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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory. Dance Theory: Source Readings...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-03-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique. Ballet...
Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2020-02-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-01-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.
Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-20
Collection :
Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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'I will always believe in the strength we have as women.' As the queen of pop music since the glory days of Destiny's Child to her incredible solo career, Beyoncé is one of the most inspiring and powerful women in music. The Little Book of Queen Bey is a collection of...
Editeur : Trapeze
Parution : 2019-10-03
Format(s) : ePub
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One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-05-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-11-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A New York Times bestseller! “In Jordan Matter’s photos, dancers make all the world their stage.” —New York Times From Jordan Matter, YouTube star and New York Times–bestselling author of Dancers Among Us, a celebration of what it...
Editeur : Workman Publishing Company
Parution : 2018-10-16
Format(s) : ePub
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In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually result in the creation of the New York City Ballet and the School of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-10-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2018-05-08
Format(s) : ePub
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This book uses ethnographic research to examine the role of dance in the construction of identity in the distinctly British electronic dance music club culture of drum ’n’ bass. Dancing is revealed as the central way in which drum ’n’ bass clubbers construct and perform...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-03-10
Format(s) : PDF
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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
Format(s) : PDF
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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When Misty Copeland first placed her hands on the ballet barre at an after-school community centre, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers. A true prodigy, she was attempting...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2017-03-09
Format(s) : ePub
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In dieser Studie stellt der Autor Fausts Werdegang vom Gelehrten zum Ökonomen, Landesplaner und Unternehmer dar und zeigt durch die innovative «geographische Deutung» des fünften Akts, inwiefern durch Fausts Neulandgewinnung eine blühende Kulturlandschaft hat entstehen...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-11-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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