International Folk Dancing U.S.A.
Title | International Folk Dancing U.S.A. PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Casey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781574411188 |
This is an extensive work on international folk dancing as practiced in the United States. It tells how to do the hopak, czardas and the bamboo pole dance; plan an international folk dance program; do the little finger hold and the hambo swing. International Folk Dancing U.S.A. presents historical vignettes on pioneer folk dance leaders; instructions for 180 dances from 30 countries; contributions from 60 folk dance authorities; easy-to-follow dance step descriptions; a Glossary of folk dance terms; many helpful illustrations.
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Title | The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Wayland Barber |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2013-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393089215 |
A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance. From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist, linguist, and lifelong folkdancer Elizabeth Wayland Barber follows the trail of these spirit maidens—long associated with fertility, marriage customs, and domestic pursuits—from their early appearance in traditional folktales and harvest rituals to their more recent incarnations in fairytales and present-day dance. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and line drawings, the result is a brilliantly original work that stands at the intersection of archaeology and folk traditions—at once a rich portrait of our rich agrarian ancestry and an enchanting reminder of the human need to dance.
English Dancing Master, 1651
Title | English Dancing Master, 1651 PDF eBook |
Author | John Playford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Dance and Music of Court and Theater
Title | Dance and Music of Court and Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Hilton |
Publisher | Pendragon Press |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780945193982 |
This collection of selected writings of Ms. Hilton includes a complete facsimile of her 1981 book Dance of Court & Theater (no longer available) as well as two significant articles, and a notated triple-meter danse � deux by LouisP�cour. Book One (the facsimile) provides in-depth analysis of primary sources on dance of the baroque period.The main body of the text is devoted to mastery of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system,which includes the relationships of steps to music in such dance types as the menuet,gavotte, bourr�e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr�e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the ballroom menuet ordinaire as given by Pierre Rameau.Book Two adds theslow Seventeenth-Century French Courante; A survey of the 56 dances extant to music by J.B. Lully with their airs and some of the more virtuosic, theatrical step-units in notation; Louis P�cour's ballroom dance Aimable Vainqueur (1701 in six pages of dance notation with a five-part score of Andr� Campra's music from Hesione (1700)and an updated bibliography.
Europe Dancing
Title | Europe Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Andree Grau |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2002-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 113469654X |
Europe Dancing examines the dance cultures and movements which have developed in Europe since the Second World War. Nine countries are represented in this unique collaboration between European dance scholars. The contributors chart the art form, and discuss the outside influences which have shaped it. This comprehensive book explores: * questions of identity within individual countries, within Europe, and in relation to the USA * the East/West cultural division * the development of state subsidy for dance * the rise of contemporary dance as an 'alternative' genre * the implications for dance of political, economic and social change. Useful historical charts are included to trace significant dance and political events throughout the twentieth century in each country. Never before has this information been gathered together in one place. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in dance and its growth and development in recent years.
Folk Dances of European Countries
Title | Folk Dances of European Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Schley Duggan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Balkan Fascination
Title | Balkan Fascination PDF eBook |
Author | Mirjana Laušević |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2015-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190269421 |
In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this remarkable phenomenon to explore why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no familial or ethnic connection.