pursuing a career in today’s social media-savvy society, or anyone who savors the heartfelt journey of an artist.Trade ReviewMatthew Shaffer has written the kind of book I wish I would have had available to me as a young dancer. This is a great guide for young dancers and parents alike to understand the many different aspects of this crazy world we call 'show business'. If you are a dancer wanting to know more, I recommend you read this book! -- Mandy Moore, two-time Emmy Award–nominated choreographer, So You Think You Can DanceIf you’re planning a career in the industry as a dancer, do yourself a favor and read Matthew's book. His stories shed light into a world that is often difficult to navigate. It is full of insight and will inform you in invaluable ways. -- Kenny Ortega, three-time Emmy Award–winning director and choreographer whose work includes High School Musical and Dirty DancingMatthew has created great insight into the world of dance. Such important information for any dancer! -- Tyce Diorio, Emmy Award–winning choreographer and artistic director
£999.99
Chicago Review Press The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre,
Book SynopsisThere has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed anecdotes, exclusive interviews, colorful characters, and ironic twists. With dozens of heart-stopping stories, it's the perfect book to dip into on any page.Trade Review"A wonderful read for those looking for a unique twist on true crime." -- Booklist"As someone who's died on stage more times than you'd like to remember, I really enjoyed this book." -- Gilbert Gottfried" The Show Won't Go On is A GIFT FROM HEAVEN . For my entire life, I've been obsessed with how certain comedians died on stage doing what they loved the most. Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns have not only written a fascinating, fun, and essential showbiz history book, they've also answered questions that have haunted me for years, and out to rest long-circulated urban myths." -- Drew Friedman, illustrator"From comedian Dick Shawn to country star Onie Wheeler, this morbid survey of performers who literally died onstage is A REMARKABLE READ . Abraham and Kearns have managed the impossible -- an obsessive book about death that is truly a celebration of life." -- Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians"Sadly, I must say this is A GREAT READ , but I've done at least fifty thousand shows, many in front of sociopaths, so if you want to trust a dead man, be my guest." -- Richard Lewis"This is a COOL, CRAZY, AND VERY ENTERTAINING deep dive into a taboo topic from a pair of pop culture scholars with an appreciation for the overlooked, offbeat, and often dark lore of show business. If I dropped dead reading The Show Won't Go On, I'd have died doing what I loved." -- Legs McNeil, coauthor of Please Kill Me"Absorbing... Both Abraham and Kearns are show business and pop culture savants." -- Vanity Fair Online"There's never been any book like it, which makes it all the more compelling." -- Houston Press
£999.99
Academica Press Balanchine and Me: Be Relevant, Not Reverent
Book SynopsisBorn in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904, George Balanchine was the 20th century's towering figure of classical ballet. Coming to America in 1933, Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, where he hired the Danish-born Peter Martins as a dancer and, later, as a choreographer. Balanchine and Me is dedicated to Martins's profound artistic relationship with George Balanchine, who taught him a new, freer style of dance, and ultimately entrusted Martins with the future of the New York City Ballet, which Martins went on to lead for 35 years. This proved to be an inspired choice as Martins led the company to new heights, strengthened it financially, and initiated many innovative new programs. Peter Martins' insights and anecdotes of working closely with Balanchine are historically important and often highly dramatic. Balanchine and Me is an indispensable resource to anyone interested in dance and the cultural universe of New York City.
£999.99
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada
Book SynopsisMoving Together: Pluralism and Dance in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contributors examine a broad range of dance styles used to promote diversity and intercultural collaborations. Examples include Fijian dance in Vancouver; Japanese dance in Lethbridge; Danish, Chinese, Kathak, and Flamenco dance in Toronto; African and European contemporary dance styles in Montréal; and Ukrainian dance in Cape Breton. Interviews with Indigenous and Middle Eastern dance artists along with an artist statement by a Bharata Natyam and contemporary dance choreographer provide valuable artist perspectives. Contributors offer strategies to decolonize dance education and also challenge longstanding critiques of multiculturalism. Moving Together demonstrates that dance is at the cutting edge of rethinking the contours of race and ethnicity in Canada and is necessary reading for scholars, students, dance artists and audiences, and everyone interested in thinking about the future of racial and ethnic pluralism in Canada.Table of Contents Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada Acknowledgements Introduction / Allana C. Lindgren and Batia Boe Stolar Section One: Setting the Stage 1. Dancing Pluralism in Canada: A Brief Historical Overview / Allana C. Lindgren Section Two: The Discourses of Pluralism 2. Embodying the Canadian Mosaic: The Great West Canadian Folk Dance, Folk Song, and Handicraft Festival, 1930 / Anne Flynn 3. Olé, eh?: Canadian Multicultural Discourses and Atlantic Canadian Flamenco / Batia Boe Stolar 4. Illuminating a Disparate Diaspora: Fijian Dance in Canada / Evadne Kelly 5. Ukrainian Theatrical Dance on the Island: Speaking Back to National and Provincial Images of Multicultural Cape Breton / Marcia Ostashewski 6. Zab Maboungou: Trance and Locating the Other / Bridget E. Cauthery Section Three: Identity Formation and Artistic Agency 7. A Contemporary Global Artist's Perspective / Hari Krishnan 8. Re-imagining the Multicultural Citizen: 'Folk' as Strategy in the Japanese Canadians' 1977 Centennial National Odori Concert / Lisa Doolittle 9. Dance as a Curatorial Practice: Performing Moving Dragon's Koong at the Royal Ontario Museum / Allana C. Lindgren 10. Kinetic Crossroads: Chouinard, Sinha and Castello / Dena Davida Section Four: Education and the Processes of Normalization 11. From Inclusion to Integration: Intercultural Dialogue and Contemporary University Dance Education / Danielle Robinson and Eloisa Domenici 12. A Dance Flash Mob, Canadian Multiculturalism, and Kinesthetic Groupness / Janelle Joseph 13. Contemporary Indigenous Dance in Canada / Carolyne Clare and Samantha Mehra in conversation with Santee Smith 14. ""There Is the Me That Loves to Dance"": Dancing Cultural Identities in Theatre for Young Audiences / Heather Fitzsimmons Frey Section Five: Building Coalitions / Belonging to Communities 15. The Presence and Future of Danish Folk Dancing in Canada / Suzanne Jaeger 16. Glimpses of a Cultural Entrepreneur / Yasmina Ramzy in conversation with P. Megan Andrews 17. Dance and the Fulfillment of Multicultural Desire: The Reflections of an Accidental Ukrainian / Steven Jobbitt 18. Old Roads, New World: Exploring Collaboration through Kathak and Flamenco / Catalina Fellay Contributors Index
£69.30
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Salomania and the Representation of Race and
Book SynopsisSalomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a crucial event and a turning point in the history of the modern business of erotic dance. Framing Salomania with reference to imperial ideologies of motherhood and race, it works toward better understanding the increasing value of the display of the undressed female body in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This study turns critical attention to cultures of maternity in the late 19th century, primarily with reference to the ways in which women are defined in relation to their genitals as patriarchal property and space and are valued according to reproduction as their primary labour. Erotic dance as it takes shape in the modern representation of Salome insists both that the mother is and is not visible in the body of the dancer, a contradiction this study characterizes as reproductive fetishism.Looking at a range of media, the study traces the modern figure of Salome through visual art, writing, early psychoanalysis and dance, from "hootchie kootch" to the performances dancer Maud Allan called “mimeo-dramatic” to mid-20th-century North American films such as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Charles Lamont's Salome, Where She Danced to the 21st-century HBO series The Sopranos.Trade Review“Cecily Devereux’s Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance offers a wealth of new information. The book poignantly reveals the spectacle of middle-class whiteness behind the racialized Salome craze as well as the sexualized labour of the erotic dance industry. Drawing on an impressive corpus including dance, visual art, postcards, literature, and film, this beautifully illustrated book is a boon for scholars and all those interested in the Salome phenomenon.” – Irene Gammel, Toronto Metropolitan University, author of I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton “In this deeply researched book, Cecily Devereux engages psychoanalytic theory to examine how the figure of Salome has been deployed as a reproductive fetish to affirm white heteropatriarchal imperialist objectives from the late nineteenth century to the present. Through insightful analyses of theatrical performances, novellas, films (Sunset Boulevard), and recent television shows (The Sopranos), Devereux situates longstanding fascination with the “daughter of Herodias” within the intertwined histories of erotic dance, white femininity, and Euro-imperial expansion. Timely and invigorating, Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance makes an exciting contribution to interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.” – Marlis Schweitzer, York University, author of Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth CenturyTable of Contents Introduction: Maud Allan and the Salome dance in 1908 1: Erotic dance and the culture of imperial motherhood 2: “Salomé, c’est moi”: male artists and the image of the dancer 3: Enter Herodias: the phallic mother and the reproductive fetish 4: On not seeing Salome in Sunset Boulevard 5: The fetish and the reproduction of whiteness from the Salome corpus to Salome, Where She Danced 6: “Pathmakers for Salome”: the danse du ventre, the hootchie kootch and “Little Egypt” 7: Oscar Wilde, Loie Fuller and Maud Allen 8: Salomania and the memetic moment Epilogue: Salomania’s legacies Works Cited Notes
£69.30
Mosaic Press The Queen of the Moulin Rouge: Her Story
Book SynopsisThis is the unique story of Louise Weber, better known as La Goulue. She became the undisputed Queen of the Moulin Rouge cabaret and the most famous dancer in France in the late 19th century. Toulouse Lautrec immortalized her in his world renowned poster and paintings of her dancing at the Moulin Rouge. She was the toast of Montmartre and Paris, her fame was tied to her outrageous dancing of the can-can, and she was the highest paid performer of her day. This book is the first fully researched and detailed study of La Goulue. The author Maryline Martin mined the archives of the Moulin Rouge where she found the actual diary of Louise Weber, and the Archive of the Prefecture of Paris to create this enormously entertaining and important biography. What emerges is a portrait of a fearless woman who broke all codes of conduct for a late 19th century woman. She willingly trampled on the social, moral, and religious conventions of her time demanding that women be treated as the equal of men. She created her own legend in her own time.
£999.99
Ebury Publishing Behind the Sequins My Life
Book SynopsisShirley Ballas is one of the most renowned dancers in the world. A former British Open to the World Champion, and European, German, UK, USA and International Latin American Champion, her list of accolades is vast and extraordinary.Born and raised in Wallasey, by the age of 21 Shirley had won nearly every major title she competed in. She is still the youngest ever female to reach the British Open to the World Dance Championship finals and the only woman to win it with two male partners. Shirley continued to compete at the highest level after giving birth to her only son - musician, Broadway star and entertainer, Mark Ballas - in 1985.In 1996, Shirley retired from competitive dancing, becoming the highly acclaimed teacher and coach she is today, as well as being the head judge on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
£999.99
Tate Publishing Performing for the Camera
Book SynopsisThe book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice: the documentation of performance works, by artists such as Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama and Merce Cunningham; how performers and photographers have worked collaboratively, such as Nadar and the mime artist Charles Deburau, or Eikoh Hosoe and the choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata; and the work of photographers who have a strong performative element to their practice, such as Charles Ray, Boris Mikhailov and Erwin Wurm. It further explores the construction of self-identity in the work of artists such as Samuel Fosso, Lee Friedlander, Tomoko Sawada, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, as well as the playful, innovative approaches to portraiture adopted by Keith Arnatt and Masahisa Fukase. The result is a fascinating new insight into the ways in which we think about the role of photography in performance art, and of performance within photographic practice. In his introductory essay, Simon Baker provides an insightful overview of the inter-relationship between performance and photography, while a further text examines how performance photography has been used as a tool to explore subjectivity and identity. The work of photography duo Harry Shunk and Janos Kender, who documented a number of the most exciting and important performances of the 1960s and 1970s, is also discussed. With around 300 illustrations of more than ninety key bodies of work, this is the definitive publication on photography and performance, two of the most popular and intriguing art forms of our time.
£999.99
Booth-Clibborn Editions Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet
Book SynopsisIn this first illustrated book of the celebrated choreographer's life and work, extracts from personal journals and letters with photographs from his own collection reveal how some of the masterpieces of 20th century musical theatre and dance came about.
£999.99
Auckland University Press Matamua ko te Kupu!: Te haka tena! Te wana, taku
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£23.96
Kahn & Averill Tensions in the Performance of Music: A Symposium
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this text are Grindea (piano), Havas (strings), Tausky (conducting), Nieman (composing), Gruner (voice), Howard (speech), Ben-Or (Alexander Technique), Lehrer (psychology), de Peyer (clarinet) and Jacobsen (tension control). The reprinted text also carries an additional chapter on guitar playing by Joseph O'Connor.
£999.99
Julie Lyonn Music Lieberman Vln Vla Ergonomics DVD
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£999.99
Les Belles Lettres Angelin Preljocaj, de la Creation a la Memoire de
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£999.99
Klincksieck La Formation Aux Metiers Du Spectacle En Europe
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Les Plaisirs de l'Arsenal: Poesie, Musique, Danse
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier La Danse Ecartelee: Moeurs, Esthetiques Et
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Danser Entre Ciel Et Terre: Le Maitre a Danser Du
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Dictionnaire de l'Opera de Paris Sous l'Ancien
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Dictionnaire de l'Opera de Paris Sous l'Ancien
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£63.00
Classiques Garnier Formes, Emplois Et Evolution Du Livret de Ballet
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier La Representation de la Sorciere Et de la
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Le Livret de Ballet, Un Objet Litteraire ?:
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier La Danse Francaise Et Son Rayonnement: Nouvelles
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£999.99
Brepols N.V. With a Grace Not to Be Captured: Representing the
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£90.25
Brepols N.V. Performing Arts and Technical Issues
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£999.99
Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Le Desoeuvrement Choregraphique: Etude Sur La
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£999.99
JRP Ringier Spacescapes: Dance & Drawing (English Edition)
Book SynopsisThroughout the 20th century, the performing and visual arts have often converged. As artists investigated the embodied value of form, dancers and choreographers experimented with interfaces between annotation and improvisation. These encounters are the focus of this collection, which discusses the interaction of the two mediums since the first public performance of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962. Contributors include Cindy Van Acker, Gabriele Brandstetter, Sarah Burkhalter, Pauline Chevalier, Mark Franko, Katrin Gattinger, Julie Enckell Julliard, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Magali Le Mens, Laetitia Legros, Anna Lovatt, Nolwenn M?gard, Robert Morris, OpenEndedGroup, Nadia Perucic, Catherine Qu?loz, Yvonne Rainer, Robin Rhode, Susan Rosenberg, Laurence Schmidlin, Katia Schneller, Alexander Schwan, Alan Storey and Catherine Wood.
£15.20
Bohlau Verlag Ruth Berghaus Und Paul Dessau: Komponieren -
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£999.99
Harrassowitz Between Fame and Shame: Performing Women - Women
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£999.99
Harrassowitz Yaksagana Rangabhumi: The World of the Yaksagana
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£999.99
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Aspects of Roman Dance Culture: Religious Cults,
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£999.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Tanz Zwischen Asthetik Und Spiritualitat:
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Tanztherapie Im Sitzen
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£28.50
Universitatsverlag Winter Protest Enacted: Activist Performance in the
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£60.80
Logos Verlag Berlin Tranceforms. Das Zar-Ritual ALS Zeitgenossische
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£999.99
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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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Dance in Iran: Past and Present
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£999.99
