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Princeton Book Company The Dance Experience: Insights into History, Culture and Creativity
Providing an understanding of the history, evolution, and universality of dance as an art form, this guidebook explores the significance of dance in culture, the relationship of dance to other art forms, the contributions of great pioneering choreographers, dancers, and teachers, and the creative process. Highlighting an extensive range of types of dance—including ballet, modern, jazz, tap, folk, ethnic, and social—this comprehensive collection features a variety of engaging essays written by experts in their respective fields. Students of dance, professionals, instructors, and enthusiasts will learn what to look for during a performance, and how to appreciate dance styles from around the world. This newly revised edition includes five new chapters and an extensive, annotated appendix of film resources giving helpful suggestions for viewing that will enhance the dance experience.
£33.40
Princeton Book Company The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these original essays.
£24.40
Princeton Book Company Luigis Jazz Warm Up An Introduction to Jazz Style Technique An Introduction to Jazz Style and Technique
£24.38
Princeton Book Company Jazz Dance Class Beginning Thru Advanced A dance horizons book
£28.89
Princeton Book Company Both Sides of the Mirror: The Science & Art of Ballet
A technical exploration of the art of ballet incorporating findings in the fields of kinesiology, biomechanics, and physiology
£26.97
Princeton Book Company Modern Dance Forms: In Relation to the Other Modern Arts
By relating the development of modern dance to movements in painting, architecture, drama, and music, the book prompts students to develop a keen ear for emerging trends in the arts as a continual resource for dance.
£20.06
Princeton Book Company The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique
The Hawkins dance technique embodies the philosophy that dance should integrate the body, mind, and soul while always following scientific principles. This system of dance training—an approach that continues to influence dancers around the world—is examined through a variety of illustrations. Photographs of dancers illustrate the technique in action. Drawings demonstrate the relationship between movements of the body and everyday objects, such as the similarities between a spiral action of the spine and a barber’s pole or winding staircase. This vibrant text examines Hawkins’s originality, philosophical thinking, and teaching methods.
£24.66
Princeton Book Company How to Teach Beginning Ballet: The First Three Years
Complete with syllibi for each of the three years of beginning ballet instruction, this book helps beginning ballet teachers enter the studio with knowledge and confidence. It begins with the basics of how to prepare for teaching and follows with what to do on the first day of class and how to model terminology and demonstrate positions. Helpful, age-appropriate photographs accompany the outlines of each level of study, and novice instructors are able to adapt each syllabus to the needs of their students. From demonstrating the five positions of the feet and using French terminology to teaching exercises on pointe, this guide is perfect for helping dancers transition into dance teachers or refreshing the skills of current dance instructors.
£29.39
Princeton Book Company Tapworks: A Tap Dictionary and Reference Manual
As the official reference manual of the Dance Masters of America, this tap dance resource contains more than 1,500 up-to-date entries about every facet of this uniquely American art form. It provides a history of tap dance as well as the dancers who defined it. This manual also includes a comprehensive dictionary of tap and dance terminology with a special section devoted to teachers.
£34.60
Princeton Book Company Dance as a Theatre Art Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present
£24.99
Princeton Book Company Language of Ballet: A Dictionary
Complete definition and pronunciation guide for common ballet terms.
£13.95
Princeton Book Company Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History
Ballet and Modern Dance meets the needs of both students and inquisitive dance goers through a narrative focused on the development of Western theatrical dance from the Renaissance to the first decades of the 21st century, incorporating the most recent scholarship and projecting trends. The text is illuminated by excerpts from primary sources and embellished by 65 photos. A section of biographical profiles at the end of the book serves as a supplementary reference source. Intended to be entertaining as well as enlightening the book seeks an additional objective which is the value of dance history as a field of study.
£33.32
Princeton Book Company The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss
This is the story of the founders of modern dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Kurt Joos, whose work in the first half of the 20th century paralleled the independent development of modern dance in Americawithout being influenced by it. Laban is credited as being the most important innovator and guiding force and is best known as the inventor of Labanotation, a symbolic language for describing movement. Wigman became Laban's student in 1913 at a time when he was earning a reputation as an inspired choreographer and movement director. Joos was a young man of 19 when, hearing about Laban's pioneering work, he decided to pay a visit to the master. He soon became his assistant and lead male dancer. This book follows the connective threads of these remarkable individuals throughout their careers in chaotic times.
£19.91
Princeton Book Company Inside Ballet Technique: Separating Anatomical Fact from Fiction in the Ballet Class
A Dance Book Club main selection, this guide offers a general explanation of anatomy, kinesiology, and technique for ballet dancers, students, and teachers.
£19.76
Princeton Book Company Ear Training for the Body: A Dancer's Guide to Music
An approach to music from the dancer's viewpoint, this book offers a two-part exploration of music as it relates to dance, beginning with an introduction to aspects of musicality that dancers—and other music lovers—can explore and put into practice immediately.
£28.98
Princeton Book Company Basic Concepts in Modern Dance A Creative Approach Dance Horizons Book
£20.17
Princeton Book Company Dance Production and Management
Everything from early conceptual work through performance and touring are covered in this how-to book for dance management. Dancers will create a fictional company and follow it through a myriad of steps and complexities necessary for a successful production and troupe. After establishing a mission statement; holding auditions; and considering the specific needs of music, sound, lighting, costuming, and make up, the manual provides would-be dance directors with basic theater terminology and the skills needed when planning marketing and public relations campaigns.
£23.42
Princeton Book Company Appreciating Dance: A Guide to the World's Liveliest Art
Appreciating Dance is a thorough and accurate history of various forms of dance, analyzing everything from social dance, and ballet to modern dance, tap, jazz, theatrical dance and contemporary dance. In it readers will find: a brief biography of notable dancers and choreographers; information needed to expand the enjoyment of performance; the intersection of dance and religion; the history of dance through the beginning of the 21st century; and budding dance trends. Every chapter in this fifth edition has been updated and revised with new information, including suggestions for YouTube viewing at the end of each chapter.
£34.95
Princeton Book Company The Art of Making Dances
Written just before the author's death in 1958, this book is an autobiography in art, a gathering of experiences in performance, and a lucid and practical source book on choreography.
£23.95
