| |
How does the manufacture, design, and commodification of costume inform choreography and determine what dancers have worn on stage?How do certain types of costume influence the experience of dance and choreography for the performers, or for the audience? What political...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-03-31
PDF, ePub
|
***Winner of the International Photography Award for Best Book of 2025***A stunning photographic celebration of The Martha Graham Dance Company on its 100th anniversary, from Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, the creative team behind NYC Dance Project. Founded in 1926 by...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2025-10-07
ePub
|
Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 is a ground-breaking anthology that collects twenty original writings that elucidate critically important somatic and political perspectives on Contact Improvisation (CI). This form of partner dancing that was started...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-11-28
PDF, ePub
|
The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations—evident in expressive qualities like call and response, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-09-23
PDF, ePub
|
On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array of issues to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-08
PDF, ePub
|
In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-03-04
PDF, ePub
|
Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the tradition of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-01
PDF, ePub
|
When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-24
PDF, ePub
|
Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling during the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-27
PDF, ePub
|
From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to educate dancers. It is now found in dance curricula worldwide,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-05
PDF, ePub
|
The emergence of modern dance and the early history of cinema ran concurrent with the European avant-garde's development of pictorial abstraction in the first decades of the 20th century. However, many assume that modernist abstraction resulted from a century of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-11
PDF, ePub
|
Risk, Failure, Play illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-01
PDF, ePub
|
Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-24
PDF
|
One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over. As an African American woman, she broke barriers of race and gender, most notably as the founder...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-23
PDF, ePub
|
Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within the context of neoliberalism and austerity, the book argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-11
PDF, ePub
|
When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-11
PDF, ePub
|
Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department.Dancers as Diplomats tells...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-03
PDF, ePub
|
While female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they wove together techniques and elements drawn from a wide variety of genres and media. Onstage and onscreen, performers borrowed from musical scores...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-03
PDF
|
The relationship between the practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. Dancers, choreographers, and directors are increasingly drawn to screendance, the practice of capturing dance as a moving image mediated...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-05-17
PDF
|