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The practice of dance holds a paradox at its core: we view dance as a uniquely human thing, and yet, training in technique and choreography produces the dancer as a mechanized body whose porousness of boundaries mark the more-than-human condition of our present....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-14
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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-03-31
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This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and Music Symposium (Pomona College, March 13-16, 2023), and includes a wide variety of readings on Middle Eastern Dance and Music. The writers range from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-18
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***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
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In 1933, George Balanchine arrived in the United States, brought by even younger sponsors who had dreamed of inventing an American ballet. He came with extraordinary skills: he had trained as a child in Russia's imperial dance academy, he had absorbed the utopian ideals...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-19
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K-Pop: The Ultimate Fan Book is your essential guide to all the bands, songs and styles behind the most diverse and exciting genre in pop music today. 2018 was a breakout year for K-Pop (Korean Pop) on the global stage, with boy-band BTS reaching number 1 in the UK...
Editeur :
Welbeck
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2025-06-12
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Channel your inner brat through Charli XCX’s own words of wisdomFrom playing at raves in London with her parents at fifteen to the global phenomenon of Brat, Charli XCX has always carved out her own space in the pop world.In this book you’ll find Charli’s unique...
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Dk
Parution :
2025-05-27
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Unmaking Contact interrogates “contact”, understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-21
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In der kulturellen Praxis des Tango Argentino wird die Semantik einer Überschneidung hegemonialer Diskurse sichtbar, die insbesondere durch binäre Geschlechterrollen und heteronormative Performanz gekennzeichnet sind. Im Kontext der leidenschaftlichen und emotionalen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-14
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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
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The second edition of Frederick Ashton's Ballets: Style, Performance, Choreography adds two further ballets to this ground-breaking study of Frederick Ashton's choreography. It not only examines the contribution these ballets made to twentieth century dance art, but...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-08
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Wayne Sleep has lived an action-packed life among the great and the good of his generation. He danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury, performed with Princess Diana, becoming her close friend, and found himself a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Magic moments and memories from the world capital of dance Ask a Strictly star at the start of their journey what their goal is and the chances are they'll say 'Getting to Blackpool.' The iconic Tower Ballroom has been a Mecca to the ballroom dancing world since 1894,...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2024-09-12
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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
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The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance examines what the face does in dance and what it may mean. Author Sherril Dodds focuses on popular presentational dance, which...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-11-28
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From the photographer behind the Instagram sensation Brown Girls Do Ballet, this stunning coffee-table book showcases breathtaking images of ballerinas of color of all ages and levels that reflect today’s beautifully diverse world of...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2023-09-26
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*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe has captured our hearts with his mesmerising talent, bringing joy to millions of fans and wowing the most critical of judges. He is loved not only for his...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2023-09-07
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'We come for the glitter, but instead we get the grit, in stories told with insight, tenderness and joy.' - Russell T DaviesWith a foreword by Steph McGovern'I never thought I'd write a memoir. I never thought I'd do a lot of the things I have done in my thirty-four...
Editeur :
Kyle Books
Parution :
2023-08-24
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When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-03-17
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The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2022-10-13
Collection :
Buckingham
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