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101 Drama Games and Activities: Theatre Games for Children and Adults, including Warm-ups, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

By: Farmer, David

Price: $11.99

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: April 2009

Seller ID: 256233

ISBN: 1442131616

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Gain access to a personal collection of 101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Sections include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups. This unique book has been developed over a thirty year career in education and theatre, through workshops with actors, teachers and children around the world. The pages are packed with tried and tested ideas for a whole range of activities useful for drama lessons, workshops or rehearsals. 'Belongs amongst the top 10 books any director or drama teacher should own...
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

By: Jennifer Homans

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: November 2011

Seller ID: 124570

ISBN: 0812968743

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, "Apollo's Angels"--the first cultural history of ballet ever written--is a groundbreaking work. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, emigre ...
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

By: Jennifer Homans

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Random House: November 2010

Seller ID: 254668

ISBN: 1400060605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

One of "The New York Times Book Review"'s 10 Best Books of the Year For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing "The Sleeping Beauty" today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. Ballet has been shaped by the Renaissance and Classicism, th...
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Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

By: Elizabeth Kendall

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: July 2013

Seller ID: 81564

ISBN: 019995934X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the Lost Muse sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale about this decisive period in the life of t...
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Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses His Roles

By: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: December 1976

Seller ID: 257492

ISBN: 0394403452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light reading wear.
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Bewegungsanalyse von Interaktionen -- Movement Analysis of Interaction (German Edition)

By: Susanne Bender

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Logos Verlag: July 2010

Seller ID: 98000

ISBN: 3832525165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Body Movement: Coping with the Environment

By: Irmgard Bartenieff, Dori Lewis

Price: $72.50

Publisher: Routledge: December 1979

Seller ID: 253869

ISBN: 0677055005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Carmens Dance: A Fantasy of Spanish Flamenco and Opera

By: N/A

Price: $34.98

Publisher: EarBOOKS: January 2003

Seller ID: 89462

ISBN: 3937406034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Carmen, as the title figure of the opera of the same name, has become a legend. Her name is synonymous with the passionate Spanish woman, love and jealousy, Seville, and ultimately with flamenco. Heading away from the beaten track, photographers Tina Deininger and Gerhard Jaugstetter have gone in search of the Carmen myth and have captured the authentic flamenco style in dramatic pictures. Music CDs: Vibrant flamenco guitars, Spanish orchestral works, and a selection from Bizet's "Carmen." The main theme is performed by Jennifer Larmore under the direction of Guiseppe Sinopoli.
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Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation, and Power

By: Anthony Shay

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Wesleyan: July 2002

Seller ID: 73826

ISBN: 0819565210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Over the past fifty years national dance companies from Turkey, Egypt, Mexico, Greece, the former USSR and Croatia have dominated concert stages throughout the world. Anthony Shay makes coherent sense of these national programs, which have previously received scant academic attention. Specifically, he looks at the ways through which these companies spread political, ethnic and cultural messages by accruing symbolic and cultural capital for their respective nation-states. In his analysis, Shay draws on cultural studies, political science and anthropology to create a work that cuts across discip...
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Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora (Studies in International Performance)

By: Ketu Katrak

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: September 2011

Seller ID: 61716

ISBN: 0230278558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.
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Dance As Life : A Season with American Ballet Theatre

By: Franklin Stevens

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: January 1976

Seller ID: 236162

ISBN: 0060141034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War (Studies in Dance History)

By: Naima Prevots

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Wesleyan: April 1999

Seller ID: 17757

ISBN: 0819564648

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhower inaugurated a program of cultural exchange that sent American dancers and other artists to political "hot spots" overseas. This peacetime gambit by a warrior hero was a resounding success. Among the artists chosen for international duty were Jose Limon, who led his company on the first government-sponsored tour of South America; Martha Graham, whose famed ensemble crisscrossed southeast Asia; Alvin Ailey, whose company brought audiences to their feet throughout the South Pacific; and George Balanchine, whose New York City Ballet c...
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Dance-Movement Therapy: Mirror of Our Selves : A Psychoanalytic Approach

By: Elaine V. Siegel

Price: $25.98

Publisher: Human Sciences Press: July 1984

Seller ID: 253868

ISBN: 0898851939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday

By: Jordan Matter

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: November 2012

Seller ID: 73882

ISBN: 0761171703

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. "Dancers Among Us" presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking--but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up, eager to see the next bit of magic.Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So, dre...
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Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday

By: Jordan Matter

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: November 2012

Seller ID: 186749

ISBN: 0761171703

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Drama Games and Improvs: Games for the Classroom and Beyond

By: Justine Jones,Mary Ann Kelley

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Meriwether Pub: November 2007

Seller ID: 256236

ISBN: 1566081475

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A semester-long curriculum guide using improv games to teach basic drama skills. If used with Improv Ideas by the same authors, there are enough games and ideas to provide for more than a year's work. Select from more than 134 games It's adaptable to all age groups - from beginners to experts. The lessons are structured sequentially with emphasis on group building. It's designed to teach holistically. Students are unaware they are being taught many new skills with every lesson. This curriculum is the culmination of many years of evolution and testing.
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Eight theoretical approaches in dance-movement therapy

By: N/A

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co: January 1979

Seller ID: 253887

ISBN: 0840320264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Folk dances of European countries (The Folk dance library)

By: Anne Schley Duggan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ronald Press Co: January 1948

Seller ID: 263470

ISBN: B0007F0QCA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture

By: Sydney Hutchinson

Price: $19.95

Publisher: University of Arizona Press: June 2007

Seller ID: 14227

ISBN: 081652632X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Salsa and merengue are now so popular that they are household words for Americans of all ethnic backgrounds. Recent media attention is helping other Caribbean music styles like bachata to attain a similar status. Yet popular Mexican American dances remain unknown and invisible to most non-Latinos. Quebradita, meaning "little break," is a modern Mexican American dance style that became hugely popular in Los Angeles and across the southwestern United States during the early to mid 1990s. Over the decade of its popularity, this dance craze offered insights into the social and cultural experience ...
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How to Become a Good Dancer

By: Kathryn Arthur; MurrayMurray

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1954

Seller ID: 33076

ISBN: B00C3CQRKA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Very good hardcover, complete with 'THe Murry Footprints' pull out!
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I Was a Dancer

By: Jacques D'Amboise

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Knopf: March 2011

Seller ID: 254652

ISBN: 1400042348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer." In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d'Amboise, one of America's most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary story of his life in dance, and of America's most renowned and admired dance companies. He writes of his classical studies beginning at the age of eight at The School of American Ballet. At tw...
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In Strangers' Arms: The Magic of the Tango

By: Beatriz Dujovne

Price: $18.95

Publisher: McFarland & Company: July 2011

Seller ID: 261044

ISBN: 0786463899

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir

By: Jose Limon

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Wesleyan: September 2001

Seller ID: 17396

ISBN: 0819565059

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Both as a dancer and a choreographer, Jose Limon electrified audiences from the1930s to the 1960s. With his striking looks and charismatic presence, he was American modern dance's first male star. Born in Culiacan, Mexico, in 1908, the eldest of twelve children, he came to the United States when he was seven. In 1928, after a year at UCLA as an art major, he left for New York. Here, he attended his first modern dance concert and discovered his destiny. He spent the 1930s with the Humphrey-Weidman group. Then, in the 1940s, after a stint in the army, and with Doris Humphrey as artistic advi...
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Learn to Speak Dance: A Guide to Creating, Performing & Promoting Your Moves

By: Ann-Marie Williams

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Owlkids Books: August 2011

Seller ID: 97305

ISBN: 192681889X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Watching a flashy music video or an episode of So You Think You Can Dance probably makes most people a little shy about their dancing skills, but we all know how to dance. After all, dance is just a mashup of everyday movement and imagination. And while a musician might learn how to play piano or guitar, a dancer's instrument is the human body. We just need to explore the unique, artistic voice inside that instrument -- and Learn to Speak Dance is all about helping kids do just that Drawing upon years of experience as a dancer and dance teacher, author Ann-Marie Williams exposes every aspect ...
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Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great Choreographers

By: Rose Eichenbaum

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Smithsonian: October 2007

Seller ID: 58045

ISBN: 1588342484

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Where 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 Broa...
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Migel Ballerinas (A Da Capo paperback)

By: Out Of Print

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Da Capo Press: March 1980

Seller ID: 236725

ISBN: 0306801159

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Movement Analysis - Bewegungsanalyse: The Legacy of Laban, Bartenieff, Lamb and Kestenberg (German Edition)

By: Susanne Bender

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Logos Verlag: July 2007

Seller ID: 183126

ISBN: 383251614X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

New Directions in Indian Dance

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Marg Foundation: July 2006

Seller ID: 17988

ISBN: 8185026629

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Nijinsky

By: Richard Buckle

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 1972

Seller ID: 201051

ISBN: 0671211692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Perpetual Motion: The Public and Private Lives of Rudolf Nureyev

By: Otis Stuart

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1995

Seller ID: 191242

ISBN: 0671875396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Perspectives on Korean Dance

By: Judy Van Zile

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Wesleyan: December 2001

Seller ID: 77703

ISBN: 081956494X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From palace to village street to international stage, Korean dance is a vibrant and complex art comprised of many different forms. In Perspectives on Korean Dance, Judy Van Zile brings together the first comprehensive English language study of this multifaceted art. Van Zile's broad overview includes explanations of key terminology and iconography, as well as discussions of the Korean National Treasure system, the role of shamanic dances when they are performed outside of sacred or ritual contexts, and facets of the careers of Kim Ch'on-hung, a former court dancer, and Ch'oe Sung-hui, who tour...
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Play Dancing: Discovering and Developing Creativity in Young Children

By: Diane Lynch Fraser

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers: December 1990

Seller ID: 253885

ISBN: 0871271524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A creative movement program developed to foster confidence and creativity.
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Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 13864

ISBN: 029918014X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume an impressive range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era, such as Anna Halprin's West Coast experiments, the innovative Judson Dance Theater, avant-garde dance subcultures in New York, the work of Meredith Monk and Kenneth King, and parallel movements in Britain. The contributors include Janice Ross, Leslie Satin, Noel Carroll, Gus Solomons jr., Deborah Jowitt, Stephanie Jordan, Joan Acocella, and Sally Banes.
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Sacred Dance: Encounter With the Gods (Art and Imagination)

By: Maria-Grabiele Wosien

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: August 1986

Seller ID: 215835

ISBN: 0500810060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures -- from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge, visionary thinking, and accessible writing to each intriguing subject in these lavishly illustrated, large-format paperback books.
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Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab World

By: Wendy Buonaventura

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group: February 1998

Seller ID: 25498

ISBN: 1566563003

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A unique celebration of the female dancers of the Arab World.
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Sun Mu-Zen Dance Technique & Therapy (Korean Edition)

By: Sun-Ock Lee

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Chimmundang: November 2001

Seller ID: 119416

ISBN: 8988095456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Tango: Sex and Rhythm of the City (Reaktion Books - Reverb)

By: Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Reaktion Books: July 2013

Seller ID: 83843

ISBN: 1780231075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. It found its home in the city's marginal districts, where it was embraced and shaped by young men who told stories of prostitutes, petty thieves, and disappointed lovers through its music and movements. Chronicling the stories told through tango's lyrics, Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes reveal in "Tango "how the dance went from slumming it in the brothels and cabarets of lower-class Buenos Aires to the ballrooms of Paris...
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Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance

By: Sally Banes

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: January 1980

Seller ID: 253864

ISBN: 0395286891

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Art of Making Dances

By: Doris Humphrey

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Grove Press: January 1959

Seller ID: 47459

ISBN: 0394172418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Ballet Companion: Ballet Companion

By: Eliza Gaynor Minden

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Touchstone: October 2005

Seller ID: 257347

ISBN: 074326407X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A New Classic for Today's Dancer "The Ballet Companion" is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including: Practical advice for getting started, such as selecting a school, making the most of class, and studio etiquette Explanations of ballet fundamentals and major training systems An illustrated guide through b...
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